Veteran community development professional with 17 years of experience. Responsibilities include: economic development, assist local businesses with growth and expansion, business recruiting, grant writing and administration, involvement with water and sewer projects, site control responsibilities, property and easement acquisition, communicating with funding agencies, surveyors, engineers, and contractors, maintain records and documentation and prepare reports.Example Accomplishments: 1) Assisted with 42 grant funded projects that led to investment in the city and the creation of new jobs2) Assisted with writing and administering grants totaling $13,220,487– the grants benefited local business expansion, job creation, vacant building reuse, brownfields redevelopment, replacing failing water and sewer lines, extending new water and sewer lines to serve new customers and greenway extension3) Assisted with the reuse of 83 vacant buildings in the city totaling 5,019,247 square feet for new and expanding businesses4) Assisted with the $3,500,000 Community Development Block Grant and SAP funded replacement of the water and sewer lines in the Maple/Merritt Neighborhood5) Assisted with the Appalachian Regional Commission funded replacement of the water and sewer lines in the Factory Street Neighborhood 6) Assisted with the $3,195,300 North Carolina and Virginia Department of Transportation Cost Sharing Funds to build the 50,236 foot/9.52 mile, 10 inch diameter water line extension to the Virginia and North Carolina Welcome Centers on Interstate 777) Assisted developers who built 284 additional units of affordable housing apartments in the city8) Assisted with the negotiation of a brownfields agreement for a 9 acre industrial property in downtown9) Sought partial grant funding and negotiated an agreement with Frontier Natural Gas to pay one half of the cost of extending the gas line into Westwood Industrial Park

Director of Domestic Operations1) Converted a sew contracting company to full package vendor in six months2) Developed systems to analyze customer orders; plan and schedule materials flow to ship orders on time3) Responsible for purchasing $500,000 - $750,000 of fabric each week to meet customer demand4) Responsible for end to end lot tracking and production reporting5) Started an embroidery department which became the highest margin profit center in the company6) Responsible for company-wide work-in-process/finished garment inventory control and oversight to minimize waste, maximize yield and minimize mill overruns and product obsolescence7) Analyzed new customer product requests; coordinated planning, preparations and the customer approvals necessary to begin production8) Developed new vendors and sources in response to changing market opportunities

Contract/Sourcing Manager, Martinsville, VA1) Moved apparel manufacturing offshore producing a yearly savings of $11 million per year by reducing assembly costs and thereby improving gross margins2) Earned the 2001 VF Excellence Award for achieving a $5 million savings in packaging costs3) Responsible for 12 offshore manufacturing facilities producing 56 million units per year4) Before moving production offshore responsible for 36 domestic contract plants, which at peak, produced 12 million units annually5) Controlled a departmental operating budget of $1 million per year6) Saved $600,000 per year by reducing waste from 6% to 3.2%7) Developed contractors and negotiated prices for garment assembly, contract cutting, embroidery, screen-print, roller print, garment dyeing, specialized garment finishes and packaging8) Assisted in reducing irregulars from 7.2% to 5%; saving $7 million annually9) Enhanced schedule compliance from 88% to 96% which improved on-time customer shipments to 95%Knitting Plant Superintendent, Martinsville, VA1) Directed the operations of a four shift, continuous operation, 270 employee, 495 machine, fleece knitting mill producing 1.2 million pounds/2.4 million square yards of fabric per week2) Launched a bar-coded yarn inventory system that cut inventory in half, which doubled inventory turns to 46; saving $3.5 million per year3) Implemented a knit to order fabric inventory system that cut work-in-process inventories by 63%; saving $4.1 million per year4) Devised and executed an equipment modernization plan that replaced obsolete knitting machines; doubling output in the same floor-space and cutting direct cost by 43%5) Installed an in-process quality assurance program that reduced defects by 32%6) Developed and implemented a systematic training program for new knitters that cut average training time by 5 weeks and improved trainee productivity by 28%

Combat Engineer Squad Leader- 8th Engineer Battalion, First Cavalry Division 1) Sergeant directing the daily activities and training of the 10 soldier combat engineer squad2) Accomplished Military Occupational Specialties in bridging, construction, demolition and explosives, field fortifications, tactical landing zones and airfields, minefield installation and clearance, ordinance disposal, live-fire range maintenance, heavy equipment and air mobile logistics3) Earned Grey Wolf Citation from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for assisting the MX tank evaluation at Fort Hood; now known as the Abrams main battle tank4) Earned First Cavalry Excellence Citation awarded by Major General W. Russell Todd