About TAI

Founded in 1994 to pursue on a world-wide basis methodologies learned empirically in the field of Teleworking, which is defined as: "using advanced communications to save time, space, and travel costs." The expertise of Noel Hodson (the noted international speaker, author, and consultant of Teleworking) was merged through a joint venture with that of Spectrum Personnel Associates, Inc. (human resources consultants with special capabilities in Information Technology, Recuritment, and Logistics). TAI has developed TeleworkAudits^(TM) and TeleworkAnalysys^(TM), a Windows® based costs / benefit software suite. It helps management to quickly reach unbiased conclusions concerning use of buildings & offices, staff deployment, and quantifies the cost budget that might be expected with the implementation of Teleworking. It is a powerful tool for organizations wanting to maintain a competitive advantage.

Noel Hodson (based in Oxford, UK) has teleworked since 1979 and, as an entrepreneur, launched/promoted and managed several businesses including a 40 person accounting firm, the Oxford Science Innovation Centre, and Mallalieu Cars Ltd. (Bentley rebuilds & prototype vehicles, including the electric-hybrid Microdot^(TM) car). In 1983, he established the UK's first teleworked business consultancy.
Since 1988, he has specialized in telework studies and seminars in the US and to major EU and UK employers, including BT and the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Mr. Hodson wrote The Economics of Teleworking; (BT), authored Teleworking and Employment in Europe (EC-DGV), was coordinating editor of the text book on teleworking: Teleworking Explained (Wiley) and has written various articles in: Telecommuting Review, Times of London, and the Financial Times. He has written on teleworking for the 70,000 member Institute of Director's 1996 Year Book.
Currently, he is the UK coordinator for the EC Telematics Forum (ECTF), with special responsibility for the "brainstorming, seminars, and workshop" programme and is engaged in Interactive Distance LEarning (IDLE) projects and the SOLOMON project for telephone voting and wired democracy.

John M. H. Edwards (based in Maryland, USA) a "Brit" educated in the UK until graduating in 1969 from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Marketing and Transportation.
Mr. Edwards was Group Management Services Directory, with responsibilities that included implementing a Group training programme for 1,500 employees and converting analogue data processing machines to digital computers.
Mr. Edwards was Group Marketing Director, charged with managing activities (sales of $38 million) to supermarket and discount stores, wholesale warehouses, hotels, restaurants, institutions, mail order, the Ministry of Defense, and exports to Europe, the Middle East, and Carribbean.
Mr. Edwards was Managing Directory of the Crown Foods manufacturing Company, employing 500, with sales of $15 million, a transport fleet of 90 trucks, and 30,000 sq. ft. of cold storage. Certified and Licensed by the EC as a Professional Vehicle Transport Fleet Operator.
Mr. Edwards is currently CFO and EVP of Spectrum Personnel Associates, Inc., a member of the Mid-Atlantic Telecommuting Advisory Council and the British-American Business Association.

Thomas E. Gorman (based in Pennsylvania, USA) has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years. As a telecommunications executive, he provided successful leadership in strategic and marketing planning, new product development, sales channel development and product line management for Bell Atlantic and AT&T.
At various times during his career, Mr. Gorman had product line responsibilities for voice, data, and video telecommunications services, new electronic information services, and classified advertising publications. He also had leadership roles in business process engineering and total quality management.
Mr. Gorman has worked at many levels of business in the areas of strategic planning, marketing, sales, and engineering. He has also provided consulting services to companies, helping them to improved employee productivity and service quality.
Mr. Gorman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Widener University and is a graduate of the Management Perspectives Program at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Gorman is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and recently served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Council on Telecommuting and Work-at-Home for the State of Virginia. He is a founding shareholder and President of Spectrum Personnel Associates, Inc. and of Telework Analytics International, Inc.

Harvey Silver (based in Virginia, USA) gained broad management and business development skills as a staffer, Board Director, and consultant to non-profit organizations after having completed two years service in Brazil as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
In 1981 he, with Susan as President and wife, launched Core Personnel, Inc. as a Temporary Staffing company. They have expanded its operations into employment services, which now include executive recruitment, human resources consulting, and employee leasing. Core's sales in 1995 were over $2 million and employed 800 staff placed with organizations ranging from corporations such as MCI, IBM, and XEROX to small businesses and National non-profit associations.
Mr. Silver has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Education in Group Dynamics from Temple University. Served as President of the Metropolitan Washington Temporary Services Association and is the current Treasurer of the Corporate Community Relations Council in the Washington DC Metro area. He is a Director, Company Secretary, and a founding shareholder of Spectrum Personnel Associates, Inc.

Mrs. Silver's management experience developed within the Education field; initially teaching for eight years, later as the a Director of Pre-School in Northern Virginia and as advisor to Fairfax County Adult Education programs. Her community work has ranged from Special Events coordination to the foundation of a Computer Users Group specializing in software for the Staffing Industry. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Northern Illinois University. She is an Executive Director and founding shareholder of Spectrum Personnel Associates, Inc.

Patrick M. Mills (based in Virginia, USA) has wide-ranging skills and experience in computer programming, systems/network architecture design and its development, management, and control.
While a college undergraduate, he held various positions which involved developing, upgrading, implementing and maintaining systems and their associated on and off-line help manuals and administration scripts. His projects ranged from Neural Network models to Cognitive Psychology modeling, Image Processing, and hardware control systems. He was employed by the Apollo Computer, Perception and Graphics Laboratories (Swarthmore College), Battelle (Richland, WA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and was a University of Illinois Supercomputer Grantee.
Mr. Mills, as a graduate, has worked with the Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (U. of SC), Bethesda Softworks, and most recently with Telework Analytics International, Inc.
Mr. Mills wrote LaserUser for Windows^(TM). He co-authored "Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates." Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, (Margherita, Italy, 1995), "Fuzzy Logic Enhanced Symmetric Dynamic Programming for Speech Recognition." Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. (New Orleans, LA. September 1996), and "A Fuzzy Logic Positioning System for an Articulated Robot Arm." Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. (New Orleans, LA. September 1996). "Fuzzy Speech Recognition", Thesis, University of South Carolina, 1996.
Mr. Mills founded NeverLand Software, Inc., a Computer Industry Services Company, which is currently continuing the development of TeleworkAudits^(TM) and TeleworkAnalysys^(TM), a Windows®-based computerized auditing system that gathers work/lifestyle information for Human Resource asset management.
Mr. Mills has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is a member of IEEE and the engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu. He has US Security clearance.

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