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James Hyde, Training and E-Learning Experts Joins K. A Parker & Associates, Inc. as Senior Associates, Senior Consultant

In addition, Mr. Hyde has developed interactive multimedia training systems and presentations for such clients as Apple Computer, Bankers Trust, Glaxo Welcome, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and WestPoint Stevens, among others.

Mr. Hyde was on the teams responsible for training such companies as Consumer Reports, Reader's Digest and American Express how to produce their various publications using electronic publishing systems. He is co-author of The Plain English Guide to Desktop Publishing, and is a member of the Apple Computer Developer's Association, the Interactive Multimedia Association and was an Apple Computer consultant.

In addition to his Web and interactive work, Mr. Hyde has considerable writing and editing experience. He served as managing editor of United States Banker, and in 1986 was one of five editors for that publication to win the Jesse H. Neal Award for Editorial Excellence. He was also managing editor of Financial Computing and Analytical Instruments and Computers magazines. Jim has written two syndicated columns and his writing has appeared in the Op/Ed pages of The New York Times and newspapers in the Northeast.

"Jim Hyde brings a unique mix of talents to our company," says Kim Parker. "As a communications specialist, he clearly knows how to reach people and has been doing so effectively since the earliest days of interactive multimedia. He provides our clients with an array of solutions to our clients to help them more effectively and efficiently provide targeted training."

Mr. Hyde studied political science at the University of Connecticut and legal studies at Mercy College, from which he graduated first in his class. He has successfully completed Macromedia Corporation's sanctioned courses for interactive multimedia for both Macromedia Director and Authorware and is a member of the Multimedia Association.

About K. A Parker & Associates, Inc.

Parker & Associates, a consulting firm started by Kim Parker, is devoted to helping enterprises develop their full potential through process modeling, competency analysis, training gap analysis, problem-based training and mentoring programs. Parker & Associates has served large clients such as Unocal (Union Oil of California), North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Siemens, Nortel Networks and many medium and small business customers.

The company's Chairman and President, Mr. Kim Parker has thirty plus years of business, teaching and project management experience in the computer, networking and electronics fields. He has consulted with client company's senior management about software and hardware products and product development.

Mr. Parker has been Chairman and President of K. A Parker & Associates, Inc. for the last two and one-half years. Previously, he was Chairman and President of Business Process International, Inc. In those capacities he has successfully managed the corporate financial and legal affairs. Having trained over 10,000 clients he has influenced members of every major corporation, every military and government branch of service in fundamental computer networking principals. He has also developed course and test materials for these and other related computer networking and programming courses.

He is a published author of several articles on technical subjects and has developed and taught courses on Process Modeling and Project Management at North Carolina State University.

As a middle manager and senior project manager for two large international telecommunications firms he successfully managed the consolidation of two major manufacturing facilities using process modeling techniques, an international data repository over the Internet, several local area network implementations, financial, manufacturing and world-wide ordering software. He also developed corporate manufacturing process, an enterprise model, networking and personal computer standards.

In previously owned businesses he has had the opportunity to consult with many small and medium-sized businesses to gain a fundamental and practical business perspective.

After receiving his Bachelor of Engineering degree, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Math, from Youngstown State University, he went on to work in nuclear power contract engineering. Always the entrepreneur, he funded his college education by running an electronic repair business.

His professional associations have included IEEE, DAMA and ad-hoc programming groups for Visual Basic and Access. He has spoken at DPMA, ASM, AIIM and DAMA associations.

Mr. Parker has a long history of computer and network related skills in almost every hardware environment and programming capacity.

Mr. Parker can be reached at 919-369-2373.