Experience

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  Viking 6 Media

  • Luccock TX and Los Angeles CA

  • Publisher

    • Sep 2016 - Present
    • Luccock TX and Los Angeles CA

    Newly-founded multiple media company. Viking 6 is the radio call sign and code name for fictional young Ivey-league educated Professor Rik Olson, with a strong Viking-heritage. Under unusual circumstances, he becomes a 1 LT in Special Operations during the Vietnam War, whose mission was to atte...

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  The Phoenix Assassin- A Vietnam Thriller

  • Lubbock, Texas Area

  • Novelist

    • Sep 2014 - Present
    • Lubbock, Texas Area

    Combining my own personal experience during the Vietnam War with purely creative fiction, I am writing my first novel. This one is about the controversial Phoenix Program. It will be the first of a series of thrillers about Rik Olson, a young professor, educated at Columbia University in New Yo...

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  Texas Tech University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Professor Emeritus of Business Management and Strategy

    • Aug 2014 - Present

    No longer teaching. Writing is now focused on Thrillers, starting with The Phoenix Assassin-a Vietnam Thriller (Rik Olson/Viking 6 Thriller 1)Continues interest and work in bioterrorism, counter terrorism and special operations.He was Senior Adviser for Bioterrorism to the Congressionally-mandated Reserve Forces Policy Board from shortly after the 9/11 attack to the end of 2004. During the Vietnam War, he served as a special operations officer and was awarded Airborne Jump Wings, the Army Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Bronze Star.He enjoys Cool Jazz, and he is an avid (but coordination-challenged) golfer. He also builds customized, high tech golf clubs for his friends, who also need all the help they can get.

  • Georgie G. & William B. Snyder Professor in Management

    • Sep 1981 - Aug 2014

    John D. Blair was the first to hold the Georgie G. and William B. Snyder Professorship in Management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Earlier, he was the first to hold The Trinity Company Professorship in Management and Healthcare Strategy. He is also Professor of Health Organization Management in the School of Medicine. His recent research focuses on bioterrorism issues within the broader context of homeland and infrastructure terrorism and preparedness. His book (with Myron D. Fottler and Albert C. Zapanta) is entitled Bioterrorism Preparedness, Attack and Response and was published by JAI/Elsevier in late 2004. He is Founding Co-Editor of the Advances in Health Care Management Series.His earlier graduate studies at Columbia University were interrupted for military service from 1968-1971. His doctoral work was completed at the University of Michigan where he combined organizational and political sociology in the study of military organizations within their political and social context. His later interests in healthcare organizations combined with this earlier focus to support his current interest and focus on bioterrorism and homeland security.

  • Trinity Company Professor in Management & Healthcare Strategy

    • Sep 1981 - Aug 2004

    His last book of the old millennium is entitled Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups: Navigating Your Strategic Web. Also written with Myron Fottler, it is a sequel to their earlier book Challenges in Health Care Management. His book (with Myron Fottler) Challenges in Health Care Management: Strategic Perspectives for Managing Key Stakeholders appeared in the Fall of 1990. Both were published in the Jossey-Bass Management and Health Series.

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  University of Maryland

  • Military Sociologist

    • Sep 1975 - Aug 1981

    His work as a Military Sociologist at Maryland remains part of a long-term interest in and concern for appropriate civil-military relations, which include an effective military organization.For example, n 1993, he edited (with Jay Stanley) Challenges in Military Health Care: Perspectives on Heal...

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  US Army

  • JFK Center, Team 92, Go Cong Province, Mekong D...

  • 1 LT Airborne Infantry, Special Operations, Vietnam

    • Jun 1968 - Apr 1971
    • JFK Center, Team 92, Go Cong Province, Mekong D...

    After being a college Sociology instructor and expert in Mao Tse Tung, entered during summer, 1968, US Army as Private, trained as Infantry soldier, graduated from Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1969 at Fort Benning, trained as paratrooper. Originally assigned to 6th Special Forces Group a...

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  Gustavus Adolphus College

  • St. Peter, Minnesota

  • Sociology Instructor (full-time)

    • Aug 1967 - Jun 1968
    • St. Peter, Minnesota

    Asked to return to my Alma Mater to teach in my old department for one year prior to entering the U.S. Army. Also married my College Sweetheart who was still a Senior there. As part of my teaching, I taught a special class on Mao Tse Tung and his beliefs. In the process, I became very knowledg...