“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.
Always disturbed by the disparity of standard of living between 1st and 3rd world countries, -- disparity largely caused by oil, I committed myself that day, on the border, overlooking a village built of paste board boxes, to bring forth the most modern of transport systems through our common Americas isthmus. This 'most modern' would be a transport pipeline that could upgrade all of us to a higher standard of living, simultaneously. Disparity could be overcome.
Pollution levels in the U.S. were choking the average beachcomber in Los Angeles; the so called modern transport system and technologies were not working, and besides, man had been to the moon and back again, within six years. Apollo´s blueprint of blueprints had caused high speed and maglev surface transport to be set aside in the U.S. as not relevant. Flying to the moon was far sexier than a maglev train ride, coast to coast, at less than the sound barrier. All eyes were on this new mode of transport, i.e. rocketry. The 6th mode of transport to come to fruition in a single
century had overlooked surface transport that could have upgraded the entire planet´s infrastructure, and thus standard of living. Ironically, The Apollo Project had left Earth behind in certain respects; for absolute certain, its name was a misnomer for having been named after the Sun.
The real Apollo Project must now stand up.
It is CHEBEL´s goal to bring rocket science back to earth to fix our transport, aka energy problems, and via the lessons learned from both the Alaskan Pipeline and Apollo Projects. This is a bold statement. Yet one needs a single bold solution at such a time as this. The Sun is the solution. Everybody knows it, but nobody wants to declare business plans or policies around a non-depletable source of energy whose fuel is free. The world is on the brink of WWIII over disparities once again caused by oil and who gets to use it for what purpose. In Chile, lies the untapped Saudi of Solar. CHEBEL´s bold solution springs forth out of Chile. No other geography qualifies, nor is there a nation of people elsewhere who can be trusted, at such a time as this, with hosting the 21st century´s energy supply. Just as Saudi
Arabia, to this day, by far hosts the largest oil and gas reserves, Chile, can by far host solar derived energies for export, globally. The technologies do exist.... and this is what CHEBEL is all about, has been formed over, to deliver.
Because of the simple fact that infrastructure drives one´s standard of living, CHEBEL was conceived as the company that would focus on building the obvious: a surface transport pipeline that would finally connect the Americas for uniting all as The Americas trade block. This effort goes forward, and is currently in the phase of implementing its two energy cornerstones to be based in Chile´s Atacama Desert, and the United State´s New Mexican Chuihuahua Desert. Both are the highest, driest in the hemisphere, and the geographically optimal to harbor two necessary solar and hydrogen power supplies for CHEBEL´s Levitated InterNational Causeway (LINC). LINC is a the imagined, now fully conceived 'modern highway' of the 21st century. If its two power supplies alone get built, and nothing else, Chile´s energy woes will be solved, and experts´prognosis for future energy policies will have been re-vectored to again include hydrogen. For 30 years, all G20 Nations had well funded government ´Hydrogen Roadmaps´ that assured the auto makers that their billions poured into R&D for electric, hybrid, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) vehicles would not be in vain.
Unless a country like Chile adopts the best lessons learned from this G20 abandoned research, the auto makers´billions spent on HFC technologies will be cast aside by Big Oil as a poker game, won. Unconventional gas is their new solution. Now the cry is, "Why don´t we have Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cars yet?"
Man was put on the moon without a business plan. Visionaries have long since been forced to work as accountants, computer programmers, and compartmentalized academic researchers. Feasibility studies must now be written ad nauseum, thereby avoiding the actual work of the vision to be realized. Risk is no longer allowed, unless it is for purposes of paying an economist to analyze why an innovation is surely impossible.
This visionary has managed to stay her course...and will continue to do so until mile after mile of next generation solar driven instrastructure is built as humanity´s opportunity for success (paraphrase of Bucky Fuller).
What follows is evidence of the most valuable lesson I learned as a master´s student of art history: focus, focus, focus, stay the course even when others don´t see it, and adopt a creative process that delivers on a single pathway to the initial vision, no faltering or double mindedness allowed. Such was the singlemindedness of Edouard Vuillard´s creative process as compared to his Impressionist colleagues that were forever changing their sketches. Solar and hydrogen energy, fueling all of Spaceship Earth´s infrastructure, was my vision in 1986 only now able to be fully articulated so as to be able to be delivered up by the technologist who put man on the moon as the giant leap for mankind that The Apollo Project really chould have been.
21cdd & SOL·MAX·ION Design Science are stealth start-up concerns formulated under CHEBEL Cos as commercial receptacles of personal and academic research since 1986 focused on the evolution of a next generation transportation engineering system design, ‘LINC – Levitated International Causeway’ for its implementation, globally. These two companies mission and goals are to promote sustainable transportation and utility infrastructure that will effect broad scale change among land use and urban developers.
21st Century Design & Development_US-New Mexico (21cdd)
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´s 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. 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. United Parcel Service (UPS) regards LINC as´their´Internet Packet technology. 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.
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 Chile’s Atacama Desert or other. 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 entirely outside of the box of norms for procedures at this facility
§ Defined and designed a maglev instrument panel, oversaw vendors programming and prototyping
§ 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 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 test purposes, unlike the nearest benchmark & competing design, The German Transrapid MagLev. The exercise was proprietary to my company 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 working directly for 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 inside
of US DoD and approved within weeks for $MMM, after annexation into existing international treaties.
Supported prototyping contracts at Kirkland AFB, 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 highly regarded by the U.S. Military Joint Chiefs of Staff
As Marketing Director, conceived, formulated and managed 600 consortium team and bid with 600 page proposal 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 for Project Management
of U.S. DoD contracts worldwide, segments of the Superconducting Supercoliider in Texas, and traditional transport and hydro tunnels e.g. Boston Tunnel (The Big Dig)
1991 - 1992 COORS Ceramics, Golden, Colorado
Precision Industrial Ceramics Grinder & Oversight of Speciality Metallizing Kilns
1979 - 1992 C.M Thornton Fine Arts, Paris, France
Self-Employed Freelance International Art Broker & Curator
Broker for Museum Quality/Investment Artwork among European and U.S. Collectors, Governments, NS Museums Conceived & curated Commercial Exhibitions drawn from International Collectors & Museums for Fund Raising Events
held at provincial U.S. Museums
Managed, for proprietary but high profile acquisition, highly complex discovery & contracts in Prague, Czechoslavakia
for the Getty Museum during the Velvet Revolution, 1989-90
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.
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.
Always disturbed by the disparity of standard of living between 1st and 3rd world countries, -- disparity largely caused by oil, I committed myself that day, on the border, overlooking a village built of paste board boxes, to bring forth the most modern of transport systems through our common Americas isthmus. This 'most modern' would be a transport pipeline that could upgrade all of us to a higher standard of living, simultaneously. Disparity could be overcome.
Pollution levels in the U.S. were choking the average beachcomber in Los Angeles; the so called modern transport system and technologies were not working, and besides, man had been to the moon and back again, within six years. Apollo´s blueprint of blueprints had caused high speed and maglev surface transport to be set aside in the U.S. as not relevant. Flying to the moon was far sexier than a maglev train ride, coast to coast, at less than the sound barrier. All eyes were on this new mode of transport, i.e. rocketry. The 6th mode of transport to come to fruition in a single
century had overlooked surface transport that could have upgraded the entire planet´s infrastructure, and thus standard of living. Ironically, The Apollo Project had left Earth behind in certain respects; for absolute certain, its name was a misnomer for having been named after the Sun.
The real Apollo Project must now stand up.
It is CHEBEL´s goal to bring rocket science back to earth to fix our transport, aka energy problems, and via the lessons learned from both the Alaskan Pipeline and Apollo Projects. This is a bold statement. Yet one needs a single bold solution at such a time as this. The Sun is the solution. Everybody knows it, but nobody wants to declare business plans or policies around a non-depletable source of energy whose fuel is free. The world is on the brink of WWIII over disparities once again caused by oil and who gets to use it for what purpose. In Chile, lies the untapped Saudi of Solar. CHEBEL´s bold solution springs forth out of Chile. No other geography qualifies, nor is there a nation of people elsewhere who can be trusted, at such a time as this, with hosting the 21st century´s energy supply. Just as Saudi
Arabia, to this day, by far hosts the largest oil and gas reserves, Chile, can by far host solar derived energies for export, globally. The technologies do exist.... and this is what CHEBEL is all about, has been formed over, to deliver.
Because of the simple fact that infrastructure drives one´s standard of living, CHEBEL was conceived as the company that would focus on building the obvious: a surface transport pipeline that would finally connect the Americas for uniting all as The Americas trade block. This effort goes forward, and is currently in the phase of implementing its two energy cornerstones to be based in Chile´s Atacama Desert, and the United State´s New Mexican Chuihuahua Desert. Both are the highest, driest in the hemisphere, and the geographically optimal to harbor two necessary solar and hydrogen power supplies for CHEBEL´s Levitated InterNational Causeway (LINC). LINC is a the imagined, now fully conceived 'modern highway' of the 21st century. If its two power supplies alone get built, and nothing else, Chile´s energy woes will be solved, and experts´prognosis for future energy policies will have been re-vectored to again include hydrogen. For 30 years, all G20 Nations had well funded government ´Hydrogen Roadmaps´ that assured the auto makers that their billions poured into R&D for electric, hybrid, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) vehicles would not be in vain.
Unless a country like Chile adopts the best lessons learned from this G20 abandoned research, the auto makers´billions spent on HFC technologies will be cast aside by Big Oil as a poker game, won. Unconventional gas is their new solution. Now the cry is, "Why don´t we have Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cars yet?"
Man was put on the moon without a business plan. Visionaries have long since been forced to work as accountants, computer programmers, and compartmentalized academic researchers. Feasibility studies must now be written ad nauseum, thereby avoiding the actual work of the vision to be realized. Risk is no longer allowed, unless it is for purposes of paying an economist to analyze why an innovation is surely impossible.
This visionary has managed to stay her course...and will continue to do so until mile after mile of next generation solar driven instrastructure is built as humanity´s opportunity for success (paraphrase of Bucky Fuller).
What follows is evidence of the most valuable lesson I learned as a master´s student of art history: focus, focus, focus, stay the course even when others don´t see it, and adopt a creative process that delivers on a single pathway to the initial vision, no faltering or double mindedness allowed. Such was the singlemindedness of Edouard Vuillard´s creative process as compared to his Impressionist colleagues that were forever changing their sketches. Solar and hydrogen energy, fueling all of Spaceship Earth´s infrastructure, was my vision in 1986 only now able to be fully articulated so as to be able to be delivered up by the technologist who put man on the moon as the giant leap for mankind that The Apollo Project really chould have been.
21cdd & SOL·MAX·ION Design Science are stealth start-up concerns formulated under CHEBEL Cos as commercial receptacles of personal and academic research since 1986 focused on the evolution of a next generation transportation engineering system design, ‘LINC – Levitated International Causeway’ for its implementation, globally. These two companies mission and goals are to promote sustainable transportation and utility infrastructure that will effect broad scale change among land use and urban developers.
21st Century Design & Development_US-New Mexico (21cdd)
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´s 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. 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. United Parcel Service (UPS) regards LINC as´their´Internet Packet technology. 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.
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 Chile’s Atacama Desert or other. 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 entirely outside of the box of norms for procedures at this facility
§ Defined and designed a maglev instrument panel, oversaw vendors programming and prototyping
§ 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 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 test purposes, unlike the nearest benchmark & competing design, The German Transrapid MagLev. The exercise was proprietary to my company 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 working directly for 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 inside
of US DoD and approved within weeks for $MMM, after annexation into existing international treaties.
Supported prototyping contracts at Kirkland AFB, 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 highly regarded by the U.S. Military Joint Chiefs of Staff
As Marketing Director, conceived, formulated and managed 600 consortium team and bid with 600 page proposal 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 for Project Management
of U.S. DoD contracts worldwide, segments of the Superconducting Supercoliider in Texas, and traditional transport and hydro tunnels e.g. Boston Tunnel (The Big Dig)
1991 - 1992 COORS Ceramics, Golden, Colorado
Precision Industrial Ceramics Grinder & Oversight of Speciality Metallizing Kilns
1979 - 1992 C.M Thornton Fine Arts, Paris, France
Self-Employed Freelance International Art Broker & Curator
Broker for Museum Quality/Investment Artwork among European and U.S. Collectors, Governments, NS Museums Conceived & curated Commercial Exhibitions drawn from International Collectors & Museums for Fund Raising Events
held at provincial U.S. Museums
Managed, for proprietary but high profile acquisition, highly complex discovery & contracts in Prague, Czechoslavakia
for the Getty Museum during the Velvet Revolution, 1989-90
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 Economics for LINC WAY Transportation & Infrastructure Upgrade
1996 Bachelor of Science Student, Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa
1991 - 1993 Masters/Ph.D. 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, University of Texas at Austin
Specialization: Chemistry, Economics, and Political Science
Thesis: "Art, The Art Market, and Government Regulation"
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 Economics for LINC WAY Transportation & Infrastructure Upgrade
1996 Bachelor of Science Student, Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa
1991 - 1993 Masters/Ph.D. 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, 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
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
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 Ecuadorian Navy asked, on a one hour notice, to use the project to lobby against the U.S. DoD imposed definition of hemispheric defense that mimicked Plan Colombia then trying to impose IMF-financed military equipos across Latin America. LATAM countries were asking for jobs via infrastructure upgrades, not guns. The Americas Project is being proposed as a viable private-public economic development project for the Hemisphere. It stands today as a sustainable Pan American "LINC WAY" aka 21st century Pan American Highway based on its ability to transform the global supply chain as if a macro version of the "Internet Packet Switch" that delivered up the Internet info-revolution. United Parcel Service has stated, "LINC will change how we price freight." The project embodies an alternative but equally effective definition for Hemispheric Defense: Economic Development with Embedded Defense Systems. This alternative, one that can create Apollo-esque era engineering and manufacturing jobs while upgrading hemispheric infrastructure for all, was fully presented with visuals in a printed brochure. By week's end, the approach sucessfully countered the U.S/Colombian definition: sell en masse Lockheed F14s to LATAM. The summary vote by day 5 went in favor of Economic Development with Embedded Defense vs. Arm All with F14s. The U.S. Plan Colombia´s influence was turned back; 36 of 38 Ministers of Defense voted against the U.S. / Colombian definition based on The Americas Project presentation at the 2006 Quito Hemispheric Defense Summit Meeting.
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
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, 1974
Editor, Eight Acres Yearbook, Oklahoma Journalism Award, Best Preparatory Journalism, 1974
B.A. Humanities wth Honors, University of Texas, 1978
Cum Laude Society, Holland Hall Preparatory School, 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.
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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