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My Companies and Chaos 19: We started 2020 with sales at an all time high in fact we were 32% ahead of last years which was a record year. Then it went to hell in a hand bag with the lockdown, but I can say we did more Internet sales in the first quarter than we did all of last year. Enough of the update otherwise we are in the same boat as most others that have been deemed non-essential.The Achilles heel: Many years ago when I had my IT Consulting Company I learned about the Achilles Heel of all businesses...debt service! A 3 month $1000 per day gig halfway across the US and commuting weekly consumes all your time and leaves little if any to market your skills. Then you find yourself finished with the assignment and you have no work lined up. Every day I did not work reduced my day rate in half. As a result my current company which was started and built with my own funds and I continually put most of the profits back into my company. I have zero company debt. My retained earnings will keep my company going at least until 2021. My warehouse/manufacturing facility is full of inventory and I own my facility which is debt free. Yes, not an easy goal to attain, but consider it battles you must win for you and your company's long term success in todays world!If a windmill appears, climb it, if you are not climbing you are are falling.BuddysBonz™ is a line of premium dog treats. We have been developing this line over the past 9 years and it stands alone in the market place. We process and manufacture our products with a focus on dogs of all breeds, ages and sizes.Our R&D group is launching new and exciting products and expanding our All Natural and Organic offerings: Health and Wellness Supplements.BuddysBonz™ is a wholly-owned division by 17 Oaks Ranch Companies LLC.

Ranch land clearing, timber removal, and management, pond regeneration and preparation. Out building site selection, and project management, barn and ranch house remodeling and retrofitting.

Consulting: CTO, IT Program Manager w. up to 26 key projects. Managed Programs from concept to out-year support, up to $125M in total annual budget. Consulted for Fortune 500 to SBA startups. Built, designed data centers, full life cycle SW guru. Builder and turn around of IT. World class IT engineering. R&D, pushing the edge of the envelope, taking IT successfully where its never gone before. Launched IT services company in Ft Worth, 500 clients, 99% customer satisfaction, named #1 IT Services in Ft Worth, Texas.Sold Ft Worth, Tx and Scottsdale, AZ Divisions.

Fortune 1000 IT consulting in SW application projects, business case design and reengineering: Airlines, financial, high tech manufacturing, telecommunications, R&D organizations, automotive group, data center development and consulting CTO, Project Manager, and Program Manager. Led development and implementation for Electronic Ticketing for first major airline to adopt electronic ticketing. Led development and implementation of major retail web site with over 12 Million users, named to InformationWeek’s Top 5 Websites, May 2000.

Full life cycle SW development-outyear for 26 major systems. Founded Army Information Management Program, $127M budget. Extensive R&D efforts in IT SW engineering and HW development. Major initiatives in database design and integration across disparate HW/SW/Network environments, significant improvements in ROI, cost savings and efficiencies. Information Class Proponent (ICP) for US Army Training Automation and Functional Proponent (FP) for Training Systems. I knew and did "Big Data" before it was cool and some buzz word in trumped up resume's...