EDUCATION

• College Degree
• BA from City University of New York (Dual major of Poli Sci and History after starting as a Math Major)
• Post Graduate Work (degrees not finalized):
  PHd program C.U.N.Y International Relations 2 years
  Masters Program Maritime College Transportation 2 years

Other education

• Concord Leadership Academy
  • 9 week course on all phases of the city government
• CERTs (currently enrolled) Citizens Emergency Response Team
  • Preparation to lead local community in response to major disasters (other than political).
• Citizens Police Academy
  • 9-week course (or three months)
  • Police Dept functions
    
  • Shooting Simulation
  • Gang Activity, drug enforcement, K-9, police protocols, crime evidence, SET (Special Enforcement Team – SWAT), dispatch, volunteer (VIPS) support activities, traffic enforcement.

CAREER

College Work

• Editor and historic conflict simulation game design: Strategy and Tacitics Magazine/Poultron Press 1968-69
• Burns Guard World Trade Center site 1970
• Diners’ Club VIP Customer Service 1969-1970

Post College Work

• Interpool Ltd 1973-1986
  • International containerized cargo equipment leasing company.
  • Started as a Clerk and ended up at Assistant Vice President, Pacific Rim (SF), previously Assistant Vice President of Europe, and Africa and the Middle East (based in London), Customer Service Field Manager for Europe (based out of Antwerp, Belgium). Specialized in international equipment recovery and bankruptcy control capital equipment recovery. AS the number two person on 4 continents was the resident trouble shooter.
• E.D. I. Inc.
  • 1986 – present, president and founder
  • Specialized equipment certifications and inspections.
  • Specialty includes Ammunition Grade Containers, hazardous and food grade tank containers, Domestic Container Storage and Leasing – sales, storage operations and management.
• Small Business Certified Cargo Inspector & Instructor
• Steamship Lines for insurance companies, leasing companies, tank containers

ELECTIONS:

• 2010 ran for Concord City Council and was the runner up
• 2012-elected to Concord City Council, re-elected 2016 to at large seats
• 2020 elected to Concord City Council District 4 unopposed

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Community Service Commission of the City of Concord-
  Commissioner= worked on $900,000 of grants
  Community Block Grants
• Friends of the Concord Library past President
• Pulse of Concord: A community wide web survey site of neutral questions and discussions of responses.
• Rotary – Rotary Club of Concord-Diablo
  Rotarian of the Year 2010 – Concord/Diablo Rotary Club
  District (71 clubs) Co-Chair of Publicity Committee
  International Service Director to Diablo-Valley 8 working group
  Community Service Director on the Board of Directors worked on:
  Senior Smoke Alarm Project
  Project Second Chance (adult literacy)
  Thanksgiving Food for the Poor/needy
  Santa Claus (400 gifts at Cambridge Child Development Center)
  RotaCare – free medical clinic for uninsured residents
  Picker Squadron– Fruit for food pantries and food banks 25 tons and going
  Books for Africa – used books for people in Africa
• Concord Library Support
  Fundraising
  Book Sales
• Get Signage and promotion
• Election Day Election Clerk – Contra Costa County Elections Department
• Chamber of Commerce- Vice Chair Government Affairs/Relations
  Committee.
• Restoration Advisory Board Tidal Area- Army overseeing restoration
  of polluted marsh land in the army base
• Restoration Advisory Board-Inland Area- Navy overseeing
  restoration of the CNWS for the Reuse plan
• Monument Community Partnership= Transportation Committee-
• Worked on the plan to put in a one-mile park/route
• Worked recently on fixing Detroit Avenue Streets
• Worked on the Ellis Lake clean up
• Senior Club Transportation advocate = obtained a $12K grant
• Senior Mobility Action Committee- county group to advocate
  For seniors
• Caring Hands- volunteer driver for seniors who do not have transport
• Concord Concerned Citizens Committee- ad hoc discussion group of

LOCAL POLITICS

• Historic Association of Concord- member trying to preserve local
  History
• Sun Terrace Neighborhood Partnerships- deliver door to door
  newsletters for the group and speak about community issues.
• Hill Crest Neighborhood Partnerships- deliver door to door
  Newsletters, man the dumpsters on Dumpster Day
• Cambridge Child Development Center-board of Directors, work on
  Securing grants, publicity
• RotaCare- health care for the uninsured- volunteered and do publicity
  including door to door work
• Pioneer Newspaper- constant columnist for the Pulse of Concord
• Columnist Diablo Valley Gazette
• Lifetime member of the US Navy League.