U.S. Department of Commerce: Institutional Economic Development Project for the Establishment of Business Development Centers.

Project Director responsible for the design, pilot testing, staffing and implementation of an Institutional Economic Development Project consisting of the establishment of a Business Development Centers program funded by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The program required the design and development of a generally encompassing institutional economic development program of Business Development Centers located in the largest 100 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas of the United States. The institutional development requirements included technical expertise in Federal/State Government Procurement, Commercial Procurement, Capital Financing, Management, Marketing, Accounting, Management Information Systems and Training Seminars. Under my direction the institutional design was implemented and tested in two pilot Business Development Centers in Texas and New Mexico and later established in the 100 SMSA’s throughout the country. I was directly responsible for the development of a Computerized Management Information System and Government Data Retrieval System for the institutional network of BDC’s which provided communications linkages and electronic access to over 800 canned software technical and business packages from major university research centers and private data processing corporations for distribution among all 100 SMSA Business Development Centers nationwide. Under my stewardship, the Pilot BDC’s had an economic impact of securing over $10 million in new bank financing and over $80 million in new government and commercial contracts annually to over 145 newly created affiliated entities.

Project Director in charge of an institutional economic development high technology transfer and commercialization program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The program involved the direct research and cataloging of declassified high technologies developed by the Department of Energy for internal uses, the economic feasibility of commercialization of such technologies, and the development of a 15,000 unit data base containing technology oriented enterprises that could successfully match and commercialize the DOE declassified technologies. The regional scope of the program included eleven southwestern states of California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. The institutional economic development program also delivered educational training and match making seminars throughout the eleven state region to selected participants, as well as provided the required technical follow-up, legal assistance in patent and trademark transfer, and financing and marketing assistance to selected companies for the successful commercialization of the high technologies.

Grupo Industrial Zaragoza Establishment of Retail C-Store Chain.   Economic development project for the turn-key establishment of U.S. styled Retail C-Store chain of 42 stores located in Ciudad Juárez., México with a cost of $20 million dollars. Project included development of the C-Store model and product mix; demographics, employment, and competitive research of Ciudad Juárez to include real estate study and costing of C-store site location, development of income, capital returns, and growth financing strategies. Project included subsequent annual audits of C-Stores economic performance.

Grupo Industrial Zaragoza Establishment of Beer Distributorship. Economic research and development of Corona Beer distributorship in Ciudad Juárez, México. Economic Study included economic research of national beer markets, population beer consumption patterns, beer brand loyalty, market shares, selection of retail channels, pricing and profitability analysis to include annual audits of economic performance.

Ciudad Juárez, México Commercial and Residential Real Estate Market Economic Research. Conducted major economic study of Ciudad Juárez, México Commercial and Residential Real Estate Market to include development of economic research model, collection and classification of demographic , urban growth, employment, income, designation of industrial/residential urban zones classification parameters and data generation modules. Developed computerized economic and urban projections tables to classify data and develop future growth requirements.