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He left NCR/AT&T in 1995 to pursue a consulting career, in the areas of Leadership, Team Development, Strategy, Structure, Systems and Organization Performance. Over the past 20 years he has trained, coached and mentored hundreds of IIE and ASQ Green Belts and Black Belts in Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, as well as coached leaders and managers how to develop and implement strategic plans. He's worked with more than 80 organizations on over 140 different performance improvement projects, organization change programs and continuous improvement initiatives. His expertise ranges across a variety of disciplines, including Lean, Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Healthcare, multiple Services, and Leadership/Management Development. Although most of his projects have been concentrated in the commercial business area, his most recent projects have been in Defense and Healthcare for leadership development, strategic planning, increasing process speed, improving quality, lowering cost and attaining supply chain logistics excellence for two specific programs; F/A-18 'Super Hornet', MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program) and several Healthcare Institutions.

Both his B.S. and Master's degrees are concentrated in Mathematics, which he utilizes today for complex problem solving, implementing change and improvement, teaching Transformation /Change, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt Training through the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Lean Manufacturing Principles using Statistics, and other data analysis methods and approaches. He has been involved in research with Bell Labs for Technical Team Design, and served on a Harvard research team called 'The Events and Motivation Study' (HBS T.E.A.M. Study).