Experience

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  SEAT Planners LLC

  • San Diego, California

  • Chairman and Consultant

    • Mar 2019 - Present
    • San Diego, California

    Assists owners Veronica and Antonio Sosa on special projects and with client relations. Semi-retired.

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  SEAT Planners Incorporated

  • Chairman

    • Jun 2018 - Feb 2019

    Co-founder with Pat Weathers. Provides leadership and assistance to all facets of the company's efforts.

  • President

    • 1988 - Jun 2018

    Founder and leader of a special events transportation management company. Develops shuttle systems for conventions using techniques common in public transit systems. Assists with event transportation design, mentoring and staff training on behalf of President Veronica Sosa. Over 11,500,000 passengers carried.

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  Carden Convention Service Company

  • National Sales Manager

    • 1982 - 1987

    Trade show and general services contractor. Budgeting and design of exhibit hall programs for association and corporate conventions and conferences.

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  Boy Scouts of America

  • Camp Mirimichi, Huntington Lake, California

  • Camp Director

    • Jun 1981 - Aug 1982
    • Camp Mirimichi, Huntington Lake, California

    Managed the operation of a 250 person capacity Summer camp located at 7,000 foot elevation in the high Sierra of California. Responsible for health, safety, commissary, dining hall, programing, ferry boats, staff training, HR, budgets and accounting. Taught outdoor camping skills, leadership training, and mentoring.

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  The Bus that Goes in Circles, Inc. dba Southwest Coaches.

  • San Diego

  • Vice President and Co-Founder

    • 1977 - 1982
    • San Diego

    Partnering with Tom Evans we created the first (that I know of) on and off city tour in the US (there was something like that in Sydney but evidently nowhere else). Buses drove a circular route throughout San Diego while the driver-guide narrated. Passengers purchased an all day pass that allowed them to hop on or hop off at stops at hotels and visitor attractions such as the San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld, Downtown, Gaslamp Quarter, Balboa Park, Fashion Valley Shopping Center, Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, Mission Bay Aquatic Park and more.Contract operator for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and the County of San Diego providing transit bus service on several local and suburban routes.

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  Gray Line Tours Sightseeing

  • San Diego

  • Dispatcher, Tour Guide and Charter Bus Driver

    • Sep 1973 - Mar 1977
    • San Diego

    Dispatcher for a fleet of sightseeing and charter buses. Driver/Guide giving four hour sightseeing tours of San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Walking tours of Old Town San Diego, Balboa Park and the historic Catholic Mission San Diego de Alcala founded in 1769.