A master plan has been adopted that has a Champagne taste and a Beer budget. Lacking financial and physical labor resources, partnerships were created with public and private entities to address these needs. In addition, these partnerships expanded our capabilities for fundraising, project accomplishment, and a team of very dedicated volunteers.A partnership with Baldwin Wallace University was formed.

In June 2014 Richfield Village Council, Ohio and the Board of Trustees of Richfield Township, Ohio identified the need for preserving, maintaining and operating the park-like properties within the Richfield area to benefit the residents and surrounding communities. These two government entities established the Richfield Joint Recreation District (RJRD) to meet these needs. RJRD purchased a 336 acre former Girl Scout camp and is converting it into a unique public park called Richfield Heritage Preserve. RJRD is a politcal subdivision governmental entity, with taxing authority, administering public money.

An aging services company that provides independent living, skilled nursing and a specialized facility for alzheimer and dementia patients. Fundraising, building and staffing of this Premier Memory Care unit was completed in 2013.

Responsible for the planning, definition, business case, development, coordination, and introduction of all new products. Support, enhancement, consolidation, and end-of-life planning and execution for existing products. Develop process to improve profitability of new products upon introduction, improve customer satisfaction, field communication, and reduce financial exposure of configuration transitions and new product introductions.Product Marketing: Responsible for the company’s core product line of 30+ products in 8 product categories through a team of twelve people. Creation and implementation of new product introduction strategies. Product life cycle analysis, pricing and product strategy adjustment, tactical execution, opportunity cost assessment and recommendations.Market Research: Design, implement, and analyze primary and secondary research programs for product development, product enhancement, market development, market enhancement, quality improvement, customer satisfaction, and sales promotion.

Hired in 1984 as an ASIC designer using the company’s first CAE ( Daisy ) system. ASICs designed around 8031 and 8051 microprocessors.

Responsible for a new business unit utilizing a marketing strategy focused on Fortune 500 companies, driving revenue through customer partnerships, implemented through a separate direct sales force. The execution resulted in first year sales exceeding the business plan forecast by 100%. Responsibilities included: account strategy, introduction, executive & project level sales, and team building for ongoing maintenance of these new major accounts.

Run a new vertical business unit that provided solutions for mobile processes within the transportation industry. Business plan, marketing strategy and sales strategy utilized in-house resources and competencies. The product strategy was a combination of newly developed products and complementary products offered by external companies. Relationships with key technology vendors provided the “best of breed” solutions. The end result was a product plan that provided a flexible end to end solution for our customers while keeping us focused on our core competencies.

Team leader responsible for researching, identifying and forming a business strategy and executable business plan to provide growth from a 200 million to a 1 billion dollar company.

As a product manager and team leader for the product planning department. Responsibilities included investigating new technologies, developing competitive and new product strategies. Planned, developed and brought to market a “Pen Computing” product line for the company.

Started a patent department for the company doubling the patent portfolio within 12 months. Managed and coordinated proposals and presentations for custom products and projects for major accounts.

Guided new products from ideas through development to production. Projects often included team members from technology alliances such as Texas Instruments. Projects included RF/ID readers and signature capture devices.

Promoted to Senior design engineer in 1985. Lead designer in ASIC design department responsible for designing PC/XT compatible systems on a single ASIC. Peripherals included 8259s, 8250, 8284 functionality and proprietary power management circuits.Helped write a PC/XT compatible BIOS from scratch so the products could run Microsoft’s DOS as the operating system. The products were brought to market in 1987 and the architecture serves as the basis of the company’s products ( over 1 million in the market place to date ).General product design based on the 8088 and V20 CPUs combined with our ASIC packaged with additional circuit for external automatic identification devices, wired and wireless communications links.