I love owning my own business; not only am I rewarded by the personal impact I have on my customers, but by knowing that I’ve met what I’ve set out to achieve....

We have been featured in many magazines, from Reader's Digest to The Institute Of Industrial Engineers, and this month we are in Latina Magazine. I feel this year has been a little different as I have been recognized by MY latin community. I received the "Latina Groundbreaking of...

I have a mantra and I have used it from the time I was learning English and in engineering school: "If it was easy, everyone could do it."...

We went to Mumbai, Surat, Delhi, and Agra last week and seeing the country through Zachary's eyes (my 9 year old son) was an experience that I will not soon forget. We went to visit preemies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), and Zachary gave a lot of hope...

I love owning my own businesses and got inspiration from Diane’s post about her top ten reasons for owning a small business, so I decided to write my own reasons too....

2011 marks 10 years since I started working with and for babies starting with my own son Zachary (that will also be celebrating his 10th birthday this year too). Ten years. A lot of work, emotions, learning, sharing, and (many) failures and (not as many) successes. This year brings...

We already defined what is a project, and what is project management. Every project has 5 phases, and the overall project can only be in one phase at any given time. Sometimes you can have small projects within a phase, of course, but you should know in what phase of...

I have dedicated my entire life to learning and applying project management. From working in engineering and construction to internationally teaching and consulting in engineering/project management, to serving as a Director-at-Large if the Project Management Institute (PMI), to developing the Zaky and Kangaroo Zak, and to organize and execute the...

We continue to match the donations of families and organizations to hospitals and sick children around the world....

There have been a lot of changes going on for Zakeez over the last few months! As I mentioned in a previous post, we changed the name of our company from Zakeez to Nurtured By Design, as it was too close to our signature product “The Zaky”...