Representative engagements

• Executive Director (founding), Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc. (BIA/NYS)
• Consultant to Gulf Power (a unit of the Southern Company) on technology-led economic development strategic planning for Pensacola, Florida.
• Subcontractor to Public Works Consulting on an engagement for a major university based in New York City.
• Contractor to New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for a stakeholders’ analysis on the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park.
• Consultant to Edelman public-relations firm.
• Consultant on contract to Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, on projects funded by the Flinn Foundation; Council on American Medical Innovation, PhRMA, Rutgers University, and others.
• Advisor in Community and Economic Development to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program, Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
• External reviewer for six innovation programs funded by Orange County (Florida), on a technical assistance project funded by Living Cities (below)

Older engagements:

• Consultant to the Director of Policy and Research, Living Cities, on economic-development issues as part of reconfiguration of the organization’s programs
• External Reviewer for the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD), reporting to the Vice President for Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
• Advisor to New York University’s College of Nursing Office of the Dean; and to the College’s John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing; and to the Institute’s Nurse Competency for Aging project, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies
• Advisor to the Office of the University Dean for Research, City University of New York, regarding CUNY’s participation in the New York State Commission on Higher Education
• Advisor on first-year reporting to the NSF Engineering Research Center for Mid InfraRed Technology for Health and the Environment, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton University
• Advisor to the Office of the Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University, regarding SEAS presentation to the Columbia Board of Trustees
• Project staff for Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership Inc. (CEEP) in managing a Network of Economic Development Officers in NYC Knowledge-Based Institutions, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and sponsored by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR)
• Project staff for for the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC) in conducting a review of business incubators in New York State, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NYSTAR (as above)
• Independent Reviewer for the Technology Transfer Incentive Program of NYSTAR (one year only; discontinued to avoid potential conflicts of interest once incubator association was started)
• Consultant for the Vice President for Research at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, regarding management review of the Center for Continuing Education
• Project staff for the Business, Labor and Community Coalition of New York City (now defunct) to develop concept for a World Science Center (TM)
• Consultant to the Director of Policy, Office of the Bronx Borough President, on economic-development issues