Prior to The Waldec Group/ IKON Technology Services, I served as the Technical Manager for MP Technical Services in South Florida. I gained some recognition as an innovator in the field of outsourced Information Technology services. Chief among these was the multi-year outsourcing of services by Pepsi Cola International. This engagement included development of a NOC and help desk with facilities in Florida, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and the Caribbean to support users throughout Latin America. MP Tech also provided technical and staffing services to organizations including, IBM, Motorola, Nortel, Ericsson, EDS and others.

Prior to that, I worked as a programmer, network engineer and, eventually branch manager for a technology services firm in Tampa Florida. The company was a technology VAR and provided consulting, network design, hardware repair and application development services to small and medium sized organizations including manufacturing, financial and legal concerns in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. We also constructed RF and infrared point-to-point network links for commercial, industrial and manufacturing clients.

I graduated from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business in New Orleans with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management in December 1991. To answer the question, no I graduated early, not late. People see New Orleans and my December graduation date and assume that I spent too much time at Mardi Gras parades. Actually, I earned extra credits during a semester studying Economics and International Management at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. While there, I was an intern at British Railways and completed a project conducting statistical analysis of market research data which was used to develop significant new programs at the railway.