SUMMARY

Successful career transition professional with more than 11 years comprehensive experience in large corporate, business and academic environments offering: value-added expertise in career management and decisive win-win consultation with clients and candidates, career market trend research and analysis, career transition strategy development, creative problem solving and training.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Developed, implemented and directed the first major career resource center in the Atlanta metro area, providing state-of-the-art programs and collections, touted by many corporations as one of the ‘best small corporate libraries in Atlanta’ with incomparable quality of the collection and the training given.  Known and respected for continual analysis and evaluation of the electronic, CD, printed and online products best suited for various resource centers, particularly for the career transition industry. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BDI GROUP Inc., Woodstock, Georgia                                                                                                   2005-Present

Career Transition Consulting Firm

President

Independent consulting assignments including but not limited to:

• University of Georgia’s Terry MBA program…contracted from August 2005 to present to work with 140 MBA students preparing them for their career search, using a combination of group training sessions and one-on-one coaching, interview skills training on and off camera, resume and correspondence preparation and more…similar project at University of South Carolina, Columbia
• Retained search for a CFO for a $75 mil Georgia manufacturing company
• Individual career transition coaching with sales execs, a six sigma project manager, marketing execs and many more
• Co-Founder and Co-Facilitator for Atlanta Metro Marketing Executives’ Roundtable and also CIO Roundtable

THE MULLING COMPANIES Lincolnshire International, Atlanta, Georgia                             1994-2005

Atlanta’s premiere career transition, outplacement, executive coaching and recruiting company.

Vice President Retained Search Division 2005

Vice President Client Communications, Information and R&D 2000-2004

Director of Information Services             1994-1999

• Developed the first and only comprehensive PowerPoint Presentation for the career transition industry, improving the candidates’ efficiency and effectiveness during their job search.

• Created and developed one of the most comprehensive alumni networking databases of professionals and executives that have come through the career transition center, enhancing candidate networking and information sharing, providing greater candidate effectiveness and efficiency in the career search and a positive image for the organization.

• Developed and direct the job leads network, keeping in touch with past candidates on a regular basis and developing new relationships to identify and improve candidate access to the hidden job market.

• Responsible for the training of all candidates in the: efficient and effective use of the CDs, online products and email for the career search, including tips on the strategies and techniques in developing target lists of companies, how to find the ‘decision maker’, networking into that company or decision maker and ‘getting past the gatekeeper’.

Southern Polytechnic University, Marietta, Georgia                                                 1993-1994

Atlanta’s other premiere engineering university

Consultant:  Acting Head of Reference and Acquisitions during search for permanent staff.

• Performed all duties as Head of Reference and Acquisitions for a university library during an accreditation process.

• Instructed all students in a required class in how to use the library and also worked with many students nearing graduation and alumni on their career search strategies.

ABACIS Incorporated, Owings Mills, Maryland                                                                   1989-1993

The First Online Inventory of Rare and Out-of-Print Books and ‘Want Lists’

Founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Library Division

• Conceptualized, created, and raised the funding ($3 mil) to launch the first worldwide inventory database of holdings of book dealers and the ‘want lists’ of libraries and collectors…predecessor to internet products such as bibliofind.com

• Created marketing materials and sales strategies, trained inside sales force, developed additional databases, set up and attended the professional trade shows.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, District of Columbia                       1979-1989

The Nation’s foremost Museum

Chief Librarian for The Museum Support Center, one of the fourteen Smithsonian Libraries

• Introduced the use of new technologies and Personal Computers to the 14 Smithsonian Libraries and conducted brown bag lunches to educate the Chief Librarians and their staff on the use of these new technologies.
• Served as the Representative for all Federal Libraries for FEDLINK for two years at the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), the worldwide central consortium for libraries and their collections and shared resources.

U.S. National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland                                        1976-1979

The United States Department of Agriculture’s research library

Cataloger and Reference Librarian

University of Maryland Health Sciences Library, Baltimore, Maryland                  1976

University Library serving the Medical School and Teaching Hospital

Head of Audiovisuals Library

Prince George’s General HOSPITAL & Medical Center, Cheverly, Maryland            1975

Teaching Hospital just outside of Washington, D.C.

Medical Librarian – nights and weekends

U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine

Bethesda, Maryland                                                                                                                                  1975

Special Projects Contractor – days

EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, M.L.S.

Caldwell College for Women, Caldwell, New Jersey, B.A.

CURRENT ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Member: World Future Society, American Society for Training & Development , Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Natl. Assn of Female Execs, Business Network International(BNI)...attend Human Resource Management meetings  & more