Tunnell Consulting of King of Prussia, PA, has announced it is expanding its focus on transportation consulting, and has hired a new Managing Director of Transportation to work within the company's Supply Chain/Distribution Practice. Newly on board is John Nussrallah, former president of Trinity Industries and a former vice president with Conrail.

John Nussrallah joins the firm at a time when Tunnell's transportation-related work continues to expand. The firm has been actively consulting on a variety of multi-faceted transportation, rail car fleet and rail operations projects for a number of large public and private clients. John's appointment boosts the company's capabilities, adding more depth and expertise to our successful Supply Chain/Distribution team.

Before joining Tunnell, John's work with Trinity Industries, a $2 billion rail car division, expanded its reach into Mexico, Brazil and Europe; revenues doubled under Nussrallah's tenure as president. At Conrail, where John spent 20 years, he rose to the position of Vice President, Mechanical and CMO.

According to Nussrallah, " The potential for growth in the rail industry is tremendous over the next few years. It will be mandatory for companies to strive for continuous improvement without increasing costs. This is where we come in. Tunnell's expertise, not only in transportation and supply chain operations, but in process improvement and organizational change, can give clients the high capability and efficient organization they want."

Founded in 1962, Tunnell Consulting is an employee-owned and operated firm that has grown steadily since its inception. In addition to Supply Chain/Distribution, the company specializes in Six Sigma/Process Excellence and Pharmaceutical Technical Services. It is always the company's mission to improve the operating performance of its clients, and to transfer to them the skills they need to continue improvements on their own.

For more information, please feel free to contact Tunnell Consulting, or John Nussrallah directly, at 610.337.0820, or visit our website at www.tunnellconsulting.com

Tunnell Consulting of King of Prussia, PA, is pleased to announce that nationally-recognized Six Sigma expert Dr. Ronald D. Snee has joined the company's Performance Excellence Practice. With some 25 years' experience, a host of awards and honors, and more than 140 publications in the fields of process improvement, quality, management and statistics -- Dr. Snee will add significant depth and experience to the company's rapidly growing practice. He joins Tunnell as Principal and will immediately be available to help clients impact both productivity and growth.

Dr. Snee earned doctorates in both applied and mathematical statistics. He blends his technical expertise with years of organizational involvement to effect performance improvement in a broad range of fields. His experience includes work in telecommunications, financial services, health care, the news media, and chemical and plastics manufacturing. He has held top process improvement and management positions at Bell Atlantic, Dupont, Joiner Associates, and Sigma Breakthrough Technologies.

Working with Dupont for more than twenty years, Dr. Snee was selected to design the firm's first corporate-wide continuous improvement curriculum. His work with Dupont resulted in five major awards. At Bell Atlantic, where he served as Vice President of Process Assurance, he introduced new process improvement and measurement approaches designed to boost customer service.

Dr. Snee joins the firm at a time when both progressive and troubled firms are exploring Six Sigma and other top methodologies in a quest to cut waste and enhance results. "What we learn in assessing companies," says Dr. Snee. "is that a lot of money is unnecessarily left on the table. There's a lot of waste that significantly impacts the bottom line."

To ferret out that waste, Dr. Snee says you must be persistent: "What companies need is a systematic approach to process improvement that continually, and positively, affects customer service and the bottom line. Six Sigma can do that. It can yield tremendous gains. It really brings together the best parts of all the improvement approaches that have gone before."

Six Sigma can also impressively impact the top line as well, enhancing company growth in a variety of ways. "You improve the top line, " says Dr. Snee, " by tightening the processes that can speed products to market, thus helping you make more sales. You also grow faster when you increase capacity and increase your attractiveness to buyers. All of this can be done by improving processes throughout the organization."

Dr. Snee is a former winner of the American Society for Quality's Shewhart Medal, its highest honor, and has served as a member of the Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria Team, and a Judge of the Delaware Quality Award. His writings have appeared in numerous industry publications such as Quality Progress, The American Statistician, and International Statistical Review.

Tunnell Consulting has been a leader in the process improvement field since the mid-1980s, when key members involved in the famed Harley-Davidson turnaround developed the Tunnell practice. In addition to Six Sigma/ Process Excellence, the company also specializes in Pharmaceutical Technical Services and Supply Chain/Distribution.

Founded in 1962, Tunnell Consulting is an employee-owned and operated firm that has grown steadily since its inception. It is always the company's mission to improve the operating performance of its clients and to transfer to them the skills they need to continue improvements on their own.

For more information, please feel free to contact Tunnell Consulting, or Ron Snee directly, at 610.337.0820, or visit our web site at www.tunnellconsulting.com

K.W. Tunnell Consulting, of King of Prussia, PA, is pleased to announce the appointment of three new vice presidents to its management team. Named are company consultants who have served as principals of the firm -- Ray Schneider, Susan Devane and Joseph Tempio. Their appointments are effective immediately.

According to Company CEO Pat Heaney, the promotions are in response to the company's recent rapid growth and pave the way for successful future expansion. Heaney, who is retiring in December 2001, says the appointments also ensure the company's orderly leadership transition; Company President Bob Hill is assuming Heaney's duties. According to Heaney, "These three vice presidents are the key people who will support the company's smooth transition and ensure the quality of our work remains strong even as our client responsibilities broaden."

Ray Schneider, a consultant with Tunnell since 1988, has wide process improvement, project management, organizational development and change management experience in a variety of service and manufacturing industries; he will assume responsibilities for the company's Six Sigma/Process Improvement Practice. Susan Devane, a consultant with Tunnell since 1997, has worked extensively in financial analysis and reengineering in the pharmaceutical industry; her work at Tunnell involves training, team facilitation, and project management, as well as development planning and oversight of multiple projects. She will continue her work in the pharmaceutical field and also oversee sales and marketing strategies for the firm. Joseph Tempio, with Tunnell since 1999, has held top management positions in the pharmaceutical industry and has managed numerous projects in analytical support, product validation and diagnostic test method validation; he will continue to manage the company's Pharmaceutical Technical Services Practice. Joe has recently been elected to the company's Board of Directors.

According to President Bob Hill, the appointments represent the company's historical commitment to the diversification of its products and services, and its deepening intention to integrate the firm's technical and organizational skill sets. "Our practice areas are not separate, isolated silos," says Hill. "Instead, our practice managers work together to bring the most appropriate tools to a client project so it has the richest chance of success." In addition to Six Sigma/Process Improvement and Pharmaceutical Technical Services, the company also specializes in Supply Chain/Distribution and Organizational Development/Change Management, and integrates those skill areas, when appropriate, as well.

"Tunnell Consulting is a learning organization," adds Hill. "Our goal is to continually learn from each other, and complement each other, so that we can give our clients the most complete information on what will make a project work. Ray, Susan and Joe will help build that philosophy by making certain our best knowledge is employed to address the unique operating issues affecting our clients."

Founded in 1962, Tunnell Consulting is an employee-owned and operated firm that has grown steadily since its inception. It is always the company's mission to improve the operating performance of its clients, and to transfer to our clients the skills they need to continue improvements on their own.

For more information, please contact us at tunnell@tunnellconsulting.com or 610.337.0820.

The K. W. Tunnell Company, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Joseph S. Tempio, Ph.D. to the Board of Directors effective with the November meeting of the Board. Dr. Tempio is a Principal, and the Director of the Pharmaceutical Technical Services Practice of the Tunnell Company.

Dr. Tempio joined the Tunnell Company in 1999 after a long and distinguished career in the pharmaceutical, consumer health, and pharmaceutical services industry. He had headed a major supplier of clinical supplies services (Omnicare/IBAH Pharmaceutical Services), and had directed Consumer products R & D operations for both SmithKline Consumer Health and Lederle Consumer Health Divisions. Dr. Tempio also held various pharmaceutical development and management position in SmithKline and French Labs and the International Division of SmithKline Consumer Health Division. Since joining the Tunnell Company he has made a significant contribution to the Company's rapidly growing Pharmaceutical Consulting Practice with its four year compounded growth rate of over 60%. The practice was instrumental in supporting the overall company growth rate of 64% for the year 2000.

"This is a very important step in the implementation of our growth and management transition strategies," said CEO and Chairman Patrick G.Heaney. "Joe brings two particularly important assets to his new position:

• A deep personal knowledge and technical understanding of the Pharmaceutical Industry and its requirements
• The hands on experience of rapidly growing a small pharmaceutical technical services company into a much larger enterprise with all the complex issues that this involves."

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (August 3, 2000) - Idea Integration, the e-business solutions unit of Modis Incorporated, the $1 billion information technology services subsidiary of Modis Professional Services, Inc. (NYSE:MPS), announced today it has successfully completed a new Web-based system for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) called Online LEAD. Online LEAD was developed as a partnership between Idea, The K.W. Tunnell Company Federal Services Group, and ATF, and was initially launched on a limited release in November of 1999. Online LEAD is designed to aid law enforcement in its fight against illegal firearms traffickers and is the newest crime-fighting tool in ATF's "electronic crime fighting arsenal." It is an innovative e-government solution, using Internet technology to change the way in which our government does business.

"Idea Integration is excited about the opportunity to apply the new Internet business technologies to the problem of illegal firearms. Online LEAD is further proof that government agencies like the ATF can use Internet technologies to make incredible leaps in their effectiveness, just as so many businesses have increased their competitive advantage by using the Internet," said Pam Krulitz, Idea Senior Vice President.

"We have worked with the ATF and the Idea team for more than 8 years," said Dr. Lawrence J. Fedewa, K. W. Tunnell's Federal Contracts Administrator. "Idea's expertise in Internet-based systems is exactly the kind of technical and business expertise that we want to bring into the Federal Government."

According to Quentin Jones, Firearms Systems Program Manager, "The Idea Integration team has played a key role at ATF by applying their expertise in Internet-based technologies to ATF's firearms tracing mission. The systems Idea has built for ATF are crucial to our firearms tracing analysis."

"Online LEAD takes our fight against gun traffickers into cyberspace," said Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. "It gives federal, state, and local law enforcement officials throughout the country a new tool to help identify and arrest gun traffickers."

Online LEAD was created to enhance the ATF's information systems that provide investigative leads to identify illegal firearms trafficking. The system will send up "red flags" on potential illegal firearms traffickers throughout the country. For example, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief Emmett H. Turner cited a recent case where information obtained through Online LEAD identified the persons responsible for illegally trafficking a firearm used in the May 1996 murder of Officer Francis Scurry of his department. That firearm was one of approximately 400 firearms illegally trafficked by two people who were subsequently arrested and convicted for violations of the Federal firearms laws.

ATF Director Bradley A. Buckles said, "Advances in investigative information and in tools to access it enable ATF and our State and local partners to identify many more criminals individually, and to analyze and respond to specific local crime patterns."

The federal tracing system currently contains over 1 million crime gun traces and is updated continuously. This greatly enhances the field investigator's ability to quickly identify illegal firearms trafficking and interdict the supply of guns to the illegal market.

ATF and local law enforcement personnel have successfully used Online LEAD in a variety of locations. Firearms trafficking task forces in cities such as New York, Memphis, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. have been able to link the purchaser of a crime gun to crime guns recovered in other locations thus identifying potential illegal firearms traffickers. Online LEAD is available to all State and local law enforcement agencies at ATF field offices throughout the country.

About Idea Integration

Idea Integration, the e-business solutions unit of Modis, Inc., is a leading Internet solutions provider. Idea specializes in solution areas including e-strategy, creative design, e-CRM, business intelligence, EAI, and enterprise solutions to deliver innovative, end-to-end e-business solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and global businesses. Idea Integration has a presence in more than 20 markets throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, with over 1200 technology, strategy, and creative professionals. For more information, please visit www.idea.com.

About The K.W. Tunnell Company, Federal Services Group

The K.W. Tunnell Company, Inc. is an international management consulting firm with experience spanning 36 years and over 2,000 engagements for more than 1,000 clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin American and Africa. The Tunnell Company has brought to its Government Practice a strategic alliance of carefully selected companies with varying specialties within the overall practice areas in which the Tunnell Company is engaged.

For more information, please contact us at tunnell@tunnellconsulting.com or 610.337.0820.

The K. W.Tunnell Company, Inc. is pleased to announce the formation of a Biologicals Consulting Practice, under the direction of Dr. Conrad Heilman. Dr. Heilman joins the Tunnell Company after a distinguished career, which has included senior positions at ViroMed, Lederle-Praxis, and Dupont/Merck.

Dr. Heilman will be charged with growing the Tunnell Company's Biologicals business and contributing significantly to the growth of the company's overall Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare Business of which Biologicals will be an integral part. The overall Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare Practice, headed by Dr. Joseph Tempio, increased its volume by over 60% in the past year and now has over 30 consultants/scientists in the field. "Our recent growth and success in developing new clients has allowed us to recruit top-notch scientists, and to segment our practice to focus on new healthcare markets," observed Dr. Tempio.

The Biologicals Consulting Practice will serve the diagnostics, biologicals, biotech, and biopharmaceutical segments of the healthcare industry. The practice is based on a strong foundation of current clients in these fields. Bob Hill, COO of Tunnell said: "The addition of a large diagnostic test kit validation contract, in addition to our ongoing consulting in biopharmaceuticals, convinced us to bring more focus to our efforts in these growing healthcare markets. Dr. Heilman is a fantastic addition to our consulting staff, and will be a valuable resource to our company and our clients."

The K. W. Tunnell Company is a 38-year-old employee-owned diversified consulting practice with headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. In addition to Pharmaceutical Technical Services, the company specializes in Six Sigma, Supply Chain/Distribution, and Organizational Design/Change Management. The Tunnell Company's jointly owned subsidiary, headquartered in Springfield, Virginia is the fourth largest supplier of management improvement services to the federal government.

For more information, please contact us at tunnell@tunnellconsulting.com or (610) 337 - 0820.

The K. W. Tunnell Company, Inc. is very pleased to announce that it achieved record results in April 2000. April, with revenue of $1.16 million, was the first month that revenues exceeded $1 million dollars in the company's 38-year history. "We are delighted with our results", said CEO Pat Heaney. "This performance is the result of a great deal of hard work by all of the 54 consultants in the field, and our outstanding support staff. We very much appreciate the support and continued loyalty of our clients, who make this all possible."

Bob Hill, President and COO of the K.W. Tunnell Company observed that the performance "was particularly satisfying in that it reflected not only strong continued growth in the Pharmaceutical Technical Services practice but also from our other major practice areas. We had stellar contribution from the Six Sigma and Organizational Design/Change Management practices, and the Supply Chain/Distribution Practice has added some key new accounts to its business base." The company moved into the year 2000, with a strong business backlog from the current client base and two major new clients, one a high technology healthcare supplier and the other a large, established dot-com. "We believe that we offer a critical array of services designed to help dot-com operations become cost effective more quickly and indications are that these are services the market definitely needs," Bob Hill added.

The K. W. Tunnell Company focuses on Manufacturing, Processing and Distribution companies and numbers among its past and present clients many of the largest and best known companies in these industries. "The company is pleased to share the news of its current success with its clients and our staff, and we thank them both for their continued support," said CFO Joe Hare.

The K. W. Tunnell Company, founded in 1962, is an employee-owned consulting business with headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The company provides technical services to the pharmaceutical industry, and Six Sigma, Organizational Design/Change Management and Supply Chain/Disttribution consulting to a wide range of industries. In addition, K. W. Tunnell is a 50% joint venture partner in a Federal Services Group, headquartered in Springfield, Virginia, that is the fourth largest supplier of "Management, Organization and Business Improvement Services" to the Federal Government under our GSA "MOBIS" contract.

For more information, please contact us at tunnell@tunnellconsulting.com or 610.337.0820.