Manager Management
Resume:
Richard A. Bird
P. O. Box *32
South Thomaston, Maine04858
Mobile 207-***-****
email: *****@*********.***
Objective
A senior management, consulting, sales or Web development position utilizing my strong
entrepreneurial, management, organizational and computer skills gained in the hospitality,
energy, and printing industries.
Management Skills
Extensive employment experience within small and large organizations, both
existing and start-up. Owner, birdsnest.com, an Internet
Presence Provider, offering Internet web site hosting, e-commerce, and design
services to several dozen widely varied clients.Manager/operator of,
Rockland, Maine, a 140 seat seasonal restaurant, lounge, and marina. Developed and
implemented a business plan to successfully raise start-up capital, hired and trained
staff of 35 employees, and completed first year's operations on budget. The
lease was terminated early because of the landlord's being foreclosed upon.Builder and property manager of four motel complexes.
As a franchisee of Day's Inn and Ramada Inn, annual revenues from the 550 rooms and four
restaurants increased from inception to $2.5 million per year, and all units were
profitable. Production manager of a large commercial printing and
business forms company. Responsibilities included switching the company from lead to
computerized photo-typesetting and graphics.Converted a privately owned oil and gas company
($8,000,000 in assets) to a publicly traded company, fully registered with the Securities
Exchange Commission.
Computer Skills
A power user with extensive knowledge of PC and MAC based desktop computer
systems, and expertise in the following: Microsoft Windows
7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, MS SQL ServerApple OS X Snow Leopard and iPhone iPod Touch interfacesMicrosoft Office 2007, including
Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Intuit products, including
Quicken, Quickbooks, & Turbo-TaxInternet
Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome and Safari browsersWeb site hosting,
design, and implementation. Network administration for small business networks, utilizing Windows
ServersDesktop publishing and layout
skills from commercial printing pre-press and typography environment.
Consultant and trainer for individuals and groups, including law offices, marinas,
restaurants, and marketing consultants. Developed and wrote applications for use in: Restaurant operations and
accounting Petroleum engineering and
natural gas well reserve determinationHotel and airline reservation
databasesTravel agency administration and
accounting
Accounting Skills
Prepared budgets, financial statements, financial models, projections,
business plans and tax returns for companies and individuals. Principal in three fully
registered S-1 security offerings (IPO's) with the Securities Exchange Commission.
Member of the Board of
Directors of a publicly traded OTC company with full responsibility of reporting to the
SEC.Financial manager for a
partnership of 205 individual investors in natural gas properties, handling all financial
matters for the group, including receivables, payables, and tax form preparation.
Former licensed financial principal in NASD broker-dealer
Employment 1995-Currentbirdsnest.com Computer and Internet presence consulting, Windows based business and accounting applications, and networking 1995 President, Nacre, Inc., Rockland, Maine, operator of The Pearl, a seasonal restaurant,
lounge, and marina complex 1988-89President, Trans-Link Systems, Inc., Denver, Colorado, a provider of air travel
arrangements to hotels in western ski markets 1975-88Vice President and Director, U. S. Mineral & Royalty Corp., Denver, Colorado. 1975-CurrentIndependent oil and natural gas exploration, drilling, and production in Texas, New
Mexico, Wyoming, & Colorado. 1971-86President, SFM Corp., Atlanta, Georgia, motel, restaurant, and resort real estate
management 1964-70Production management, American Business Products, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, a producer
and marketer of printed material used in business applications
Education
1964 Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Written in 1997
Richard A. Bird
P. O. Box 332
South Thomaston,. ME 04860
Here's my resume in HTML. You should be reading this on one of any number
of Web Browsers that are available today. The resume was prepared in several formats,
starting in Lotus Ami Pro and then transferred over to Microsoft Word for Windows, then to
straight ASCII, and finally HTML. As far as I'm concerned that about covers the gamut of
available ways to present a document electronically. It was an interesting exercise, and
as usual I learned a lot in the process.
A brief narrative seems to me to be in order if anyone who does not know me is reading
this, and is trying to figure out who and what I am.
I am a "Military Brat" who has deep roots in the South, and particularly the
State of Georgia. After graduation from Georgia Tech in 1963, I started working for Curtis
1000, Inc., a subsidiary of what is now American Business Products, a large NYSE printing
company. I spent two years in an intensive management training program, before taking on
the task of centralizing and automating the graphics and typography departments of the
entire company (ten remote divisions producing $50 million of printing sales at the time,
now in excess of $600 million).
We successfully converted the company from the old molten lead and rubber plate process
to the electronic and photographic processes still evolving today. As such I was a pioneer
in the graphics arts conversion of what today is known of as Desktop Publishing. We worked
primarily in machine languages and paper tape driven devices which eventually turned to
the desktop computers of the 90's, but the fundamentals of good design remain constant.
I also spent two years in production management with full production management
responsibility for an envelope imprinting plant and a continuous business forms
manufacturing plant, each employing 75+ employees.
In 1971, driven by the confiscatory 70% federal income tax bracket, I started my own
company involved in resort real estate; hotel, motel, and restaurant property management;
and oil and gas exploration and production. The common thread to these ventures was the
income tax advantaged nature of the capital investment.
In 1975 I associated with a group in Dallas, Texas, Geochemical Surveys,
Inc. In
1981 we moved to Denver, Colorado, and merged with US Mineral and Royalty Corp. In the 13
years that I was involved with the companies, we raised over $20 million dollars in
drilling capital from over 200 investors and participated in over 250 successful drilling
ventures as well as 40 dry holes. Although the company was sold in 1988, I continue today
to handle the accounting and investor reporting for the remaining properties covering
16,000 acres in the Rocky Mountain region of the US.
The company used a proprietary method of near surface soil sampling and analysis
developed by the Soviets and used as their primary search tool in oil exploration. We
maintained a database of over 60 million acres of petroleum exploration records, and did
business with the DOE, the governments of Mexico (PEMEX) and Norway, several major oil
companies, as well as large individual investors.
In 1981 I bought the earliest IBM PC (16k memory, a cassette player and a 320k floppy
for storage, a 300 baud modem, and running DOS 1.1, VisiCalc, and a database program), and
wrote all of the programs for general well accounting, well reservoir determination, and
investor tax reporting. I either had to teach a computer person the oil business or learn
the computer business, and I choose the later.
In 1988, I along with two partners, started Translink, an ARC Travel agency with six
agents in large Western Ski Resorts, providing the resorts access to the airline
databases, and agents selling package air travel arrangements. I developed PC based
applications to interface with the airline database systems, and to handle communications
between the main office in Denver and the remote resorts. This venture has evolved into a
current project, rewriting the existing software in Oracle, and marketing to 1-800
marketers.
I have become expert and consult regularly in PC based windows systems. I decided in
1990 that the world would eventually follow Bill Gates and Microsoft, and that proved to
be correct. I work regularly with clients setting up complete small networked systems and
provide training and support later.
In 1995 I decided to go a different direction and open the Black Pearl, now called
simply The Pearl. It is a 140 seat restaurant and lounge on the harbor front in Rockland.
That project is now dead.. You can read the latest about it from the above link or
from my web page.
Keeping up with birdsnest.com and the dozen or so other domains I am
webmaster for keeps me pretty busy nowadays.
Added in 2008
I now list my occupation as retired, though that is hardly the
case. I continue to prepare tax returns for a few dozen clients, help several
fishermen with onboard computers and GPS systems, design and maintain a few
websites and Internet domains, and generally consult and help friends and
clients with computer related issues. I managed to hold on to oil and gas
royalty interests in Wyoming that provide me with a modest income stream, and I
am drawing Social Security Retirement benefits and am covered by Medicare, so I
appreciate all of you who continue to work and pay into that system to support
me.
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