I am President of Olympic Performance, Inc. I graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU) and have completed advanced training at the University of Idaho and Stanford University.
I started my professional career in 1976. I have held leadership or officer positions with the Aluminum Company of America, PACCAR (owner of Peterbilt and Kenworth Class 8 truck manufacturing companies), Portland General Electric, and Mutual Health Systems, Inc. In 1991, I launched Olympic Performance, Inc. As a consultant, I have completed engagements for a wide variety of clients in manufacturing and production, government, and service.
I have written and delivered training and consulting programs on many topics. In the 80's, I wrote two computer programs and marketed them nationally: Fixed Asset Depreciation and M105D (a program automating the quality control military standard 105D). In the 90's, I created a 360-degree leadership assessment instrument titled Management 2000 and authored a training module titled Managing Customer Expectations, which is incorporated in the Partners for Quality standardized curriculum sold worldwide. Since 2000, I developed a certificate seminar series for Portland State University titled Creating Customer-Centered Organizational Excellence and currently teach four courses I developed titled Advanced Management Techniques, Project Management Tools, Workflow Management and Operational Excellence in Healthcare.
I published a book on corporate performance management titled Action with Traction in 2009 and in 2010 am completing software that initially grew out of the the book but is focused deeply on project management, titled AwT Project Management. The software is based on PMBOK and PRINCE2, making it a very robust solution for managing portfolios of projects as well as all projects ranging from simple to complex.
I have been a frequent keynote presenter, including for example to over 500 franchisees of the Papa Murphy’s home-baked pizza company and to the Alaska Telephone Association. I have facilitated planning sessions for City, County, and State elected officials as well as for executive staff in small to large private companies. I have facilitated strategic planning and operations planning for for-profit and non-profit leadership teams, and have helped many teams at all levels in a wide variety of organizations become functional and effective. My engagements include several client relationships where I help leadership teams keep their plans current and their actions focused, facilitating periodic review sessions as well as guiding development of effective organization performance monitoring and related systems.
I am active in my community and profession. I am Chair of the Washington County Community Action Organization and a member of the Oregon Statue University Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. I have been chairman of the Clackamas County Budget Committee, vice-president of the TTS Youth Competitive Soccer Club, and chair of the Tualatin Americans with Disabilities Act Board. I am a former elected official for the Tualatin City Council and served on the Tualatin Budget Committee, Tualatin Development Commission, Washington County Cooperative Library System Board, and Tualatin Core Area Parking Board. I am past chair of the Tualatin Architectural Review Board and past president and director of the Portland Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. I served as girls’ junior varsity soccer coach for Tigard High School for three years and continue to coach competitive youth soccer for Southside Soccer club, headquartered in Tigard, Oregon.