Experience

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  Private HR consulting

  • Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

  • Retiree

    • Apr 2021 - Present
    • Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

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  US Office of Personnel Management

  • Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  • Associate OPM Director for Human Resources Solutions

    • Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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  Chief Human Capital Officers Council

  • Washington, DC

  • Executive Director

    • Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
    • Washington, DC

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  Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

  • Director, Human Capital Management Office

    • Jul 2014 - Sep 2017

    As Director of HCMO, I have program and policy responsibility for 60000 Civilian excepted service Intelligence personnel including 700 DISLs and nearly 600 DISES. I manage the Foreign Language program affecting 28000 linguists in 198 languages. I set training and certification standards for industry, military and civilian in intelligence analyst fields.

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  Dept. of the Navy Information Dominance

  • Senior Advisor, Human Capital

    • 2010 - Jul 2014

    I served as the Senior Advisor for Human Capital and Naval Intelligence CHCO. Navy needed someone with "stand up experience." Having just stood up a niche executive search firm, I was a strong fit. Navy wanted to consolidate its "information" warfare capabilities in one directorate. That included disparate organizations from Intel, Cyber, Cryptology, METOC and Space Cadre. I wrote the first Total Force Roadmap and published the first IDC Human Capital Strategy.

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  The Ratcliff Company, Inc.

  • Executive Search President

    • May 1993 - May 1999

    I created a niche Executive Search firm providing ad hoc, as needed search capacity to 22 of the Nation's largest search firms.

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  South Carolina Insurance Commission

  • Columbia, SC

  • SC Insurance Commissioner

    • Jan 1994 - Nov 1995
    • Columbia, SC

    Governor Carroll Campbell (R-SC) appointed me to serve on the SC Insurance Commission overseeing insurance rate changes and calculating fees associated with major disasters like Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew.

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  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy & Equal Opportunity

    • Jul 1990 - Apr 1993

    As the DASD CPP, I led the DoD drawdown after the Berlin Wall fell. We reduced DoD civilians from 1.2M to 985,000. We consolidated development of department personnel policies by standing up the DCPAS agency. I created the first DoD Executive Leadership Development Program and started the APEX executive training program. I built the blueprint for the Voluntary Separation Incentive for separating civilians. Built outplacement programs and services to assist the transitioning workforce.

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  Office of Personnel Management

  • Washington, DC

  • Deputy Director of Policy

    • Oct 1989 - Jul 1990
    • Washington, DC

    President George H.W. Bush appointed me to the OPM policy office because of my expertise writing legislation on Capital Hill. The job required me to monitor Congressional report language, bill mark ups and track GAO and CBO reports. The position was short-lived because the Bush Administration promoted me to the DoD Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy and Equal Opportunity

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  US Air Force Air Staff

  • The Pentagon

  • Personnel Specialist

    • Jan 1989 - Sep 1989
    • The Pentagon

    I led Air Force's exploration into telecommuting concepts and development of special rates. My tenure at Air Force was short in anticipation of a political appointment which materialized in Sep that year.

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  U.S. House of Representatives

  • Washington, DC

  • House Appropriations Committee Associate Staff

    • May 1980 - Jan 1989
    • Washington, DC

    I served as Senior Legislative Assistant for Rep Frank Wolf where I managed his civil service personnel constituency. I wrote the Performance Management and Recognition System, created Relocation Services during transfers, created the federal leave bank and leave transfer pilots, worked to revise archaic RIF rules and wrote Public Service Recognition Week. I also assisted Rep Wolf on his human rights initiatives -- including barring importation of Soviet good made by slave labor, elimination of Most Favored Nation status for Romania, creating the President's Bipartisan Commission on Pornography. For his local consistuents I managed the transfer of FAA employees from federal airports Reagan and Dulles to State of Virginia; I orchestrated the transfer of Arlington Hall Station to the State Department for relocation of Foreign Service Institute and I led the Appropriations effort to fund a $9M grant to rebuild Wolf Trap Fram Park after it burned in 1982.