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Experience

Dash Group, Inc. Management Consulting
Principal
9/2002 - Present
Cofounded and established the solo management consulting practice. Successfully executed a variety of management consulting engagements in the area of operations and technology applying skills and techniques in diagnostic assessments, strategic planning, business transformation, project management, and technology integration. Clients include McGraw-Hill Education; Carney, Inc.; Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac; USDA Farm Service Agency; USDA Food and Nutrition Service.




Accenture Management Consulting
Executive (Associate Partner Level)
1/2000 - 9/2002
Engagement Management, Business Development, and Practice Development in the Hi-Tech Customer Relationship Management (CRM) practice. Led diagnostic assessment of operations and organization to identify capability gaps that would derail successful strategy execution, developed roadmap to bridge the capability gaps, presented it to executive management, and then led the resulting engagements in McGraw-Hill Education, International Paper, CableVision, and Canadian National Railroad.
IBM Global Services Management Consulting
Principal/Sr. Project Manager
8/1997 - 1/2000
Engagement Management with P&L responsibility, Business Development, and Practice Development in the e-Business Practice. Played a key role in establishing a new consulting services account at Capital One Financial Corp and then led the resulting Firm Fixed Price engagement to provide online banking capability to 25 million credit card customers. Performed similar engagements in the financial services area for Sallie Mae. Conducted a diagnostic assessment of operations at PBS.
Hughes Electronics Operations
Sr. Manager
12/1993 - 8/1997
Directed the development of $50 million engineering infrastructure to support a $800 million NASA program. Managed a technical staff of 160+ (120 direct employees + Consultants and subcontractors). Led the selection of technology and vendors to develop the engineering infrastructure and then directed the integration effort that involved development of over 300,000 lines of custom code with 15 commercial software products. The endeavor was successful and was deployed in 4 NASA sites.