Cynthia Driskill Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southwest Area in Service Category.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2000 Driskill Will Now Participate in National Entrepreneur of the Year Competition Cynthia Driskill received the Southwest Area's 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award for her outstanding achievements in the service area. Driskill is the founder and president of CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. & Associates (CDG), a premier national consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in the implementation and maintenance of high-end human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. information systems (HRIS HRIS Human Resource Information System HRIS High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer HRIS Highway Research Information Service HRIS High Resolution Infrared Sounder ) for Fortune 1000 companies. CDG has established implementation partner status with SAP, the Ultimate Software Group, and eLabor.com. CDG is also an official Contract Service Provider for PeopleSoft. The Ernst & Young award program recognizes those outstanding entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in areas including innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses. Driskill has proven such success, growing CDG from a business with 5 employees and gross sales Gross Sales A measure of overall sales that isn't adjusted for customer discounts or returns, calculated simply by adding all sales invoices, and not including operating expenses, cost of goods sold, payment of taxes, or any other charge. of a little over $500,000 in 1987 to a national company with almost 100 employees and expected revenues of over $20,000,000 for 2000. Driskill is now eligible to participate in the Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur Of The Year awards competition, to be held at a black-tie event in Palm Springs, Calif., on November 11, 2000. Driskill launched her career as an independent consultant in 1981 and has since become an expert in the installation and implementation of HRIS products, with extensive knowledge in IT and software consulting. She has developed a successful proprietary methodology, authored numerous technical manuals, developed innovative training programs and has been a frequent lecturer on the subject of HRIS implementation. CDG is a women-owned business and has been certified as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE WBE Women's Business Enterprise WBE Women-owned Business Enterprises WBE Woman-owned Business Enterprise WBE Web-Based Education WBE Welch-Bound-Equality WBE World Business Exchange WBE Warner Bros. ). CDG & Associates, Inc. is a national human resources information systems consulting firm headquartered in Dallas. CDG provides its clients with the industry's latest human resources information systems and methodologies to support payroll, personnel and benefits operations. Software supported by CDG includes CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. HRizon, eLabor.com, Genesys, PeopleSoft, SAP, SmartStream and UltiPro. CDG has expertise across all major industries, including finance, health care, manufacturing, public sector and retail. Founded in 1987, CDG serves large- to mid-size organizations throughout the United States including The Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , The Associates, Chase Bank, Neiman Marcus and Wyndham Hotels. For more information, visit (www.cdg-inc.com). |
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