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Summary:
I am a strategic business professional with over fifteen years of experience in product management, business process improvement, financial analysis and software development. I currently specialize in providing superior products and services for the banking and financial services industries. I am an excellent communicator comfortable with executive management, internal development teams and high-level clients in both a small company and global enterprise setting. Proven successful in applying creative concepts and teamwork to deliver business solutions.

To find out more about me and my work, visit my Linkedin profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edthralls or email me directly: ethralls@yahoo.com

Specialties:
Product design, product management, business analysis, management, software development lifecycle, finance and accounting business process and improvement, pre-sales, product change management, pricing and negotiation

My passion is ...

working hard to take it easy

I know too much about ...

80s music

My parents always told me ...

to work hard

My childhood ambition ...

Major League Baseball

My favorite memory ...

proposing to my wife in a fjord in Norway

Why I write ...

to share and learn

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

YouTube and the Tour de France

My first job ...

clearing tables at the NCO club

My best moment ...

college graduation

My inspiration ...

music and the outdoors

Food & Drink > Wine How to choose a great inexpensive red wine

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With wine passing beer last year in US sales for the first time combined with the influx of new world wines challenging the old world standards for shelf space at your local beverage store or wine shop, choosing a wine can be more challenging than ever. A very good thing, however, is that wines are more affordable than ever as well! If you are looking for an inexpensive, or "value," wine of any style, you can do what my wife and I have been doing successfully for more than 5 years now. We define a value wine as one that is less than $20, though you can change that to $8, 10 or whatever to ...

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