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“Most people spend more time and energy going
around problems than in trying to solve them.”

—Henry Ford


CURRICULUM VITAE (COURSE OF LIFE)

  

WORK HISTORY

1986 - Now   CHEBEL Companies
                    Chairman/CEO/Founder
                   
                    Summary Statement of The Course, Charted
                    CHEBEL Companies has had its course charted since 1986 while standing on the border of Brazil & Bolivia.  Having
witnessed , as a teenager, the financing and construction of the 800 mile Alaskan Pipeline, a feat executed in three years by a consortium of six large oil companys responding to an unprecedented global energy crisis, it  seemed a small thing to dream as big
as to how it might be a good thing should someone declare and persuade the  same to connect our Americas, north and south, by a yet higher order pipeline that carried freight and much much more via solar and hydrogen energy.                  


21cdd & SOL·MAX·ION Design Science are stealth start-up concerns formulated under CHEBEL as commercial receptacles of personal and academic research since 1986.  By focusing on the engineering specs and needs that define a highest speed surface transportation system design for our new century, ‘LINC – Levitated International Causeway’ systems requirements are a de facto blueprint for a global energy paradigm shift.  These two companies missions and goals are to promote sustainable transportation and utility infrastructure upgrade that private-public sector investment dollars can be certain as being leveraged to also effect a new energy culture of our future.  In other words, rather than Business As Usual (BAU) our LINC and LINC-derived designs can simultaneously lay the cornerstones of next generation infrastructure (an all solar electricity & derived hydrogen energy system) while upgrading the BAU.  

                    21st Century Design & Development_US-New Mexico (21cdd) (2005-06)
                    Founder/Chief Designer
                    Extensive Research, Compilation and Analysis of Land Usage & Ownership Data in Sierra, Dona Ana, Grant, 
Hildago, & Otero Counties. Land Use Design & Development for Pro Formas related to insertion of proprietary ‘LINC Way System’ into Sierra & Dona Ana Counties as related to Spaceport America and new Int’l Border Crossing at Santa Teresa.  Sited LINC´s northern hemisphere power supply in NM Chuhuahuian Desert as ANSWER - Americas National Srategic  Water & Energy Reserve. To do so creates an additional parameter for governments to adjust the economy (i.e. a Solar Energy Reserve (SER)). Officed at Sandia National Lab’s Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory at Santa Teresa US/Mexican Border Crossing.

                    SOLMAXION Design Science & Engineering (SOLMAXION)
                    Founder/Chief Designer       
                    Extensive system requirements analysis and user interface design for a next generation highest of high-speed transportation system that can augment all existing multi-modal but gridlocked freight corridors. These requirements have been assimilated as LINC, or Levitated InterNational Causeway. A LINC built 800 miles along the US/Mexican border would earn a 30 year contract from UPS, as they have declared they would make El Paso/Juarez their North American Hub in lieu of Chicago.  Its design would enable them to "change how we price freight, globally."

Inventor/Designer of LINC Way System™ (Patent in Process), a convergent engineering system for 21st century transport & utility upgrade, domestically and worldwide .

Extensive Research & Economic Analysis for inserting the world’s first Solar Reserve™ & Hydrogen Refinery™ into U.S. Southwest and Chile’s Atacama Deserts.  This ‘Refinery’ serves as a power and fuel source for The LINC Way System™ as well as enables regional solar and hydrogen economies.

Ecuador: Organized a $1.5B Technologically Advanced Drilling Team that was Pre-Qualified by PetroEcuador for bidding on Ecuador’s Amazonian oil reserve as part of The LINC Way System’s proposed alignment insertion into Latin America. Three revolutions and rampant corruption prevented any pre-qualified team from bidding the job. 

NASA Ames Research Center: on NASA’s marketing budget @ $300K, personally conceived, managed and orchestrated, as the client, 60+ engineers and vendors to effect:

§ Simulation of LINC (i.e. leapfrog design for next generation transport in the U.S.) in the NASA Ames Visual Motion Simulator (VMS) – the world’s largest dynamic flight simulator 
 
§ Unprecedented collaboration among site contractors/engineers and NASA’s so as to integrate and ready this simulation’s specifications and system requirements for testing a vehicle and system design outside of norms for procedures at this facility

§  Defined and designed a maglev instrument panel, oversaw vendors programming and prototyping of the same

§  Defined criteria and managed optimal route alignment through the Angeles National Forest between Palmdale & Burbank, CA

§  Defined and tasked test and simulation schedule 

§  Managed invited participants from Ecuador, UPS, investors, engineers, mayors, politicians, et al. who experienced the simulator and provided user feedback for further analysis and iteration.  The simulation proved out a 6 minute run between Palmdale & Burbank, CA that further proved the validity of the LAX owned Palmdale, CA airport for passenger service inside the LA Airports System.

§ Organized a Maglev Design Invited Workshop, involving Ecuadorian Minister of Public Works, Ecudorian Businessmen, US Investors, Academic, Land Planners, Mayors, Transportation Experts, held at Stanford Schwab Conference Center.

§  Derived and assimilated extensive human interface design criteria. The workshop and simulation proved that a multi-billion dollar test track is not needed for prototyping and testing, unlike the nearest benchmark & competing design, The German Transrapid MagLev. The exercise was proprietary and proved a breakthrough in systems engineering prototyping programmatics and costs.

§  Network Design & Economic Evaluation of LINC™ as applied to Metropolitan Los Angeles that determined LINC™ can double the freeway capacity when inserted per optimal network and engineering design & roll out schedule. 

1992 - 1995  SVS R&D Systems, Inc., Albuquerque, NM [now Boeing SVS]
                    Deputy Program Manager under Founder/Chairman    
                    Managed firm´s NASA & USAF Maglev Feasibility Contracts
                    Steeped in Skunkworks Rapid Prototyping & Program Management methodologies
                    Unparalleled mentoring by Dr. Sherman Seltzer, one of Apollo/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center´s 
                        lead Program Managers working directly for Von Braun and his Controls & Guidance Unit.  While at Lockheed, Dr.
                        Seltzer was one of three Chief Engineers serving directly under Clarence´Kelly´Johnson, famed inventor of the
                        Lockheed Skunkworks project management method.
                    Conceived and successfully wrote government Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) proposals for future work
                    Conceived and successfully wrote unsolicited proposal for US Department of Defense (DoD) work,
                        "NUNN MagLifter Development Program". It was submitted to NUNN International Cooperative R&D Program 
                        internal to US DoD and was approved within weeks for $MMM, after annexation into existing international treaties.
                    Supported prototyping contracts at Kirkland AFB, New Mexico, primarily tied to Low Cost Satellite Design
                    Experienced the highs and lows of an engineering start-up company as Employee #30, now a Boeing subsidary of 200
                       
1992 - 1993  Lachel & Associates, Golden, Colorado
                    Marketing Director & Research Assistant to the Chairman/Founder
                    Firm served as Chief Tunnel & Geotechnical Engineer to the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, 24/7/365, globally
                    Worked directly as on-call Research Assistant for Owner/Chairman who was the indespensible de facto
                        Chief Tunnel Engineer to the U.S. Military Joint Chiefs of Staff
                    As Marketing Director, conceived, formulated and managed and wrote a consortium team and 600 page bid to
                         U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for Passaic River Tunnel Project/Environmental Clean Up.  The Corps´Program    
                         Manager personally commented it was the best and most well written proposal he had ever received.
                    Broad exposure to global Geotechnical & Tunnel Engineering under Dennis Lachel, well known in the industry for
                         Project Management of Tunnel Projects globally, including segments of the Superconducting Supercoliider in           
                         in Texas, and "The Big Dig" in Boston Harbor.

1991 - 1992  COORS Ceramics, Golden, Colorado
                   Precision Industrial Ceramics Grinder & Oversight of Speciality Metallizing Kilns
                   Mentored by a leading industrial ceramic manufacturing & sales persona. Broad exposure to high tech manufacturing 
                   plant operations and management thereof.

1979 - 1992  C.M Thornton Fine Arts, Paris, France
                  Self-Employed Freelance International Art Broker & Curator
                  Broker of Museum Quality/Investment Artwork among European and U.S. Collectors, Governments, US Museums.
                  Conceived/curated Exhibitions from Int'l Collectors & Museums for provincial U.S. Museums as Fund Raising Events. 
                  Managed proprietary, high profile acquisition, complex discovery & contracts in Prague, Czechoslavakia for the Getty.   

1979 - 1980  Ex-Student´s Association, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
                   Assistant to the directors of special projects, travel, memberships and scholarships 
                   instrumental in publication and graphic design of UT Cookbook (now in nth printing); proceeds provide partial
                   endownment for UT Scholarships Fund.

EDUCATION

1996 - 2005  Masters/Ph.D. Student, Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering Product Design
           Graduate Course Work: Product Design/User Interface Design & Rapid Prototyping, National Security & Technology Policy, Microwave Systems & Lab, Smart Products (Intensive Electronics), Dynamics & Control, Precision Engineering, Systems Engineering, Design for Manufacturability, Global Entrepreneurial Marketing, Economic Evaluation of Engineering Projects, Construction Management curriculum in Civil Engineering Department, Real Estate Development Project Finance, Yearly Seminars in Advances in Telecommunications, Strategic Planning for Non-Profits (Stanford MBA School Class taught by VP of McKinsey & Co), Seminars taught in Business Plan writing by local Sandhill Road  Venture Capitalists.
           Research: Systems Engineering and Transportation User Interface Design for a new mode of transport, i.e. LINC WAY Transportation & Infrastructure Upgrade

1996   Bachelor of Science Student, Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa

1991 - 1993  Masters Student, Colorado School of Mines
           Math & Computer Science / Geochemistry / Operations Research
           Research: Magnetic Levitated Transport for Mining Ops / High-temperature Superconductivity (HTSC) / Geochemistry

1986    M.A. Art History, University of Texas at Austin
           Specialization:  Late 19th and 20th Century French Art
           Master Thesis:  "Vuillard au Louvre: A Study of the Creative Process of Edouard Vuillard" (original research, publishable)
           Coursework (select): Museumology, Issues of Accounting and Control in Non-profit Organizations; Anti-Trust Law.
           Thrills & Extras:  Three months work with Jules Engel (Mr. Magoo) at The California School for the Performing Arts
           (CALARTS) transforming thesis drawings into animated film.

1974 - 1978   B.A. Humanities w/ Honors, University of Texas at Austin
           Specialization:  Chemistry, Economics, and Political Science
           Thesis:  "Art, The Art Market, and Government Regulation"

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Stanford University, Visiting Scholar, Civil & Environmental Engineering 2010-11
          Collaboratory on Research for Global Projects (CRGP)
          Research for Manuscript in process,  The Convenient Truth: When Copper Goes Green

ASARCO Bankruptcy, 2009-10
          Mankind´s largest environmental bankruptcy, 19,000 dockets of complexity, corruption and intrigue;
          Research and Court filing for a Green Copper Restructuring Plan for American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO)

Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Department of Energy, 2006-07
          Business Incubator Member with Sustainability Group located in field office on the U.S./Mexico Border, Santa Theresa, NM
          Research on cross border solar electricity generation, transmission and cross-border arbitrage

Fundación América, Santiago, Chile 2005
          Independent Research, inserting Solar Thermal Power into the Atacama Desert as a Single Source Electricity Supply

NASA Ames Research Center, Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS), 2000
          Magnetic Levitation Vehicle Demonstration - Design Think Process Research & Analysis for Large Scale Systems Design

Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Garden, Transportation Library, Official Reader, 1989
          Research on transcontinental railway history, financing, and Native American Indian Treaty Law for faciliting the same

Louvre Museum & Private Archive of Edouard Vuillard owned by M. Antoine Solomon, Paris France, 1980-82
          University of Texas at Austin, Masters of Art in Art History, 1986
          Unpublished Manuscript, "Au Louvre: The Creative Process of Edourd Vuillard" (1986), University of Texas at Austin

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Start-Up Chile Entrepreneurial Grant, 2010-11
Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Department of Energy, Member Company, 2006-07
NASA Ames Research Center, Unsolicited Grant Simulating Maglev Network & Vehicle Human Factors & User Interface Design, 2000
Stanford University, Unsolicited Research Grant, Vice-Provost of Research Office, 1998
Colorado School of Mines, Grant Recipient, Artificial Intelligence for Forensic Analysis Research Assistant, 1996

PRESENTATIONS

The Americas Project was presented to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Defense & Organizer of the 2006 Hemispheric Defense Summit Meeting, held in Quito, Ecuador.  Its scope and project definition based on a unified project for the hemisphere that could be built simultaneously, and together, caused a vote of 36 to 2 in its favor as the basis for Hemispheric Defense among all 38 hemispheric  nations.

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

Colorado Office of Space Advocacy (COSA), Volunteer, 1996
House President (elected), Tri-Delta Sorority, University of Texas, 1977-78
Sr. Class President (elected), Holland Hall School, Class of 1974

LICENSES

Certified Emergency Medical Technicial, Oklahoma

AWARDS

Most Outstanding Senior, Tri-Delta Sorority, University of Texas, 1978
B.A. Humanities wth Honors, University of Texas, 1978
Cum Laude Society, Holland Hall Preparatory School, Tulsa, OK 1974
Editor, Eight Acres Yearbook, Oklahoma Journalism Award, Best Preparatory Journalism, 1974

LIFE PIVOTS

Witnessing impacts of 100 years of extreme and unattended air and water pollution at The ASARCO Smelter, El Paso, Tx, the largest     cross border metropolitan city in the world, age 50.  How does management abide their conscience? 
Observing Dr. Seltzer´s management style over a team of highly talented, primadona engineers, age 39.
Experiencing NORAD from inside Mt. Cheyenne, a missile controls facility built on dampers larger than a 4 story house, age 36.
Swaying eight feet atop the World Trade Towers´ in a torrential storm while drinking water at Windows on the World, age 26.
Driving the Alaskan Pipeline with construction foremen during the peak of its jobs creation of 20,000 at age 21.
Experiencing a house with five sides that inspired me so, I had to stop everything and construct a model, age 16.
Dissecting the Anatomy of Religion and communicating its historical evolution via a Caldera-like mobile at age 15.
Experiencing dicey details at the dinner table of OPEC´s formation amid local impacts of its                                                                 embargo upon US daily life age 14. A world without oil?
Watching man walk on the moon on black and white broadcast TV, age 13.
Interaction with extreme poverty-ridden schoolchildren in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria at age 12.
Lunch with roughnecks on offshore oil platforms at age 11.
Constructing a "Creek Scale" Verrazano Narrows Bridge with neighborhood kids as the crew                                                                 from its original blueprint, scaled down, age 10.
Climbing the Eiffel Tower in all of its night time glory at age 9.
Make a working model of a water-dike from clay in a brownie pyrex baking dish at age 8.
John Kennedy´s Asassination at age 7.
Nuclear attack air raid drills in school at age 6.
Driving to Pt. Barrow, Alaska at age 5.
Listening to Brahm´s lullabys at age 2.

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