Ernest Birge Email & Phone Number

Wyoming, MI, US

Greater Grand Rapids Area

SCORE (SBA Volunteer Mentors to America’s Small Business Community) Grand Rapids Chapter Chair starting October 1, 2009. Volunteer mentor to those considering small business start-ups; and to those small and medium sized companies who find themselves “challenged.” Role includes strategic and tactical planning, financial plan development, organizational.

Lead 40+ SCORE Mentors in Greater Grand Rapids in support of emerging and exsisting small and medium sized business

Maryland, Virginia And Nationally

On team to develop new service offering -- Outsourcing Advisory Services (OAS). Lead internal teams to develop Outsourcing Playbook to guide Booz Allen staff in providing outsourcing and offshoring advisory services to clients. Consult with Clients considering IT or Business Process Outsourcing and wishing to determine whether it is the best alternative..

Responsible for developing clients and supporting them in business start ups, turn around of challenged businesses, business improvement of established businesses. Provide strategic, business and sales and marketing planning support, organizational development, IT and Call Center assessment and plan development, Sales Planning, Small Business Start-up and.

Responsible for identification, qualification, definition and delivery of information systems, networked computing and business process outsourcing solutions. Lead multiple, virtual teams of account, financial, professional services, data center operations and network management staff in development and delivery of large ($.1-1B) business opportunities..

Florham Park, NJ And Nationally

Responsible for identification, qualification, definition and delivery of networking and networked computing outsourcing solutions. Lead proposal efforts for large opportunities in diversified manufacturing, pharmaceutical and automotive industries. Support sale and manage transition of new client, with 32 divisions and 1600 locations, to operational.

Novi, MI And Nationally

1989 -1995 SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, responsible for identification, qualification, definition and delivery of solutions to customer business needs in outsourcing and solutions integration of client/server, network and mid-range operations management. Responsible for business solution definition, proposal, financial and contract development and.

Southfield, MI And Regionally

Manage group responsible for pre and post sales support, application development and training for DSS (Decision Support System), EIS (Executive Information System) software and Human Resource Information system (HRIS) clients for mainframe & distributed platforms.

Dearborn, MI And Regionally

1981-1985 MANAGER, DETROIT MANUFACTURING DISTRICT, reporting to Central Region Manager. Managed thirty-three sales and technical staff in sale and implementation of systems in manufacturing, finance, engineering and marketing to large manufacturing firms. Formed first dedicated industry focus organization, predating national focus by 18 months. Group led.

Bs, Major In Zoology, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Pep Club for NCAA BBall Championships Majored in Zoology and Psychology, minored in History Officer in student.

Zoology

Activities and Societies: Majored in Zoology Student assistant to Biology Dept. Head; He was heavy into studying parasites, so I wandered.