• Director of Education, American Society for the Advancement of Project Management, 2005-2006
• Sponsor, Project Management Institute, California Inland Empire Chapter, 2002
• Board Member, Product Development and Management Association, Southern California Chapter, 2001 to 2003.
• Board Member and Vice-President of Professional Development, Project Management Institute, Orange County Chapter, 1999 to 2003
• Board Member, Newsletter Publisher, and Specialty Show Secretary, Irish Setter Club of Greater Kansas City, 1974 to 1976.
• Board Member and President, Country Club Homes Association, Kansas City, 1973 to 1982.

• International Institute of Business Analysis and the local chapter in Orange County
• Project Management Institute and local chapters in San Diego, Orange County, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Warsaw, Moscow, Bucharest, and Kyiv
• International Project Management Association
• Product Development and Management Association
• American Society for the Advancement of Project Management

• Master of Science in Technology Management, Pepperdine University, 1992
• Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute, 1998
• New Product Development Professional, Product Development and Management Association, 2003

• Time-to-Profit Project Management: A Primer for Project Managers in Commercial Project Development, Time-to-Profit, 1999 published in English, Russian, Romanian, and Brazilian Portuguese

• Six Steps to the Future: How Mass Customization Is Changing Our World, Time-to-Profit 2003 published in English, Russian, Romanian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

• "'Time to Market Project Management: Expanding the Role of Project Management in Commercial Product Development," PM Network, January, 1999
  

• “Successful Innovation Management: System or Serendipity?” Cutter IT Journal, November 2004, with Vladimir Liberzon.

• “How Words Limit Our Thinking” PM Practice Magazine, December 2007

• “How Words Limit Our Thinking, Part 2” PM Practice Magazine, February 2008

• "Opportunities in a Problem" PM Practice Magazine, April 2008

• “Completion Confidence Measurement Tractatus” PM World Today, January 2011, with Mojtaba (Moj) Zarei-Kesheh

• “Humility: A Project Management Skill” PM World Today, February 2011

• "Efficiency vs. Effectiveness" PM World Today, May 2011

• "Credible Physical Percent Complete: The Pillar of Earned Value (EV)!" PM World Today, May 2011, with Mojtaba (Moj) Zarei-Kesheh

EXPERIENCE:

1994 to Date - Time-to-Profit, Inc.

President and Principal Teacher and Consultant

• Provide process improvement, project management and product development training and consulting for the following clients:
• Ural State Technical University (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
• Kazakhstan National Technical University (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
• Project Management Research Committee (Beijing, China)
• Mxi Technologies (Ottawa, Canada)
• X.25 and Petrobras (Brasilia, Manaus, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil)
• L-3 Communications – WESCAM (Burlington, Canada)
• Russian Aluminum (Moscow, Russia)
• Institute for Sustainable Development (Vladivostok, Russia)
• Spider Management Technologies (Moscow and Chelyabinsk in Russia, Minsk in Belarus, Kiev and Odessa in Ukraine, Bucharest in Romania)
• Technopark Idea (Kazan, Russia)
• Kavaq Business Intelligence (Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Singapore)
• United States Navy Region Southwest – NAVAIR (San Diego, CA)
• National Oilwell Varco (Anaheim, CA).
• Lawson Software (Irvine, CA)
• Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (Norwalk, CA)
• Los Angeles County Information Systems Advisory Board (Cerritos, CA)
• Motorola Corporation (San Diego, CA)
• Aztec Engineering (Irvine, CA)
• The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
• The Irvine Company (Newport Beach, CA)
• American Graduate University (Covina, CA)
• University of California at Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego Extension Divisions
• RCG Information Technology (Irvine, CA)
• Management Concepts, Inc. (Tysons Corner, VA)
• The Eastman Group (Irvine, CA).
• Sprint (Overland Park, KS)
• Southern California Gas Company (Monterey Park, CA)

Director, Network Engineering and Operations

• Improved Infonet’s European marketing effort by implementing a second "showpiece" Network Control Center in Brussels.
• Enhanced Infonet’s domestic marketing effort by building a new "showpiece" Network Control Center in El Segundo.
• Introduced an SNMP manager of managers to monitor and control network elements.
• Optimized Infonet's network topology to reduce circuit costs from 30.4% to 25.6% of network service revenue.

1987 to 1992 - TRW, Information Services Division (Experian)

Director, Data Services · Implemented the Bankruptcy Notification product which reduced the average personal bankruptcy notification time from six weeks to seventy-two hours. This product generates in excess of $100K per month.

• Created a certification program to validate third party systems used by customers in buying and evaluating credit reports and influencing credit report buying decisions in excess of $15 million each month.
• Consolidated data entry operations from eleven locations to a single operation. Eliminated a customer disturbing 42 day backlog and reduced staff by 34%. Director, Network Services
• Integrated the voice and data networks of two nationwide credit reporting entities, driving combined operating expenses and head count down by nearly 17% in the post-integration year.
• Re-engineered the distribution network to provide diverse data paths to volume customers while reducing running rate costs by 20%.
• Initiated outsourcing of the X.25, dial portion of the network to achieve a 60% operating cost reduction.
• Led the disaster recovery team that restored network service within 17 hours following the 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake. Manager, Advanced Technologies
• Introduced DB2 to rewrite the billing system to meet customer demand for enhanced reporting capabilities, consolidation, and volume discount flexibility.

• Provided presales marketing and technical support for the Supra-Link product for the electronic circuit design simulation, nuclear power plant, and petroleum reservoir modeling markets.
• Prepared technical responses to requests for proposals, involving mainframes, operating systems, applications and telecommunications.

• Developed Supra-Link, an integrated hardware and telecommunications software system service offering which provided remote access to United's Cray super computer from user VAX operating system environments.
• Managed twenty-two systems analysts responsible for maintenance and enhancement of a proprietary operating system software.

Founder and Managing Partner

• Arranged financing, acquired, and managed residential rental properties.