PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

THE DERBY CONSULTING GROUP, LLC, 2001 - current

Freelance magazine - Writer / Photographer
&
Business Operations Consulting - process repair - continuity planning - operations hardening

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT - IBM NUMA-Q (previously Sequent Computers), 1998 - 2000

Director, Year 2000 Program Office - Lead company in the identification & reduction of software risks,  business process hardening and contingency planning. Flawless millennium transition for this aquisition of IBM's.

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES - Sequent Computer Systems, 1990 - 1998

Director, Sequent Real Estate & Information Technology Services - consolidated multiple teams - reduced headcount - halted out of control spending - improved service quality - established real estate transactions that created shareholder value.   Sequent, just prior to it aquisition by IBM, was nearly a billion in sales and had offices worldwide.

FACILITIES OPERATIONS - Hewlett-Packard, 1984 -1990

Manager, Corporate Facilities Design –   world wide building standards (incl. HP's "next generation" sales offices, software facilities & "hoteling" techniques).

Infrastructure Manager, Cupertino - 300 staff, $100M budget. Consolidated five dysfunctional teams at H-P’s largest & most active site.

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT - Hewlett-Packard, 1980 - 1984

Manufacturing Planning Manager - Computer Group - worldwide process & technology strategies & roadmaps for printed circuit fabrication facilities.

Manufacturing Manager - Scientific Instruments   - Mass Spectrometers

Operations Manager - brief assignment to avert what would have been HP's first brush with unionization.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Engineering Manager - Hewlett-Packard, Stanford Park Division - 1975 - 1980 - Industrial design, manufacturing engineering, procurement, product introduction process management, photo/litho shops, PC design, machine shop. 100+ staff.

Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Xerox Corporation, 1966 - 1969 - Product engineering - two patents.

VISITING LECTURER - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

School of Mechanical Engineering, Design Division -1974 - 1984

Upper division & graduate level courses in product design, creativity, problem solving and idea prototyping.

EDUCATION

Stanford University - Master Degree - Product Design, 1975

North Carolina State University - Bachelor Degree - Product Design, 1966

Other:  

Stanford University - "Advanced Management College" & "Production Operations"

International Development & Research Council - "Real Estate Economic Analysis" & "Strategic Planning"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Harvard University - "Joint Program in Negotiations"