ABOUT US

Our philosophy is to give the owners as much information as we can that we believe to be true, but that the owner then of course must make the decisions.  And of course we will keep what was discussed confidential with the owners.

In keeping with that, I will next try to explain the photos on the top of each page.   The large face on the photo on the left is mine.  And no, I was not in that conference room shown.  I have been in many conference rooms, and after a while I noticed that many looked alike.  A conference room in the US looks very much like a conference room in Madrid Spain, or Scotland, or Osaka Japan, or even Hangzhou China.  However, I am not used to photos being taken during meetings in those places.  So what I did was to take a stock photo on the left of a conference room scene and added my own photo in the front of it.  That of course can be done with just some photo work - that I also did.

The image on the right was from Hangzhou China where Motorola at that time had worked with a licensee Eastcom to build Motorola products in China.  I was one of the speakers that day, in fact the only American speaker at that ceremony.  That was a fun story in itself since that was done very last minute.  And this photo did come from the front page of the Hangzhou newspaper the next day that one of our associates was kind enough to send me.  In the photo on the right, of course I am not the speaker that moment this photo was taken.  I am the second person to the left of the male speaker wearing a business suit.  The lady in the front of course is an interpreter in case any of the speakers - like me - needed one.  She was quite excellent and was a good part of the reason why my last minute speech was received well.

MY BACKGROUND

I began with graduation as an Electronics Engineer in the Chicago area, and then took a number of Masters Course as I began work.  A few years after graduation, I had changed my job to be with Motorola in the Car Telephone Group that became the giant Cellular group of years later.  I had the pleasure of working with and learning from many talented people and grew with the exploding cellular business and became a Motorola VP over time. In my last years with Motorola, it seems that I had something of a reputation as a problem solver and was asked to help other places outside my own group - sometimes other divisions, and then finally asked to transfer to a division in trouble in England.  That division had good people but also had problems such as a $100 million yearly loss on a $1 billion business, plus large quality issues, plus large delivery issues and even more.  But since at that time I found I enjoyed problem solving, it was more fun than anything else building a team to fix things, and we did.

Some of the high points of my career there and other place include:

1. Doing the first custom electronics chip for Motorola Car Telephone signaling, while working with one of the Motorola Research Departments on the design.   This was a giant money saver.

2. Getting A Motorola CEO Quality award for one group early on for a 10 to 1 improvement

3. Scattered large improvements in inventory and cost

4. Being one of the three engineers who did the first Motorola Cellular Prototypes

5. Putting in the first Cellular factories for Motorola

6. The England assignment to fix cost, quality, delivery and more

7. Cost improvements at Novatel Wireless that are close to 3 to 1 Manufacturing cost improvements

8. Achieving profit in a $1 million a year small business we founded for a period of time

9. Doing profit and loss statements and balance sheets for that business

10. Starting my own software company that now has shipped to over 25 countries

11. Having achieved 13 US Copyrights and at one time, also my own US Trademark

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