·  Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Online - Bleeding-edge project serving a major player in the financial and brokerage services business regarding the upgrade of their web site from a basic CGI/Perl based system to a sophisticated BEA WebLogic Server Java based system.  Go Back

· Bank Of America. - 'Proof-Of-Concept' development project to produce a data application tool (VFP) for automating data exchange between local, PC based, primary database system and secondary, remote, out-sourced, mainframe based data processing service handling credit card transaction processing.  Go Back

· Providian Financial Corp. - Requirements Analysis, Conceptual Design and Project Management of the Systems Integration between, and the extension of, independent Human Resources database and Payroll database systems of fast growing credit-card financial services company.  Go Back

· Wells Fargo Bank - Project Management of a) the evaluation of the bank's commercial deposit account holding-clearing methods and related data management systems and of b) the subsequent modifications to and across Primary Banking Information Systems to capture float revenue.   Go Back

· Quaker Oats - Developed IS analytical and graphical reportage tools for HR Management to compare product line employee benefits and payroll costs, by staffing grade and function, versus contract data.  Go Back

· Mortgage Information Corporation - Executed wide range of special purpose projects and production operations support against a warehouse of multi-gigabyte, monthly-results, mortgage-financials data tables, conceiving, developing and producing customized solutions.  Go Back

· Logistix - Full IS system development from concept to completion,   Go Back

· Safeway - Modified and extended FoxPro based client/server system, including an auto-data input/output interchange process using EDI  to provide production and inventory management control tools.

· Health Sonics = Provided a complete manufacturing inventory and production system integrated with Contact and Sales Management tools.
· American Mayflower, NY = Full GL/AP/AR System for National Insurance company.
· Veterans H.A., VA = Full GL/AP/AR System for VA property management group.
· "Home of the 99¢ Video" = Integrated, GL/AP/AR/IV & Point-of-Sale System for video rental store company complete with inventory bar-coding.
· Saratoga Systems = GL/AP linked to LaserJet printed MICR Checking system for national rental storage company.   Go Back
· Property Services America = Developed complete business operations & management system for General Contractor and Real Estate Investment company.
· Borland International = QuatroPro Design Proofing; proving the LOTUS 123 Macro interchangeability & compatibility issues in QuatroPro.
· C21-LADD R/E = Designed complete Real Estate Propery Management and Accounting System to handle the company's investment portfolio business. 
· US Sprint = Designed comprehensive Inventory Management System (inc. Bar-coding) for resource and cost control Go Back

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Management and Productivity
* Increased bottom-line profits of a broad-based R & D design/production operation by 18% on $4.49M by introducing integrated MIS management tools and initiating updated methods, policies and procedures.
* Improved product line quality and performance, and increased gross operating profits by establishing objectives with full accountability and MBE, and by redesigning product producing additional $2.5M revenue.
* Increased margins by developing an Equipment Inventory Management system producing additional $0.5M net to the bottom-line, also increasing increasing effective utilization of existing resources by 12%. Go Back

Leadership and Team Development
* Managed diverse team of (88) IS systems managers and programmers spread across 5 locations from Oregon to Texas to modify banking processing methods and IS systems to realize additional $5.0M/Ann. revenue stream.
* Launched innovative service business, using industrial processing technology, from idea and "green-field site" to commercial operation with team of 4 supervisors/15 staff for $5.8M projected annual sales within 2 years.
* Built 10-staff, $0.5M (in UK), Exhibition, Trade-Show and Marketing Communications company overcoming major technical and production challenges in supporting various international clients. Go Back

Business Development and Marketing
* Developed novel integration of full function Accounting and Management software package to include Desktop MICR check printing for start-up financial services company with $multi-million revenue potential over 5 years.
* Introduced advanced, complex-systems, ATE product in USA and Europe achieving $5.3M in sales within 7 months against challenging competition, regaining 8 formerly disenfranchised clients and also achieving commendational reviews from the electronics industry market base.
* Invented and marketed $6.8M integrated, military defense level, security system for Aramco in Saudi Arabia also initiating rapid startup of $10M+/annum security business by strategic acquisition of complementary competitors. Go Back

TESTIMONIALS:

.... During the period (I) was employed by Gulton (Transrex) Industries as Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Beddows was hired to help plan the (turnaround ....) systems for the production of very sophisticated  (TOKOMAC) equipment. .... Mr. Beddows demonstrated a grasp of the total project so well that he was subsequently asked by D.O.E. Washington to handle the same situation at another company. - Victor Krummenacher, V.P. Teledyne Inet. (Retd).

.... As the new Managing Director (President, UK) of a company specializing in innovative Linear Accelerator Technology, I found it was necessary to restructure and strengthen my management procedures and organization. This required someone with sound technical and production experience and familiarity with operations management in a high tech facility. Mr. Beddows qualifications and experience matched our stated requirements very well and indeed proved well suited to the task itself. - Vivian J. Boaler, B Sc. C Eng. MI Mech E. Managing Director, Radiation Dynamics, Plc. (Retd).

.... We have found Mr. Beddows to be extremely qualified in designing and trouble shooting computer based systems. His education, experience and performance have been an excellent match for our needs and he dispatched his commitments in an exemplary manner. We would recommend him to any prospective organization as a (systems... ) management person with a high degree of applicable skills .... - Ken Claybaugh, President, PAYRITE, Inc.

.... (During the time I was President of Zehntel...) The products for which Mr. Beddows was responsible were highly complex Automated Test Equipment. His role was both highly technical and sales/marketing oriented. (technically...) he was required to completely assimilate the knowledge of a complex system .... he also developed applications and circuitry which effectively demonstrated the systems performance merits. In the marketing role he was required to be alert to emerging needs and opportunities in the marketplace and respond (...accordingly). Mr. Beddows exhibited a solid grasp of these issues born of good business acumen, market sense, experience and education worthy of recognition as such ..... - Bradley C. Stribling, VP, Eng/Operations Photon Dynamics. Go Back

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Last Updated: 02/27/2005.