For many years, I have provided my clients with innovative and collaborative consultation, helping them to achieve their firm's objectives. Our entrepreneurial perspective, strategic focus, and extensive management experience facilitate optimized and practical solutions to our customers' most challenging business needs. A few examples include:● Developed and executed database management program for a Fort Worth oil & gas firm that resulted in cost reductions and tax savings of more than $2Million. ● Real estate property management, marketing, and consultation services.● Assistant Instructor in Physics at Duke University for Duke's Talent Identification Program (TIP).● Designed and developed curriculum for college CAD/CAM courses and applications; set up the college's computer lab and CAD/CAM equipment; and trained the college faculty in preparation for their initial implementation of the college's introductory CAD/CAM courses. ● Designed, developed, and implemented the prototype manufacturing process for a Fort Worth manufacturing firm for a series of new, innovative industrial-insulation products, which resulted in successful nationwide distribution of the new product line.● Designed & led innovative and successful training program for E.I. DuPont for 120 employees and engineers. Website: www.gillespieconsulting.net

See current position: Management Consultant [above].

Led this small rapidly-growing eCommerce firm from its inception to become a nationwide distributor of many of the world's leading scientific products from dozens of the world's leading scientific suppliers, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, VWR Scientific, Labconco, Mettler, Ohaus, etc. Innovative website included approximately 1,000,000 scientific & laboratory products from more than 1000 manufacturers. Nationwide distribution, with 8-10% export sales. (According to Intuit, our QuickBooks Enterprise product database was the largest installed QBE database in the U.S.)

Courses taught include: Financial Management; and International Business[Adjunct professor, evening classes] (While concurrently General Manager for Science Projects in Mansfield, Texas.)

Led successful turnaround of this manufacturing and construction company. More than doubled revenues and net income.

Primary responsibility for consultative management of all financial investments for key accounts. Consistently achieved first-quintile performance rankings in all nationwide performance categories for all periods evaluated by the firm.

Private, institutional investment management and securities investments for the Bass Brothers in Fort Worth, Texas, including arbitrage trading and investments in international securities (e.g., stocks, bonds, options, futures, etc.). Designed, recommended, and implemented two of the firm's most profitable investment strategies ($75 million assets in "Nikkei/Simex arbitrage"; $350 million assets in "Long US vs. Short Japan").[This was a full-time night-time position from 1989-1990 involving international securities investments and trading, while also completing an MBA at TCU from 1988-1990.]

Project Management. Manager of Projects Department at corporate HQs, with primary lead responsibility for ALL major commercial & industrial projects (all projects over $100K) for this large, 26-store, tri-state electrical supply company. Primary project management responsibility from inception through fulfillment, including plan bidding & quotations, negotiations, purchasing, specifications & compliance, project fulfillment, etc. While manager of Projects Department, nearly doubled average monthly corporate-wide project revenues, with improved profit margins.

Led successful turnaround of this financially-distressed dealer for International Hough & Dresser Industries. Despite IH's huge corporate-wide losses ($2.4 billion during 1980-1982, the largest 3-year loss for any American company in history at the time) -- and despite this dealership's prior-year losses ($250K/year) -- I led our department to strong growth and profitability ($230K/yr), which facilitated the dealership owner's lucrative sale of the company in 1984.

Primary responsibility for all materials and parts management for this manufacturing firm. (Total process manufacturing of heavy equipment for the oil industry, incl. heavy trucks, tankers, etc. 85 employees). In collaboration with the owner's son, I assisted in the initial implementation of a new mainframe computerized inventory management system which contributed to numerous optimizations and savings (in inventory, purchasing, etc.). I also implemented and managed other inventory and materials management policies and company-wide procedures that resulted in substantial savings (e.g., new procedures and methods to recover usable materials from scrap, resulting in immediate and on-going savings of more than $10K/week; etc.). [Note: Due to industry-wide slowdowns during the worldwide oil glut of 1981, the firm initiated a series a layoffs, eventually reducing from 85 to approximately 35 employees. Although I was the firm's newest employee, I was retained throughout all of these layoffs. Eventually, the owner decided to close the company, and it remained closed for about 2 years, at which point the owner (Morton Gray) contacted me personally to offer re-employment. Because I was then a manager for Cummins Supply, I declined his offer, but I greatly respected and appreciated Mr. Gray and otherwise would have gladly worked for him again.]

Managed company to successful expansion and profitable growth. Despite a very weak local economy at the time, we doubled our staff, acquired a local competitor, tripled total revenues, and improved company-wide profit margins.[Note: At the request of a very close friend who had moved to Missouri to recover from serious health problems, we moved from Fort Worth to Missouri in 1978 to help him with his work and ministry, during which time I also managed McNabb Automotive Supply. When our friend had recovered and our work with him was completed, we moved back to Fort Worth in 1981.]

Commercial & industrial project quotations and sales.Implemented and led employee training.Developed & implemented program to automate company-wide payroll.Designed and implemented computer program for manufacturing of prototype for successful line of innovative industrial products distributed nationwide.