I have spent 25 years in the field of data. I have been involved in the extraction, import, entry, storage, research, list-building, validation, cleansing and de-duping/normalizing data. I worked at IBM in this capacity for 15 years and have been consulting in the field for nearly 30 years. Other companies that have benefited from my data-related services are Alzheimer Association, LogoSurfing.com, Aaron's, labelIT, Baldwin Aviation, Accretive Solutions, among others.I have also headed up many data and list research projects; creating university and K12 organization and faculty lists, corporate contact lists for specific industries and building lists for the purpose of targeted communication. I have created email and mail campaign lists starting from scratch, including the capability to harvest products from vendor catalogs to import to customer's e-commerce inventory or for froogle upload. I have extensive skills in MS office products - Excel, Word, as well as having a background in