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Bruce Erts brings to the MMI Board over forty years experience as a systems & business practices consultant, senior level executive management with special emphasis in the construction, engineering and travel industries. His areas of specialization include project management, information systems management, complex business systems analysis, reservations/order entry/inventory management systems and application software systems design and development.After spending three years in the US Marine Corps he obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from Ohio University and an MBA from Wayne State University. He then spent 5 years with General Electric and Ford Motor Motor Company as a Field Engineer and Operations Research Analyst prior to founding and building one of the leading Construction/Engineering Project Management Consulting firms in the US in the mid-1960s. The firm’s specialty area was in providing computerized methods analysis, scheduling and cost management methodologies which were very new to the industry in the 1960’s. Over a 15 year period he and his firm provided consulting services on over $3 billion of major construction projects across the US. Their clients included major corporations, leading construction-engineering firms, major universities, state and federal government agencies. Since packaged software was unheard of at the time, Bruce also became a designer/developer for innovative large scale scheduling and cost management systems which were used by the consulting practice as well as being sold to construction/engineering company clients.In 1981 he returned to the corporate world as Vice President of Information Systems for Dillingham Corporation, a fortune 500 construction/engineering firm. Following his desire to design and be creative he returned to systems consulting after 3 years while also changing his target industry of interest from construction to leisure travel. Over the subsequent 15 years he formed a new business and designed/developed a family of travel reservation systems whose capabilities continually expanded, closely tracking the continued growth - expansion of networking, PC technology and subsequently the Internet. In 1999, he and his sons, who had joined him in 1995, sold the company and its' software products to a large international travel industry software company.Since 1999, Bruce has been semi-retired, lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon while continuing to provide business analysis and systems consulting services with his sons via their consulting firm Fifth Generation Consulting LLC | 