Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?

My career has spanned wilderness experiential education, community-based health promotion, technology development and management, non-profit administration at the managerial and executive level, business entrepreneurship, and extensive consulting with a primarily governmental and non-profit clientele. I am particularly interested in leveraging my skills and expertise to contribute to local, national, and global sustainability and green development initiatives.

Accomplished Administrator, Leader, Program Developer and Manager

• Developed and implemented diverse funding strategies to grow non-profit operational budget from $45Kto $1,200,000 in five years.
• Programs under my leadership have won statewide and national awards of recognition.
• Expanded scope of services  and managed $2.3 million budget, supervised Directors of  Substance Abuse Prevention, Family Services, and Mental Health Services.

Skilled Grant Writer with unusually high success rate

• Over $36 million in successful grant proposals in 10 years.
• Raised $6.2 million to pioneer an educational technology program, led development team.
• Top-scoring proposal for Drug Abuse Prevention grant from among 50+ applicants.
• Won $ 3.2 million grant for one of two federal School-to-Career grants funded west of Mississippi.
• Highest dollar-per-student School Technology grant in California.

Experienced and Effective Strategic Planner and Facilitator

• Created Client Information and Management/Program Evaluation software systems used by 50+ agencies in California and over 400 sites nationwide.
• As outside consultant, planned, facilitated, and documented strategic planning processes for 20+ school districts, many non-profits, and the County of Tulare.
• Created software for strategic planning, case management, and evaluation. As outside consultant/software vendor, provided over100 organizations with tools to efficiently meet reporting and compliance requirements.

Insightful and Effective Therapist / Educator

• 15 years experience as counselor; earned Master’s Degree while working as full-time Program Director; continued to carry individual, family and group case loads when promoted to positions with successively greater administrative responsibility.
• Mastery of experiential education theory and method, applied in diverse settings from wilderness to board room.
• Applied insights into family systems to large organizations, as facilitator of conflict resolution, planning, and other organizational development processes.