Richard (FKA: Dick) Kelly:  

Life Just-a-guy Workplace OVERVIEW Began my career with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) on Tuesday, September 17, 1968 in Los Angeles, California as a Business Analyst Trainee. Registered with the Bureau of Private Investigators and Adjusters. Circa January 1971, transferred to Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a Business Analyst. Circa May 1971, promoted to Service Supervisor, Operations Division, Milwaukee District Office, responsible for three work centers: 1. MANIFOLD (Typing) DEPARTMENT. 2. BUSINESS DATA BANK. 3. MADISON, WISCONSIN BRANCH OFFICE. 1. MANIFOLD (Typing) DEPARTMENT. Eight people. This Department was responsible for typing D&B Business Information Reports (BIRS) and other kinds of D&B reports from the notes of the Business Analysts/Reporters who authored and updated them. Masters were sent to the Duplicating Department where copies were made and distributed to inquiring D&B subscribers. Extra copies were filed in custom-built, Tan Value 1 (TV1) Steelcase 5-drawer vertical file cabinets for future distribution to other D&B subscribers. 2. BUSINESS DATA BANK. Three people. This Department was responsible for manually extracting fundamental business information (ex. D-U-N-S Number, business name, address, telephone number, # employees, etc.) from D&B Business Information Reports (BIRS) and other kinds of D&B reports and printing this information, by hand, on a Turn Around Document (TAD) for each separate business location; mailing the TADs to the D&B office in Bethlehem, PA to be keypunched; receiving mail confirmation that the hand-printed information on each TAD was keypunched and stored in D&B's Advanced Office System (AOS) d...Expand for more