I was born in Tarpon Springs Florida and have lived in this area all my life. My greatest desire as a child and young adult was to become a police officer. At the age of nineteen I began a career in law enforcement that lasted for more than twenty-five years. My career took me from the streets as a patrol officer to managing a police department with a four and half million dollar budget, forty-eight sworn officers and about thirty support personnel. My experience includes the following:
- Writing and managing budgets
- All levels of purchasing from hundreds of dollars to over $100,000
- Writing policies
- Evaluating personnel
- Disciplining personnel
- All aspects of hiring personnel from writing job descriptions to reviewing resumes to interviewing applicants.
- Scheduling personnel for twenty-four hour operations
- I’ve taken departments outside the police department that were not performing to standards to operating well above standards.
- In 1990 my wife and I opened a small business that employees 5 people and is very successful.
I learned these skills on the job. I do not have a college degree, although I have been to enough classes that would probably qualify me for one. I have been to many management schools including a 400 hour command school. Managing people and assets is something I am good at. If you want real life experience, you have come to the right place.
