Dexter Vizinau:  

After 22 years I retired from the IBM Corporation in 1992. I Founded De Viz Enterprises in 1993. I am a business consultant who specializes in Marketing, Business Development, Government Relations and Economic Development, and am also a Political Consulant. I work with companies who have business with the government on the Local, State and Federal level. Client list include The County of Alameda, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, International Fire Resistant Systems, Siemens, PeopleSoft (now a part of Oracle), Andersen Consulting, SiPark, Signal Park, TeleParking Systems, National Sign and Signal, Oakland Maritime Industrial Compound, Kenworth Trucking, PCC Logisitcs. United Intermodal Service, Kair In-Home Social Services and many more. Success stories include: My work on bringing the Oakland Raiders back to Oakland. Overseeing the process for local businesses to get 40% of the work to expand the Coliseum. I headed up a project utilizing over 30 churches in Oakland and Berkeley to screen disadvantage candidates for permanent jobs with AT&T laying fiber optic lines. Over 300 of my candidates were hired by AT&T and I worked with labor (IBEW) to have them all admitted as union members. Worked to establish the East Bay School to Career Partnership Program, The Bay Area Multi Media Partnership, and also worked with the Greater Oakland International Trade Center to establish a World Trade Center in Oakland. I've done much work in Economic Development areas such as World Trade, Goods Movement, Base Conversion, and Industry Cluster Development, and S...Expand for more