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I have taught Management Courses including Leadership, Human Relations, Strategic Management, Supervision, Problem Solving and Decision Making, and Total Quality Management at Amarillo College while completing an MBA at West Texas A&M University. I graduated in 2005. I then taught these same courses at West Texas A&M University. I am now retired. During my career, I achieved the following I spent the last many years as a management consultant helping companies improve management effectiveness and efficiency. To achieve this, I worked my way through the University of Texas taking a full course load for a degree in Physics, being married and having a daughter. My school job with Central Freight Lines, loading and unloading trucks, required three to four hours works per day Monday through Saturday. Life has been easy since then! At the age of 29, I managed the nuclear startup of the Turkey Point Unit 4 Nuclear Power Plant in Miami, Florida. When I was 30, Westinghouse chose me to be the Project Engineer of the South Texas Nuclear Project, the largest nuclear project in the United States at that time. I have started three successful consulting businesses, two for NUS – Halliburton Corporation in Clearwater, Florida. These businesses required substantial efforts to identify, market, and sell domestic and international clients on our business idea of sharing information among nuclear and fossil power plants. The programs had the highest return on investment of any consulting programs in NUS. The primary reason was outstanding customer service, and excellent human relations among our staff. While living in Atlanta, Georgia, I represented a company’s dealings with the countries of Belgium, England, France, Slovenia and Sweden. I took groups of people from the United States to each of these countries every year to learn more about their effective business practices in managing and operating nuclear power stations. Europeans ran power plants with one-third the staff size and made more electricity the similar U.S. electric power plants. We told the U.S. electric utilities about the positive work and management practices we witnessed. From 1993 until 2000, I managed the United States operations for Vattenfall, Sweden’s largest electric corporation and largest nuclear power generator. This program brought Swedish power plant managers to the U.S. to show us how to manage power plants in a competitive environment. What I have accomplished and can accomplish: • Develop, market, sell, implement and manage management consulting services • Write and communicate effectively with management and workers • Recommend cost effective improvements in personnel and work management practices • Make effective presentations to senior management explaining evaluations of their businesses • Work with management and employees to implement recommendations for improvement • Effectively manage projects and personnel • Develop experience feedback programs for business and industry Things I enjoy include: • Helping people learn to help themselves • Teaching others to be open to new ideas • Learning and doing new things • Travel in the United States and internationally