Consultant Profile

Former Fortune 500 company executive and currently leading a strategy-focused consulting group

Qualifications

More than thirty years experience in management, consulting, sales and strategic planning. Marked strength in communicating and managing change. Comfortable from the shop room floor to the Board Room. Experience in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Fluent in German and Spanish, working knowledge of four other languages.

Areas of Concentration

Companies Served

• Electronic Data Systems (EDS): As VP of Manufacturing with global responsibility for aerospace, defense, rail and shipbuilding industries. Sales and service for 100 clients in 30 countries. In three years increased sales from $200M/year to an average of $850M/year, increased revenue from $235M/year to more than $400M/year. Prior to this built and led a successful multimillion dollar operations management consulting practice; earlier, led a successful multimillion dollar supply chain consulting practice with clients in both discrete and process manufacturing, hotels, telecommunications and service management. Prior to leading consulting practices, served as a management consultant on varied projects such as re-engineering accounts payable and procurement processes for National Car Rental, re-engineering construction planning for French oil giant Total Raffinage et Distribution, and developing centralized services for 16 semi-autonomous companies in the Middle East.
• Booz Allen & Hamilton. Sold and led consulting engagements to include restructuring an international aviation client, bringing the culture of a foreign Head of State’s Presidential Guard into the modern era, developing an “ Intelligent Building” strategy for a 50 story building in Southeast Asia, and developing the empirical basis for multi-billion dollar infrastructure investments by a U.S. resort operator. Served as interim CFO for a Middle Eastern client.
• RDR, Inc.: Principal researcher and author, on contract, of the U.S. Government’s Handbook of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Developed studies on foreign intelligence threat and foreign weapons capabilities.
• U.S. Army. Intelligence officer, conducting sensitive negotiations with foreigners in a variety of languages to manage and promote confidential relationships of benefit to the U.S. interest. Also during that period, spent four years leading a multi-billion dollar international industry-government program as well.

Education

B.A. in Spanish and Music from Frostburg State University in Maryland, graduate studies in German at the Städtische Universität München, as well as project-focused graduate studies in statistics and physics. Studied French, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic on my own and have conducted business in all four languages as well as Spanish and German.