Experience

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  University of Phoenix

  • Online Faculty

  • Adjunct Faculty Professor

    • Sep 2002 - Present
    • Online Faculty

    • Over 12 years of experience teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes in business and public administration.• Specialize in teaching management classes with an emphasis in project management.• Taught several classes in ethics including the capstone course.• Strong experience teaching in both the online environment as well as in the classroom setting.

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  RDA and Associates

  • San Diego, CA

  • Management Consultant/Owner

    • Feb 1996 - Present
    • San Diego, CA

    • Founded, owned and managed a consulting firm which provided services that included: o Interim administrative management.o Creating redevelopment agencies.o Administering assessment districts.o Performing organizational design studies, mediation, and project facilitation. o Examples include serving as the City of Solana Beach interim assistant city manager and finance director. Once those positions were filled, served as redevelopment consultant.• Provided management consulting services to numerous counties, cities, and special districts (such as, San Diego International Airport) throughout California and Nevada, while also serving as interim City Manager (under the League of California Cities “range rider” program) at separate cities.

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  City of Barstow

  • Barstow, CA

  • City Manager

    • 1994 - 1996
    • Barstow, CA

    • Privatized specific functional activities which included wastewater reclamation, hospital administration, and engineering.• Created three new redevelopment project areas.• Solely negotiated with all employee bargaining groups, resulting in multi-year contracts that provided substantial fiscal savings.• Implemented a regional sports complex utilizing Redevelopment funds.

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  City of Fontana

  • Fontana, CA

  • City Manager

    • 1972 - 1988
    • Fontana, CA

    • Managed the city through a population growth from 10,000 to 165,000, the fastest growing city in California during this period.• Created 9 Redevelopment project areas, including the largest in the state at that time.• Transformed Fontana from a “company town”, totally dependent on Kaiser Steel Corporation, into a normal functional municipality with several diverse revenue streams. • Implemented several Redevelopment projects which created two 2,500 acre industrial parks in order to provide alternative employment sources. Sixty firms were located in these parks, providing 11,500 jobs. • When Kaiser Steel closed in 1980, Fontana’s revenue indicators increased.