Manager Management

RALPH K. JEFFERY

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Director of Parks and Recreation, City of Encinitas

PERFORMANCE PROFILE

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20 years Planning and Direction to accomplish goals

33 years Managing and leading a variety of professionals/technicians

33 years Working with individuals to develop their strengths professionally and to match their talents to projects

28 years achieving successful solutions to a variety of challenges

28 years of dealing with public in the form of HOA’s and similar organizations

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Responsibilities include:

• Vision, and direction

• Setting and achieving goals

• Personnel management

• Budget and administration

I used principles developed from advanced classes of Dale Carnegie Leadership for Managers, intrapersonal skills, and others combined with personal experience, to develop my skills, leadership style and to accomplish goals.

My management/leadership style is based upon principles of communication, organization, and actual practice is a combination of directive, supportive, and participative styles, but is far from stationary.

I practice motivation, encouragement and utilizing the ideas of employees and utilizing the structure of an organization to set and achieve goals. I have managed staffs as large as 50 individuals, and projects with budgets in excess of 20 million.

MANAGEMENT & PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Being a successful manager means being a successful leader. Managers must have the ability to solve problems, both personnel and logistics, visualize, plan, and execute the vision, adapting as needed, turning road blocks and set backs, into opportunities. To accomplish goals, I have always found that dedication to business management principals, proper administration, and personal relationships are key elements. Personal relationships, an Esprit de Corps, unity of direction, and execution all play a part of the successful managers repertoire. Simply an administrator or manger is not enough you must lead. To lead you must establish vision and a direction, and create a means by which to accomplish the goal.

Public speaking and presentations are essential skills; personal service, accountability, and relationships cement these skills into that characteristic that people desire in working with you.

To be successful you have to do more than direct people. You must motivate people. As a manager you can order people but this is a limited return, by motivating, inspiring, and listening to your staff, management morphs into leadership. Leadership as a factor in teamwork is far more potent in pursing and achieving of goals.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

In more than 33 years of work, the projects that I have worked on have been as evolved and as diverse as the geology which makes up the State of California.

These projects have included planned developments matching the land to its best use, fault trench mapping on the San Andreas, Whittier-Elsinore, Newport -Inglewood and other faults and detailed investigation into destructive landslides, such as the Big Rock Mesa Slide, La Jolla, the Laguna Niguel Slide and numerous others.

As a result of the damage done by the Laguna Niguel Slide (destroyed 11 homes and 3 condominiums,) I worked closely with the city in public forums, establishing safety measures, directing and setting up protocol for the emergency response teams of the fire and police departments and establishing site access for homeowners.

I have qualified as an expert witness on more than 50 occasions providing court testimony.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

May 2003 – Present – Jeffery Geologic Consulting/Pacific Coast Land Consulting; President, Principal Engineering Geologist

Consulting as an engineering geologist I provide all of the work for this firm including marketing, fieldwork, office work, administration and billing. This firm is designed to provide simple answers to any client with a need to understand the land and the way in which it can affect improvements and the quality of life. I have recognized the strengths in other professionals that other managers overlooked and provided mentoring, personal growth, and my experience, to make junior staff successful, accurate, and responsible in business and in the field.

1983 - May 2003 - American Geotechnical; President, Executive Vice President, Principal Engineering Geologist:

Duties for which I was responsible for include all aspects of the business; administration, the supervision, managing and training of all staff, annual performance reviews, business development, marketing strategy, public speaking, client management, quality control, budget control and all other aspects of the day to day organizational running of a business.

I spent time in the field evaluating the overseeing the quality of our staff’s work and was personally involved in many of the day-to-day practices of a geologist.

Personal involvement, the use of principles of management, employee mentoring, hiring quality people, and motivation of employees, were some of the factors that I used to lead American Geotechnical to outstanding success in our field. May of 2003 cumulated over 20 years continuous work with American Geotechnical, starting from 2 individuals in a garage.

1982-1983 - Private Consultant; Project geologist

During this economically challenging time I consulted to many firms on a project-by-project basis. Most of this work dealt with hillside development, grading, and preliminary and forensic investigations.

1979-1982 – Eberhart-Axten and Associates; Project Geologist, Branch Manager

During my time there, I was promoted from project geologist to branch manager where I had increased supervisory and administrative duties. This work included site planning and layout for preliminary design of new development utilizing geologic knowledge. My professional responsibilities included logs, cross sections, geologic maps, structure contour analysis, and other key geologic functions, and office and junior staff management.

1978-1979 - Earth Research and Associates; Project Geologist

Duties here entailed fieldwork including technician supervision, client interface working with on-site superintendents. My professional responsibilities included logging, preliminary investigation, site inspection during grading and all aspects of construction related engineering geology.

1976-1978 - Westland and Associates; Staff Geologist

My duties here include field geologic work, laboratory work, and preliminary investigation of sites for development, and grading review.

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

• Registered Geologist, California, 3815

• Certified Engineering Geologist, California, 1183

• Registered Environmental Assessor (Inactive), 01542

• Registered Geologist, Washington, 2851

• Licensed Engineering Geologist, Washington, 2851

EDUCATION

• California State University, San Jose, CA, B.S. Geology

• California State University, Long Beach, Consortium M.S. Program, Engineering Geology

• University of Madison Wisconsin, College of Engineering, Slope Stability Seminar

• Dale Carnegie, Effective Communication and Human Relationships Skills for Success

• Leadership Training for Managers, Dale Carnegie Training

• 40 hour OSHA Hazardous training course

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