Professional Leadership Qualifications Summary

Professional Management & Leadership

FINANCIAL CONSULTING GROUP San Diego, California
An entrepreneurial leadership, new business start-up & expansion, management & finance consulting, organization and diversified business holding company.
Managing Director 1983-2010
• Direct daily operations for up to 300 staff.
• Multiple program design and implementation. Organizational development for 24 startup projects.
• Development and implementation of entrepreneurial leadership, global marketing and capitalization strategies. Comprehensive financial planning, assessment and evaluation.
• Innovative approaches to management troubleshooting and problem solving. Redirected 8 non-performing projects into profitable operations.
• Analysis, acquisition and dispersal of innovative capitalization options. Initiated loan application procedures and negotiated submissions that resulted in $5.6 billion of independent funding approvals.
• Instrumental in completing consulting projects with a diverse cross section of large firms and numerous venture start-ups resulting in increasing their collective annual productivity by over $100 million.
• Received recognition for the excellence of projects developed and implemented from highest ranking officials, peer professionals and program participants. Listed in Who’s Who Among Young American Professionals.
• Provided numerous opportunities for personal and professional client growth. Uncompromising integrity, profound sense of justice, desire to go the extra mile, and the dedication to contribute and help others.

Non-Profit Projects:
Foundation for the Advancement of Education San Diego, CA
Managing Director 1998 – 2006
• Directed think tank creating concepts for advanced educational systems
• Spearheaded initiatives to create relationships with corporations and non-profit foundations
• Established organizational policies and procedures
• Recruited new members
Institute for the Advancement of Leadership at University of San Diego San Diego, CA
Founding Director 1994 – 1997
• Strategic management and organizational development for an institute that provided leadership training
• Marketed and promoted agency’s seminars and content to corporations and corporate executives,
managers and consultants
• Solicited donations from corporate foundations and donors

Master of Science University of San Diego Executive Leadership San Diego, California
Completed first year

Master of Arts University of San Diego Entrepreneurial Leadership San Diego, California
Conferred with Honors

Bachelor of Arts Rice University
Behavioral Sciences Houston,Texas
Conferred Summa Cum Laude

Associate of Science University of Houston
Biophysics Houston, Texas
Conferred with Honors
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SHELL DEVELOPMENT Houston, Texas
Research Technician 1980-1982
• Conducted high polymer research to develop new plant technologies for mass production manufacturing.
• Worked in a chemical lab setting

M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER Houston, Texas
Research Assistant 1978-1980
• Conducted cancer chemotherapy research in Developmental Therapeutics
• Worked in conjunction with lead researchers to develop drugs for terminally ill patients
• Co-authored studies published in Journal of Therapeutic Research

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Houston, Texas
Research Associate 1976-1978
• Conducted psychopharmacological research to develop anxiety medication
• Co-authored research studies published in Psychopharmacology
• Director of Alcoholism Treatment Program and Anxiety & Depression Clinics
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Bachelor’s Degree Conferred Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Alpha Epsilon Delta National Pre-Med Honor Society
Rice College Fellow Scholar
President’s Honor Role Scholar
Graduate Educational National Honor Society
National Consultant of the Year
Who’s Who Among Young American Professionals