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Services OfferedThe following people have a service that they feel would bebeneficial to startup companies. Inclusion below is not anendorsement by Ann Arbor SPARK, and we encourage you to thoroughlycheck references of any provider. If you have a service that youwould like to offer, please contact Amy Cell at Amy@AnnArborSPARK.org. EDITING/PROOFREADING Over 20 years of experience in creating and proofreading transcripts and documents of many types. Services offered: • Word Processing • Editing and/or proofreading documents of all sizes and types. If you need it to be error-free, just want another pair of eyes to look at it and give a little feedback on style, etc., size doesn't matter. • Brain-storming and collaboration on documents you would like to revise/edit but can't quite decide what it needs. I have worked as a court reporter, editorial assistant, compliance coordinator and administrative assistant over the last 20 years and have helped numerous people get awesome grades on their college work or receive the grant they were applying for. I can perform research on different topics or write that employee/customer manual you have been meaning to develop. Please contact me if I can be of assistance to you. MARIANNE MC CREIGHT aamccreights@sbcglobal.net (734)996-3443 Home (734)358-6918 Cell Personal Website with Portfolio http://www.marianne-mccreight.f-sw.com October 2008 Resume Writing Special by RLC & Associates For the month of October, RLC and Associates is offering SPARK supporters a deeply discounted rate of $25/hr to optimize your resume. We realize in this economy spending $700 on your resume is outrageous. Our team is an elite group of skilled professionals, hand-selected, and highly trained. We write hundreds of resumes every year. We are not a resume writing company, we are a placement company, trained in optimizing resumes for results. Please note we will not critique your background, experience, or potential for success. We will comment on how you are marketing those assets to potential employers and how you are competing against others with similar goals. Your resume needs to be assertive in showing prospective employers how you would be of value to them, because no matter how good you are at your job, the resume is what really lands the interview. If you decide to take advantage of our resume writing service: please contact us at RLCandAssoc@gmail.com. New Earth Enterprises provides mechanical design services utilizing an extensive background in mechanical components, manufacturing and assembly processes and mechanical engineering analysis. To deliver solid modeling and component & assembly drawings, New Earth Enterprises has chosen Solid Works CAD software. New Earth Enterprises values professionalism, integrity and trust and is ready to serve your design goals. Please contact us with your mechanical design needs. Philip M. Wong launched New Earth Enterprises in 2005. Mr. Wong earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in BioEngineering from the University of California. He has 15 years of testing and design experience in the automotive and medical device industry at the Ford Motor Company, 3M Heath Care and Terumo Cardiovascular Systems. Mr. Wong can be reached at 734-417-3723 or by email: phil@new-earth-enterprises.com Iva Wilson – The Coaching Collaborative: As former president of a company in Ann Arbor (Philips Display Components) with $500 million in sales in the electronic components market and an accomplished leader Iva will bring her years of experience to your start up. Her last leadership position was heading up a start-up in Ann Arbor, a spin-off from Xerox (Gyricon), building it from the ground up and preparing it to produce the product for which, before she took over, only research developed information was available. She co-authored the book “The Power of Collaborative Leadership; Lessons for the Learning Organization” and she co-created the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) which was the outgrowth of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT started by Peter Senge. Iva is now supporting leaders in various organizations as a coach, business advisor, facilitator of strategic planning and team building. Specifically her focus is: • Coaching and Advising for Business Leaders and Owners • Business Performance Check-Up’s • Start Ups, Post Acquisition or Merger – Needs Assessment • Decision Making Facilitation for Teams and Groups For more information and to discover how Iva can support you please see the contact information that follows: Iva M Wilson, PhD (734)761-2640 (734)604-8018 (cell) ivaw@earthlink.net (updated 2-12-08) USA Scientific manufactures and distributes equipment, serum, plastic disposables and organizational items for the cellular, microbiological or chemical laboratory. USA Scientific is well known for our exemplary product quality and customer service. We also custom make items for the laboratory such as acrylics, freezer racks, robotic tips and bar-coded tube systems. There is a recycling program available with free tip boxes available as well as the recycling of empty tipone boxes or reload wafers. For more information, catalogs, quotes or samples please see the contact information that follows. Wendy Robertson 1-800-872-3847x530 wrobertson@usascientific.com www.usascientific.com (updated 1-26-08) Henry Welker and Associates is a Human Resources Firm specializing in Recruitment Outsourcing. We deal with companies large and small who want to save on the cost of recruiting agency fees. We operate on an hourly rate and can literally save companies thousands of dollars. We are a diverse company that specializes in all levels of IT, Engineers, Manufacturing, Technical Sales. Please contact Henry Welker at 734 953-4900. (updated 12-21-07) Technology Consultants and Solution Providers - Pryor Knowledge Systems, Inc. Pryor Knowledge Systems (PKS) can apply more than 30 years experiencein providing expert objective reviews of potential patentability,patent claim strength, product development viability, research projectfeasibility, and product development focus. Our experience has beengained through both internally and externally funded research anddevelopment on electrical and electronic devices and related materialsand technologies. PKS is one of only three (3) companies in the USAthat are a Certified Consultant in mathematical modeling applyingCOMSOL Multiphysics software. The principals have designed and builtclean rooms, device fabrication systems, laser spectroscopyinstruments, image processing systems, analog and digital dataacquisition and analysis systems and numerous other sensing systems forboth production and research. If you have a technological problem, PKScan help you to find a viable solution. For more information, callRoger Pryor, VP Research at 248-626-3170, email rwpryor@pksez1.com or visit the PKS website http://www.pksez1.com. (updated 12-4-07) Pacific Export Consulting Myfocus is the small emerging company, with a technical or uniqueproduct. They should have some product in the field and there is a goodpotential for growth. I can provide a one-stop service to my client;from establishing the Asian strategy, executing the plan to closingorders with their target accounts. Many small companies make agreementswith Asian representatives and believe they have made the effort toenter the Asian market. Wrong! From my experience, you must visit therepresentatives and distributors on a regular basis to keep theirattention, update them on the company and jointly visit the clientswith whom you want to do business. Call 734 277-5075 or e-mail info@PacificExportConsulting.com. www.pacificexportconsulting.com (updated 11-1-07) B2B Sales and Marketing Help for Growing Technology Companies Description: I am a Fortune 50 technology company Sales Vice President who recentlyleft corporate life. My passion is to help up and coming techcompanies sell to other businesses – especially big companies. Itcan be hard, long, intimidating, and frustrating to sell to largebusinesses. It is difficult to identify the decision maker andkey influencers, navigate the decision process, work through theirterms and conditions, and get the first order. If your strategy calls for selling aggressively in the B2B market, Ican help you significantly accelerate revenue growth and shave monthsoff the business development cycle. Contracted services rangefrom helping you develop a list of prospects and refining your valueproposition up to directing your sales efforts. Please contact Bill Mulder at wmulder1@gmail.com or 248.613.0234. HSG Consulting offers a unique brand of project managementservices to companies. Short, 1 to 2 day sessions tailored to meet yourneeds, these services get your projects and teams started and leave youwith the tools to manage them on your own. Project Ignition andTeam Communication and Trust Building sessions are two recentofferings. The Project Ignition Session is a 2 day session is designedto get projects off to a great start with an intensive and highlyinteractive session designed to engage the entire project team.Take-away’s of this session include: a Problem Statement following theRational Unified Process format; Initial Work Breakdown Structure;Project Schedule Creation; and Translation of project schedule intoeither MS Excel or MS Project format for managing on your own. The TeamCommunication and Trust Building Session is a 1 day session is designedto open the lines of communication, enabling your team to build thetrust it needs to succeed. Incorporating tools from The LeadingResources, the first part of the session exposes the different stylesof communication used by each of us. The session walks through eachcommunication style and their known behavioral cultural strengths andweaknesses, and ends with identifying what each communication style canto do address their cultural style weaknesses. The second part of theday focuses on building team trust. Using pieces from PatrickLencioni’s workbook on the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, the attendeesengage in hands-on assessments of their teams, followed by multipleinteractive explorations of why trust is an issue and derive ways toaddress this issue within their organizations. Take-away’s of thissession include: Customized communication styles and tips for eachparticipant; and Actionable items to address trust within your teams.Contact helene.gidley@hsgconsultingllc.com for more details. (updated 9-6-07) Allegra Print & Imaging of Saline provides a full range ofmarketing services for area businesses including printing, mailingservices, fulfillment, promotional products and graphic design. Theyoffer traditional and digital solutions, offset printing, short-runaffordable color with options for 5th color and aqueous coating. Theycan help plan and execute projects to meet most budgets. A branchoffice is located in Madison Heights, Mich. servicing the Detroit area.For more information, please contact Rob Gilson at (734) 944-1404,email rgilson@allegra.net, or visit the Allegra Print & Imaging Web site at www.allegra.net. (updated 6-26-07) I am a design and prototyping consultant in Ann Arborand am looking for short term projects in design, engineering andfabrication. I have a small shop where I do metal work, electrical work and model making. I started as a machinist and keptasking questions until I had acquired degrees in manufacturing,mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering. My machinistexperience makes me a better designer and my design and engineeringbackground makes me a better technician. I have years of experiencedesigning, building, installing and troubleshooting scientificinstruments and pre-production prototypes. I can assist in all parts ofproduct development form concept viability to production set-up. I amavailable on an hourly basis for as long as I am needed. Contact me byemail at kingtech@comcast.net. Scientific Staffing/Placement - On Assignment Lab Support Description: This recognized leader in scientific staffing provides contract,contract-to-hire and direct hire placement services. With anextensive network of offices in the US, UK, the Netherlands andBelgium, they connect clients with candidates in industries thatinclude biotech, pharma, food and beverage, medical device, personalcare, chemical, nutraceutical, materials science, consumer products,environmental, petrochemical and contract manufacturing. www.oalabsupport.com (updated 6-7-07) Source SP Engineering Staffing/Placement - On Assignment Engineering Description: OA specializes in the areas of biotech, pharmaceutical, automotive,medical device, chemical and plastics, environmental, electronics,entertainment, industrial, construction, defense, aerospace andconsumer goods. We actively recruit and place engineers at all careerlevels in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire positions. www.oaengineering.com (updated 6-7-07) Source SP QA and Regulatory Expertise/Consulting - PharmaMed Resources, LLC Principals: Shirley Smith and Robert DeRyke Description: Do you need expertise in quality assurance and regulatory to run yourbusiness? These seasoned Kalamazoo, MI-based consultants provideQA/regulatory affairs expertise to pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticalsupport and medical device companies. Expertise in: QA, regulatory, and management in pharma, medical device, clinical andchemical fields. Consultative approach looks at entire system toprovide infrastructure to move your product or process from concept tocustomer. For more info: Shirley Smith shirley@pharmamedresources.com or Robert DeRyke robert@pharmamedresources.com. (updated 6-7-07) McClinchey Histology Lab, Inc. Processing,embedding, sectioning and staining of research tissue. 30 yearsexperience, including 6 years contracting with Pfizer, 20 years atUniversity of Michigan Medical Center/Hospital and 5 years atParke-Davis. Mission Statement: Providing the highest quality histologyservices in a timely manner. Contact information: Kathy McClinchey 100 Rice St. PO Box 421 Stockbridge, Michigan 49285, email; kathy@mhistolab.com, phone; (517)851-9149. Janet Riggs– Eight years experience in all phases of government contracting. I canprovide help in preparing the costing section of a Defense Departmentproposal as well as government invoicing and tracking of funds. I canalso provide assistance in setting up government invoicing files toprovide any government auditors as well as general office files. I can also help in researching potential clients, markets or help puttogether a plan for a specific client problem. Please e-mail meat jriggs162326mi@comcast.net if I can be of service. Joseph Shaver has over twenty years experience in BusinessDevelopment, Sales and Program Management, primarily with new and emergingtechnologies. Experience and skillsinclude:
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