An experienced business professional, Mike Kerns was employed by IBM Corporation for 29 years. During his tenure with IBM, Michael held positions in Planning, Production Control, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Management Development, and Organ-izational Development Consulting. His experience includes seventeen years in first, second, and third level management assignments in both planning and manufacturing organizations.

During his assignment in management and leadership development, Micke participated in the development and delivery of an international executive development program de-signed for newly appointed IBM Executives from all over the world.

In 1995, Mike accepted an opportunity from a medium power transformer manufac-turer, as General Plant Manager, to reopen a closed manufacturing operation. In a twelve-month period, production went from zero to ten units per month. Over two hundred pro-duction, administrative, and technical employees were recruited and hired. All startup objectives were met.

Michael received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration from San Jose State University. In addition to his University training, Michael attended all of the required IBM management training courses along with technical training in Production Planning, Production Control, Consulting Methodologies, and the design and implementation of both lecture and activity based training. Michael was also selected to attend a senior management seminar in manufacturing methods at Stanford University.