Who We Are

circleNK
4490 W. Eldorado Pkwy,
Suite 927
McKinney, TX 75070

972-569-6899 (voice)
972-569-0954 (cell phone)
(eMail)

circleNK has a strong virtual team of consultants that can help your company to succeed. These include:

Neil Kaden: Principal, circleNK

Neil Kaden, Principal, manages circleNK, a small consulting practice offering personalized business, technology and customer service advice to start-ups and small fast-growing enterprises (www.circleNK.com). Neil can offer personalized business, technology and customer service advice to small and medium sized enterprises, venture investors, and professional services firms -- as an individual contributor, or leading a team of multi-disciplined partners. Previously at Nortel Networks, he developed extensive expertise in product and customer support, in launching new businesses and in managing small entrepreneurial start-ups from within a large enterprise. While at Nortel Neil handled operations leadership roles for businesses in different stages of maturity, and has led numerous customer-facing product support teams. He has experience in management throughout the high tech product life cycle. Neil has also partnered with Positive Software Systems, Inc. in a business development role to help partners, channels and customers understand how Positive’s customer interaction data warehouse solutions create the Universal Contact Center. PSS was purchased by Davox (now Aspect Software). Advised less technology-focused companies such as NextShow Entertainment and UnifiedMarket Worldwide, more technology plays such as Semantra.

	Founder and Past Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum at UT-Dallas
	Past President of non-profit Texas Venture Post. Founder and Past President of Tech Alliance of Dallas (TAD)
	Chairman IEEE Consultant's Network
	BS Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (1976).
	M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from University of Toronto (1978)

Bob Krangle: Cisco and Microsoft IT Generalist

Hands on experience with all varieties Cisco routers, switches, protocols, configuration of access control lists, VPN’s and WAN protocols. Additional background with Microsoft servers and desktop operating systems. Routinely called on to troubleshoot, provide complex solutions, design project plans and cost analyses. Excellent written, oral communication skills with finance background. Solutions focused and results oriented. Exceptional customer facing skills gained through prior business experience. Recent experience in defense, restaurant, hospitality, insurance, finance, payment card, health care, and aircraft industries.

	Broad knowledge of telecommunications and Internet technology.
	Strong knowledge of wireless (802.11x), packet switching technologies.
	Network monitoring, management, subnetting and analysis techniques.
	TCP/IP, IIS, Exchange Server, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications (Active Directory configuration, deployment)
	Broadband wireless technology planning, network design and business modeling.
	Vendor comparison, requests for information, proposals and quotations.
	Modeling of program scalability, performance effectiveness, cost minimization
	Technical sales proposal development; need development, assessments
	Project management, PERT/CPM, WBS, and critical path development
	Webmaster, graphics design Strong written and verbal communication skills

Donald R. Brewer: Texas Venture Post, Entrepreneur-in-Virtual-Residence

Since graduation Donald R. Brewer's 14 years of work experience has focused on marketing, product development, and licensing at both well established companies such as Epson, and Fossil and venture capital backed startups. Most recently he worked as Vice President of Technology at Fossil to first commercialize a display technology he invented into what has become a watch product line with $60M+ annual sales, and then to develop a series of high tech watches in partnership with Microsoft, Palm, Citizen, and E-Ink. Before that he worked as a Senior Product Manager at EPSON and managed a $750M consumer ink jet printer product line. He was educated as an optical engineer with a B.S. and M.S from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. He also is an accomplished inventor with 6 issued US patents and an equal number of unissued patent applications as well as the author several published books in the field of computers and Internet technology.

Charles Francis: Managing Director, CommLink Central

Charles brings brings years of operational excellence to help you grow your call center.

Ilonka Booth: Principal, TLC

Ilonka helps Telemarketers to stay in compliance of the many laws impacting their operations.

Michael Baynard: President & COO, Darwin's Beagle

Michael brings to the team exceptional experience from his twelve years at Texas Instruments. While at TI, he managed a multi-billion dollar semiconductor division with extensive experience in manufacturing, operations, research & development, and information technology. A few of his former positions include the Worldwide Finance Manager for Application Specific Products and the Director of Finance for the ASP Cost Reduction Team.

His areas of specialization are business plan development, market research analysis, and financial management.

	B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Florida
	MBA with a concentration in Finance & Marketing from Southern Methodist University
	Initiated programs to improve profitability, management accountability and decision making
	Overhauled key worldwide processes to improve efficiency, communication and profitability

Sarah Decker Stangl, CPA: Financial Strategy consultant

Sarah delivers broad and deep experience in the financial and accounting worlds. With over 10 years in the banking industry, Sarah was a corporate lender underwriting several multi-million dollar funding facilities using traditional, non-traditional, and international based financing structures. Having over 15 years in public accounting, Sarah has diverse experiences in investment banking, M & A environments, financial and accounting infrastructure, and various governmental reporting including tax and SEC.

For the last twelve years she was CEO and President of a public accounting firm, during which she was associated with several start ups, acquisitions, divestitures.

	B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Texas in Austin
	Post graduate hours in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas
	Certified Public Accountant (1985)
	Guest lecturer at Southern Methodist University, a guest speaker and panelist at a national symposium on finance and managerial accounting, and guest on a radio talk program.
	Raised capital through equity and debt for start ups and stage two companies.

Steven Thrasher, Founder, The Invention Factory: Intellectual Property lawyer

In 1991 Steven left the field of electrical engineering to pursue a career as an intellectual property attorney. Now he's written and guided hundreds of patents and other intellectual property matters through the Patent and Trademark Office. You can take advantage of this experience and speak with Steven about many types of intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks, licenses, and copyrights.

Can present brief seminars for your employees on how to protect your company with Patents and IP.