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LWV League of Women Voters of California
Los Angeles County, CA November 6, 2001 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Bradley L. Bartz

Candidate for
Governing Board Member; Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Technology focused entrepreneur with over fourteen years selling software systems and Internet services with success executing multi-lingual eCommerce solutions.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

ABC Solar Incorporated, Los Angeles, California 2001 - Present

Founder and President: ABC Solar is a newly formed company founded to provide alternative power solutions and services along with wi reless data communications. ABC Solar has a timely opportunity to take advantage of well-developed solar technology, the Californi a energy crisis, power industry deregulation, and affordable wireless broadband technologies.

JMAIL.CO.JP K.K., Tokyo Japan Vanity Free Web Based Email. 1991 - 2000

Founder: JMAIL operates a very widely used email service in Japan. Starting with the initial concept I wrote the business plan, deve loped the webmail technology, launched the business and grew it to over 560,000 registrations. Currently I am responsible for all t echnical operations for US based UNIX systems, new business development and vendor relations for firms selling to Japan.

Telemarketing Visions Institute, Incorporated, Los Angeles, California A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization teaching job skills to the blind 1986 - 1989

Founder: Successfully taught telemarketing and job-hunting skills to the blind and vision impaired.

SKILLS

Selling software and Internet services to Fortune 1000 corporations and specific industry associations. Products included Global Business Information Systems, retail ISP services and high-end electronic commerce websites to major clients such as Budweiser, Citibank, Polaroid, Toyota and Honda.

Sales and support include co-location, virtual hosting, outsourced email, LAN and WAN setup.

Solaris and Linux system administration, disaster recovery, vendor relations, system expansion planning and physical installation skills. Strong product knowledge with Cisco and 3Com routers, Sun Microsystems servers, and Network Appliance and EMC file servers

Cold-Call Specialist: Telemarketing a wide variety of products and services for over 20 years.

Public speaking: Delivered more than 20 high technology speeches ranging from 10 to 300 participants.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Directly responsible for taking the business I founded, JMAIL.CO.JP KK, to 560,000 registered users. Wrote business plans that raised over seven million dollars in venture capital.

Sold Budweiser Japan a $450,000 website, promotion and hosting package. The Budweiser account was nurtured thru ASCII ads for "Bud Net" in 1993 to Bud Girls and a fantastic online Golf competition with winners going to Hawaii in 1996.

Engineered the purchase of and published The Tokyo Journal Magazine (largest English magazine in Japan - 88 pages 25% color). This acquisition attracted the attention and patronage of multinational clients for new technology and Internet services.

Negotiated OEM ISP agreements with NTT PC Communications and Japan Telecom to provide full ISP infrastructure on a 50/50 revenue share basis. We created the largest foreign ISP in Japan.

Negotiated bundle ISP agreements with IBM Japan with our logo and 5 mb website on 350,000 computer desktops, included advertising from Westin Hotels, Polaroid, Budweiser, and Coca-Cola.

EDUCATION

Loyola Marymount University - BA Business Administration 1989.

PRESS CLIPPINGS

Please see http://www.bartz.com/bradley/press.html

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