Now performing various volunteer business consulting work and projects to support the health and growth of local community charitable not-for-profit-organizations.History:A Knowledge Management and Operations Management business executive - I have helped lead business success in both the professional services firms and in manufacturing processes environments. In professional services at a Big-4 for 20 years, I have helped to design and build a national consulting practice powerhouse in the 90’s while focusing on the creation, development, and implementation of leading edge knowledge management concepts, tools, and processes, social networking, Enterprise 2.0 globally across Ernst & Young. I also helped start-up sister knowledge operations in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and in India. Prior, I provided all manner of manufacturing management approaches to state-of-the-art high-tech electronics, software, and electro-mechanical production environments with a world-class corporation, GE.For the over 15+ years I have created and led a virtual distributed working team of over 120 professional knowledge workers throughout North America while a member of the senior leadership team of the well known Ernst & Young Center for Business Knowledge. I founded EY's Center for Business Knowledge and my work helped define knowledge management and establish EY as a premier knowledge enterprise while enabling business success for the firm and our clients worldwide.My strengths include applying current business, knowledge, and technology techniques to medium to large distributed work teams, including internationally, to achieve business goals and objectives. This includes people-first management, business performance, quality, analytics, offshoring, budgets and planning, cost management, program management, strategy and tactics implementation.