{"id":744,"date":"2013-04-15T20:13:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/?p=744"},"modified":"2014-04-14T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:15:16","slug":"lorraine-mccord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/2013\/04\/15\/lorraine-mccord\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine McCord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1122\" alt=\"0006_lorraine_for_print\" src=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2013\/04\/0006_lorraine_for_print.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"159\" \/>Lorraine McCord is the Creative Director and Founder of Xworks Project an online international\u00a0business blog, training and consulting platform. Prior to starting Xworks Project, she served for\u00a010 years as the Director of the North Texas International Trade Center SBDC where she was\u00a0responsible for providing training, counseling and market research services to businesses in the\u00a0North Texas areas as well as managing a team of advisors who helped hundreds of companies\u00a0achieve export sales totaling $50 million.\u00a0She has more than 10 years experience working for Fortune 500 companies such as EDS and\u00a0Regions Bank in strategy and planning, international finance and internal audit.\u00a0 Lorraine has\u00a0worked and traveled extensively in the Asia Pacific region and has spoken extensively at national\u00a0and international conferences on the topics of small business and international trade. She\u00a0currently serves on the faculty of Richland College\u2019s International Business and Trade division.\u00a0Lorraine previously served on the board of governors of the North American Small Business\u00a0and International Trade Educators (NASBITE) and the Dallas Furniture Bank. She holds a MBA\u00a0in International Management from Thunderbird in Glendale, AZ and is both a Certified Internal\u00a0Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director, International Trade Center &#8211; Small Business Development Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"grid-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"sd2257","author_link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/author\/sd2257\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Director, International Trade Center - Small Business Development Center","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}