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CAREER HISTORY:
Jun 07 - Retired.
Jun 06 - Jun 07: Social Service Counselor with Avoyeles Correctional Center
in Cottonport, Louisiana. Coordinate all Pre-Release
Classes for inmates soon to be released. Help inmates
obtain copies of their Vital Records, Driver's License and
other documents before their release. Help releasing
inmates find jobs and shelter for when they are released.
Jul 05 - May 06: Unemployed.
Aug 04 - Jul 05: Older Worker Specialist with Experience Works in
Cottonport, Louisiana. Help older citizens find
meaningful employment. Assigned to the parishes of
Avoyelles, Concordia, Catahoula, LaSalle, Winn and Grant.
Apr 04 - Jul 04 : Floor Supervisor with Kerotest in Mansura, Louisiana.
Supervised 6 to 8 employees in the production of valves
and component parts.
Oct 03 - Apr 04 : News Paper Carrier for The Town Talk.
Sep 02 - Mar 03 : Human Resource Analyst with the Louisiana Department of
Health and Hospitals at the Pinecrest Developmental Center
in Pineville, Louisiana assigned to the Fast Track
Hiring Unit. Was let go due to budget cuts and no Fast
Track hiring until 2004.
Jul 01 – Sep 02 : Workforce Development Officer with the Louisiana Department
of Labor assigned to the Rapides Job Center in Alexandria,
Louisiana working in a one-person office at the Mansura
Sup-Office on Cleco Street in Mansura, Louisiana.
May 01 – Jul 01 : Account Exectuive with Oasis Office Systems in Alexandria,
Louisisna. Responsible for all sales in Avoyelles Parish
and some of Rapides Parish.
Jul 94 - Dec 00 : Owner/Operator Tunica Chevron and Tunica Café in
Marksville, Louisiana. Sold business. Six years
experience in retail sales, customer service, and personnel
management, including collections, inventory management,
payables, and receivables.
Nov 88 - Apr 96: Station Manager at KAPB FM and KAPB AM in Marksville,
Louisiana. Left to operate Tunica Chevron and Tunica
Café. Seven years experience in radio station
management, including writing ads for local and national
accounts, computer operations, typing, bookkeeping,
billing, accounts receivables, collections, personnel
management, and other administrative functions.
Nov 87 - Nov 88: Account Executive at KAPB FM and KAPB AM in Marksville,
Louisiana. Promoted to Station Manager. Eight years
experience in local, regional, and national advertising
sales management. Responsible for writing ads, typing,
billing, accounts receivables, collections, and other
administrative functions.
Jun 66 - Nov 87: US Air Force. Retired as Senior Master Sergeant, E8,
on 01 November 1987. Twenty-one years experience in
increasingly demanding positions in diverse organizations.
Six years in-depth experience in personnel and resource
management, training, and administrative duties. Also
served as Account Custodian, Equipment Custodian, and
Supply Custodian for several large shops.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: (Management and Administrative)
As Floor Supervisor with Kerotest developed a form used
by all supervisors to track production. Maintained an
average production of 95% compared to 76%, 72% abd 72% on
the other three shifts.
As a Human Resource Analyst, in the first three months
reduced a three month backlog of background reference
checks to Zero.
As a Workforce Development Officer, with only 5 months
experience working in a one-person Job Center, revamped the
entire filing system and created a Continuity Book so that
any Workforce Development Officer could fill in as needed
with no lost of service to the customer.
As Sales Executive with Oasis Office Systems was top sales
person for the week of June 17th - 23rd, 2001.
As owner/operator of a convenience store and café increased
gas sales 60 percent and inside sales 40 percent in the
first two years. Increased bad debt collections 80% and
reduced bad debts by 50 percent.
As manager of a local radio station developed new account
maintenance procedures, bookkeeping procedures, and billing
procedures that resulted in a 100 percent decrease in
manual documentation problems and a 94.5 percent decrease
in computer documentation problems. Also resulted in a 56
percent decrease in total employee hours required to
accomplish our monthly billing.
As Branch Superintendent in a large organization was
responsible for production, quality assurance,
administrative functions, job interviews, personnel
management, 95 military and civilian employees, and over
$7 Million in equipment and facilities.
Authored several regulations, checklist, and self-
inspection guides that improved our ability to detect
problems areas and prevent mishaps. Resulted in a 375
percent decrease in our mishap rate and the lowest mishap
rate in over 4 years for 2 consecutive years.
Developed in-depth training programs that utilized
technical assistants for routine procedures and created
job over-lapping for 120 employees thus reducing the number
of employees needed to do the job and increasing the
organizations effectiveness by 25 percent and a savings of
$9,600.00 annually.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: (Financial Management)
Developed and implemented inventory control and warehousing
procedures thus reducing inventory by 44 percent resulting
in a savings of over $6500.00 while still maintaining 100
percent customer service.
Developed and implemented new procedures for bad depth
collections that resulted in an annually savings of over
$900.00.
While maintaining accounts receivables, collections, and
billing accounts developed and implemented new procedures
that resulted in a collection rate of over 96 percent, a
4.2 percent increase.
Formulated and controlled several operation budgets of over
$1 Million. Devised expenditure controls and accounting
procedures that resulted in a 9 percent decrease in
expenditures over a 12-month period.
As custodian of several equipment accounts worth from $2
Million to $15 Million each developed new procedures for
accounting and bookkeeping that resulted in annual savings
of $293,000.00.
Approval and implementation of several of my suggestions
resulted in annual savings to tax payers of over
$200,000.00.
EDUCATION:
Graduated from Hessmer High School in 1965. Completed a
college level Trigonometry class in the evenings before
graduating high school.
Attended LSU-A in 1965 and 1966 earning 15 Credits before
joing the Air Force.
Earned 3 credits in Psychology from Northwestern State
University at Louisiana. Total of 12 Psychology credits.
Enrolled at The Community College Of The Air Force earning
a total of 73 credits including 3 credits in Human Resource
Management, 3 credits in Personnel Management, 3 credits in
Material Management, 9 credits in Psychology, and 3 credits
in Management Communication.
Earned An Associate Degree in Applied Science, Aerospace
Technology, from The Community College Of The Air Force in
December 1982.
Completed several Military Leadership and Management
Academies, and several courses in Administrative Functions,
Human Resource Management, Material Management, Personnel
Management, Electronics, and Training.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Many years experience in computer and computer software
use. Proficient in the use of word processor, database,
and spreadsheet programs including Excel, MS Word 2000,
MS Works, ACT, and Access. Proficient in Internet use
including WebPage building. Can type over 60 WPM.
REFERENCES: (available upon request)