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PMC Content Services creates custom informational content such as blog posts, newsletters, whitepapers, eBooks, online calculators, and more to raise awareness and nurture leads for our customers. We work with clients to develop a content plan that supports their immediate and long-range goals, then execute the plan to ensure new custom content is produced, promoted, and distributed on a regular schedule.I have created hundreds of books, columns, magazine articles, whitepapers, podcasts, and videos published under my own name and as a ghost writer for my clients.Print/Mail Consultants offers expert industry advice to organizations that produce or mail documents. Operations management, workflow analysis, quality control, vendor management, RFP activities, hardware/software conversions, and postal processing are some of the areas where we may be engaged. Since 2006 we've helped organizations such as insurance companies, utilities, and service providers improve their workflows and build strategies for future growth.

Bowe Bell + Howell (now known as Bell and Howell) manufactures mail inserting, sorting, plastic card, and various bindery equipment for customers mailing anywhere from a few thousand pieces per month to millions. They are the market leaders in this business and have been selling inserting equipment since 1936 and have a very large installed base of legacy equipment in the field.• Served as the primary technical and pricing resource for field sales representatives in the Pacific Northwest, California, and Hawaii. Effectiveness in this position required knowledge of mailing applications, hardware and software offered by the company and its competitors, and the self-discipline to work independently.• Visited customers, answering questions, gathering technical data, and delivering presentations. Formulated custom solutions to enable document workflow and distribution.• Priced solutions and coordinated the special quotation process. Produced proposals and Invitation to Bid responses.

Xerox Business Services provides managed services for corporate clients. They staff and operate onsite print centers and mailrooms.Provided project management, consulting services, application development, and quality control in support of a large energy company in San Diego, California..• Developed and executed project plans for large internally and externally distributed documents of many kinds. These projects frequently involved document and mail piece design, variable data manipulation, coordination of vendors, ordering forms and envelopes, postal issues, postage account monitoring and reconciliation, business reply account management, and post office box management.• Brought document industry expertise and effective project management to the organization, increasing the volume of output dramatically while not requiring additional staff.

Emerald Solutions was an e-business and IT consulting firm in Portland, OR. • Managed multiple projects and teams engaged in various efforts. Primary responsibilities included staff selection, training, mentoring, and management, new business development with existing clients, and critical client communications. • Functioned as career manager to various levels of consultants and managers, participated in employee roundtable performance evaluations, and evaluated new job candidates. • Instrumental in initiating the development of core competency performance criteria for each position level within the company, and helped develop and present new employee orientation material to new employees nationwide.

Poorman-Douglas was a computer service bureau in Portland, Oregon providing information systems processing capability to clients in a wide variety of industries. High volume printing and mailing is a major service offering. The company went through several ownership changes and was sold to EPIQ Systems in 2004.• Directed a staff of mainframe and client/server programmers engaged in the development of custom computer applications. Increased the department staff from 6 to 20 programmers to meet increased business needs. Responsibilities included estimation of project costs, systems design, pre and post sale client consulting, personnel decisions, and advising executive management on technical issues and decisions.• Managed production departments responsible for producing critical client applications on tight schedules. Activities performed by these departments included customer service, scheduling, quality assurance, implementation of new and changed systems, trouble-shooting, vendor coordination, billing, etc.