| | Lou Schott -- Problem Solver: I grew up on a farm requiring work before and after school every day – seven days a week with no paid Holidays. I have an ‘Industrial Engineering’ degree with a minor in Liberal Arts. I worked my way through college as a ditch digger and draftsman for a utility company. Later, I worked for Goodyear in their manufacturing plants.
From 1966 to 1980, I worked in the Corporate Planning and Methods Department. This work required us to plan manufacturing facilities for locations around the world. So, the work started with the concepts of block layouts and feasibility cost estimates and presentations to top management for budget approval. The work continued to drill down to tracking the details of engineering, design, and the purchase of machinery to manufacture the product (tires). The construction was managed by project managers. Thus, my work included tracking the project managers to get ‘actual project costs versus estimated project cost reports’.
During 1980, I served as one of ten engineers on an ‘Application Transfer Team' - (ATT). This work used the same ‘problem solving process’ that we use now for the ‘Plan for Excellence’ – in our Cuyahoga Falls school district. After the six week ATT, I was asked to coordinate the implementation of the plan - resulting from our ATT.
From 1981 to 1992 (when I coordinated the implementation of our ATT), I facilitated the planning and systems design of the software to control the billion dollars required to build & maintain manufacturing plants – see above. After four years of work by our programmers and starter kits developed by myself, we were ready to get results. Here were the results. Instead of using three months to summarize and control costs, we got cost control in 10 seconds.
During this period of time, I wrote procedures and 'starter kits' to institutionalize the processes of developing people, procedures, and programming. Thus, I built the performance management system to institutionalize ‘creative problem solving’ and measure creativity. While I use the term ‘I’, I want to say that I was mentored by the man that later built the ‘Inventor’s Hall of Fame’. I may have played a useful role. But, the projects that I worked on could only be done by teams and task forces of smart disciplined problem solvers willing to cooperate to get helpful results. Most recently I have worked to eVolunteer as per my purpose statement. Dr. Mary Kenny -- PHd -
Counseling with speciality in:
Organizational Development
Sexual Behavior.
Counsel private clients.
Facilitate workshops on:
Assertiveness Training
Marriage Counseling
Rape Prevention
Sexual Behavior.
Administer the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office during the 1970s:
Direct all non-legal related programs and staff.
Supervise/hired/fired 14 secretaries,
Supervise the Witness Program, Fraud Squad & The Diversion Program.
Direct the Witness Program
Write and administer grants for multiple programs.
Work as an Assistant Professor at KSU in the 'Criminal Justice Dept' to teach:
Research Methods,
Interviewing,
Crisis Counseling
Special Crimes.
Own, operate, & provide rental homes for residents.
Buy old houses and fix up
When liveable then advertise 'For Rent'
Select residents according to ability be responsible.
Help residents 'problem solve' -- when they are unable to pay the rent.
Evict residents -- if they are unwilling to pay the rent or utilities.
Volunteer as a 'Friend of the Library'. |