Experience

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  Fluor

  • Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Business Development

    • 2000 - Present
    • Honolulu, Hawaii

    Identify Asia Pacific business opportunities for the Fluor Government Group and also other business units of Fluor.

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  Electri City Inc dba KEMS Kewalo

  • Honolulu, HI

  • President

    • 1975 - Present
    • Honolulu, HI

    This is a business that was retained thru the years that sold marine electronic equipment such as radios, antennas, GPS, other navigation equipment, fish finders, satellite communications and radar. Company now serves as a consulting business entity.

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  USS Missouri Memorial Association

  • Honolulu

  • President

    • 1995 - 1998
    • Honolulu

    Served as the President of the Non-Profit organization that competed for the donation of the Battleship Missouri. The Navy awarded the ship to the Association in 1996 and she was towed into Pearl Harbor in 1997 and is open to the public as a memorial near the Arizona Memorial.

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  Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.

  • Honolulu, HI

  • VP Public Affairs and VP Marketing

    • 1989 - 1991
    • Honolulu, HI

    Help develop a marketing program for an electric utility holding company. Transitioned to become the VP of Public Affairs because it was identified that Public Affairs was a critical element for all the regulated companies held by HEI. Also managed the HEI Charitable Foundation as collateral duty.

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  Honolulu Shipyard Inc.

  • Honolulu, HI

  • President

    • 1986 - 1989
    • Honolulu, HI

    Managed the largest private shipyard in Hawaii with 300 employees, 3 dry-docks and a marine railway. Shipyard did commercial and Navy ship repair, hull, machinery, electrical, electronics, HVAC, boilers, sandblasting and painting.

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  KEMS Inc.

  • Honolulu, HI

  • Vice President

    • 1969 - 1986
    • Honolulu, HI

    Ran the family owned electrical contracting company that did apparatus repair and sales. It was also the largest electrical apparatus repair center in Hawaii. Performed work as an electrical/electronic subcontractor to the local private shipyard to do both commercial and US Navy repair work. Operating assets were sold to Honolulu Shipyard in 1986.

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  GE

  • Honolulu, HI; Schenectady, NY; Boston, MA

  • Field Service Engineer

    • 1967 - 1969
    • Honolulu, HI; Schenectady, NY; Boston, MA

    Joined GE out of college to become a field engineer. Had assignments in Honolulu, Vietnam, San Francisco, Schenectady and Boston. Final assignment in Boston was as a Process Control Instructor for the Department and taught classes around the country and in Boston.