61.   He joined Prodigy from GB Investment, an entertainment industry consulting company, where his clients included Viacom New Media, NBC and National Graphic Television.

62.   He had been president of FMA, Dix Hills, N.Y., a consulting company, which closed.

63.   He now heads a private consulting company, Ecosystem Management International Inc., in Flagstaff, Ariz.

64.   He owns a software consulting company.

65.   He is now chairman, president, chief executive and chief operating officer of JCI Information Technology, his new software consulting company.

66.   He later founded Safir Associates, a successful security consulting company that he continued to own as fire commissioner but has given up since coming to the Police Department.

67.   He was also president of Barrier Free Environments Inc., a consulting company that offered help in making buildings just that way.

68.   He was described as a sound businessman who made his consulting company a leader in its field.

69.   He most recently has operated a Houston-based consulting company.

70.   He never shied away from saying the Internet consulting company had serious problems that needed to be fixed.