Board Treasurer

My work in the space movement has included serving as Administrator of the L5 Society, Deputy Executive Director of the National Space Society and Executive Director of Contact: Cultures of the Imagination. I have worked as a volunteer in support of human migration into space since 1974 including strategic planning activities for the Overview Institute and Astronomers Without Borders.

I am an experienced Project Manager having led or supported multi-year strategic planning, quality assurance and financial analysis programs internationally for the UNDP, and nationally for federal agencies such as SBA, GSA, IRS and the US Navy. I am currently supporting the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at NIH.

I have led Electronic Medical Record implementations at multi-specialty clinics. My expertise spans Strategic Planning and Balanced Scorecard, Activity-based Business Management (AbBM), process costing, group facilitation, system development, database development, systems design, business process reengineering and process improvement (BPR), and change management.

I also have broad ranging experience with information systems development and deployment including hardware installation and software development with custom graphic user interface design. I have served as CEO and CFO at national non-profit organizations and have performed as Creative Director for a full-service advertising agency, as well as having hands-on experience with film and audio production.

I have worked as a professional radio announcer, stand-up comedian and actor, and put in time as a bartender, retail bookkeeper and transducer manufacturing technician. I have travelled extensively worldwide, lived and worked abroad for more than a decade. I am fluent in English, French and Italian.

Ø  Project Management Professional (PMP – Project Management Institute)

Ø  RABQSA Certified ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor (TPECS)

Ø  Certified ScrumMaster (CSM – ScrumAlliance)

Ø  Certified SAFe4Government Practitioner (Scaled Agile Framework)

Ø  Certified in Performance Measure Process (PuMP) - Balanced Scorecard Institute/GWU

Ø  MCTS certified in SharePoint and Project Server;

Ø  Trained Six Sigma Green Belt; Strategic Planning and Balanced Scorecard;

Ø  Business Process Analysis (IDEF0 methodology, BPMN);

Ø  AbBM historical/planning models using CostPerform (QPR Cost Control) and SAS Oros Analytics;

Ø  Trainer for Oros ABC University & CostPerform;

Ø  Managed financial analysis software design, development & implementation;

Ø  Managed educational and learning software design, development and implementation.