Research & Development Coordinator / Product Acquisition & Licensing  - CD Micro, llc.: First quarter 1998 nearly 3 million CD's were distributed world wide - with LESS than 500 total technical support instances, covering nearly 2500 different product titles. I personally wrote the agreements and negotiated the licenses for over 200 'programers' (or companies) for all those CD ROM titles, under budget, in less than 9 months. I assisted in the testing, re-design, suggesting necessary programming changes, and completion of numerous CD ROM titles. Furthermore, I interfaced with developers and programmers, and designed new master discs for those titles.

 Co-Founder and Vice President of Technology, MicroMedia Publishers, Inc.: Budget CD-ROMS and Multi-Pak Sales. In 1996 through 1997 over 5 million CD's were distributed world wide - with LESS than 1,000 total technical support instances, covering nearly 350 different product titles. Designed an NT server, which experienced less than four days of "down-time" in over three years, with less than five to ten hours of "hands on" maintenance per month. I licensed over 250 CD ROM titles, dealt with contract writing and negotiations, interfaced with developers and programmers, negotiated certain payables and receivables, and designed new master discs .

Instructor, Continuing Education Program, Southern Oregon State College: (called SOU, now) I designed, implemented, and taught courses on all subjects relating to computers, except CAD and accounting. My specialties were: Operating Systems (DOS and Windows v3.1x and 95), Word Processing, Desktop Publishing, System Analysis, Software Design, Upgrading Systems, Trouble shooting computer problems (hardware & software), etc. beginning through expert level courses. I customized each class to what the majority wanted to learn... whether it was to go on to more advanced software applications or uses, or to get a job requiring computer skills.

Founder and President, Dynamic Solutions: Hardware and software sales, fulfilled government orders (custom portable computers), disc replication, business consulting for customers like: Litton Industries, Met One and Met One Technologies, PSI Research, Oasis Press, Aetna Insurance, NBIA, Small Business Development Centers, and SCORE agencies.

Computer Department Manager, PSI Research/Oasis Press: I managed the technical side of company for over two years. Hardware: I coordinated and set up a company-wide network, supported individual systems. Software: I managed software creation and development, and coordinated programmers for the software products PSI sold. Technical support: I managed personnel, support policy creation, coordination, and fulfillment. Sales: I assisted with sales support, policy creation, cost analysis.

Launcher - In 1995 MicroMedia showed interest in using (and benefiting from) my personal pet project I call 'the Windows Launcher.' This special program allows end users to choose from three options: run the program from the CD without installing to the end-user's hard drive, install the program to run from the hard drive, or provides the end-user with a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section to reduce technical support. All of this is accomplished with the click of a button. It can be added to virtually any program in less than thirty minutes. The Launcher has been added to all of MicroMedia's, CD Micro's, and a handful of other company' PC products. It is literally "Plug-N-Play" under Windows 95/98. The addition of this program to these products have virtually eliminated and greatly reduced the technical support for all of the products I have had the opportunity to "touch."

Online Catalog - I put together an "electronic catalog" for MicroMedia and a few other companies.  It consisted of an off-line web browser, merging multiple web sites, all of which are accessed through my "special" launcher. Accomplishing this task has paved the way for individual companies with existing web sites to inexpensively and effectively market their products and to cost-effectively place their product information in the hands of their customers, dealers, and distributors.

Book -on-Disc - I designed a powerful engine which allows extensive user-defined searches throughout given text, the ability to bookmark particular passages, and automatically saves your place upon exiting the program. .There is also an extensive developer's module which automated and secured the information. Once the information is in a 'text-only' format, the SDK created a Table of Contents, Indexing capabilities, and extensive key word searches. In addition, it had an extremely advanced encryption algorithm to protect the author's valuable data.  My key programmer, Ken Clever, took my concepts and wrote the code and we improved the design, use, and coding. Nearly seven years later, there still isn't a program that can do many of the things this program and the developers module can do.

Product upgrades. This includes altering the product, taking into account future operating systems (such as migrating from the 16 bit to the 32 bit world), bug removal and/or acknowledgment to reduce technical support of a given product. Once I have defined the problem(s) and solution(s), I then supervise the technical assistant or third-party who makes the actual programming changes and upgrades.

Manage product testing on both current and new titles. I have trained several assistants to quickly and accurately 'size up' a prospective product. I can effectively calculate the product's technical support requirements, overall quality and a basic competitive analysis. It has saved both myself, and the companies I am licensing titles for, a lot of time.

Licensing Products from 3rd Parties - I continue to be extremely successful in locating and licensing products with enormous profit potential and possibilities, at a very low comparative cost. Most of these contracts allow us to purchase the "royalty free" right to manufacture and distribute the product for a specific period of time or to buy the product outright at, or well below market value. Always below "normal" development costs.

Contract Negotiation. I am also responsible for creating new agreements and maintaining a working relationship with the programmers, developers and licensers. This consistently enables me to pick up new products, lower royalties, and improve on existing contracts, and even help settle both payable and receivable disagreements.

Mastering CD-ROMS - I am responsible for mastering all MicroMedia titles (between 1994 and 1998), most of which had the 'Launcher' added to them (well over 250 different commercial titles by 1998). In order to send a disc to replication, a gold master must be made of the program. In the past, I trained and managed several employees to assist me in this process. The tasks involved include: setting up the file structure, searching out, editing, and creating the end-user interface, linking the programs to the Launcher, burning the gold master, and testing the resulting product for technical soundness and aesthetic quality.

Create and/or evaluate Contractual Sales Agreements - For some of my customers, one of my responsibilities is to work with their legal counsel and help make sure their sales, licensing, and other legal agreements are to their benefit... by effectively limiting liability and maximizing the profit potential, while giving the customer  the greatest opportunity to make the project successful. I excel at the negotiation and creating a protected win-win environment.

High Dollar Purchasing - Once a project is defined and a budget established, I am responsible for researching the best options, the agreement, and in many cases ultimately striking the final deal for some of my customers. These deals have dollar amounts often ranging up to low seven figures.