Experience

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  U.s. navy

  Apr 1974 - Sept 1982

  Naval officer

  Special Boat Unit Twelve, Naval Special Warfare Group One, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado• Operations and Training Officer• Command Representative to San Diego County/City Joint and Combined Counter-terrorism Task Force• Officer-in-Charge Mobile Support Team 3 Detachment H, Naval Special Warfare Unit One, Republic of the Philippines• Officer-in-Charge 65-ft MkIII "Specter" Class Patrol Boat• Combat Crafts Division Officer - briefed deploying CBG senior staff and command officers on Persian Gulf Area of Operations combatant craft threats - NSW Task Force Assistant Operations Officer for Maritime Operations. Current Situation briefer for TF personnel and visiting dignitaries. - Developed a "fly away" Maintenance Support Package capable of sustaining combat crafts operations in remote locations for ninety days, less POL.• Navy/Marine Corps ParachutistUSS Knox (FF-1052), Destroyer Squadron 15, Yokosuka, Japan• Participant Naval Expeditionary Force Iranian Hostage Crisis• Surface Warfare Officer Qualified• Gunnery and Missile Officer • Personnel Reliability Program - Security Officer - conduct and certify firearms training for shipboard security alert forces - screen personnel selected for positions related to handling and securing ship's nuclear weapons - responsible for physical security aboard ship• Combat Systems Maintenance Officer• Damage Control Assistant WestPac Work Package SRF Liaison & Assistant Project Manager• Security clearance TS-SBI Show less

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  United states army

  Oct 1982 - Sept 1986

  Infantry officer

  Headquarters and Headquarters Company Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, West Germany• reorganized maintenance unit into teams with direct responsibility to organizational elements for support of wheeled, tracked vehicles and power generation equipment; resulted in improved accountability and performance• commended for exceeding highest vehicle operational readiness and safety standards• food service operation recognized as best in class, US Army Europe• individual soldiers' performance on Skills Qualification Test increased 15% • managed a 30% reduction in assigned personnel and significant modernization to wheeled and tracked vehicle fleet while successfully meeting demands of a high op tempo• selected as beta test facility for Army-wide implementation of computer-based maintenance operation and reporting systemBrigade S-1 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division• Personnel Officer for an organization with over 3000 employees and dependent family members - supervised chaplain, medical, military police, and civil affairs functions - managed staffing levels of critical skills employees• reduced required reports by 25% through elimination or consolidation• project officer for the initial installation of a computer system - initiated RFPs, recommended vendors for the complete project - supervised all facets of implementation: installation to include wiring, hardware and software; physical and electronic security; and all stages of training- responsible for similar functions when headquarters elements moved into new facilitiesBattalion S-4 (Logistics Officer), 3rd BN, 6th Infantry Regiment, Berlin Brigade• responsible for battalion convoy and rail movements• responsible for all battalion war stock and training ammunition• develop logistics addendum to war plans• responsible for maintenance of 130 wheeled and tracked vehicles• trained battalion personnel in Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT)• Awarded French Commando Badge Show less

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  Morgan stanley dean witter

  Jul 1986 - Sept 1997

  Financial advisor
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  Prudential investments

  Oct 1997 - Dec 2001

  Financial advisor

  • Educate clients as to risk and reward considerations regarding investments• Develop specific investment strategies for each client• Implement investment plans for individual and corporate clients; assist with cash management, wealth creation and preservation strategies• Address client needs as to educational, retirement, long-term care, and estate planning issues• Analyzed and monitored client portfolio performance and recommended appropriate periodic adjustments to investment portfolio allocations Show less

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  University of alabama at birmingham

  Jan 2001 - Dec 2004

  Adjunct faculty

  Courses taught: U.S.History, Western Civilization, War in the Modern World, America in Vietnam, 1945-1975Copy-edited, MG Benjamin L. Harrison, US Army (Ret.), "Hell on a Hilltop: America's Last Major Battle In Vietnam," (Lincoln, Nebraska/iUniverse, Inc., 2004), ISBN: 0-595-32730-3Faculty participant, University of Southern Mississippi's Summer Program, the Vietnam War Field Study, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Maymester 2003

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  Georgia perimeter college

  Jan 2005 - Sept 2012

  College instructor (retired)

  Courses taught: U.S. History, World History, History of the Middle East. Faculty Advisor to VETCOM, a student run campus-wide veterans organization.Developed and implemented new courses under the Perspectives umbrella: Change in the Old Southwest: a History of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, 1513 - 1838 and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1917 - Present.

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  1052 consulting group, l.l.c.

  Apr 2014 - Oct 2017

  Managing partner

  Noted consultant and author Steven Scott Phillips suggests that nearly 70 percent of companies fail in their attempts to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Phillips offers a myriad of reasons to explain these failures. Most often, companies fail to ask the right questions in their decision-making process to purchase and fail to allocate adequate resources to the implementation process.1052 Consulting Group, L.L.C. positions itself in the manufacturing and distribution sector space as a strategic partner, allied with other consultants and in collaboration with corporate clients to alleviate and remedy problems associated with ERP implementation. 1052 Consulting Group's capabilities extend beyond the ERP system, our mantra and focus remains people. . .process. . . performance. Individually, our partners are members of APICS and adhere to the highest industry standards of professional and ethical conduct. Show less

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  Manufacturing practices, inc

  May 2014 - Jun 2016

  Vp operations

  Business development, project management, client education