• A diversity of senior international experience across strategic policy and planning, business development, management, operations, marketing, sales,  and finance; in both the public and private sectors of the world economy; especially in US-Vietnam bilateral trade and investment actions, and consolidations.
• Has carried out over one hundred business trips in a U.S.-Vietnam - Indo-Pacific format, since January 1994, with three (3) business trips to Vietnam in 2019.
  

- Chairman, George H.W. Bush 41 Presidential Election Campaign, International Economic Issues Group, 1986-88.

• Established the international economic, Pacific, energy, and defense issues groups.  Actively managed the largest issues group (International Economic Issues) composed of legal, trade, economic and political professionals. 
• The international economic issues group (globalization) focused on strategy, state of the economy, international trade, capital flows, competitiveness, world debt and development, and national economic security.
• Slated for US State Department appointment in Vietnam, in a second Bush 41 administration.

- Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve 1968-2002.

• Direct Presidential Appointment (DOC), September 1968.
• Served in Vietnam, 1969-70, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), CORDS, civil-embassy-division advisor, carried out extensive all-source coordination, airborne, and command responsibilities. Awarded Bronze Star, Air Medal and Air Crewman Badge.
• Department of Defense, 1973-94, Served as an individual mobilization augmentation officer (IMA), at the Pentagon as a Joint Staff and Foreign Area Officer-Economist-Instructor, in strategic, command, consultative and conceptual duties which involved: management, information development and production, global economic analysis, strategic policy development and joint, combined, allied defense issues.
• 1982 Resident, Graduate, Army Command and General Staff College.
• Retired in 2002.

- Prior to 1994:

• World Bank consultant and manufacturing representative; strategy, risk, financial, technology, energy, and Vietnam consultant; economics instructor; city manager; and principal, director, and president of  commercial real estate related entities. with four real estate brokers licenses, remaining in place.
  

- Education:

•  New York University, Advanced course work for PhD International Business, 1972.
• University of Pittsburgh, Master of Public Administration (MPA), Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Urban and International Management, 1971.
• University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Business, History, 1967.

- Selected Speaking  Engagements:

Emerging Market and Industries of Vietnam, Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), April 2007, New Orleans, USA. Speaker: Vietnam Recovered Paper, U.S. Paper Stock Institute, November 2007, Phoenix, USA. Wrote Vietnam: The Pearl of Asia, U.S. Recycling Magazine, September 2007.  Speaker: How To Attract American Investors, Vietnam Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), HCMC U.S. business delegations to Vietnam (Saigon), Vietnam, November 2008, Thy Hoa City, December 2008 and Danang, November 2009.