ALPOAA are active small business advisors providing finance/operational management, system integration and talent management services.• Assisted small to mid businesses with business plan creation, growth strategy, and implementation. • Performed contract leadership management roles in diversified industries. • Assisting associates with implementing a comprehensive talent management strategy in a professional organization.

Hurricane Lift Truck is a full service lift truck dealer providing sales/leasing, parts, service , rentals and operator training throughout Atlantic Canada. • Developed comprehensive service and parts programs resulting in Parts/Service sales growth of 4x over 10 years. • Led and managed team responsible for full IT integration of all departments of the business including full service management. • Created and led team that developed a customer service culture capable of meeting response times and quality call standards that exceeded the requirement of the largest lift truck user in Atlantic Canada.

The Daily News was a local daily tabloid and part of Transcontinental, a Canadian public media and print company. • Improved profitability by $1.3M through sales growth and operational efficiency. • Created, developed and led team that launched three community weekly newspapers with 95,000 in circulation and $1.5M in sales in Year 1. • Maintained readership numbers over a 4 year period in a vulnerable industry by launching innovative and creative customer focused content and products.

$50M Canadian public company specializing in IT Education, Property Management and Anti- Counterfeiting. • Led and directed purchase of IBM's education division resulting in $30M in additional sales and offices across the country. • Led and directed reverse takeover of Keltic Inc. including capital stock restructuring and all regulatory requirements. • Led and directed the sale of Keltic Technologies( $30M sales) to NB Tel.

$10B US public company specializing in photocopier and imaging solutions • Led and directed restructuring of Atlantic region from $(1) M loss to $1M profit in 6 years. • Created in house leasing portfolio resulting in $7M in additional sales and 2500 customers. • Led and directed due diligence ,negotiated agreements and implemented transition of 6 company acquisitions over 24 months.