Business Administration — Corporate marketing and private marketing consulting

1991-present Consulting — Sadow Marketing Group (Dayton and Waltham) marketing/

product development for consumer packaged goods and environmental clients

• Researched, developed, improved and/or delivered consumer packaged goods for diverse manufacturers),including intensive consulting for such innovators as Rubbermaid, Mead Corp, Fisher-Price; also including previously-successful suppliers wanting to regain their competitive advantage and market share.

 

1979-1991 Marketing Management — with three leading global manufacturers in school supplies, office products, housewares industries; involved importing

1988-91 Mead Corporation (Dayton OH) Marketing/New Product Development Mgr,

• Developed & commercialized profitable line of recycled/recyclable products,

while leader of school supply-office product manufacturer’s marketing group (Mead Corp. led in product category; generated $300,000 sales during 1st year)

87. Globe-Weis (Toledo, OH; now division of ATAPCO in Saint Louis, MO)

Product Manager for three lines with annual sales of more than $40 million

• Led task force, enabling firm to enter field of plastic-based housewares, school supplies and office products, by developing product lines capitalizing on functionality and style, with $400,000 annual sales during product launch

Sheaffer Eaton (Pittsfield, MA Division of Textron; business divested)

Entered firm as Market Researcher & Strategic Planner; quickly progressed from Assistant Product Manager to Brand Manager; mostly responsible for marketing packaged goods lines, including profit-and-loss accountability.

Public Service — Urban & regional planning and community development

1978-79 Regional Planning Director (LHRPA, Northwest quadrant of CT)

78. Chief of Planning and Community Development (Hagerstown, MD)

1973-75 Grants and Environmental/Open Space Planner (Virginia Beach, VA)

Teaching — Classroom teacher and science specialist (at primary grade-levels)

1997-2003 • Integrated environmental sciences & environmentalism into literacy and

character-building curriculum (at private-suburban & inner-city schools)

Besides presenting at professional organizations, I am guest lecturer, adjunct

professor, and mentor at Babson College, Bentley College, and Harvard Univ.

1999 Lesley College (Cambridge, MA) Elementary Ed Certification

1984 University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) MBA Program,

1973 Rutgers (New Brunswick, NJ) Masters in City and Regional Planning,