Experience

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  Texas Tech University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Former Executive Director Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship

    • May 2023 - Present

    See description below

  • Former Executive Director Institute for Leadership Research

    • May 2023 - Present

    See description below

  • Former Professor of Practice

    • May 2023 - Present

    Teaching in the Area of Management at Rawls College of Business Operational responsibilities for: The Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business The Institute for Leadership Research.Teaching in the Area of Management Operational responsibilities for: The Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business The Institute for Leadership Research.Skills: Business Ethics · Teaching · Change Management · Team Building · Program Management · Public Speaking · Team Leadership · Management · University Teaching

  • Professor of Practice

    • Aug 2008 - May 2023

    Teaching in the Area of ManagementOperational responsibilities for:The Center for Entrepreneurship and Family BusinessThe Institute for Leadership Research.

  • Executive Director Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business

    • Aug 2008 - May 2023

    The CEFB is a University-Wide Center focused on research about Entrepreneurship and Family Business. We are bringing the next generation of Entrepreneurship to Texas Tech & our neighbors in the South Plains. Undergraduate & graduate-level certificates & degree plans are available. Collaborative partnerships available across all 11 Texas Tech University colleges. Advising TTU chapter of Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization, supporting students in business-plan competitions, offering professional-development workshops & listening to management teams’ needs & transformationally facilitating their needs into actionable leadership strategies.

  • Executive Director Institute for Leadership Research

    • Aug 2008 - May 2023

    The ILR is a Texas Tech University Center engaged in researching various streams of leadership. While academic research is paramount to our center, we are also concerned with how the academic and theoretical approaches translate to practice. Consequently, we are actively engaged with the entire university community in creating programs that can contribute to the overall effectiveness of Leadership Development.

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  NSF I-Corps

  • Texas, United States

  • Adjunct NSF I-Corps Instructor

    • Jan 2017 - Present
    • Texas, United States
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  E2Amm, LLC.

  • Lubbock, Texas

  • Consulting Business Advisor

    • Nov 2014 - Present
    • Lubbock, Texas

    E2Amm, LLC means Electricity ->To-> Ammonia. The company was founded by Mr. John Fleming, who has developed and patented a very low cost and effective way to produce ammonia on a modular scale to create a distributed ammonia business. This technology converts electrical energy into a premiu...

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  Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Sep 2006 - Aug 2008

    Adjunct professor for the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management.

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  T P M Electronics, Inc.

  • Consultant

    • Nov 1989 - Aug 2008

    T P M designs and maintains computer networks in the SMB market.