Organization

CRADA International, Inc., a corporation of the State of Georgia, was founded in 1993 by Dr. Daniel J. O'Neil, a scientist-engineer and educator with an outstanding career in institution building, entreprenuerial ventures and the management of technology enterprises in both the public and private sectors, following tenure as executive officer and the first Vice President for Research at the University of Oklahoma ($475 million budget) and a senior executive of the Georgia Institute of Technology (R&D expenditures of $175 million). He was a founding faculty and academic board member of the University of Limerick in Ireland. In 1998 CRADA Corporation began operations as a woman-owned and operated business. Its management is led by Elizabeth N. O'Neil, BS (Health Arts), RN, CCM (President and Director), and Senior Consultants Eliesh Lane, PhD cand. (Science Policy), MS (Applied Physics) and Dara V. O'Neil, PhD cand. (Information and Telecommunications Policy), MS (Telecommunications Policy). Dr. O'Neil remained a Director and Principal Consultant from 1998-2001 while Director of the New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) and Research Professor at the University of New Mexico (R&D Expenditures of $175 million). Dan O'Neil resumed permanent duties for CRADA in 2001, following transition of NMERI operations and establishment of the Institute for Engineering Research and Applications (IERA) at the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology for which he has held an adjunct professorship in chemical engineering and co-director of IERA's International Sensor Technology Program.

The CRADA Corporation is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with regional representation throughout the United States and in Europe.

The CRADA Team Approach

CRADA Corporation is a "boutique" consultancy which provides services to national and international clients in a cost-effective and timely manner on  fixed-fee bases or through negotiated contractual agreement. Its consulting projects are controlled by application of strict programming and scheduling of the work statement and the project budget using proven advanced project control procedures. All projects are managed by a principal consultant with a proven record of delivering projects to time and to cost.

Each CRADA Corporation project team is organized and customized to meet the needs and requirements of the client.

Project teams consist of CRADA's professional staff of higher education and business specialists, strategic planners, scientists, engineers, and economists. CRADA's extended staff of consultants generally possess advanced degrees and professional qualification which include several years of "hands-on" experience. Most have been responsible for programs, organizational units, and projects in excess of one million dollars.
 

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