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Robert Cosgrove
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** ******** ******
City: Detroit
State: MI
Zip: 48214
Country: USA
Phone: 313-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $55,000
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Job History / Details:
Robert W. -Bob- Cosgrove
1424 Iroquois Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48214-2716
*********@********.***
RESUME 18 December 2012
Bob Cosgrove is a dedicated results-oriented hard worker who achieves outstanding results! I am a graduate chemist (American Chemical Society degree). My job experience includes Sales, Market Development, Publications, Public Relations and Purchasing with business and non-profit organizations and skills and talents in the following areas:
Sales and Marketing
Financial Management & Planning
Publications - Editing, Technical Writing, Proofreading, Layout, etc
Communications as well as Public & Media Relations
Purchasing & Materials Management.
Leadership, Organization, Fund Raising and Grant Writing
Membership and Employee Recruitment
Event Planning - including meetings, travel, showcase event
Military Leadership, Transportation, National and Regional History
Historical Research, Archival studies
Local, County & State Government participation
Business Experience
Computer Skills
I am accomplished computer user with over 30-years experience on Apple and Microsoft computer programs including Word(R), Excel(R),PhotoShop(R), PowerPoint(R), PageMaker(R), PastPerfect(R), and many other programs.
Freelance Editor & Writer Robert W. Cosgrove & Associates, Inc. Since 1973, I`ve been a free lance Editor, Technical Writer, Proof Reader, Layout Editor and Illustrator for a number of publications. Among them the New York Central System Historical Society Central Headlight, The Algonquian Club of Detroit & Windsor The Algonquian, the Parke Davis Retirees Review, Historic Indian Village Smoke Signals, and writing assignments such as Omnigraphics The Michigan Companion and book reviews in Trains magazine, etc.
Kelly Services In 2004-2005 and 2010, I`ve held meaningful temporary jobs with Kelly Services.
Lionel Trains LLC 26750 23-Mile Road, Chesterfield, MI 48051, 586-***-**** from November 2005 until laid off January 30, 2009 due staff relocations to New York City. I was a key player in the Lionel marketing department in product research, new product development, and handling all specialty sales nationwide, and I both edited and wrote the Lionel customer newsletter Inside Track.
Grosse Pointe News 86 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe Farms, M 48236, 313-***-****; 2 years until December 2008. To improve my editing & writing skills, I was the part time proofreader using the Associated Press Style Guide, etc. Along with all other GPN part timers I was laid off due to staff economic cutbacks.
New England Life Suite 550, 3000 Town Center, Southfield, Michigan 48075, 248-***-****. For 31-years I was a licensed life, disability & health insurance agent and a NASD registered securities representative. Achievements: I was a leader in agency sales, persistency, etc. with knowledge of income & estate tax planning, health insurance and pension law. My clients were largely Michigan and Ohio executives, businessmen and professionals. As Robert W. Cosgrove & Associates, inc., I represented a number of life, disability and health insurance and investment companies besides New England. Voluntarily resigned.
Century Biological Corporation - Chicago, Illinois. 2 years - no longer in business. I functioned as Century`s procurement consultant. Century Biological collected and processed outdated human plasma for use in biological products such as diagnostic reagents. I negotiated procurement agreements with hospitals in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois part time, while traveling as American Business Group`s Midwest representative collecting out-dated blood plasma from hospitals and blood banks.
American Business Group New York City and Detroit, Michigan. I was the Assistant to the Vice President of Sales Michael Posner and later ABG`s Midwest sales representative - four years, two in New York City and two in Detroit. I developed Systems Contracting sales programs for non-production MRO (Maintenance & Routine Operating) supplies involving office supplies & printing on a cost-plus sole-supplier basis to major corporation chief financial and purchasing executives, such as Allegheny Airlines, American Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Merrill-Lynch and Parke-Davis. Our unique Systems Contracts eliminated the customer`s inventory, warehousing, and personnel costs through direct shipment to their end users with monthly accounting.
Parke, Davis & Company Detroit, Michigan - 9 years. My last position was the Senior Purchasing Agent supervising the 8-member buying group responsible buying all of the P-D`s worldwide packaging materials and printing needs. I reported to the Vice President of Purchasing. My Parke-Davis career began as a graduate chemist right out of college as P-D`s Scientific Equipment & Supplies Buyer with the responsibilities for scientific instrumentation, equipment, laboratory chemicals & supplies and services. Responsibilities included purchasing for facilities in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Rochester, and Holland, Michigan as well as P-D`s Canadian. Puerto Rican, and overseas subsidiaries. Parke-Davis was the world`s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer and later was acquired by Warner-Lambert, which is now part of Pfizer.
Non-Profit & Volunteer Activity -just some of the many such activities
City of Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board Member. I`ve been on the Board since appointed by Detroit City Council in 2002 and have served as its Vice Chairman. The 9-member board evaluates property for historic designation at the request of the Detroit City Council and makes the recommendation whether or not such property should be designated historic to Council.
Detroit Historical Museum and the Detroit Historical Society - I`ve been the Adjunct Curator of the Glancy Trains Collection for the past 26 years and for six years, 2004 to 2010, I was a Detroit Historical Society Trustee and one of its leading fund-raisers. I have been overseen the Museum`s Glancy toy train exhibit, one of the most popular at the museum, which in large part I designed.
Bluewater Michigan Chapter, National Railway Historical Society I was a founding member of the Chapter in 1983, and its past president and development director. This historical railroad preservation group operates excursion trains. As membership chairman I led the Chapter to become the largest rail history group in U.S. And I`ve handled the maintenance & rebuilding of their railroad passenger cars as well as organizing and promoting their many steam and diesel locomotive powered excursions for the public.
Indian Village Historical Collections, Inc. I am the founder and past president of Detroit`s Indian Village Archives from 1973 to the present. And, I am the co-founder of the Historic Indian Village Home & Garden Tour in 1973 and for a long time was its leader. It is one of the best known such events in metropolitan Detroit and the second oldest such annual tour in Michigan, now in its 38th year.
The Historic Indian Village Association, Inc. I am a past president and a past board member of this homeowner`s association founded in 1937 of this City, State & National Historic District of the homes of prominent Detroiters dating to 1895. As such I`ve been Involved in neighborhood issues, such as maintaining the single family zoning, property taxes, police protection, promotion, etc. and I write a monthly historical column in the HIVA`s newsletter, Smoke Signals.
New York Central System Historical Society. I joined in 1979 and have served as a trustee of this historical society dedicated to the preservation of the New York Central Railroad`s history; currently I am the associate editor of Central Headlight and am nationally regarded for my expertise on railroad history.
Detroit 300 Committee I served on the Detroit 300 subcommittee involved with documenting and promoting Detroit`s history on the 300th anniversary of its founding in 2001, served 1999-2001.
Other Memberships: Memberships include the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Engineering Society of Detroit, The Algonquin Club of Detroit & Windsor founded 1934 to study local history and current events - and the past editor of its newsletter, The Algonquian. Other memberships include the prestigious Waweatonong Club of Grosse Pointe and listing in The Social Secretary. I was Private Pilot with an ASEL license and flying experience out of major airports.
Education
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. B.S. in Chemistry (American Chemical Society certified program). My majors also included Mathematics, German and ROTC. I am a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity`s Gamma Nu Chapter. And I was its President, and as Rush Chairman I recruited the largest Pledge Class ever - over 40 members. I played Varsity football and was the Managing Editor University`s The Tower Literary Magazine, and made the scholastic honor roll on occasion.
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. M.B.A. studies in Marketing, Management, Business Law, Accounting, Statistics, etc., but I didn`t complete due to relocation to New York City. My other WSU graduate studies include photograph conservation, archival procedures as well as classes in Detroit History, and Michigan History, etc.
University of Michigan I am a graduate of the late Dr. George Odiorne`s Management by Objectives Seminar business course covering Dr. Odiorne`s well-known Management by Objectives business practices.
U.S. Army Command & General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I am a graduate having completed the C&GS School as a reservist.
Military Experience
Present rank Captain, Field Artillery U.S. Army (Retired) Reserve Forces Act commission (RFA) Active duty service the Fort Sill Artillery & Missile School, 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Earlier was attached to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; as a reservist I was a student and served as a staff officer with 5032 U.S. Army Reserve School at Historic Fort Wayne in Detroit.
Personal
Born in Toledo, Ohio, I was married to the late Virginia Schlatter for 39-years until her death in 1999. Our three children are: Benefits Representative M. Douglas Cosgrove of Monroe, Michigan; Chrysler Corporation Chemical Engineer Bradley Gordon Cosgrove of Rochester Hills, Michigan; and Wayne-Westland Public Schools Art Teacher Tracey Anne Cosgrove of Dearborn, Michigan. I have a total of four grandchildren, the oldest of whom just has been accepted in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Michigan Technological University. My best friend is Sylvia S. Sanders of Grosse Pointe, the retired librarian for Albert Kahn Associates architects.
References (additional contact information furnished upon request)
Matt Ashba - Product Development Manager, Lionel Trains LLC 586-***-**** X9030
John H. Burdakin - retired Vice Chairman Grand Trunk Corporation 248-***-****
Thomas W. Brunk, Ph.D. - art historian, 313-***-****
Robert Bury - Executive Director, Detroit Historical Society 313-***-****
Michael W. R. Davis - former Detroit Historical Society executive director 248-***-****
Mark Erickson - Vice President Marketing, Lionel Trains LLC, New York City 646-***-****
Alfred III and Ruth Glancy - Detroit Historical Museum patrons 313-***-****
Glenn F. Kossick - former Director, Metro Health Foundation 248-***-****
Richard P. Kughn - Kughn Enterprises President - Real Estate Developer 248-***-****
Kenneth N. Larsen former Assist. Director of Purchasing, Parke, Davis & Company, 912-***-****
William C. Rands III - Retired investment company President 313-***-****
Andrew Richner - Attorney and Chairman of the University of Michigan Board of Regents and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives 313-***-****
Julien Wolfe - former SEMTA/SMART rail commuter Manager 519-***-****
Art Woodford - retired St. Clair Shores Library Director and editor for Omnigraphics Michigan Companion 810-***-****
William M. Worden- retired Director, Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board 313-***-****
Dr. Dennis M. Zembala - former City of Detroit Museums Director 313-***-****
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