Customer Service High School

Jerry Seiden, M.A.

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714-***-**** / tjvzrr@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Administrator

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over 25 years of administrative experience and as CEO.

Founded and directed a publishing company for more than 10 years.

Accomplished communicator and inspirational speaker, teacher, and presenter.

Seasoned administrator of businesses, organizations, schools, and community services.

Experienced supervisor of employees, staff, faculty, and contracted services.

Excellent written skills with a large body of published materials.

Reliable, self-directed, organized, and able to meet deadlines.

Superior people skills, able communicator, and persuasive.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Experienced administrator over staff, organizational activities, and data management.

Organized, promoted, and directed conferences and multiple workshop/seminars.

20 years experience as writer, editor, ghostwriter, and publishing professional.

Expertise in community, media, and public relations with countless media connections.

Broad publishing experience: in-house, acquisitions, editorial, design, production, and promotion.

Founded/directed nonprofit-community organizations and worked with official boards, community leaders, city governments, churches, county agencies, food banks, all-important-volunteers, etc.

Skilled and knowledgeable with computers and software for database management, spreadsheets, finiances, publishing, web-design, word processing, video/audio editing, podcasting, etc.

Accumulated “real-world-experience” U.S. Navy veteran, L.A. County Sheriff Chaplain, publisher, handyman (skills from farm life, Navy electronics, and pastoral ministry, etc.), and more.

Taught at University level (grad and undergrad) 6 subjects at 2 universities.

Experienced school administrator from preschool through 12 grade.

ORGANIZATION & CUSTOMER SERVICE

Served and cared for parishioners, students, faculty, clients, and community needs.

Developed diverse materials: articles, brochures, curriculum, grants, media-copy, newsletters, etc.

Helped clients in all walks-of-life author books: actors to alcoholics and organizations to exorcists.

Accomplished webpage development, design, written content, HTML, multimedia elements, etc.

Created an organizational growth campaign with significant membership/income increases (5 orgs).

Fashioned in-house training program materials, policy manuals, and informational handouts.

Collected/collated, processed/analyzed data, and wrote reports with analysis and explanation.

Composed effective fund-raising campaigns for nonprofit and community organizations.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1998 to Present: Publisher/Founder, Spirit of Hope Publishing (http://www.spiritofhopepublishing.com )

Founder/Senior Pastor, Spirit of Hope Christian Fellowship

1992 to Present: Freelance Writer/Editor for Publishers and Individuals (http://www.jerrythewriter.com)

1994 to 1998 Senior Pastor, Harbor Christian Fellowship, Costa Mesa

Pastoral Counselor, Harbor Christian Counseling Center

1988 to 1993: Senior Pastor, Christ’s Church of Ventura, Ventura

1987 to 1888: Dean of Students, Southbay Christian School (PreSch to 12th Grd), Mountain View

1982 to 1987: Senior Pastor, Paramount 1st Assembly of God, Paramount,

Chaplain: L.A. County Sheriff (Reserve Deputy Sheriff: Chaplain Lakewood Station),

Co-Founder/Director, P.E.R.C. (Paramount Emergency Relief Center).

1981 to 1982: Assistant Pastor, Christ’s Church of Ventura, Ventura

Founder/Administrator, ABCs Christian PreSchool, Ventura.

1979 to 1981: Assistant Pastor, Cerritos Assembly of God, Cerritos

Administrator, Cerritos Christian School (PreSch to 3rd Grd Ministry of Cerritos A/G).

1971 to 1977: Electronics Warfare Technician, U.S. Navy, (Highest Rank Earned E-6).

EDUCATION

Master of Arts: Vanguard University, Costa Mesa

Graduate Studies: Fuller Theological Seminary, Westmont Ext.

Bachelor of Arts: Vanguard University, Costa Mesa

(Graduation Honors: summa cum laude & Speaker of the Graduating Class)

Screen Writer’s Story Seminar, by Robert McKee (Story, Structure, & Script)

Police Chaplain's POST Certificate: Rio Hondo Community College, Whittier

High School Graduate: Neponset High School, Neponset, Illinois

INTERESTS

Travel, football, old books, California Missions, video production, CB/ham radios, storytelling, haggadahs and oral traditions, Bible-study (Hebrew/Greek), motorcycles, the evolution of reading-n-writing, et al.

LIFE-EXPERIENCE

Illinois farm boy (FFA), U.S. Navy (6 yrs honorable discharge--electronics-warfare), marine electrician, Chaplain L.A. Sheriff, founded/directed community orgs, author, interviewed on radio/tv (local & national), podcasting, handyman, et al.

REFERENCES+

I am happy to provide professional and personal references and samples of my work upon request.

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Jerry Seiden, M.A.

Professional Experience Teaching in Formal/Informal Settings

FORMAL & INFORMAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

* ad hoc Professor for undergrads & grads (Vanguard University, LTU),

* Professor/Consultant for professional-working-adults (LTU, continuing ed., organizational-consultation, etc.),

* Guest Lecturer for classes/seminars/wrkshps (Trinity Theological Seminary, Vanguard University, et al.),

* In-Service-Training for health-care-providers & other professionals/staffs (clinic/rehab/treatment-center-staff, therapists/psychologists, court staff legal/probation/social-services/teachers, etc.),

* Presenter for conferences, seminars, & retreats across the country (e.g. State-of-Tenn.Dept.of Health “Faith-Initiative-Conference”[Vanderbilt] to Info-Educational-Network, Steps/Recovery, ChADD/ADDien, et al.),

* Special-Topic-Presenter for workshops, groups, community organizations, service-clubs, & associations (e.g. Parent-Teacher-Meetings at Bellflower Unified Sch.Dist., Ch.A.D.D., college chapels, et al.),

* Group-Facilitator/Director for small-classes, directed-study-groups, group-therapy, support/discovery-groups, etc. (at all above Inst’s & many others).

SUBJECTS, CLASSES, & TOPICS:

* High Self-Esteem: Personal Foundation for Success,

* Creative Writing,

* Strategies for Starting Over: Paradigms from Paralysis to Pioneer-- LTU Learning Tree University: adult-working-professionals. NOTE: class/topics/subjects subsequently taught off-campus as professional workshops.

* Counseling,

* Pastoral Theology,

* Church Leadership--Vanguard University, ad hoc prof’ undergrads Sup/Mentor Dr. Roger Heuser, Ph.D.

* Leadership Principles,

* Hermeneutics/Homiletics/Practical-Theology--Vanguard University, ad hoc prof grad-students “Masters-of-Theology” track Sup/Mentor Dr. Roger Heuser, Ph.D.).

* Parish Ministry to the Addict/Alcoholic,

* ADD/adhd & Related Learning, Behavioral, & Addictive Problems,

* The 12 Steps: A Healing Model & Resource for Parish Ministry--Guest Lectures at Trinity Seminary, Orange CA: Father Joseph Scerbo, Ph.D. Director.

* The Genetic Alcoholic/Addict: the Hereditary--Behavioral-Spectrum-Disorders*,

* Understanding ADD/adhd & Related LDs, TS, OCD, Addictive-Personalities, Effective-Treatment-Models,

* SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL & PERSONAL Patterns, Pre-Dispositions, Predictable Psycho-Social/Self-Esteem-Needs for subjects within Hereditary-Behavioral-Spectrum-Disorders(#1)

In-Service-Training for doc-offices/clinic-staffs/treatment-rehab-centers/therapists/court-staff/police-staff/private-sessions-w/VIP’s: e.g. Henslins&Assoc, Affiliated-Psychiatric-Med-Grp, Turning-Point-Counseling, Pacific-Hills, Overcomers-Outreach, O.C. Probation-Dept.-Programs/Training-w/ Gwen Kurz,Ed.D., South O.C. Drug Court-w/Judge Wendy Lindley, OC-Superior-Family-Court-w/Judge Francisco Firmat, et al.).

DIVERSITY, BROAD-INTERESTS, & ABILITIES:

My broad life-experience and freelance writing/publishing work had given me the capacity to learn quickly; assimilate raw or new-material; and produce written materials, inter-active-resources, lectures, teachings, reports, articles, or books.

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(#1)The Hereditary-Behavioral-Spectrum of Disorders was researched/studies/developed by David E. Comings,M.D. Dir.of Med. Genetics City of Hope Nat’l-Hosp.Duarte,CA; Dwaine McCallon,M.D. former-Asst.Chief of Medicine, Colorado-Corrections & author The Treatable Criminal Mind; et al.

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