Veteran Executive Level Environmental Manager

EXPERTISE

 Executive Leadership

 Facilities Management

 International Trade & Travel

 Strategic Planning

 Land Entitlement

 Planning

 Infrastructure Financing

 Project Management

 Leasing and Joint Ventures

 P & L Responsibility

 Debt Restructuring

 Operations

 Environmental Study

 Regulatory Affairs

 Government Affairs

 Legislative Advocacy

 Community Relations

 Economic Development

 Budgeting and Fiscal Management

 Excellent Writing and Oral Communication Skills

 Discerning and Diplomatic

 Character and Integrity

CAREER OVERVIEW

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, All Phase Security 2007-2008

Executive management of day-to-day operations of full-service security company that provides standing guards, patrols, CCTV surveillance, installation, monitoring and emergency response with over 100 clients including ports, steamship companies, banks, governments, commercial and industrial property owners and more than 200 full and part-time employees.

Port Director, Port of Sacramento, California 1995 - 2006

Managed and directed a self-supporting $8-13 million operational port with a niche in agriculture and forestry, employment of 125 persons, and a million dollar capital improvement program. Maintained focus on maritime business through customer attention and new project development, expansion of realty and environmental safety.

Assistant Port Director, Port of Sacramento 1987 - 1995

Managed and directed every facet of the organization including marketing, operations, engineering and maintenance, environment studies, fiscal affairs, labor and human relations, and legal.

Executive Director, Lorain (Ohio) Port Authority 1978 - 1987

Managed a Great Lakes port that concentrated on economic development services to maritime industries including financing with tax-exempt bonds. With community participation, developed master plan for transition of selected industrial waterfront to public and recreational uses.

Chief Planner, Associate Planner, and Relocation Coordinator, Lorain, Ohio, and Jr. High School Teacher, Science, Lorain, Ohio Public Schools

Garnered increasing responsibility in a community development department providing planning, environmental assessment, economic development, urban renewal, housing rehabilitation, commercial and industrial development.

LEADERSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Assembled planning, technical and legal team, prepared a master plan including all environment studies under CEQA and guided the application for entitlement of 504 acres of property for development, setting the stage for the preservation of maritime properties and a portfolio of realty developments that will expand and diversify the revenues of the port.

• Negotiated the ground lease, wharfage rates, dockage, and other business terms and conditions for a $19 million cement import and distribution facility that defined the project. Led a team of environmental and air quality consultants, lawyers, and financial advisors and guided the completion of the Environmental Impact Report including a Health Risk Analysis. Project was approved by the Port Commission in Fall of 2005 and is now under construction.

• Acquired 92 acres of waterfront property with a major steel company and served as the project ombudsman for the development of a state-of-the-art, $25 million bulk taconite transshipment facility using tax exempt conduit port financing, negotiated service fees that made the port financially self-sufficient.

• Developed a new 132,000 square foot foreign trade zone facility, negotiated the land lease, FTZ license, and the public private partnership financing using tax exempt conduit bonds.

• Prepared the offer of sale for a 30 acre parcel of port property, evaluated responses, prepared the recommendation, secured the approval to sell, and closed the sale that generated $7.5 million in working capital.

• With maximum community participation and professional planning services, created development plan for marina and upland development that became the road map for future public and private investment. Marina and upland development followed.

• Updated the Port’s strategic plan putting emphasis on a succinct and understandable mission statement with a concentration on critical goals that would increase and stabilize revenues.

• Wrote, presented to the Port Commission, and obtained adoption of the Port’s first Affirmative Air Quality Plan, setting the stage for a port-wide air quality action plan.

• Created innovative tax-exempt economic development loan pool for smaller companies using conduit bonding powers, resulting in the creation of new businesses and jobs.

• Reached an agreement in principle for a mitigation bank for port and other development projects in cooperation with the State Department of Fish and Game.

• Prepared and implemented a reorganization plan that strengthened marketing, sales and customer service, and unified terminal operations and consolidated maintenance, which flattened the organization, improved internal communication and saved $300,000 per year.

• Instituted an incentive program that emphasized individual contribution and organizational performance, resulting in achieving profit target and issuance of individual incentive pay.

• Served two years as the President of the California Association of Port Authorities during which time the association campaigned legislation for a financial partnership between the State of California and its public ports, unifying the ports in a legislative campaign.

• While serving as the President of the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, linked the resources of the Port with the volunteer energy of the Chamber to inaugurate a regional Port festival for families that brought citizens into the port and shared information about it.

EDUCATION

Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts

Biology and Environmental Sciences

Sacramento City College

Associates Degree in Science

AFFILIATIONS

President, Officer, and Board Member of various professional and civic organizations including the Chamber of Commerce, Pension Board, Hospital Foundation, American Association of Port Authorities, California Association of Port Authorities, economic development agencies, clean air partnerships, international trade organizations, sister city programs, local school committees and parents’ associations.

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