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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Responsible for leading small business assistance and technology-based economic development programs at OAI -- work includes business development, project management and technical/commercialization assistance roles across these programs, including the Small Business Administration's Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership for Ohio, JumpStart Entrepreneurial Network (JEN) and the Business Growth Collaborative (BGC).

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Keen Point Consulting (KPC), LLC is a strategic consulting firm with a focus on technology innovation and economic development, which helps organizations leverage their assets to create societal and economic benefit for their stakeholders and the communities that they serve. KPC works with organizations at a local, regional, state or national level to form strategies, generate action plans, and implement these approaches by assessing their tangible assets (such as technology, expertise, programs and facilities) and intangible assets (such as patents, licenses, copyrights and other intellectual property) to determine the opportunities in the market where they can be implemented to achieve maximum impact. Key areas of focus are partnerships and commercialization, technology-led economic development, and STEM education & workforce development.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

A former Line Manager and Consultant for the Technology Partnership Practice (TPP) Product Line, a multi-million dollar, technology-based economic development consulting business. TPP served state and local organizations, universities, non-profit technology organizations and others in the design, implementation, and assessment of its technology, workforce, and programs as well as helping firms access and use Federal, university, and industry developed technology and related assets.As manager, accountable for managing the day-to-day business operations, staffing resources (11-14 FTEs), Cleveland (OH) office facility and equipment, business development support, strategic planning, and the overall fiscal budget for Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice (TPP).In my consulting role, responsible for helping to design and lead the implementation of technology-based economic development programs – work has included major client projects in the state of Connecticut, Louisiana, (Worcester) Mass., Tennessee, (Central) New York, Arizona as well as the Department of Transportation for the federal government.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Performed key project management and consulting roles in the following technology based economic development programs: 1) Battelle's Technology Partnership Practice (TPP) - consultant for Battelle's technology based economic development group. 2) Cima Technology Center - supervised a small, high-technology business incubator/accelerator and workforce development program in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.3) NASA Glenn Garrett Morgan Commercialization Initiative (NASA GMCI) - responsible for the management and development of the small business commercialization initiative from 2007-2009 that was designed to increase competitiveness of small and small disadvantaged businesses through enhanced access to NASA technology, programs, and expertise.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Responsible for evaluating, marketing, licensing and establishing start-up businesses based upon university technology from the engineering and computer science departments. Primary Areas of Responsibility were the following: Carnegie Institute of Technology – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering; and School of Computer Science.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Accountable for conducting change management analysis/reporting and the reengineering of the production change management processes in the Corporate Information Technology Operations Services department.Supervised the development of a new facility for the Corporate Electronic Commerce group and assisted with the creation of electronic commerce strategies for the business units.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Evaluated eleven NASA technologies and created a complete business plan to commercialize the selected technology as a member of a three person, multi-functional team.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Managed the computer network, developed and implemented engineering projects (e.g. managed the $80K installation of 220 Volt switchgear and creator of an electrical predictive maintenance program for low and medium voltage circuit breakers resulting in 40% cost savings for the plant), and supervised technical personnel at a generating station.

Mba, Business Administration

Msm-Is, Management Information Systems (Mis)

Bee, Electrical Engineering