• Founding and curated a small, ever growing business into a family owned and leading upscale garage remodeling and organization entity, specializing in garage storage organization, including design and installation of cabinets, flooring, shelving, and wall systems. Actively doing business across South Central and South Eastern PA.• Managing all aspects of the business, ensuring operations produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall mission. Developed high-quality business strategies, ensuring their alignment with both short and long-term objectives.• Building trust relations with key clients and stakeholders, acting as the point of contact, while participating in industry-related events to enhance the organization's reputation and the potential for success.• Striving to have 100 percent customer satisfaction and highly ethical sales tactics with superior end results.

• Mergers and Acquisitions: matching buyers and sellers without "listing for sale", while facilitating and negotiating successful transactions, closing deals, and maintaining confidentiality.• Specializing in selling mid- range manufacturing and construction companies, primarily in the $10MM+ valuation. Producing very successful and profitable single family real estate development entities.• Prospecting, analyzing, valuing, and positioning businesses for sale or internal ownership transfer.• Serving as a trusted advisor to clients in both the corporate and private equity space, synthesizing the overall strategy by analyzing a wide variety of solutions and selecting the most relevant tools and techniques.• Building relationships with business owners and helping them prepare their business to be confidentially listed, while acting as the transaction manager for the buyer screening, offer, due diligence, and closing processes.• Facilitating many external/internal business creative dealings, including operations and financing, meeting specific client requirements including business case, pricing and financial analysis.

• Established a small general law practice in Portland, OR in 1979, eventually moving to Pennsylvania in 1983 and becoming a PA licensed attorney in 1985, while also serving as an in-house counsel to Velottco, Inc.• Communicating with clients to learn about their legal needs and concerns and providing them with advice, finding ethical solutions, as well as building relationships with clients based on trust.• Explaining legal options to clients and bringing possible outcomes or dangers to their attention, while developing strategies to resolve cases favorably and cost-effectively for clients.• Reviewing and drafting legal documents, contracts, letters of negotiations and deals, along with research and advice.• Structuring of business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, as well as deal negotiating and conflict resolution.• Maintaining a working knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, tax consequences and estate planning considerations. • Mitigating legal risks, cost/benefit analysis, estate and family matters for both business entities and personal shareholders

• Creatively navigated and structured government approvals, engineering, financing and sales of residential building lots valued at $4,000,000, thus adding $20,000,000 in single family homes to the local economy and tax base.• Assembled an effective team of engineers, infrastructure contractors, builders and real estate agents. • Managed entire development and co-operative construction of the majority of the 86 quality homes built. • Worked with Attorneys to assess regulatory obstacles, gain and analyze regulatory approval and prevent legal risks.

• Creatively structured the purchase of various foreclosed single-family lot development from Resolution Trust Company.• Successfully development project allowances of $20,000,000 in building lots to support over $105,000,000 in needed local housing.• Navigated the release of final approvals on remaining 450 of the singles family lots, including structuring the City of Gresham building of a $2,200,000 water tower that required municipal bond financing, along with supporting private fee guarantees.• Built a premium and extraordinary team of legal experts, engineers, infrastructure contractors, a non-profit land preservation Trust, builders and realtors to reconstruct real estate development plat in line with community needs.• Donated 11+ acres of park land to City of Gresham, Oregon (part of which is now Jenne Butte Park). • Assisted facilitating the sale of platted lots to The Trust for Public Lands for annexing with forest preserve.• Negotiated easements with private land owners, local government and public utilities.• Coordinated with client teams to conducting interviews, discuss findings, and recommendations. • Managed 3 Business strategy Analysists who were part of the project delivery team, assigning responsibilities, data gathering and presentations.

Investments in undeveloped real estate.Real estate single lot development (86 and 450 lot developments).