August 1982 - September 1987 Extension Professor, Institute of Public Service/International, University
of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut. IPS International
provides management training for public officials from developing countries. My
duties included serving as advisor, program coordinator, and instructor for all
of the following programs: The twelve week Public Financial Management, and the
Management Analysis and Computer Application specializations of the Diploma in
Public Management; the ten week Systematic Design & Management of Training
program; the Energy Policy Analysis and Implementation program; the Promoting
Private Investment for National Development Program, and the program in
Performance Auditing. Individual courses taught includes: Operation Budget
preparation and Analysis; Budget Execution and Control; Revenue Planning and
Management; Introduction to Management Analysis; Setting National Budgetary
Policy; Introduction to Expanded Scope Auditing; Program Results Review
(Effectiveness Auditing); Performance Improvement Planning; Operationalizing
National Development Goals; Selecting Appropriate Policy Strategies;
Organizational Design; Scheduling, Monitoring and Control; Designing Training
Programs Using A Contingency Approach; Strategies for Increasing Organizational
Effectiveness, and Organizational and Management theory. I designed and
conducted programs in various aspects of budgeting and financial management in
Kuwait, Thailand and Jamaica. Duties required professional visits to Malawi,
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the Seychelles.
1977 - 1978 Associate and Coordinator of Workshops and Seminars, National Training and
Development Service, Washington, D.C. Designed and
scheduled workshops for state and local managers in such topics as: Advanced
Management Techniques; Program Implementation; Regional Decision-Making;
Meeting the Needs of Troubled Employees; Conflict Management; Productivity
Improvement; and Managing in a Tight Economy.
1975 - 1978 Director, Urban Management Curriculum Development Project, National Training
and Development Service. Director of a 1.2 million dollar
30-month project designed to: identify the most pressing areas of curriculum
needs in the judgement of academicians, students, and local practitioners;
design a Request for Proposal and selection process to identify subcontractors;
commission the development and testing of a number of comprehensive educational
packages or discrete modular breakouts in defined areas of need; disseminate
the results of the effort to a wide audience of practitioners and academicians;
and establish a permanent mechanism for the replication and dissemination of
the program materials. Duties involved coordinating the efforts of a
five-person staff, two advisory boards, a selection committee, 15
sub-contractors, and evaluation committees.
1969 - 1972 Coordinator of Federal Programs, Office of the Director of the Budget,
Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Duties included:
Coordinating activities of federal grant programs in the US Virgin Islands;
assisting in the research and establishment of programs; participating in
decision-making regarding Virgin Islands' participation in grant programs;
monitoring existing programs; reviewing and disseminating information on
federal programs; evaluating program benefits, matching requirements,
relationships to other programs, and all other phases of federal aid programs.
I also served as budget office analyst for departments having 45 million
dollars of operating budgets.
1969 Program Associate, Office of Economic Opportunity, Government of the U.S.
Virgin Islands. Duties included the coordination
and preparation of the Annual Funding Request, including obtaining
community information and preparing CAP plans and priorities; providing
assistance to delegate agencies; and monitoring and evaluating delegate
agency programs.
1968 Intern, Operation Budget Office, Department of Finance, City of
Philadelphia.
1966 - 1967 Supervisor of VISTA Volunteers, Office of Economic Opportunity, Government
of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
