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Resume
Robert G.
Williscroft
Lewiston
ID 83501 | United States of America
TEL 818.613.9445 | Fax 818.301.2512
| rgw@argee.net
OBJECTIVE:
A TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT POSITION
To apply my marine, engineering and information technology expertise
and my pole to pole, land, sea, and ice experience to direct and manage
mission critical projects and personnel within an engineering or
high-tech environment.
SKILLS
- A
strong communicator, teacher, negotiator, and consensus builder. An
engaging writer in a variety of formats, with significant editing
experience, and a gifted public speaker.
- Expert at
explaining technically complex concepts and procedures in
understandable language for senior management, and for in-house and
outside consumption.
- Decisive team leadership and
project management under all
conditions, ideal to adverse operating conditions.
- A
published author – 2 text books, 1 technical and 2 general books,
professional papers, technical articles, general articles, a syndicated
column, and poetry. (Most recent books: The Chicken Little Agenda –
Debunking Experts’ Lies, Pelican Publishing, 2006, in 2nd
printing; and Starman
Jones: A Relativity Brthday Present, Starman Press, 2008)
- Design and construction of
sophisticated networked office computer
systems working with off-the-shelf hardware and software.
- Implementing and training
management and corporate staff in modern
“paperless” digital procedures.
- Expert
with advanced features of MS Word (25 yrs), Excel (25 yrs), Outlook (13
yrs), and PowerPoint (14 yrs); and Adobe Pagemaker (24 yrs.), Acrobat
(7 yrs), Illustrator (7 yrs), and Photoshop (9 yrs).
- Expert
at digitizing and cross-linking documents, preparing and implementing
procedures for digital document storage and retrieval.
- In
excellent health and physical condition, with active interests in
mountaineering, SCUBA diving, and similar activities. Able to employ
skills effectively even under protracted conditions of extreme sleep
deprivation, physical hardship, and mental distress
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
| 2010
–
Present |
CEO
BestLife international, Inc., Clarkston, Washington |
- Set up company corporate
structure.
- Normalized investor shares.
- Wrote Business and Marketing Plan.
- Wrote Private Placement Memorandum.
- Set up and administered MAXelence
LLC, whose purpose was to sponsor
NASCAR #28 and driver Derrick Cope for the 2011 Nationwide
racing season.
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INDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES
- Completed
the novel, Slingshot,
a hard Science Fiction novel about the building
of the first space launch loop for moving men and materials off Earth
without using rockets. (Out to publishers.)
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| 1999 – 2010
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Legal
Consulting – Los Angeles, California |
- Designed and installed a
7-computer network in a Los Angeles law firm with a common client
database and digital record-keeping.
- Implemented a computerized,
enterprise-wide legal billing system.
- Developed
& constructed enterprise-level system enabling a law firm to
identify, solicit, and track bankruptcy-services clients based on
home-foreclosure data.
- Researched and drafted a
successful
Writ that established new California law in Spousal Battery: Pugliese
v. Superior Court, 146 Cal.App.4th 1444 (2007).
- Researched
and drafted a successful Writ that reversed a California Superior
Court’s decision to go forward with a broad-based trial in violation of
California Family Law procedures.
- Researched and drafted an
appeal before the California Court of Appeals, consisting of 12 vol. of
court transcripts & 10 vol. of exhibit appendices.
- Researched and drafted an appeal
before the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals
- Researched and drafted an appeal
before the United States Supreme Court
- Conducted
across-the-board legal research in California Family Law, Civil Law,
and Criminal Law, and in jurisdictions across the country.
- Drafted hundreds of legal briefs
in California Family Law, Civil Law,
and Criminal Law.
- Drafted
dozens of Form & Special Interrogatories, and Demands for
Production, and reviewed, compiled, digitized and organized the
received documents.
- Drafted dozens of responses to
Form
& Special Interrogatories, and drafted the responses to and
assembled & digitized the documents for dozens of document
demands.
- Drafted dozens of Subpoenas.
- Prepared
for several trials, both Bench & Jury, handling all the
necessary
logistics. Prepared & distributed Exhibits, drafted Motions in
Limine, prepared Jury Instructions, arranged Witness transportation,
obtained Experts, prepared attorney trial notes.
- Trained legal interns in law
office computer procedures.
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INDEPENDENT
ACTIVITIES
- Completed the book, The Chicken Little Agenda –
Debunking Experts’ Lies, published by Pelican Publishing,
Gretna, LA in
2006.
- Was interviewed on 43 regional
radio stations (several more than
once), 6 national shows (several more than once), and three times on
national TV.
- Completed Starman Jones: A Relativity
Birthday Present,
the first book in the Starman
Jones Series, in collaboration with Dr.
Frank Drake, world famous director of the Carl Sagan Institute for the
Study of Life in the Universe and the SETI Institute. This series of
delightful stories about Starman Jones, Space Pup, and Billy, creates
in children an intuitive understanding of many of the esoteric
scientific concepts of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and other
sciences.
- Completed the novel, The Ivy Bells Compact,
a first-person
novelized telling of the Cold War underwater espionage endeavor,
Project Ivy Bells. (Out to publishers.)
- Published dozens of articles
for national hard-copy online periodicals.
- Managed 23 rental
properties.
- Passed the California Basic
Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
with a total score of 214 (Reading – 77 of 80; Math – 74 of 80; writing
– 63 of 80) out of a possible 240. Passing is 123 (37 minimum in each
of reading, math, writing).
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| 1990 – 1994 |
Chief
Staff Officer - Hyperbaric Technologies, San Diego, California |
- 2nd in command running four
marine-related operations: a hyperbaric equipment construction company,
a medical hyperbaric chamber management company, a shipbuilding yard,
and a ferry cruise line.
- Reorganized the entire
company base, computerizing operations, and
generally bringing them up-to-date.
- Designed and implemented an
enterprise-wide computerized document
filing system.
- Designed and installed a
4-location ticketing operation for the cruise
line.
- Supervised the construction
and launch of an innovative Lexan-sided
(transparent) tourist boat.
- Supervised the design and
construction of half-a-dozen hyperbaric
chambers.
- Oversaw the relocation of
the entire enterprise to a new facility.
- Published an updated section
on Underwater surveying in the NOAA
Diving
Manual, 3rd Ed.
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1981 - 1983
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Officer
in charge, Environmental Research Labs Geophysical Monitoring Program,
South Pole – Environmental Research Labs/Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station, Boulder, CO/ Antarctica
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- Supervised the
National Science Foundation Atmospheric Research Program at the South
Pole.
- Collected atmospheric data under
the remote supervision of several
Senior Scientists.
- Collected atmospheric data under
the remote supervision of several
Senior Scientists.
- Conducted preliminary analysis of
incoming data, packagedsensitive data
for shipping to designated labs.
- Replacedthe atmospheric sampling
equipment with modern, dual purpose
equipment
that could double as recharging pumps for the station
fire-fighting
Scott Air Packs.
- Supervised the scientific staff.
- Completely
redid the entire laboratory inventory of equipment and spare parts
(must be entirely self-sufficient for 9 months), computerizing the
results.
- Station Fire Marshall –
extinguished a fire in the
power generating station overhead during the Austral Summer.
Extinguished a major file in the station’s fuel system during the
isolated winter-over (without casualties).
- Awarded special recognition and
cash benefit for the above actions.
- Published Annual Report, GMCC South Pole Observatory,
November 1981 to
November 1982. Boulder, CO: GMCC.
- Published
South Pole in Geophysical
Monitoring for Climatic Change Annual
Report—1982. Boulder, CO: Environmental
Research
Laboratories, 1983.
- Geophysical Monitoring for
Climatic Change at the South Pole,
1981,
with B. Mendonca, in Antarctic
Journal. Washington:
National Science
Foundation, 1983.
- Published several articles in
national periodicals ranging from diving
to astronautics to philosophy.
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| 1978 –
1980
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Navigator; Diving Officer;
Officer of the Deck – NOAA Ship Surveyor (S-132), Seattle, WA |
| 1977 –
1978 |
Officer of the Deck; Diving
Officer – NOAA Ship Oceanographer (R-101), Seattle, WA |
| 1975 –
1976 |
Navigator; Ops Officer;
Saturation Diving Officer; 1st Lieutenant – USS Pigeon (ASR-21), San
Diego, CA |
| 1974
–
1975 |
Navigator;
Ops Officer;
Saturation Diving Officer – USS Ortolan (ASR-22), Philadelphia, PA |
| 1970 – 1972 |
Comm Officer,
Sonar Officer, Assistant Weapons Officer – USS von Steuben (SSBN 632B),
Charleston, SC |
| 1963 – 1965 |
Sonar Technician – USS John
Marshall (SSBN 611B), New London, CT |
| PAST POSITIONS &
ASSIGNMENTS |
| 1997
– 1999 |
Stockbroker
– Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994
– 1997 |
Independent
Financial Consultant – Philadelphia, PA |
| 1986
– 1990 |
Chief
Executive Officer – Manuscripts International, Ltd., Dayton, WA |
| 1988
– 1990 |
Founder
– Romar Books, Ltd./Evergreen Press, Seattle, WA |
| 1983
– 1986 |
Officer
in charge, West Coast and Pacific NOAA Diving Program – NOAA Diving
Center, Seattle, WA |
| 1980
– 1981 |
Officer
in charge, East and Gulf Coast National Ocean Service Diving – Atlantic
Marine Center, Norfolk, VA |
| 1976
– 1977 |
Officer
in Charge (OIC) – Test Operations Group – Submarine Development Group
One, San Diego, CA |
| 1973
– 1974 |
Navy
College Recruiter – U.S. Naval Recruiting Command, El Paso, TX |
| 1997 |
Series
7 Stockbroker – Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York, NY |
| 19812 - 1983 |
Ph.D.,
General Engineering – California Coast University, Santa Ana, CA |
| 1981 |
M.Sc.,
General Engineering – California Coast University, Santa Ana, CA |
| 1966 - 1969 |
B.Sc.
Marine & Atmospheric Physics – University of Washington,
Seattle, WA |
| PAST & PRESENT
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS |
Civil
Air Patrol
Los
Angeles Adventurers’ Club
International
Association for Hydrogen Energy
American
Astronautical Association
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
Marine
Hydrographic Society
Marine
Technology Society
MENSA
Military
Officers’ Association
National
Space Society |
| Who’s
Who in America - 2008 - 2012 |
| German: |
Native fluency on general
topics. Some technical vocabulary. |
| French: |
Can communicate with
difficulty. Canfast-track to basic speaking & writing skill. |
| Russian: |
Studied in college. Can
fast-track to basic speaking & writing skill. |
| Vietnamese: |
Studied in Navy. Can
fast-track to basic speaking & writing skill. |
| Top
Secret (Special Circumstances), last updated in 1976. |
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