Asheville, NC (1888PressRelease)
April 08, 2008 - International lean compliance expert, John Avellanet, will be the guest speaker for the upcoming ICCA webinar on records management for small business owners. Mr. Avellanet will speak on how entrepreneurs and small business owners can manage their records to help prevent lawsuits and prove intellectual property ownership.
A former CIO of a Fortune 50 subsidiary, Mr. Avellanet was accountable for information management and litigation discovery compliance prior to founding his current consulting firm, Cerulean Associates LLC. He is one of the few executives who have ever built an ISO-15489 compliant records department from scratch, and has been interviewed on records management compliance topics on the radio program My Technology Lawyer and in the international journal, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. Mr. Avellanet publishes the monthly executive newsletter SMARTERCOMPLIANCE™, and is the compliance columnist for the international Journal of Commercial Biotechnology.
Attendees of the April 17th online, interactive workshop will receive several four free reference guides to help them easily manage their business records:
•list of records retention rules;
•systematic checklist for closing out the year;
•the “six-minute a week” guide to managing records consistently; and
•a set of guidelines for preparing records in the “worst case situation” of a lawsuit.
To register, visit the ICCA website at: https://www.icca.org/community.php?Webinars
Mr. Avellanet’s firm, Cerulean Associates LLC, is a small, private compliance consulting company that helps clients achieve cost-effective lean compliance, prevent intellectual property theft and secure electronic data integrity. On the web at www.ceruleanllc.com.
The Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA) is an international not-for-profit trade association that provides professional development opportunities and business support programs for independent computer consultants and their business clients worldwide. For additional information, contact the ICCA at 11131 South Towne Square, Suite F, St. Louis, Missouri, 63123 • 314-892-1675 • email: execdirector ( @ ) icca dot org • website: www.icca.org.
