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Jim Evans

I have experience in all aspects of starting operating and exiting a successful small business.

I founded a business in 1989 where we serviced medical electronics equipment. We began with an initial investment of $1,000 and grew the business to over 5 million dollars annually. We have done this without debt.

I developed and implemented an exit strategy that allowed me to retire in 2011.

Prior to starting the business I was COO of a company that sold capital equipment to hospitals and doctors offices.

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I am a self taught business person that knows how to work in the real world and build a successful business.

Terry Leigh Britton

Current City: Elizabeth City, NC


Proactive Self-Starter involved in Community Betterment and Affairs:

  • 2011 to Present – Devoting time to creating and disseminating educational materials on marketing, now becoming organized under the banners of http://ncmarketers.com and http://marketingmavens.net.
     
  • From 1997 to 2007 - In a Housing Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS) building with over 200 elderly and disabled residents, Kathy Salkin of Sara Lee Hosiery and I started the Crystal Towers Computer Club. Through donations, primarily from Sara Lee and from graphic design houses, I personally refurbished and gave away approximately 130 computer systems to elderly and disabled people living on limited incomes, in an effort to bridge the digital divide. (For this effort I received the Bellsouth Good Neighbor of the Year award in 2000. I was also featured in a full
    2-page article in the Winston-Salem Journal in 2007.)
    I have taught classroom and individual computer skills classes to residents of Crystal Towers since the project began. Thanks to HAWS, most Winston Salem public housing now has a space to hold classes and a computer lab.
     
  • 1997 to 2000 - Founder and President of the Electronic Music Consortium of the Triad, a forum for electronic musicians and composers to meet and share music, ideas, knowledge and techniques.
  • In summer of 1993, I created a pilot program later picked up by Junior Achievement in Connecticut that was very successful. It used an entertainment industry based business model instead of the traditional manufacturing model. We produced Dances (loosely called "Raves") for the local teenagers featuring young DJ's and live local bands. This ended a 17-year dry spell in that community of having such things as dances for the teens. The Junior Achievement version of the program was first embraced by the Ridgefield High School and its principle, and that school's Senior Class Economics students earned class credit for their participation.
  • In 1990, I promoted alcohol-free nightclubs in Danbury CT, producing (and paying for) zoning changes that paved the way for coffeehouses and other alcohol-free musical venues, bringing life back to that city's downtown region.


 


 

Work Experience:


Features:

  • 5-years self-employed doing Internet Marketing consulting – email lists, newsletters, SEO, advanced strategies including Google AdWords, copy writing, print integration.
  • 5-years self-employed as a programmer using ExpressionEngine to create dynamic, data-driven websites. Ruralintelligence.com and ncwildflower.org are two large examples.
  • Proficient in computer technologies for both PC and Macintosh platforms
  • 5-years experience as college professor teaching Graphic Arts and computer graphics courses, including entire Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Pre-press document optimization, color correction, scanning, image touch up
  • Website design, PERL, PHP and MySQL programming, content management systems (Xoops, phpNuke, Expression Engine, pMachine) and blogging tools.
  • Hardware upgrading and troubleshooting
  • Freelance computer technician
  • Visual Basic Programming
  • Former ISP’s Telephone Help Desk (solo), for Red Barn Data Center, WS

 

Details

  • Spring 2002 to August, 2006 – Full-time Professor as assistant to Dept. Chair Garry Day at Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC, teaching beginning and advanced Graphic Arts subjects to students pursuing their Associates Degree in the Graphic Arts and Imaging Technologies curriculum, which covers all aspects of printing technologies.

    I taught classes to both 1st and 2nd year (Associates Degree Program) students, primarily in computer graphics applications (Adobe Creative Suite), but also taught design, printing (lithography, screen and flexography), print estimating, printing math, history of printing, Graphic Arts career overview and others. I taught the Adobe applications from beginning to advanced levels: Photoshop - 3 semesters, Illustrator - 1 semester, InDesign - 3 semesters, and GoLive - 1 semester. Though initially hired as part-time, the duties were as comprehensive as full-time, and I was part-time only because we had to wait for budget approvals, after which I had to go through the hiring process again to win full-time status. Ours was a 5-semester program, so I had a 12-month contract.

    I was the IT person, network tech and computer maintenance tech for our dept. as well, which had 36 Macintosh computers by the time I left.
     

  • From 1990-1991 - Developed and taught several extremely successful hands-on science classes for young people, presented via five after-school programs in four CT. towns, and also through a home-schooling program. I created five very popular classes: Sounds Incredible; Color and Light Magic; The Electric Creator Series; Things you can do with Gravity; and Crazy Machines! I tried reviving this program to provide to children in the Triad area, but with little interest happening here - see http://www.geocities.com/sciencehandson (much thanks goes to Machele Cable, Lab Manager of Wake Forest University Physics for designing and implementing this beautiful website!)
     
  • From 1989 to 1993, I worked weekday evenings and weekends for the Ridgefield Water Supply Company, minding the reservoir and 4 pumping stations. A dream job! Sadly, eventually I was replaced by automation.
     
  • From 1987-1988, I lived and worked in the heart of NYC's SOHO art district, both at Five Eggs (a pre-empire Japanese artifacts shop), and at JD Canvas' toy shop.
     
  • From early 1986 to late 1987, I worked as the maintenance man at an actual Tibetan monastery in Woodstock, NY., Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, where I also lived, studied and practiced according to Tibetan Buddhist methods for two years.
  • From 1985 to 1986 I was video editor and technical director at the White Buffalo Multimedia video studio (now Upstate Media Enterprises) in Woodstock, NY
  • In 1984 I worked for Miller Advertising in NYC, the largest classified ad agency in the world. I placed the ads (mostly with the NY Times) for the CEO's accounts.
  • Since 1982 I have been a certified instructor of the Technologies for Creating® courses developed by Robert Fritz. I have been on staff at Winston-Salem's Sawtooth Center (2001) teaching these courses, as "Create Your Life!" as well as presenting the course in private settings at people’s homes.
     
  • From 1977 through 1984, I performed prolonged stints as a street musician playing flute in and underneath Cambridge, MA (their first "allowed" street musician), where I eventually instigated the "Music Under Boston" program that brought street musicians of all genres into the subway stations of Cambridge and Boston; and in NYC as a regular feature of the SOHO art district, the corner of Wall and Broadway, and at the front stairway of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art on Fifth Ave. (I was the only street musician ever allowed there - the police would chase the darn mimes away when I arrived!) Have now been playing flute for over fifty years, starting in third grade at age 9.

 


 

Not-For-Profit Work Experience:

  • July 2012 joined SCORE (the Service Corp of Retired Executives, the volunteer arm of the Small Business Administration) and was made a member of the board and named Technology Chair in November, 2012.
     
  • From 2009 to Present, have been a member of the development team for the open-source and free CamStudio screen recording software, an internationally popular program for which I am the primary help-desk moderator. http://camstudio.org/forum
     
  • From 1984 to 1985 - Was co-director with Suzen of the prodigious and prolific Art for the People in NYC, an Arts Events Production group that produced large (massive) scale public art events at World Trade Center observation deck, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Central Park, and the first in history to have a public event on a Staten Island Ferry Boat and in its huge terminal. Shoestring budgets with huge results (and huge audiences involved), thanks to volunteers!
     
  • From 1976 to 1979 - Political interface and public "front man" for The Foundation for the Alliance of the Cultural Arts and Humanities, and Artisphere, in Boston, MA - The Foundation and "working arm" of a multifaceted arts-and-artists support non-profit. Based upon my charter written earlier for Biospheres, we embraced projects such as artist housing, street fairs, craft fairs (very early!), and building conversions, with variable success, but with much support from city and government leadership acquired by said "front man."
  • From 1974 to 1975 - Biospheres, Boston, MA - composed their 'revolutionary' charter, based upon ideas from Buckminster Fuller and others, with a few of my own as well. Biospheres produced warehouse loft "happenings" and located store fronts for people to use for free to give dance lessons, painting lessons, etc., but its charter expressed a much larger scope.
     
  • In 1971 (my senior year in High School), co-brainstormed Aurora Productions to produce "micro Woodstock" festivals featuring local bands, such of which were in abundance at that time. Produced only one show, but it was a good one!

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Education

Education:

Salem College, 2001-2002

Major: Communications, with Science Education emphasis – left to teach at FTCC.

Forsyth Technical Community College , 1999-2001

Major: Associates Degree in Graphic Arts and Imaging Technologies,
Graduated with 3.925 GPA. (One “B” in 7 semesters!)

Winston-Salem State University , 1996-1997

Major: Computer Science, 4.0 average

School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , 1972-1975

Major: Performance Art and Electronic Music Composition, Honors program

Honors and Awards:

Academic Honors Scholarship Award - Forsyth Tech, 2001

Printing Industries of the Carolinas Association (PICA) Scholarship Award for 2001

Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, 2000

BellSouth's Good Neighbor of the Year Award, 1999

Extracurricular Activities, FTCC:

Phi Theta Kappa, President 2000-2001

Alpha Mu Beta service fraternity, Vice President 2001

Student Government Association member 2000-2001

Bonnie Copeland

Current City: Costa Mesa, CA

Business start up, business plans, financing your buisness, financial projections, cash flow, budgeting, intellectual property, turn-arounds for troubled businesses. Retail, manufacturing, entertainment, the environmental industry and non-profits. I began my business career by starting a retail ski shop, which built to $1 million in sales as the ski industry boomed. When my daughter was born I soldl the ski business and became a stay-at-home mom entrepreneur. I sold custom portraits of children and pets through mail order and specialty shops. Five years later I sold the portrait business and entered the University of Pittsburgh M.B.A. program, majoring in Accounting and Finance. After graduating Magna cum Laude I worked as Assistant Controller and Factory Systems Analyst for a large aluminum foundry and rolling mill in Eastern Ohio. Two very cold winters later I moved to Southern California as Project Financial Analyst for Hughes Aircraft.I moved to Disney to manage the financial affairs for several divisions at the park as well as the construction of Thunder Mountain Railroad. I left Disney to work as a Special Projects Analyst for Shell Oil, then spent 11-1/2 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. At DEC I worked directly with the Western Vice President of Sales, managing the budgeting, reporting, and awards programs for a 300 person sales force. I also served as executive partner to several aerospace and banking companies, wrote the strategic plan for a new $50 million venture, served as national training manager for the Finance and Accounting organization, and as training liaison between Finance and Accounting and the sales group. In 1992 I took early retirement and became a SCORE volunteer. Currently, I work half-time doing marketing, accounting, and financial planning for a small family owned firm. I also work periodically with the Cal State Fullerton School of Business Entrepreneurship program and run three small businesses: consulting for several former employers, art beading and freelance writing

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Education

BA, University of Pittsburgh, Cum Laude -- Studio Art Major, Theater and dance minor MBA, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Magna Cum Laude, Finance and Accounting. 5 time winner, Chapter Cyber Counselor of the Year Award.

Philip Greene

Current City: New Rochelle, NY

Expert in Business Start ups, Buying and Selling a Business, Business Plans, Business Legal Forms,Obtaining Fnancing. 1965 to 2003 W.R.Grace & Co. Corporate Vice President of Finance. For last 25 years negotiated worldwide acquisitions and divestment's of various businesses ranging from $25 million to over $1 billion. Coordinated due diligence, both in house and third party, including work of independent accountants, investment bankers and attorneys. Negotiated financial and purchase price sections of relevant agreements and reviewed other documents. Resolved all post closing purchase price adjustments and business issues. Worked closely with investment bankers in achieving corporate value objectives. Prior to 1980 was responsible for both internal and external world wide financial reporting. Corporate business plan and financing initiator. Start up business initiator. 1960 to 1965 PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC.

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Education

Columbia University Graduate School of Business. MS degree in Accounting. University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. BS degree in Marketing.

Sanford K Carlisle

Current City: Wolfeboro, NH

Expert in Business Operations. Very knowledgeable in Business Management. 38 years in key management positions in food manufacturing and distribution business, involving: manufacturing and engineering, strategic planning, costing, finance, capital investment, logistics, organization development, mergers and acquisitions, product development, and MIS. Responsible for 4 production facilities. retired as VP of Operations and VP of Corporate Development. Holds 4 US patents. Post retirement had own management consulting business and have been a SCORE counselor for 13 years. Served on active and reserve duty in US Navy for 30 years – retired with rank of Captain.

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Education

US Merchant Marine Academy, Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Various courses involving finance and accounting, product development, organization and leadership development, strategic and business planning, and mergers and acquisitions

Paul Kalicky

Current City: Arden, NC

Expert in creating business plans. Very knowledgeable in business operations. My 31 year business career was spent with the DuPont Co. in the area of polymers and advanced materials. After starting as a research chemist working on new polymers, I moved on to management positions in sales, marketing, plant technical support, product management, business and strategic planning, and eventually business director. I have worked extensively in South America, Europe and Asia Pacific (especially China). I have been involved in the start-up of numerous new small businesses, and led a team evaluating which new business concepts to pursue. I am experienced in mergers and acquisitions, having been involved in more than a dozen deals (including licensing). As result of the business positions held, I am knowledgeable about aspects of the chemical, automotive, aerospace, apparel, floor covering, electrical/electronic connectors, and general industrial markets. As business director I was accountable for businesses with $250 million in sales, 600+ employees and several manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. As a 10 person leadership team member of a $2.5 billion dollar strategic business unit, I led a multi-year program to install a new managing process to improve performance and individual accountability.

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Education

B.S. - Chemistry: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1968 Ph.D. - Chemistry: Columbia University, 1973

Robert F Burkholder

Current City: FL

Retired Sr. Technical Executive with Fortune 500 companies. Black & Decker, Pentair, Deere & Co., Lutron Lighting, Reliance Electric 39 years experience of design, development, manufacture, and innovation relating to consumer products. Special expertise with batteries, chargers, and motor technology. Advice on patent and trademark processes along with product planning. Considerable experience with expense budgeting process, capital budgets, strategic planning and tracking processes. Broad experience with proven cost reduction techniques. Can advise clients in regulatory and safety matters: UL, CPSC, EPA, CEE Fluent user of MS Professional Office Software, wireless networks. Assistance with organizational development for technical staffs.

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Education

BSEE Penn State

Dan S Miller

Current City: Pebble Beach, CA

Dan S. Miller - http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsmiller9/ - Serial Entrepreneur/ C-Exec./ Roadmap Success - MBA.PMP.Series7&63

Launched 6 successful startups - 4 exists

Contact me for consulting if:

a) You have a going venture and a team that can execute.

b) You have quantifiable traction. (sales, revenues, users)

c) You’re ready to take your venture to the next level.

cloud-mobile-social.com

My areas of expertise include: All things Cloud+Mobile+Social • App & Web Development • Validation/Valuation • Breakout • Deal Structure • Angel + Venture Funding Pipeline • Start-up success.

Breakout = Vision and Discoveries that Rocket a Venture Forward at an Accelerated Rate.

#Venture:
• #Validation, #Runway & #Execution.
• Accelerating #product delivery, revenue streams, and problem solving.
• #Monetizing #business #assets.
• Exploiting #social #media.
• #Scaling to own the #market.
• #Funding pipeline.
• Driving #success factors.
 

Contact me at: dan.miller@scorevolunteer.org

#cloud, #mobile, #social

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Education

MBA, (Honors in Finance) St Mary's;

​PMP - Project Mgt. Institute;

FINRA series 7 & 63;

BA, Biology, Lone Mt. College-University of San Francisco.

Affiliations:

Keiretsu Forum (Angel Funding Group)

Cloud-Mobile-Social (Venture Capital)

Institutional Investors Group (Qualified Investor)

AngelList,

CrunchBase,

CapLinked,

SandHill,

VentureDeal,

FundersClub,

JumpStart days,

Eureka,

Ignite,

(FINRA)Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, 

(PMI) Project Management Institute, 

(ICECC)Institute of Certified eCommerce Consultants

Cloud” (Improve Life) - #Access, #Security, #Privacy, Governance, Architecture, #Search, #Sharing, Backup, #Forecast, Hadoop, #BigData, MapReduce, HDFS, #Risk, Hosting, #View, #Networks, #Stats, Hardware, #Servers, #OpenSource, AI, BI, #Model, #Consulting, Paas, Saas, SOAAgility, Elasticity, #Distributed processing, #BitCoin, #Hybrid, Virtualization, #Performance, #Infrastructure, #Migration, Provisioning, Grid computing, #Private, #Public, Machine Learning, Visualizing, Capture, #Realtime, #On-demand, #Amazon Cloud Drive, #iCloud, #RackSpace, SkyDrive, #gDrive, #Workload, #Skype, Query, Clusters, Controller, Indexes, #Object ID, #Scale. #Ecommerce

Mobile” (Extend Technology) -  #Devices, #Handsets, #iPhone, #Android, Mini, Communication, Portability, #iPad, #Connection, #Location, #Photo's, #App’s, #Games, #Text, #Video, Entertainment, #Music, Integration, #Family, #Friends, #Tags, Uploads, Embedded, Actionable, Targeted, #Transactions, #Payments, Near Field (NFC), Hyper-Local, #Nightlife, #Merchandise, #Sports, #Fitness, #News, #Media, #Travel, #Jobs, Gifts, #Apparel, #Food, #Dining, #Menu, 4square, QR, Hash Tags, Bump, #GPS, Check-in, Agile, In-touch, #Instagram, #Commerce, #Shopping, #Ads, #Maps, #Meetup, Analytics, Rapid Prototyping

Social” (Expand Social Action) - #Connections, App’s, Media, #Games, Content, #Search, #Likes, Pokes, #Friends, #Marketing, #Ads, #Flickr, #Instagram, #Pinterest, Tumblr, Topsy, #MetaData, #Commerce, #Campaigns, #Location, #Cookies, #Analytics, #Keywords, #Life, #Love, #Meetup, #Dating, Nightlife, #Entertainment, #Learning, #Growth, Evolution, Virtual Reality, Virtualization, #Timeline, #Tweets, #Blogs, IM, #Politics, #World events, #LinkedIn, #Facebook, #Twitter, g+1, 4square, Klout, Adwords, #Wiki, Crunchbase, #Youtube, Mash, Crittercism, Quora, Dribble, #Vimeo, Behance, Dvice, Gizmodo, Crowd #Funding, Delicious, Startle, #About, #Groups, #Flash, #Events, #Hangout, Shout, Scream, #Talk, #Be, Interact, Show me what's next?

time, service, tools, define, site, profit, loss, law, patent, thank you, technical, value, look at, mobile, goals, suggestions, raise, demographics, prospects, program, coding, retail, e-commerce, eCommerce, hoping, website, feedback, sales, presentation, app, compete, target, men, ip, women, recommendations, ideas, game, online, model, social, need, capital, expert, building, counsel, ad words, SEO, resources, using, score, target, audience, marketing, campaign, product, customer, marketing, consulting, banks, scale, investment, cloud, seed, ads, funding, angels, mission, launch, mentor, veterans, revenue, beta, discovery, success, startup, team, small, business, funding, help, opportunity, presentation, investors, expenses, potential, innovation, social media, feedback, buyers, validation, entrepreneur, execution, questions, venture capital, customers, starting, running, growing, video, Twitter,  Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, pitch, 

 

John Kocher

Current City: Scotch Plains, NJ

Knowledgeable in the fundamental of business. To include manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing. General Management-

Experience-Industrial Gas and Welding Products, Service Engineer-Chicago, Assistant manager Engineering Service Minnesota, Zone Manager-Pittsburgh, Marketing Manager-New Jersey, Director International-New Jersey, Vice President International, New Jersey ++, President Japanese Sub, Licensing and Agreements, Managing Director Joint Venture (Chile), Heavy Equipment Manufacturing, Vice President, York, PA, Global Marine Services, NB Development, Consulting

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Education

MIT Mechanical Engineer, Kellogg MBA Program (1 year), in house and other management training courses.

Thomas J Malkus

Current City: Punta Gorda, FL

Tom is an idea man who can listen to peoples problems and come up with ideas and solutions. Tom worked in sales positions with 2 other companies before he joined Data Processing Sciences Corporation in 1969 as an Account Executive. Over the 37 years at DPS, he has served as Assistant Sales Manager, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and then President of DPS. He became an owner in Data Processing Sciences in 1985 and since retiring in 2005 currently remains on their Board of Directors. Over the years Tom used his sales and marketing talents to help DPS grow from a $5 Million dollar company to a $50 Million dollar company. He provided the vision for the companys Management, Marketing, Technical and Product architecture and helped shepherd DPS's transformation from a Manufacturers rep organization to a Data Communications Distributor, to a Network Integrator and currently as an E-Business Internet Infrastructure and Services Provider providing security products, Carrier Services, Network Management, routing/switching infrastructure, internet services, consulting, and technical support to an industry whose growth was expanding at unprecedented rates. Tom has served on various vendor and manufacturer advisory boards over the past 20 years. Tom designed and presented workshops and seminars to groups from 10 to 200+ over the past 30 years. In addition to Score, Tom also currently volunteers as a Mediator in the Small Claims Court System in Charlotte County, Florida. He also volunteers as a Juvenile Arbitrator and Teen Court Arbitrator in Charlotte County. Tom joined SCORE in 2008 planning to use his extensive Management, Marketing, and Technical skills to help small businesses start up and grow successfully.

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Education

Tom holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration (BSBA) with a major in Marketing from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. (1966)

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