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Terry Cullen

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** * ***** *** ****, #M403

City: Tampa

State: FL

Zip: 33607

Country: USA

Phone: 813-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $100,000

Willing to Relocate

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QUALIFIED FOR AND SEEKING POSITION IN

COMMUNITY PLANNING DIRECTOR

-Most powerful lesson learned... acting with integrity is based in a firm understanding of who I Am.-

I am an innovative and non-traditional individual with over twenty-five years` experience in city planning leadership.

I know firsthand the value of listening, collaboration and consensus in the creative process of

building a community that reflects and serves the needs and wishes of its leaders and citizens.

MY BASIS, MY VALUE - WHO I AM

* Communication - is the brokering of ideas, building support and selling it! Effective communication skills include an interplay and flow of thought - a 2-way talker/listener exchange, an appeal to broad and diverse groups of different sizes, one-on-one dialogue, varied venues. Questions to be asked: Who is my audience

What is the will of the people

What can I do to pull together community

Communication is a value... a working commitment to respect, tolerance, perseverance and understanding. Communication is cutting-edge technology - the greatly improved ability to exchange information and understand one another through many more options such as social media, YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook.

* Vision and Strategic Thinking - Can you see the future, where you`re going

Is it meaningful

Does it capture what you`ve dreamed of

A Vision is a realistic, credible, attractive future for an organization. (Burt Nanus). A Vision creates new energy by generating hope, excitement for the future, a belief that you can make it possible. Bold strategic thinking transforms the `what` of the vision into the how... how do we get there. Both vision and strategic thinking arise from our core beliefs and values. It is essential to know what that is... . Identifying and understanding those values collectively then transforms vision to interconnected strategy to reality - a reality that stakeholders claim as their own, easily.

* Systems Approach - A systems approach is endemic to successful strategic thinking. A Planner is the catalyst in a world that is a system of systems. Interconnectedness and elasticity are the properties that hold the fabric of life together. Find it, connect it and we can split the atom.

* Authenticity - is a personal and professional inner essence from which come my credibility, my believability... it includes being real, truthful, honest, humble - strengths that pervade all I Am and do. Authenticity means having the courage to do the right thing even at your own peril. It means I listen to you, trust you, build with you, become part of you. I share your passion and want to go where you want to go.

* Ideas, Concepts, Research - appreciating the deep respect for knowledge that needs to be gathered and then understood. -No one is as smart as everyone.- (Ken Blanchard) Knowledge has to come from all over and all levels. That means interaction happens one-on-one, in citizen groups, between staff members, among top officials and executives. Take an idea, transpose it, flip it upside down, have fun with it... see where it can take you in conventional and unconventional ways.

* Solution-based troubleshooting - Experience, communication, broad-based knowledge and passion are what`s required to be a sharp, creative, innovative macro-thinker who scans the universe of problem-solving ideas to formulate and pull-together potential solutions in the heat of the moment and confrontation.

* Mentoring requires the important components of experience, strength and hope. In team settings, management positions, with people working for you, people you are serving... all have to be mentored, with calm, clarity and respect, to understand what their values are and how those values play an important and empowering role in their lives. The goal is not just buy-in but rather integration and ownership so that they can manifest them uniquely in their own way.

* Leadership - all leadership is about letting them go... unlocking individual talent, passions and energy and using them collectively. I call this `splitting the atom`, unleashing and capturing the enormous power of human capability. All team leaders, in their own right, commandeer resources and empower others. Leadership is facilitating, equipping... clearing roadblocks, opening up avenues for action, scheduling, mentoring, reaching out, motivating, communicating.

* End-to-end project involvement - creation to completion. Managing risk, budget, human resources... guiding an evolving idea or concept to reality with strong clarity. Knowing when and how be a managed risk taker is critical...sometimes we don`t know exactly what the end result will be, but trusting that a well-founded discovery process could yield more and better results than a strictly controlled method.

* Decision-maker - a visionary pragmatist, a dual visionary/strategist balancing equal parts, maximizing this, minimizing that.

Analyzing what it`s going to cost, using mental recombination to understand all the relationships and bring all variables together to achieve unity of purpose.

PLANNING PROFICIENCIES

* Comprehensive Planning * Long and short range planning * Leadership and management

* Future Land Use * Land development regulations * Political asset management

* Environmental Issues * Neighborhood planning * Funding and Budgeting

* Economic Development * Advocacy * Visioning

* Domestic Security * Infrastructure * Facilitation and mediation

MY VALUE EXPERIENCED

Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Tampa, FL January, 2012 to present

Critical Infrastructure Planner

Domestic security position funded by Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Assisting DHS and the Florida Domestic Security Oversight Council to develop a data base of infrastructure deemed `critical` to national and state health, economy and safety. Identify and evaluated this critical infrastructure for vulnerabilities and suggested options for remediation. Assessed threat and consequence to conclude general risk profile. Conducted research and prepared reports to apply for DHS funding for remediation projects. One overriding project - assisted in domestic security preparation (critical infrastructure) and execution for the Republican National Convention (Tampa, August 2012). Also coordinated with Protective Security Advisor, DHS on special training classes. Provided planning analysis for input into Statewide Domestic Security Plan and related processes. Worked in an eight county region and with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including DHS, Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Florida State Department of Health, FDLE, Tampa Police Dept and Hillsborough County Sherriff`s Office.

Green Artery Tampa, FL 2010 to 2011

Planner, Advisor

The Green Artery is a grass roots coalition of 19 central city Tampa neighborhoods working to create a bicycle/pedestrian greenway system to connect their neighborhoods. Shared connection- promotes interest in their communities as great places to live, work, recreate, invest; healthy/green city movements; micro economic development; heritage and cultural awareness. I saw this as a means to contribute time and expertise to my hometown and work with citizen groups. My professional contribution included strategic planning and goal setting, consensus building process and local government lobbying/networking/presentations.

The Planning Commission Tampa, FL

1986 to 2009

Team Leader - Cities Planning Team 2002 to 2009

Prior positions: Executive Planner, Principal Planner, Senior Planner, Community Planner.

Reported to Senior City Planner. Responsible for direction/management of long-range comprehensive planning services for: City of Tampa, population 334,000; City of Plant City, population 34,000; City of Temple Terrace, population 23,000; secondary planning support to Hillsborough County, population 785,000. Extensive experience with politically-changing agendas and priorities, the result of government elections and appointments.

Duties/initiatives included:

* Supervising nine professional staff members - scheduling, assigning/reviewing work, training, mentoring, evaluating.

* Identifying individual team members` skill sets/passions to best align with areas of responsibility;

* Building multi-disciplinary teams to facilitate a consistent horizontal integration of expertise.

* Resourcing, hiring and managing diverse group of consultants.

* Communicating - conducting numerous public workshops and hearings; mediating competing political interests.

* Representing the Planning Commission at interdepartmental and intergovernmental meetings.

* Initiating, organizing and facilitating citizen group meetings to develop/build consensus and problem solve.

* Researching and implementing multi-media embedded electronic documents to improve accessibility and interest to stakeholders.

* Managing product and process development through think tank application.

* Designing concurrent bi-lateral (simultaneous top-down/bottom-up) collaboration and chaos (unrecognized order) approaches to explore and create strategies for complex projects.

* Employing confluence structuring - a system used to analyze and direct flow of complementary issues and threads. Useful in organizing political agendas and initiating development of multi-client tactical responses that are consistent with strategic priorities.

* Collaborating with elected city Planning Commissioners (senior administrative officials) to strategize/develop plans and projects, identify/clarify emerging issues.

* Monitoring client governments` long-range plans through plan consistency reviews, preparing/providing ongoing interpretations, assisting in development of implementation mechanisms (projects, programs, regulations).

* Developing and working with program/project budgets, continually adjusting to changing priorities.

* Researching, recommending, demonstrating innovative implementation measures for times of fiscal constraint (e.g., community capacity building, asset building).

* Managing research:

- Studies/reports related to population, housing, neighborhood plans/programs, economic base, transportation and utility systems, community facilities.

- Collection, analysis, presentation of facts and trends for evaluating land use development proposals, community growth and development plans, studies and reports.

* Managing production of written documents:

- Writing of comprehensive plans for future land use, transportation, community facilities;

- Writing of regulatory interpretations for zoning, subdivision and land development.

* Studying/evaluating historical record of cities` long-range planning successes to design better and more relevant plans.

* Mentoring/training citizens in art of advocacy and government petitioning.

HIGHLIGHTS

Recognized for outstanding communication and team-building skills, thorough and detailed research, strong strategic planning and decision-making, valuable networking initiatives and, most of all, innate perceptiveness about what drives people and makes them who they are demographically, culturally, socially, psychologically.

Best of Region Award (Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council) for Tampa Heights Neighborhood Plan.

Building Our Legacy, a Livable City - Tampa Comprehensive Plan.

Multi-year project that re-engineered Tampa`s long-range plan for a future built on the global movement -Livable City- which uses sustainability as the key implementation principle.

Grand Hampton Plan amendment - championed effort to stop development of golf course community in biologically productive area in North Tampa. After initially facing a swell of overwhelming support for the development, team`s efforts were eventually supported by newspaper, State and court system resulting in successful conservation of valuable habitat.

City for Living - Excellence, Balance, Harmony - vision for Temple Terrace long-range plan. Innovative use of games and

activities encouraged conservative senior city administration to think more freely and less conventionally while learning new skills for business management.

Introduced Study Circle principles and process in Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City to help identify unique values for each evolving comprehensive plan. (Everyday Democracy`s Study Circle - reinventing democracy by helping people with different backgrounds and views talk and work together to create communities that work for everyone.)

Children`s working group for Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Plan

Social capacity building resulted in implementation of unfunded initiatives and expanded scope of existing projects:

Hillsborough County Library Board (Sulphur Springs)

Hillsborough County Children`s Board (School Readiness Project)

Urban Enterprise Initiative - Tampa Chamber of Commerce (East Tampa revitalization project)

University of South Florida School of Architecture (Seminole Heights Business District Plan)

Successfully mediated and resolved gentrification conflict between radical activists and neighborhood housing/business interests. Solicited information and views from both parties and modeled valuable skills of listening and collaboration to build consensus. Resulted in a win-win modified neighborhood plan with stakeholder buy-in and approval (Tampa Heights Neighborhood Plan).

Facilitated 54 Citizen Advisory Committee meetings for one of the updates of the Tampa Comprehensive Plan.

Facilitated six months of Saturday meetings with Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task Force to re-engineer their plan.

Green Artery - developed strategy for 19-neighborhood coalition to build awareness and buy in and made presentations that achieved full and unanimous endorsement for the Green Artery plan by the MPO Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, MPO Citizens Advisory Committee, the MPO (full board) and the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission and Tampa City Council.

Republican National Convention 2012 - Certificate of Appreciation, US Secret Service for assistance to prepare and execute domestic security planning and measures.

Bomb Making Materials Awareness Program - Successfully hosted, on behalf of US Dept of Homeland Security, an awareness program for 72 first responders locally.

EDUCATION

Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP), THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio

Honours Bachelor of Geography (Urban Planning), UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, Ontario, Canada

CERTIFICATIONS

American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)

Practitioner, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

MEMBERSHIPS

American Planning Association (National; Florida and Sun Coast Chapters)

American Institute of Certified Planners

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