Belita Enterprises Evolution - APM Belita
This presents the ventures and current interests of Norm & Nenita Bell. Previously they had a dozen websites of dot com, dot ca, and dot us representing various services in management, vacation rentals, and crafts offered since their beginings in early 1992. They chose the name Belita to represent a little Bell business project, since Nenita means little girl, it combined their names with a good alphabetical position for databases. They then added the tag line, APM, after client consultation. This allowed the various diverse services to be reflected through multiple meaning of Applied Project Management, Access Project Management, Advantage Property Management, Assigned Property Management, A pleasurable memory, and A Pleasant Maisonette. The same applied to our corporate North American image focus on red and white and email using belita.ca and belita.us. We missed the opportunity to get Belita.com in 1992 which is now valued at $7000 just for the domain name. Consistent corporate image was and remains important.
Norm has been a design engineer and project manager during his fifty year career. He is most proud of his role in designing and leading a team in constructing a 500 ton capacity forty wheeled rail transporter for Ontario Hydro Electric Power (HEPX200). Throughout his career he worked with many engineering pioneers of the Avro Arrow who went on to work for NASA and advance the USA moon landing some three years. Some of these Canadians continued as Chief Engineers of NASA for decades. Norm's philosophy (although he often over explained) was to "keep it simple and specific" (KISS principle) and the mantra:
"if any job is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly" - meaning jump-in, evolve toward perfection, don't watch the world go by, get involved.
Nenita graduated from MIT in the Philippines in statistics and administration sciences. She worked for drug and alcohol companies and later for laser surveyors, engineers, and social service bureaus. She is an artist, fine sewer, craft maker, and great cook. She is a speed reader and linguist who enjoys people.