Entrepreneurial Experience

Transition management requires an entrepreneurial outlook so that opportunities can be quickly identified, evaluated, validated and launched to support the transition. Entrepreneurial successes include:
  • Significant experience as an early advocate and adopter of emerging information technologies and technology driven organizational change. Experienced in evaluating impact of technology on business opportunities and validating return on investments in emerging technologies.

  • Participated in raising $5 million in venture capital to fund new Internet service.
  • Launched new business ventures within corporation focusing on use of interactive digital displays in retail space and Internet based global design and production of collateral marketing materials.
  • Founded and grew systems development and consulting practice focused on corporate desktop and client server systems. Projects included:

    • International investment manaement system using early desktop computers and early file servers
    • Database publishing of brochures and catalogs from databases of copy and images
    • Field sales force automation integrating mainframe based sales management system with newly deployed field laptop computers.
    • Sales and delivery of newley released graphics computers into advertising agencies

  • Product Manager for launch of whole body computerized tomographic scanner into North American market.

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