Category Archives: Work

7/1/2019 – yard work, Russian translation for UTMH, shades, lamb dinner

Monday

Spent a good part of the morning weed wacking the back yard. Also trimmed rose bush. Also work on Russian translations for UTMH RPM app. Had to check lots of entries for current language common on the Russian web. How do you say PulseOx in Russian?

Went to Marigold Home in Rhinebeck to look into shades for the Sun Room which is now overwhelmingly sunny in the early morning. Hunter Douglas shades on display. Sales person worked up a quote for us. $450 of installation costs and more than $2400 for the shades themselves. This is obviously a no go. Next stop Lowes and Home Depot.

I found a container of roast lamb from David Drake in the freezer. Made up a version of roasted cauliflower and lamb curry. Karen declared it to be very good.

6/28/2019 UTMH, work, house, music at Caramoor

Friday

Drove to Rhinebeck to go to Marigold Home to look at blinds for the sun room. Now that the tree has died, the sun is overwhelming in the morning. Hunter Douglas must be to top end. Almost $3000 for blinds for the four rear facing windows. Will look elsewhere. Lowes has items that will do the job for a couple hundred.

Troy Web telecon and Matt Almeida. Then long nap.

Left for Katonah NY at 5:45. Caramoor Center for Music and Arts   and a concert by Roomful of Teeth. Music was fairly interesting, excellent musicianship, doesn’t require additional exposure.

165 mile round trip. Arrived home at 11pm. 

6/26/2019 – work, web projects, dinner at David Drake

Wednesday

Mostly more web consolidation. Discovered a new treasure trove of old files in DropBox.

Met with Seth about UTMH matters. Discussed Ole and his lack of production for the umpteenth time. He asked, “Should I talk with David about this?” Went to NY Rural Water Association to kick off new software project. I will be doing the workflow analysis.

Went to dinner at David Drake’s house in Catskill. Nice view out his back window.

6/22/2019 – drive to Boston, Paul and Ruth Richards, Jane Kogan 80th, DOG opening

Saturday

Left for Boston at 7am. Arrived Needham by 9:45. Visited with Paul and Ruth. He looks older, tired. He is recovering from pneumonia. She from diverticulitis surgery. Good visit.

Drove over to Griffin Museum. Pick up a bucket of books to return from last fall’s book show.


Arrived at Chinese restaurant in Brookline early for 1pm gathering to honor Jane Kogan’s 80th birthday. Kind of an odd event. Food not so good. Miriam’s two daughters and families were there. Spoke with Stuart Pitchel. He recalled my consulting at SRP Signs.  Sat next to some grumpy cousins from Jane’s family. Left at 2:15 before the speeches in order to get back to Hudson for the 6pm gallery opening event.

Everything ready/

Very crowded opening. 7 local artists brought their posses out. Glad when it was over at 8pm.

More The Closer.

Valuedge, Inc. 1999 – 2004

During 1994-5 Sherry Gordon and I worked on a supplier assessment tool as part of our NESI (New England Suppliers Institute) work. With the help of John Martin of the consulting firm Chadwick, Martin & Bailey we developed an organizational assessment tool based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria. John was a Baldrige Examiner and both Sherry and I served on the Massachusetts Quality Award Committee as Examiners. Continue reading →

MMO Job History

  • Carpenter – summer job high school – Lunenburg MA – 1964
  • Factory hand – part time during college – Appleton WI – 1966-68
  • Track gang – Soo RR – Appleton WI – Summer 1968
  • Spray Painter – Summer 1969
  • High School Russian teacher – Newton South HS, Newton MA 1969-1971
  • Helper in bakery – Belmont MA – 1973
  • Bartender – Cambridge MA – 1973
  • General machinist – electromechanical relays – Stevens-Arnold – Boston MA – 1973-75
  • Movie theater ticket sales – Brattle Theater – Cambridge MA – 1975
  • R&D machinist – optical mirrors – Bedford MA 1976
  • R&D machinist – spectrometers/monochrometers – Minuteman Labs – Acton MA – 1976-77
  • Designer – stress gages nuclear power plants – Cambridge MA – 1977
  • Designer – spectrometers/monochrometers – Minuteman Labs – Acton MA – 1977
  • Staff engineer – biomechanics lab – artificial hips – MIT Cambridge MA – 1977-79
  • R&D engineer – micro miniature switches – C&K Components – Newton MA – 1979 -1980
  • Manager custom engineered products – switches – C&K Components – Newton MA – 1980
  • Regional sales manager – inside sales – switches – Augat – North Andover MA – 1981
  • Manager inside sales/customer service – switches- Augat – North Andover MA – 1982-3
  • Product manager – electrical devices – Augat – North Andover MA – 1984-5
  • VP customer service & order fulfillment – passive electro mechanicals – Augat – N Attleboro MA – 1986-87
  • General Manager/Plant Manager – switch division – Augat – North Andover MA – 1988-89
  • VP Marketing – core products electro mechanical devices – Augat – Attleboro MA – 1990-91
  • VP Strategic Planning & New Business Development – Augat- Attleboro MA – 1992
  • Starts consulting company Riverside Systems that morph into current Riverside – 1993
  • Business Coaching – both sole proprietorships – Cambridge MA & Hudson NY
  • Director – Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership – Lowell MA – 1994
  • Co-director – New England Suppliers Institute – Boston MA – 1995 -1998
  • Founder/Chief Technology Office – Valuedge – enterprise software – Lexington MA – 1999 – 2004
  • Owner – Business Coach – Riverside Business Coaching – Cambridge MA and Hudson NY –  2004 – 2020
  • Co-Owner – Davis Orton Gallery – current – Hudson NY 2009 – to date
  • General Manager – YouThisMe.com – current – Hudson NY – 2013 – 2018
  • Chief Operating Officer -UTM Healthcare, LLC. – 2018 to date

6/18/2019 – work, tennis

Tuesday

Breakfast with Dave Drake at Bob’s.

UTMH team meeting. Review new website with Tony Kieraldo. Then afternoon meeting with Troy Web to review changes to software. Warren Wexelman participated remotely. Very productive. 

Doubles at Total Tennis. Not very good. My new shirt.  

8:20 pm. End of tennis

6/14/2019 – DOG, UTMH, RBC, Narcan at HAL, tennis, drinks at Ted and Anne’s house

Friday

Spent most of the day hanging end of newest DOG show. UTMH telecon with Troy Web, Matt Almeida, David Ackerman. Migrated website from diary.markorton.com to markorton.com. 

Emily Chameides sent me a text message at 4pm:

Just had to call 911. Found someone passed out in men’s room. Greenport Rescue and HPD responded and they revived him. Glad we caught it in time.

I was in the car going to play tennis. Saw the ambulance already at the library. I responded later. She replied:

Yes. Glad they came quickly and revived him. We have narcan but I called 911 first and they came so quickly. Glad I didn’t need to administer.

I stopped by her house on 5th on my way home from tennis. She was sitting on her stoop. We chatted about the incident for a few moments, the emotional burden of finding unresponsive bodies and then deciding what to do. She and Paul have Narcan training. But she pointed out that this guy was really big and it happens that they get aggressive when revived. But the Greenport Rescue came so quickly that she didn’t need to work that over too much.

Tennis was a first outing after the trip and illness, first time in just a day shy of four weeks. Trouble striking the ball squarely. Volleying OK. Ted was like the Energizer Bunny. I was fairly dead. Only played for an 45 minutes. 

Drinks with Ted and Anne. Ted had made a big plate of deviled eggs. Shared notes of our trips. They had taken ten students from Marist to Paris for ten days. As usual the conversation was loud, abrupt, back and forth.

Ended evening with another The Closer.