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| Peter Grass excels at identifying business opportunities and constructing business plans that develop into viable business operations. He has accomplished this by applying technology appropriately to business functions, operational needs, and Internet concepts. Understanding technology and having the business perspective allows Peter to apply technology to appropriately serve and enhance business plans, functions, and opportunities. |
| Peter understands technology. He identifies business opportunities and devises solutions using technology. He can write and explain verbally technological concepts to the novice and the experienced, thereby implementing functional resolutions. |
| Peter invented, created, developed, designed and marketed business centers decades ago -- before others understood concepts or perceived needs. He has accomplished the same feat with InternetRoad.com. |
Career:
o Technology America Corporation: Areas of experience include Internet development, online systems design, and legacy systems. Internet site invention, site design, development and marketing, the marketing of consulting services, business functional requirements identification, security and recovery requirements and procedures, life cycle design and implementation including business analysis for clients nationwide. Systems experience includes implementation of accounting, order processing, telecommunications, marketing, sales and reporting. Developed and presented staff and management training to wide varieties of client groups including trainees, staff and management, and top management. Designed and built Internet sites to establish an Internet presence and promote marketing goals for clients. Invented, designed, operating sites are linked on InternetRoad.com.
o Ernst & Young, Senior Manager: Technical design, implementation and management for clients nationwide. Designed and implemented batch and online accounting systems, operational systems, security, developed and presented training for management and staff.
o Arthur Andersen & Co.: International Technical Support Group. Planned, designed and developed distribution and accounting systems. Produced and presented training material to clients and internal staff. Provided CICS technical client support worldwide.
o Sears: Assembler language and CICS programmer, systems analyst, designer, communications software development, operating systems programming, developed internal technical training, led the nationwide corporate system implementations of several system implementation teams. Designed and developed systems at corporate level and led implementation teams in multiple data centers across the nation. Developed data center and resource security procedures and disaster recovery plans. Systems included accounting, order processing, the world's largest privately owned telecommunications system, and CICS system support.
Summary:
Today Peter is CEO, Chief Technology Officer and the creator of the InternetRoad.com suite of Internet properties that includes OpinionCenter.com, ComplaintCenter.com, CompanyLocator.com, GlobalExpoCenter.com, Internet business and consumer directories, several special interest science, business, marketing, consumer, and survey sites.
Peter has worked for Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen & Co. and Sears. Following Ernst & Young, Peter started his own technology consulting business, Technology America Corporation, Technology America Corporation, advising owners and executives on efficient and appropriate uses of online and legacy computer technologies' design, development and implementation. Peter founded AbleAmerica to provide computer training and jobs for the disabled. Peter was the first to devise, market and implement total mobile onsite business center services at trade shows across the county.
Education:
Monmouth College, BA,
history
University of California, Berkeley, chemistry
& physics
Evanston High School, Evanston, IL, advanced curriculum in physics, chemistry
& mathematics