Michael Anderson
email ma03602@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE: As General Manager or Strategic Planner, to use my extensive general knowledge, and knowledge of business practice to make a contribution to a well run enterprise.
A Graduate Engineer with Harvard Business training, a dynamic, action oriented member of a team, and a team leader who gets results. Many years experience in all aspects of business, large or small. Can talk accounting to the accountants, marketing to the sales force, and engineering to the operations team.
B.Sc (Chemical Engineering),
Member Institution of Chemical Engineers,
EMPLOYMENT
Current Senior Business Analyst, IPA Chicago IL
Studying the shortcomings of small businesses and advising on solutions.
2003--2005 General Manager, Atlantic Controls, Inc. St Augustine FL
Succeeded in avoiding bankruptcy of this severely troubled company, and organized new financing.
1983-2003 Owner, Michael Anderson Consulting Inc.
Over a period of 15 years I operated as a consultant and/or contract manager for several clients in Canada and the US. I specialized in strategic management planning, and crisis management including venture capital disbursement, corporate funding, corporate sale, growth management and mergers. Typical assignments were:
General Manager, Sirtech Software,
Operations Manager, Artistic Impressions Chicago
President, Frantec Software Distributors,
1977-1982 President and CEO, Blue Ribbon Industries Ltd
Appointed initially as a Technical Director, I stewarded this mini conglomerate food company through a major acquisition to quadruple its sales and establish it as a stable force in its sector. Corporate sales when I left were $80 million in grains, oils, soaps, cosmetics, packaging, and stockfeeds.
1970-1977 Development Manager, Sable Chemical Industries Ltd.
Appointed as a project engineer, then project manager I controlled the acquisition and construction of the first, and still the only anhydrous ammonia plant in
