Construction, Project Management

Professional Management, Ltd.(’12 – ) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Project Manager, contract management, commercial projects from tenant repairs to highrise office fit out to off-grid beach resort development, commercial bank branch development, school remodel, etc. Quantity and cost survey, solar and wind energy planning, utility and site development, customer relations, site management and overall project responsibility. Oversee 3 - 5 site managers, ~50 workers and specialist subcontractors. Microsoft Excel and GanttProject. Customers include the country's largest corporations and foreign embassies.

Residential Design-Build Manager (’88 – ’10) Seattle, San Francisco, Hawaii - Self employed builder, contractor and sub-contractor, carpentry, plumbing, electric systems, environmentally conscious green-building techniques. Certified in solar system design for residential and light commercial applications.

Gammon Properties (’96-’97) St. Louis, Missouri – Building maintenance manager, residential and commercial, property management. Managed the routine maintenance and major reconstruction projects of 96 tenants, in St. Louis' historic French district. Included plumbing, electrical and structural overhaul of multi-unit buildings. Certified "Universal" HVAC (EPA Sec. 608 license) for air conditioning and refrigeration.

International Disaster Management, Project Management and Public Health

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA: ('11 - '12) Program Coordinator - started up the national Stomping Out Malaria in Africa program for Tanzania, a partnership of the U.S. Peace Corps and the USAID President's Malaria Initiative. Program liaison, partnership coordinator, capacity building and training of programming staff and 160 volunteers.

Quezon City, PHILIPPINES: ('10 - '11) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Capacity Building Specialist - researched gender and child vulnerabilities, especially human trafficking related, as an aspect of global warming trends and the new national disaster management framework of the Philippines. Created education and training materials for NGO and local government, and offered organizational program strategies for contextualized gender and child protections in the management cycle of disaster response and mitigation.

Kahatia, KENYA: ('02) Disaster Management and Public Health Capacity Building Specialist - public health emergency response in one of the most acutely HIV/AIDS affected regions of the world. Worked with youth and women's organizations, teaching on subjects of CBO and NGO capacity building: community organizing and mobilization strategies, fund development and grant writing, training of trainers, outreach program design and implementation, program sustainability, in the context of locally driven prevention efforts.

*Major educational influences include: U.N. Millenium Development Goals, Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 for Climate Change and DRRM, SPHERE manual for minimum standards in humanitarian response, Communications for Development (C4D), Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA), Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Women in Development (WID) and Gender and Development (GAD)

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM)

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – (’05 -’10) Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) - deployed to disaster zones in response and recovery phases of disaster management.

FEMA certified specializations include:

Community Education and Outreach Specialist,
Individual Assistance Caseworker,
Disaster Recovery Center Advisor,
Disaster Housing Operations Specialist

Field work in the disaster zones of Louisiana, Washington, Kansas and Texas including several hazard types: major flooding, hurricane and coastal flooding, tornado and devastating winds, and ice and winter weather.

Additional training and education includes:

30 certifications in diverse aspects of DRRM from the US Emergency Management Institute (EMI), Emmitsburg, Maryland

Disaster Management and Public Health certificates from UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health

Disaster Management and Response to Pandemics certificate from SUNY Albany School of Public Health

Social Work and Community Outreach

Seattle Mental Health Institute (’95-’96) Seattle, Washington – Youth Outreach, Intervention, Mentoring

Banchero Friends Services (’95) Shoreline, Washington – Sexual Education Program Design and Instruction

Banchero Friends Services (’93-’95) Shoreline, Washington – Home Based Direct Care Provider and Trainer

Washington State Governor’s Advisory Council Subcommittee on AIDS (’92) Olympia, Washington – Committee member - HIV/AIDS Policy Research for the State Legislature and Office of the Governor

North Puget Sound AIDS Foundation (’90-’91) Everett, Washington – HIV/AIDS Community health outreach, program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation

Environmental Community Outreach

Peace Corps, Dogondoutch, NIGER: ('86 - '88) Conservation and Public Health Extension Agent - improved cookstoves and forestry conservation, environmental community education and training, HIV/AIDS outreach and education, condom education for adult men, rural community organizing in Subsaharan Africa.

Seattle League of Conservation Voters (’84-’86) Organizational Founder, Administrator - NGO development and capacity building, community outreach and organizing, funding development, project management. Built organization to 20 paid staff and 200 volunteers, and reached 200,000 community members with several methods of strategic messaging.

Community Action Network (’82-’84) Community Outreach Worker, Field Manager and Regional Trainer - fundraising trainer, volunteer manager, canvassing and telephone-bank operations

Education and Certifications

Private School for Human Development (PSHD) Seattle, Washington – graduate level psychology

U.S. Emergency Management Institute (EMI) 30 certifications in disaster management. List of certifications on request.

University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness - Disaster Management and Public Health, multiple certifications, transcript on request.

State University of New York at Albany (SUNY), School of Public Health - Preparedness and Community Response to Pandemics

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Specialist qualifications in the fields of Individual Assistance (IA) casework, Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) Advisor, Hazard Mitigation Community Education and Outreach (HM-CEO), and Direct Housing Operations Specialist (DHOPS)

Snohomish County Health Department HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Counselor

Shoreline Community College Shoreline, Washington - Certified Photovoltaic (Solar Energy) System Designer for Residential and Light Commercial

EPA Sect. 608 Universal license, issued in St. Louis, Missouri

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Macintosh Operating System

Web based marketing, webpage creation, search optimization, content design and editing

Computer and web skills training and consultation for NGOs and small business

All Web Content is of my own creation (click each link):

Professional Webpage, with narrative introductions to the main areas of my professional experience.

Full Curriculum Vitae, a more detailed version of this resume

Small Business Website, the #1 search return on Google for the search phrase of "Carpenter Artisan"

Small Business Photo Portfolio, ranked #2 among 5,000 worldwide in the category of woodworking, on Webshots.com, with over 400,000 page views

Volunteer Activities

Convoy of Hope, Slidell, Louisiana
American Red Cross, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Salvation Army, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Downtown Emergency Service Center, Seattle, Washington
True Holidays Campaign, Seattle, Washington
5 terms of voluntary service in the US Peace Corps

Languages

Native English speaker.

Functional fluency in French (FSI 2.5)

Functional fluency in Hausa (FSI 3.0).

Introductory proficiency in Spanish and Swahili.