My educational background is engineering (BME - Villanova) and, after graduation, I was employed in the rubber and plastics industries. My last corporate stint was at Rohm & Haas Co. from 1966 to 1978.

A business partner and I owned and successfully operated an Oregon-based plastics manufacturing company from 1978 through 1989. After the first five years of ownership, our manufacturing/distibution company was in the upper quartile for both net profit and return on total assets compared with its industry peers. We started with three employees; when we sold the firm to a large midwest manufacturing conglomerate, we employed over 70.

Using the knowledge and lessons gained from business ownership, I later became an independent management consultant. My focus was advising mid-sized, growing companies. For eight years, I wrote a newspaper column, Doin' Business, to help promote my consultancy.

I've authored and contributed to several business books and my writings have been published in numerous business magazines.

When I put up my business consulting website in 1997, I had posted several of my how-to business articles online. When I retired from consulting, I moved many of them to the website of my local SCORE chapter. After 24 years as a volunteer counselor, I retired from SCORE in 2009 and moved some of the business tips and how-to articles to my personal website, hoping that they will be useful to small business owners.

I hope you find the information in these postings helpful in your business endeavors:

More of my business and financial commentary can be found here.