Experience

Abundance Internet
• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee
• General Manager

  • Feb 2020 - Present

DynCorp International
• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee
• Technical Consultant

  • Dec 2018 - Feb 2020


New Retro Electronics

• Owner

  • Jun 2017 - Feb 2020

  Business specializing in Computer repair, Home networking and Electronics repair. Competitive Pricing, Free consultations. FB and Twitter @newretroelect Business specializing in Computer repair, Home networking and Electronics repair. Competitive Pricing, Free consultations. FB and Twitter @newretroelect

• Chief Instructor

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2017

  •Supervise, train and mentor twenty instructors in preparing and delivering standard performance oriented, best practices and training. •Courses cover subject’s including electronics, electrical and mechanical engineering for complex vehicle systems. •Ensure all instructors use coaching and remedial training as required to ensure highest possible graduation rate. •Duties include ensuring that all instructors grow over time and seek additions to their skills, knowledge and abilities. •Additional duty with quality section; achieved Six Sigma Green Belt by completing projects to improve overall company efficiency in Maintenance of customer vehicles.•Implemented campus wide program to improve student handouts by utilizing detailed stages and including Peer Review, collaborative rewrite, and professional publishing. Show less

• Acting Associate Dean of Faculty

  • Apr 2012 - Sep 2013

  •Responsible for academic policy, curriculum research and development, faculty recruitment and retention and budget development and administration. •Supervise a staff of 65 both instructors and support staff. •Maintain a course catalog of 70 courses that cover areas including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Logistics, Maintenance Management, Allied Trades and assorted computer courses.•Direct Instructor progression program, done by peer and administration review. Plan for future training needs and ensure that the future needs of the school are always being progressed towards.•Administer continuous project for campus wide text book creation. Thorough process for proofreading, diagram and picture creation, customer approval, and professional onsite publishing. •Project Manager for purchasing, installation and use of Heidelberg PUR Binding Machine. Project resulted in marked and continual improvements in the quality of student handouts and training materials. Equipment and facilities upgrades totaling over $1,000,000.•Responsible numerous School projects upgrading facilities, courseware, and overall campus wide optimization by utilizing Lean and other project management concepts. Projects include annual lesson plan review, visualization and 5S and 6S implementation, and Systems Approach to Training optimization and utilization. •Monitor students to ensure that grades and attendance are acceptable and take action where appropriate. •Oversee and conduct training for entire staff to ensure that continuous improvement and development is a priority.•Created, implement and officiate campus wide Safety and Quality programs. Show less



United States Marine Corps

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Control Manager, Instructor Training Team

  • Jan 2009 - Apr 2011

  •Conducted detailed inspections on all courseware; School had an annual student population of over 5000 students, 300 instructors and over 200 courses. •Prepared and presented detailed reports on discrepancies to executive level staff. Responsible for developing continuous improvement plan in cooperation with individual course chief instructors directly resulting in a better quality product and highly qualified trained Marines.•Supervise the Instructor Evaluation Program. Evaluated all instructors before progression being allowed to progress to the next instructor level. •Conducted various courses for all instructors in basic and advanced instruction facilitation techniques and both self and peer critiquing skills. The direct result was a better trained, capable staff.•Project Manager for many school wide projects that resulted in direct improvements in instructor quality and school Standard Operating Procedures.•Conducted course critiques for all courses before graduation to ensure that the quality and efficiency was continuously improving. Implemented corrective action for any problems encountered by either student or instructor. Utilized SharePoint to route these reports to the appropriate personnel and to ensure timely action when required. Show less

• Chief Instructor

  • Jul 2006 - Jan 2009

  •Created and implemented this course utilizing the Systems Approach to Training. Course was subsequently approved as a promotion requirement for all United States Marine Corps Electronic Maintenance Chiefs.•Managed a team of 8 instructors and as many as 80 students at any given time and over 300 annually.•Responsible for continuous instructor training to insure proper instruction techniques where being used and information was constantly being reviewed and updated as needed.•Concurrently supervised course and taught over 1000 hours of Advanced Electronics. Class sizes ranged from 5 to 25 Students.•Conducted Annual Course Content Review Boards with Headquarters Marine Corps Personnel and Senior Electronics Maintenance Managers to guide the future of the course in regards to the needs of the Marine Corps Communications Electronics Community. Show less

• Maintenance Management Chief

  • Feb 2003 - Jul 2006

  •Managed all Maintenance and logistics operations for Reparable Maintenance Company; Company was responsible for repairing all Marine Corps repairable items in Iraq. •Items included all ground vehicle and electronics components for every vehicle in the Marine Corps inventory. •Company successfully repaired 100’s of items each month keeping the operating forces equipment fully operational and allowing the Marine Corps to maintain equipment in-country versus sending it to the United States for maintenance. Show less

• Facility Manager

  • Jan 2001 - Jul 2003

  •Managed multi-million dollar facility responsible for all electronics maintenance on the West Coast for the United States Marine Corps. Company had a staff over 200 and repaired thousands of electronics components annually. •Managed programs for calibration, inventory control, publications, and modifications for entire complex.•Project Manager for entire unit mobilization to Iraq with 30 maintenance shelters and the necessary equipment and personal to conduct a high volume of maintenance operations in a deployed setting. Show less

• Electronics technician

  • Dec 1993 - Jan 2001

  Repaired, diagnosed, and troubleshoot all ground electronics equipment owned by the United States Marine Corps.


USMC
• United States
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee
• GySgt

  • 1992 - 2011