Thomas Rozman, MBA

Published by Thomas

• Brussels, A Further Point in Time...

  March 24, 2016

• Thoughts on Selective Service

  March 7, 2016

• Requiem for a Mechanical Warhorse

  January 11, 2016

Summary

Experience

• Director

  Virginia Department of Labor and Industry, Richmond Regional Office

  October 2012 – Present (3 years 7 months)

  Currently direct occupational health compliance operations and issued citation settlement processes to include negotiated settlements in a 34 county and municipality jurisdiction in Central Virginia. This activity frequently includes training policy recommendations to engaged leaders of inspected operations. Also supervise support operations for safety compliance, voluntary occupational safety and health compliance, Virginia Labor Law and Virginia Voluntary Apprenticeship Program operations in the same area to include local support policy development and implementation. Serve as the department's project lead for an Assistant Commissioner directed initiative to develop a Virginia Occupational Safety and Health career mapping system and a comprehensive Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Professional Development System. Virginia Occupational Safety and Health operations are benchmarked to required federal state plan agreed to measures at targeted quality levels. Position directly supervises operations of 8 staff and supports and monitors operations of 27 staff. Position requires significant outreach to industry and community organizations with frequent presentations to groups of 30 or more. Outreach has included two invitations to present on the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Compliance Program to the Department of Human Resources Management's/Virginia Commonwealth University's Risk Management Institute. The Project lead for the professional development initiative involves engagement with more than six other state agencies and universities as well as other state programs and federal agencies. Included initiation of exploration with VA Community Colleges Workforce Alliance to examine avenues for joint agency/alliance cooperation--Fall 2013.

• Region Director

  Virginia Department of Labor and Industry

  April 1997 – October 2012 (15 years 7 months)

  -Position oversaw occupational safety and health compliance and consultation, labor law, voluntary registered apprenticeship and support operations for these programs in Central Virginia concentrating for the last decade on occupational safety and health compliance and its support--supervised an organization of as many as 29 employees.
  - Occupational Safety and Health Compliance operations included overseeing inspection operations, private and public sector, resolution of issued citations with inspected organizations through negotiation, and assessing corrective actions by inspected organizations to correct issues identified by inspections.
  -Developed and implemented region strategies within state policy constraints designed to reduce fatalities and injuries on worksites in the region.
  -Developed operational systems and methods that accomplished mission within available resources.
  -From October 2005 to August 2009 served as the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry's Occupational Safety and Health Compliance Program's representative to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Office of Emergency Management's State Emergency Preparedness and Response Conferences with associated policy responsibilities such as development of the draft Virginia Worker Safety and Support Annex to the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan (COVEOP).
  -On request of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development agency head, conducted a month long confidential review of the Building Officials Certification Standards System and associated policy submitting the findings in a report to the agency head. Report was well received.
  -Developed and implemented region budget.
  -Representative to the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce Leadership Council for workforce development.
  -Make training policy recommendations to inspected organizations.

• Capital Outlay Operations Manager, Design and Construction

  Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

  February 1996 – March 1997 (1 year 2 months)

  -Developed project status information weekly for the director on over 300 capital outlay projects of the 1994 General Obligation Bond to allow timely and accurate project status reporting to the legislative oversight committee.
  -As special project manager for early access to newly acquired parks resulting from the General Obligation Bond such as Shenandoah River and James River and using all available fund sites developed and obtained funding for effective access programs.
  -As special project manager for the George Washington Grist Mill Project assured that the 1996 Act of the Legislature required MOU that integrated procurement and capital outlay components in a three phased project was developed, coordinated and signed by the Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources and the CEO of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union by July 1996.
  - Develop and manage project budgets of $500,000-$3,000,000.
  -Managed capital project software management program introduction--PRIMAVERA was the objective system.
  -Developed capital management concepts for Design and Construction.
  -Assigned to a Department of Conservation and Recreation committee formed by the department director to develop proposals to upgrade the department's employee recognition policy and system.
  -Significant interagency work was necessary with a legislative committee, Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Legislative Services, and the Virginia Departments of General Services and Transportation. With supporting counsel from the Office of the Attorney General negotiated the new Occoneechee State Park lease with the Army Corps of Engineers.
  -Oversaw the management of capital outlay and other contracts.

• State Parks Region 2 "Piedmont" Manager

  Division of State Parks, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

  August 1993 – February 1996 (2 years 7 months)

  -Supervised a year round organization of 10 park managers, the state parks logistics center manager and 56 staff that from Memorial Day through Labor Day expanded to 220 employees with seasonal staff and a further 20 concession staff.
  -Develop region wide policies such as park security contingency policies to concentrate additional security resources on security threatened region parks.
  -Oversaw operations of 27 armed state park conservation officers.
  -Developed and implemented park contingency plans such as reinforcing park security during the 4th of July against gang activity.
  -Managed 39,500 acres of state property located from Marshall, Virginia in the North to Buggs Island Lake in the south, Chesterfield in the east and Smith Mountain Lake in the West organized into 13 state parks.
  -Developed and implemented region budget and long range plans.
  -Served as project lead for a very successful public/private partnership capital project that developed the expanded Staunton River Battlefield State Park as a turn key operation. The partnership included state agencies such as the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and private partners such as Dominion Virginia Power.
  -Participated as a member of the acquisition and planning teams for the then new James River and Shenandoah River State Parks.
  -Assigned to a special review panel by the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation commissioned by the director to examine and report on the department's Design and Construction Office's progress in implementing the $92M General Obligation Bond an act of the 1994 Assembly. The review and resulting report involved assessment of programmatic progress on some 300 capital outlay project lines. The director implemented the recommendations.
  -Superintended a very successful unfunded partnership project with the Virginia Army National Guard to rebuild storm destroyed Holliday Lake State Park campground.

• Training Coordinator--Training Officer

  Division of State Parks, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

  September 1992 – August 1993 (1 year)

  -Develop statewide training policy for state parks.
  -Develop, initiate and oversee all police and law enforcement training for a 67 commissioned officer force statewide to include annual Department of Criminal Justice Services in-service requirements through supporting criminal justice academy, annual weapons validation/qualification and policy update.
  -Develop a professional development concept and system for the Virginia State Parks Division.
  -Plan, develop budget, coordinate and implement five 3-4 day major training conferences/in-services for managers, park officers and technical staff--groups as large as 30-70 employees.
  -Develop, write and publish leadership, training and management manuals.
  -Develop and implement necessary occupational safety and health programs such as hazardous materials communication, blood borne pathogens, CPR and First Aid. This work included development and publication of the State Parks Safety and Health Program and establishment of its working safety committee. (Previously a unit safety officer in three different 150-180 employee organizations in 1971-72 that employed heavy equipment of 1/4 ton to 27 tons including cranes and small to large caliber direct and indirect fire weapons--.45 caliber to 90mm. Experience included respiratory protection programs, e. g., respirators.)
  -Effect all necessary certification training such as water/waste water operator certification.
  -Developed and fielded a distance learning leader/management course for parks personnel.
  -Significant interagency work was necessary with Department of Criminal Justice Services, Virginia Department of Transportation and Virginia Department of Labor and Industry.
  -Policy--served with the team that successfully developed the proposal to make changes to Virginia Code that upgraded the then 67 State Parks law enforcement officers from conservators of the peace to conservation officers with statewide powers in the parks jurisdiction with line of duty status.

• Director, Collective Training Directorate

  U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training

  May 1992 – September 1992 (5 months)

  -Supervised a directorate of 27 military and civilian staff to include five lieutenant colonel and a GS 14 (PhD) division chiefs.
  -Executive management responsibility with oversight of Army collective training programs to include interface with the Army Director of Training, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Department of the Army, U. S. Army Forces Command, Army integration centers, Army branch schools and the Reserve Components as well as other national army partners. Involved work with the Navy, Marine Corps, and allied armies.
  -In this and previous position authored or worked in teams that developed critical Army wide training policy such as the Combined Arms Training Strategy (CATS) elements of Army Regulation 350-41 and U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Regulation 350-35 articulating initial CATS policy to include significant policy related text components of Army War College instructional material.
  -Served as lead for development of the Army's CATS which included significant training policy development through work with the Army's integration centers and schools, Army Training Support Center (ATSC) and other agencies as well as consideration and integration of aspects of previous and parallel Army initiatives such as the Standards in Training Commission (STRAC).
  -Oversaw budgets for several Army training programs.
  -Oversaw Training and Doctrine Command's elements of the National Training Centers.

• Chief, Concepts and Strategies Division, Collective Training Directorate

  U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training

  May 1989 – May 1992 (3 years 1 month)

  -Further develop and apply training development and training policy recommendations made by the Department of the Army Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force. (Previous three year assignment had been with the DA Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force as task force lead for infantry systems, lethality systems (less directed energy) and training systems.)
  -Serve as lead for development and implementation of the Army's Combined Arms Training Strategy (CATS)--this work involved significant training policy development and budget assessments. A requirement was consideration of best practices in prioritizing training aids, devices, simulator and simulations (TADSS) resource development and acqisition strategy initiatives for the Army.
  -Interface with allies on military training and programs to include working with the German and British American Staff Talks.
  -Deploy during Operation Desert Storm (1st Iraq War) to assess for the Training and Doctrine Command Commander the status of training at the National Training Center of mobilized Army National Guard Round Out Brigades (white paper report to TRADOC Commander).
  -Assess Reserve component training readiness from the Desert Storm experience to include serving on a Department of the Army review committee.
  -Participate in the Reserve Component Lane Training initiative development.
  -Served as the acting director for over a month.

• Representative at Foreign Government Events & Functions

  U. S. Army & Virginia Department of Labor and Industry

  1973 – 1990 (17 years)

  I have represented the U. S. Army or Virginia Department of Labor and Industry in functions or meetings with foreign governmental organizations/agencies or representatives.
  
  * While serving as an aide-de-camp to the assistant division commander 2nd Infantry Division interfaced with South Korean Army officers to include attending a South Korean Armed Forces Day Reception at South Korea's Blue House, the presidential residence--1973.
  
  * From 1983-85 interfaced with the officers of two West German Army partnership battalions in Erlangen, Hohenfels, Oberviechtach and Pfreimd, Germany.
  
  * While Chief, G-3 Training Resources, 1st Armored Division, from 1985-86 interfaced with German regional planners regarding major training related capital projects in the division area.
  
  * Presented the 1987 briefing of the Department of the Army Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force Report to the German-American Army Staff Talks in Sonthofen, Germany.
  
  * Participated in the British-American Army Staff talks at the Air Force Academy in 1990 presenting material on major U. S. Army training developments.
  
  * Participated in the 1991 British-American Army Pre-Staff Talks at the Ministry of Defense in London.
  
  * From 1989-1992, interfaced frequently with the military liaison officers of the British, Canadian, Dutch, German, Italian, and Turkish Armies on training developments while assigned to the Collective Training Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training, U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
  
  * Represented the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry at a reception hosted by the Mexican Navy in Norfolk in April 2013.

Publications

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  PUBLISHED WORK
  
  
  1. Rozman, Thomas R., and Saunders, William A., “The True School of the Lieutenant,” Infantry, July-August 1980, pp. 16-18. (An article about management by objectives in a military experiential setting as a leadership development vehicle. The article developed from a University of Massachusetts Graduate Business School research paper written by Tom Rozman under the mentorship of Dr. George Odiorne as an independent study requirement in Academic year 1979. Dr. Odiorne was the authority on management by objectives in the country and published significantly on the concept. Colonel Bill Saunders brought perspectives to the initial work that made for a very useful and publishable article.)
  
  2. Rozman, Thomas R., “The Vital Link,” Infantry, March-April 1986, pp. 17-18. (An article about the then mechanized infantry battalion's consolidation of the mechanics of 6 companies into an organization of 60+ mechanics to accept the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The article discussed a success with this initiative.)
  
  3. Rozman, Thomas R., and Sunell, Robert J., “Future Training with the Armored Family of Vehicles,“ Proceedings, November 30-December 2, 1987, 9th Interservice/Industry Training Systems Conference, American Defense Preparedness Association, Washington, D. C., pp. 519-521. (A technical article concerning applications of emerging simulation technology at the time to the Army’s future armored force training systems based on early research, analysis and findings of the Department of the Army’s Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force, January 1986 to July 1987.)
  
  4. Rozman, Thomas R., “Organic Indirect Fire in the Heavy Maneuver Force,” Infantry, March-April 1990, pp. 18-20. (This is an article about problems and possible solutions for organic indirect fire support in the mechanized infantry battalion, an important element of tactical combat capability.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  5. Blankenhagen, Edward E., and Rozman, Thomas R., “A Training Concept for Heavy Forces Modernization,” Military Review, June 1990, pp. 50-57. (This is an article that proposes a comprehensive concept of training for the Army’s future armored forces.)
  
  6. Blankenhagen, Edward E., and Rozman, Thomas R., “The Infantry Mount of the 21st Century,” Infantry, September-October 1990, pp. 21-24. (The article proposes a more realistic assessment of the vehicle system to be used by future mechanized infantry troops.)
  
  7. Rozman, Thomas R. and Saunders, William A. “The Expansible Army,” Military Review, November 1990, pp. 30-39. (This article proposes a mechanism/organization of the U. S. Army that would adapt to anticipated future budgets yet assure a ready and effective Army.) This article was used as a reading for Elective Course SE 206, Reserve Component Forces, United States Naval War College (see course syllabus for 1991-1992 Academic Year).
  
  8. Rozman, Thomas R., “Expanding the Role of Fire and Maneuver Centers,” Military Review, January 1991, pp. 29-35. (An article that proposes more centralized management of Army weapons firing ranges and field exercise facilities.) This article was referenced on page 27, CRS Report for Congress: Natural Resource Issues in National Defense Programs, October 31, 1991, Congressional Research Service, The Hearings, Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, 102d Congress, 2nd Session April 29-30, 1992.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  9. Rozman, Thomas R., “Thoughts on Medium or Motorized Forces,” Infantry, January-February 1991, pp. 22-26. (This article considers application of lightly armored wheeled forces in future U. S. security contingencies.)
  
  10. Rozman, Thomas R., “Making Light Forces More Flexible and Responsive,” Armor, January-February 1991, pp. 18-20. (An article that considers approaches that would make light infantry forces more versatile for future national policy applications.)
  
  11. Rozman, Thomas R., “Making the Combined Arms Training Strategy Work,” Military Review, May 1991, pp. 74-82. (This article discusses the implementation of a comprehensive force education and training strategy for the Army with emphasis on systematic concept and requirement definition and resource acquisition.) This article was referenced on page 27, CRS Report for Congress: Natural Resource Issues in National Defense Programs, October 31, 1991, Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress and on page 245 of California Desert Hearings, Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, 2d Session, April 29-30, 1992. The article also is referenced on page 169 of the TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) Annual History 1 January to 31 December 1991, published by the TRADOC Command Historian’s Office, Fort Monroe, Virginia, in June 1992.
  
  12. Rozman, Thomas R., “Training Combat Support,” Infantry, May-June 1991, pp. 43-45. (By citing a case study, this article proposes a more refined approach to training low density but critical subordinate organizations and employees/soldiers in median organizations, e.g., 700-800 soldiers/employees.)
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  13. Rozman, Thomas R., “OPFOR--The Battle Standard,” Army Trainer, summer 1991, pp. 39-41. (An article that proposes an approach for assuring a critical Army training resource, opposing force, as budgets become smaller.)
  
  14. Johnson, Lory M., and Rozman, Thomas R., “Heavy Equipment Transporters: A Training Multiplier?,” Transporter, July 1991, pp. 36-39. (This article discusses a possible Army concept for training the application of heavy equipment transporters operationally and tactically and their use as a training resource by the armored force to conserve tactical vehicle mileage.)
  
  15. Rozman, Thomas R., “The Mechanized Rifle Company as a Leadership Academy,” Infantry, July-August 1991, pp. 31-35. (This article discusses an approach to leader/manager professional development and education within an organization of 187 personnel.) Per letter of October 3, 1991, Colonel Frederick E. Van Horn, Commander of the U. S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas, this article was commended. Colonel Van Horn thought it “important enough to be placed on file in the Academy’s Learning Resource Center.”
  
  16. Blankenhagen, Edward E., and Rozman, Thomas R., “The Army Officer’s Learning Contract,” Military Review, July 1991, pp. 75-77. (The article proposes a more focused and specific approach to long term officer/manager professional learning--not just formal schools.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  17. Johnson, Lory M., and Rozman, Thomas R., “The Armor Force and Heavy Equipment Transporters: A Force Multiplier,” Armor, July-August 1991, pp. 13-16. (This article examines the combat and training role of heavy equipment transporters in the armored force.)
  
  18. Rozman, Thomas R., “Operational Basing of the Army,” Army Logistician, September-October 1991, pp. 33-35. (An investigation of possible approaches to Army basing in future that considers experiences with the Southwest Asia deployment of Operation Desert Shield and other contingency operations possibilities.) This article was referenced on page 50 of CRS Report for Congress: Natural Resource Issues in National Defense Programs, October 31, 1991, Congressional Research Services, The Library of Congress and on page 268 California Desert Hearings, Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, 102d Congress 2d Session, April 29-30, 1992.
  
  19. Rozman, Thomas R., “Contingency Operations Sustainment Training Strategies,” Army Trainer, fall 1991, page 33. (This article offers an approach to planning future contingency operation’s unit sustainment training strategies like those that became necessary in Southwest Asia, by extending emerging features of the Army’s Combined Arms Training Strategy to such planning.)
  
  20. Rozman, Thomas R., “Reserve Components’ Tactical C2,” Military Review, October 1991, pp. 25-34. (This article examines a possible option to more effective peacetime command and control and training of reserve component maneuver units.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  21. Rozman, Thomas R., “Maneuver and Gunnery Training for Tomorrow,” Military Review, November 1991, pp. 67-73. (This article outlines a concept of full service gunnery keyed to a more pragmatic land use approach given emerging land conservation and military availability trends.)
  
  22. Rozman, Thomas R., “Company D (Mobile Combat Range),” Armor, November-February 1992, pp. 38-41. (This article discusses a method of providing critical training resource support for Army units deployed to areas with minimal training support infrastructure.)
  
  23. Rozman, Thomas R., “Platoon ARTEPs on the Run,” Infantry, January-February 1992, pp. 38-41. (The article discusses an organization’s solution approach toward achieving highly successful training results despite conflicting schedule dynamics.)
  
  24. Rozman, Thomas R., “All-Seeing, All-Killing Air Dimension and Army’s Force Projection Dilemma,” Army, February 1992 pp. 24-27. (This article examines the implications of precision delivery of weapons through the air dimension as demonstrated in the first Iraq War, e.g., the air dimension as a battle system and its effect on more precise applications of scarce strategic projection assets if fewer air delivered weapons are required.)
  
  25. Rozman, Thomas R., “Rethinking Readying the Reserve Components for War,” Army, March 1992, pp. 12-18. (This article describes an approach to developing reserve component unit training strategies in light of Desert Shield and Desert Storm experience and in context of the Army’s Combined Arms Training Strategy.) This article is referenced on page 172 of the TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) Annual Command History, 1 January to 31 December 1991, published by the TRADOC Command Historian’s Office, Fort Monroe, Virginia, June 1992.
  

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  26. Rozman, Thomas R., “Initial Deployment Brigades Cutting Risks,” Military Review, March 1992, pp. 73-80. (This article describes a more flexible approach to organizing and employing initially deployed contingency operations brigades.)
  
  27. Rozman, Thomas R., and Saunders, William A., “An Exercise In Leadership,” Infantry, March-April 1992, pp. 20-24. (This article discusses a comprehensive leader/manager development program on a college campus with high payoff results on austere resources--to include a degree program in management.)
  
  28. Rozman Thomas R., “A Perspective on Mobilization: Expanding to a Larger Force,” Military Review, May 1992, pp. 52-62. (This article discusses a consideration of the impact of a reduced force structure on the Army’s ability to expand to meet different contingency operations scenarios--particularly the leader/trainer corps.) The U. S. Army War College requested permission to print 130 copies for educational use on 5 October 1993 (Course 3, Mobilization, Reconstitution and the Industrial Base, Lesson 3-8-S, 29 October 1993). Permission was granted on 8 October 1993. The Army War College requested printing an additional 425 copies for student handouts for the Department of Corresponding Studies, Course 6. Permission granted on 10 November 1993.
  
  
  29. Johnson, Lory M., and Rozman, Thomas R., “Training the Reserve Components to Standard,” Military Review, September 1992, pp. 36-47. (This article examines the challenge associated with peacetime training of reserve component maneuver units to a known, achievable standard in light of the Desert Shield Mobilization.) This article is referenced on pages 8 and 43 of Post-Mobilization Training of Army Reserve Component Combat Units by Thomas F. Lippiat, J. Michael Polich and Ronald E. Sorter published by RAND, Santa Monica, California, 1992.
  
  
  

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  30. Rozman, Thomas R., “What is the Army’s Combined Arms Training Strategy?,” Army Trainer, Fall 1992, pp. 13 and 56. (Article describes the Combined Arms Training Strategy’s emerging form and purpose.)
  
  31. Rozman, Thomas R., “90s Reserve Roles Mandate Bold New Training Initiatives,” Army, November 1992, pp. 14-20. (This article discusses the issue of a reduced Army school and training establishment meeting the challenges for reserve training in the 1990s.) This was the lead article for this issue of Army.
  
  32. Malcor Dennis P., and Rozman, Thomas R., “Tomorrow’s Training,” Today’s Challenges Tomorrow’s Army II, (a special Department of the Army magazine), December 1992, pp. 6-7. (This article surveys future Army training concepts and the ways and means of supporting them, particularly the contributions of the technology expected to be available.)
  
  33. Rozman, Thomas R., “CATS Is Where It’s At,” Today’s Challenges Tomorrow’s Army II, (a special Department of the Army magazine), December 1992, pp. 16-17. (A summary of the Army’s Combined Arms Training Strategy--what it is and what it is doing for the Army.)
  
  34. Rozman Thomas R., “Training Support Units: An Element of Combat Power,” Army Trainer, Winter 1992, pp. 12-14. (The article describes the possible need for fully deployable training support capabilities able to flexibly meet contingency force training requirements in theater.)
  

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  35. Rozman, Thomas R. Virginia State Parks--The Next Step for Professional Education and Training, published as a concept white paper in booklet format by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, Richmond, Virginia, 3 February 1993. (Analyzes the status of the Virginia Division of State Parks’ training and professional development system as it existed in fall 1992 and suggests a conceptual architecture for a comprehensive professional educational and training system that incorporates existing initiatives into a more effective program--published paper has received wide dissemination at the state and national level.)
  
  36. Rozman, Thomas R., “Theater Level Training Strategy,” Military Review, March 1993, pp. 70-80. (This article discusses the need for theater level training strategies and considers how they might be developed and applied.) In July 1993 this article was reproduced on microfiche by Congressional Information Services. It was subsequently included in their American Foreign Policy Index, a quarterly publication for scholars and researchers. The article has also been considered reading of the Army’s Louisiana Maneuvers (LAM) Task Force, a group charged with the responsibility of shaping the Army’s theater level training system. The U. S. Army War College requested permission to reproduce 745 copies for educational use on 3 October 1993. Permission granted on 8 October 1993.
  
  37. Rozman, Thomas R., “Make-Believe War on the Red River,” Army, published June 1993, pp. 30-38. (Examines the Louisiana Maneuvers and other General Headquarters maneuvers of 1941 in terms of their relevance to theater level training requirements of a contingency operations, force projection Army of the late 1990s.)
  
  

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  38. Rozman Thomas R., Department of the Army, Training and Doctrine Command Regulation 350-35, The Combined Arms Training Strategy, 14 May 1993. (I wrote the initial draft regulation as TRADOC Regulation 350-XX. I served on the regulation’s editorial review team during the review process until my retirement from active duty on 1 December 1992.)
  
  39. Rozman, Thomas R., Department of the Army, Army Regulation 350-41, Training in Units, 19 March 1993. (A major revision and consolidation of several earlier Army training policy publications that provides the Army’s comprehensive organizational (units) training policy.) Wrote the draft Combined Arms Training Strategy (CATS) portions of the new edition regulation that in edited form appear as 14 different sections, to include the definition of CATS, in the published regulation. CATS previously had never been discussed in Department of the Army level policy.
  
  40. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual T-1, Training the Field Staff, 30 June 1993. (This manual describes the doctrine applied by managers to conduct organizational training in the Virginia Division of State Parks--it was adapted with significant rewrite from Department of the Army Field Manual 25-100, Training the Force.)
  
  41. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual T-2, Planning Organizational Training, 30 June 1993. (This manual describes the doctrine to be applied by managers in the Virginia Division of State Parks to plan organizational training--it was adapted with significant rewrite from Chapter 3, Department of the Army Field Manual 25-101, Battle Focused Training.)
  
  
  
  
  

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  42. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual T-3, Training Methods, 30 June 1993. (This manual describes the doctrine the Virginia Division of State Parks managers apply in developing and executing a block of training--it was adapted with significant rewrite from the National Park Service’s manual, Training Methods, 5th Edition.)
  
  43. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, Parks Manual T-4, Manager Development, 30 July 1993. (This manual describes the doctrine and system of manager development in the Virginia Division of State Parks--it was adapted with significant rewrite from applicable portions of Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-32, Leader Development for the Total Army: The Enduring Legacy.)
  
  44. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual T-5, Management, 30 September 1993. (This manual provides the management philosophy of the Virginia Division of State Parks in keeping with currently held management principles, particularly those relevant tenets of Total Quality Management. The manual is a synthesis of Division of State Parks practices, Department of Conservation and Recreation “Vision 2000" management goals and objectives and adapted material from Department of the Army Regulation 5-1, Management.)
  
  45. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual O-1, Operations, December 1993. (This manual states the primary expectations of park management for operation of key park operating systems. The manual was developed from the results of work produced by the 1991 Park Management Review Committee, primarily through rewriting, editing and staffing through Central Office and select field staff for update.)
  
  
  

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  46. Mastaglio, Thomas W., and Rozman, Thomas R., “A Device Based Training Strategy,” Army, February 1994, pp. 38-42. (This article examines the increased application of training aids, devices, simulators and simulations in future integrated Army training as technological advances increase the power and fidelity of these means to provide effective training at affordable sustaining costs.)
  
  47. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, Parks Pamphlet T-1, Training Management School Resource Package, March 1994. (This 48 page publication edited material developed as a distance learning professional development program to educate and train park managers in modern staff training management program planning and execution. The original program was designed for electronic transmission across the State Parks Division’s area network. The pamphlet revises the material into a paper based resource for staff reference and application to site based programs.)
  
  48. Rozman, Thomas R., Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, State Parks Manual O-2, Management Guidelines, March 1994. (This manual provides a baseline procedure for field managers to follow in working through the management decision process with subordinate mangers and staff.)
  
  49. Rozman, Thomas R., “The Combined Arms Training Strategy: On the Ground and at Battalion Level,” submitted to all Army branch journals as a strawman article for use as provided or to be personalized to branch requirements. (Used as the basis for several articles subsequently published by Air Defense, Armor, Chemical, Engineer, Field Artillery, Ordnance, Military Police, and Quartermaster.)
  
  

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  50. Chris Miller with Thomas R. Rozman, “Draft Virginia Worker Safety and Support Annex” to the “Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan (COVEOP)”, a Virginia plan developed for Virginia based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Occupational Safety and Health Office’s “Concept of Operations For the Worker Safety and Health Support Annex Of the National Response Framework (NRF)--July to September 2008. Chris Miller, then Virginia Department of Emergency Management State Planning Program Manager, was the primary author of the draft assisted by Tom Rozman, Central Region Director, Virginia Department of Labor and Industry. Tom Rozman was assigned at the time as primary agency liaison to the Federal Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Emergency Management Office’s State Emergency Preparedness and Response Conference Program, an OSHA monthly conference call with the state programs’ emergency response offices.
  
  51. Rozman, Thomas R., “Introduction”, by request of the artist and the publisher I wrote the introduction to "The Spirit of Polonia A Legacy to Mankind" a publication promoting an exhibit of sculpted work in clay and bronze of significant Poles through history by renowned sculptress Tracy Sugg that was presented at the Polish Consulate in New York City in Fall 2009. The publication was published by the Kosciuszko Foundation.
  
  

  Authors:

  • Thomas Rozman, MBA

• Part 14 of 15

  52. Rozman, Thomas R., "Provacative Thoughts" a book review of Ralph Peters' "New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy" Amazon Books 24 February 2010.
  
  53. Rozman, Thomas R., "The Peasant Prince" book review of Alex Storozynski's "The Peasant Prince" Amazon Books 24 February 2010.
  
  54. Rozman, Thomas R., "Invitation to U. S. Military Academy Class of 1970 to Participate in the Library of Virginia Greatest Generation Archive Project" Association of Graduates USMA Class of 1970 blog site 27 July 2011.
  
  55. Rozman, Thomas R., "Cain at Gettysburg" book review of Ralph Peters' "Cain at Gettysburg" Amazon Books 21 February 2012.
  
  56. Rozman, Thomas R., "Comment to Ms. Margaret Lough's comment piece distributed on the Class website--Value of USMA as Commissioning Source" Association of Graduates USMA Class of 1970 blog site Spring 2012.
  
  57. Rozman, Tom (Thomas R.), "Officership at Its Best" book review of Georg von Trapp's, "To the Last Salute" Amazon Books 14 November 2012.
  
  58. Rozman, Thomas R., Library of Virginia Collection of Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Rozman and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas R. Rozman 1864-2012, archivist Dr. Trenton Hizer of the Library of Virginia initially compiled in 2012.
  
  59. Rozman, Thomas R., one of 37 coauthors, chief author Major General Robert J. Sunell, Department of the Army Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force Final Report, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Department of the Army, 31 August 1987. This was a 6,780 page report of 16 Volumes. Tom Rozman concentrated on the six infantry systems being considered, lethality technologies less directed energy and training systems. Volume 11 of the report specifically addressed training considerations. A declassified reference to this work was first noted in November 2012 on the Defence Technical Information Center website.
  
  

  Authors:

  • Thomas Rozman, MBA

• Part 15 of 15

  60. Rozman, Tom (Thomas R.) "A Soldier Tells a Story That All Americans Should Know" book review of Ralph Peters' "Hell or Richmond" Amazon Books 9 May 2013.
  
  61. Rozman, Tom (Thomas R.) "A Needed Comment on a Vital National Subject" book review of Thomas Ricks' "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today" Amazon Books 19 May 2013.
  
  62. Rozman, Thomas R., "Confidential Report" issued to the agency head, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development of an impartial review of the Building Officials Certification Standards System requested by the agency head in 1998. The report was well received. Recommendations regarding several critical findings were accepted and applied.
  
  63. A Virginia Occupational Safety and Health staff career map and professional development strategy/system draft directive was submitted to the Assistant Commissioner in May 2013 for policy review. Draft was well received and has been shared with the Washington and Minnesota State Programs, Virginia Community College Work Force Alliance, Virginia Commonwealth University's Risk Management Certification Program and Policy Management Group, and West Virginia University's Safety Management Program. Feedback has been highly positive.
  
  64. Rozman, Tom "A Leader's Guidebook for Today's Leader" book review of Edward Rowny's book "Smokey Joe & the General" Amazon Books 16 December 2013.
  
  65. Rozman, Tom "Courage beyond Measure--a Struggle for Freedom in Central Europe" book review of Jan Karski's book "Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World" Amazon Books 6 April 2014.
  
  66. Dean, James, Rozman, Tom, and Winn, Gary--"A Modified Model for Experiential Training for Safety Professionals and Project Engineers", American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Professional Development Conference Proceedings, Dallas, Texas 7-10 June 2015.

  Authors:

  • Thomas Rozman, MBA

• JOURNALS, AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE PUBLISHED ARTICLES, PAPERS, MANUALS AND REGULATIONS

  * Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Department of the Army
  * U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
  * Armor, U. S. Army Armor Center and School
  * Army, Association of the United States Army
  * Army Trainer, Training and Doctrine Command
  * Infantry, U. S. Army Infantry Center and School
  * Army Logistician, U. S. Army Logistics Center
  * Military Review, U. S. Army Command and General Staff College
  * Proceedings, American Defense Preparedness Association
  * Transporter, U, S. Army Transportation Center and School
  * Today’s Challenges Tomorrow’s Army II, Department of the Army
  * Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks
  * The Library of Virginia
  * The Kosciuszko Foundation
  * Amazon Books
  * Association of Graduates United States Military Academy
  

  Authors:

  • Thomas Rozman, MBA

Honors & Awards

• Legion of Merit

  U. S. Department of Defense

  November 1992

  Awarded for exceptionally meritorious Service from November 1982 until November 1992 with service culminating as Director of the Collective Training Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training, U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

• Army Meritorious Service Medal

  U. S. Army

  Three awards--1st award made by 1st Reserve Officer Training Corps Region, U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command in June 1982 for achievements relating to implementation of Military Qualification Skills, functionalization of curriculum, coordination of support from the Army Reserve and National Guard, and effective employment of early commission lieutenants while assigned to the instructor group at the University of Massachusetts. Second award made by 1st Armored Division in May 1986 for exceptional performance as executive officer 2nd Battalion, 6th Mechanized Infantry in Erlangen, Germany and Chief G-3 Training Resources in Ansbach for work as project lead on several capital outlay projects--installation of 11 Conduct of Fire gunnery simulation trainers (COFTs), in cooperation with the U. S. Army Staff College a battalion-division command group simulation trainer, increase of the Training Management Area's FY 86 and 87 USAREUR competitive projects budget by over 100%. Third award made by Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, U. S. Army Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force (AFVTF) in June 1989 for outstanding analysis of training requirements for a new fleet of Army armored vehicles and coordination of requirements and technology for the design of future infantry fighting vehicles and antitank weapons systems.

• Army Commendation Medal

  U. S. Army

  Three awards--1st award made November 1972 by 1st Cavalry Division for performances as a platoon leader of a provisional infantry platoon organized from headquarters company assets performing riot control training and exercises, a mechanized infantry platoon leader in support of Air Cavalry Combat Brigade Test I, as well as executive officer (second in command) of a mechanized infantry company, a mechanized infantry battalion headquarters company and an armored brigade headquarters company. Second award made December 1973 by 2nd Infantry Division for performance as an infantry platoon leader and aide-de-camp to the Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver and later the Assistant Division Commander for Support, Republic of Korea. Third award made by 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Erlangen, Germany in May 1984 while serving as battalion executive officer and acting commander, 1st Battalion, 46th Mechanized Infantry, for work to reorganize the battalion, an 800 man organization, to the new combat organization of the field Army at the time (acting commander for over two months).

• Army Achievement Medal

  U. S. Army

  Three Awards--1st award made by 1st Reserve Officer Training Corps Region in April 1982 for performance as Assistant Professor of Military Science with the Instructor Group at the University of Massachusetts for two laudatory comments made in the U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Inspector General's Report concerning university relationships and the quality of the cadet corps. Second award made by 1st Battalion, 46th Mechanized Infantry in December 1983 for work to advance physical training in the battalion by personal example such as obtaining maximum score on the annual physical test and conditioning exercises with the battalion's troops. Third award made in September 1990 by U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command for work in development of the Army's Combined Arms Training Strategy.

• Department of the Army Certificate of Achievement

  U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

  Three Awards made by U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command in June and October 1989 and January 1991 for excellence in physical fitness as demonstrated by maximum scores on the Army Annual Physical Fitness Test.

• Headquarters Company U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Certificate of Achievement

  Commander Headquarters Company

  Five Awards--June and November 1989, July 1991, and February and June 1992 for physical excellence in obtaining a maximum score on the Army's Annual Physical Fitness Test.

• U. S. Army Infantry Center Certificate of Achievement

  U. S. Army Infantry Center

  July 1976

  Award made to recognize training excellence of Company A, 1st Battalion, 58th Mechanized Infantry, 197th Separate Infantry Brigade while serving as the commander of Company A.

• Certificate of Recognition

  Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

  October 1997

  Awarded to recognize contributions to the Department's upgrade of its employee recognition system.

• Certificate of Appreciation

  Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

  June 1995

  Awarded by the Director of State Parks in recognition of devoted and valuable service to the Department. Significant to this award were successes with several major projects such as project lead for the extensive expansion of Staunton River Battlefield Park from a 6 acre park to a 270 acre full service park (this was a substantial intra-interagency private/public partnership effort with Old Dominion and Virginia Power, VDOT, DGS, local government and legislative offices), initiation of the planning phase for the newly acquired James and Shenandoah River Parks, engagement of Virginia Army National Guard engineer assets (one engineer platoon for two weeks) to rebuild storm destroyed Holiday Lake State Park Camp Ground, an unfunded project, rebuild of storm damaged Bear Creek Lake State Park entrance causeway, another unfunded project done jointly with VDOT, and serving on an internal audit team of Design and Construction's progress with the 1994 General Obligation Bond project inventory.

• Beta Gamma Sigma

  University of Massachusetts Chapter

  December 1978

  Business Administration National Honor Society--elected member based on graduate record of academic and leadership performance excellence.

• The Workforce All Star Award

  Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

  May 2000

  The award recognizes stellar individual and group effort to further workforce development in the Greater Richmond Region.

• Certificate of Appreciation

  Commonwealth Managers Association Board

  June 2013

  Presented by the Commonwealth Managers Association Board for exceptional service from June 2006 to June 2013 as a board member, vice president and president.

• Virginia Department of Labor and Industry STAR Award

  Virginia Department of Labor and Industry

  Twelve STAR Awards awarded by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from 1997 to 2013 for productivity, quality excellence, and operational effectiveness.

• Virginia Department of Labor and Industry Commissioner's Cup Award

  Virginia Department of Labor and Industry

  Nine awards of the Commissioner's Cup to Central Region--these are collective awards made from 2001 to 2014 for region excellence, exceeding production goals and performance quality measures.

• Army A

  United States Military Academy

  Black Army A athletic letter award for intercollegiate soccer--player coach.

• Freshman Athletic Numerals

  University of Connecticut

  Freshman athletic numerals awarded for participation on the university's freshman soccer, wrestling and lacrosse intercollegiate teams.

• One of the Founding Army ROTC Scholarship Program Cadets--University of Connecticut

  U. S. Army

  September 1965

Languages

• German

  Limited working proficiency

Volunteer Experience & Causes

• President

  Commonwealth Managers Association Board--Virginia

  June 2006 – June 2013 (7 years 1 month)

  As a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University's Commonwealth Management Institute and the Advanced Management Institute served as member, vice-president, and president of a ten member board (June 2006-June 2013) that orchestrated association operations for seven years planning and delivering four management enhancement oriented professional development programs per year to include an annual conference/meeting. Operated in close association with Virginia Commonwealth University's Policy Management Group (PMG). The association draws its primary membership from graduates of PMG's Commonwealth Management Institute.

• Committee Member

  National Conference on Ethics in America, U. S. Military Academy

  Present

  Served on several volunteer planning committees, most recently in 2012 to successfully engage a Baldrige National Quality Award winner executive on the panel.

• Examiner

  Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  2006 – 2008 (2 years)

  Served as an examiner.

• Team Member

  Virginia Governor's Operational Reviews 2007

  Present

  Served as a team member on the Communications, Fleet Management, and Mail Processing Operational Review Teams from January to May of 2007. Substantial proposals and recommendations, many having to do with policy, to the Governor's office through the Chief of Staff resulted. Many of these proposals and recommendations were applied--see reports posted on the internet.

• Council and Sub-Committee Member

  Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce--Leadership Council WORKFORCE ONE

  July 1998 – January 2002 (3 years 7 months)

  The Council was focused on developing strategies and initiatives designed to develop the Richmond Area work force into a world class capability and economic multiplier.

• Interviewer

  West Point Alumni Association of Williamsburg

  Present

  Supported a high school leadership award program of the society for several years.

• Instructor

  Garrison Catholic Chapel, Erlangen, Germany

  Present

  Instructor (1984-86)

• Coach

  Youth Soccer Programs

  Present

  Coached youth soccer teams in Amherst, Massachusetts while assistant professor at UMass and Western New England College (1979-1982) and Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as a student at the Army Staff College (1982-83).

• Sponsor Representative and Volunteer

  Boy Scouts of America

  Present

  From 1971-1972, Ft. Hood, Texas, served as a cub scout pack organization sponsor representative involved in insuring needed support from the organization to the cub scout pack leadership. The pack had been experiencing some difficulties in sustaining itself and this situation was improved. In the 1979-82 and 1986-90 periods while at the University of Massachusetts and in Williamsburg,Virginia served several times with two Boy Scout Troops as a volunteer.

• Coach/Player

  U. S. Military Academy "B" Squad Soccer Team

  Present

  Player coach, awarded varsity letter

• Volunteer Contributor and Archivist

  Library of Virginia

  2010 – Present (6 years)Arts and Culture

  As a volunteer supported a Library of Virginia initiative to build a "Greatest Generation Archive". A significant archive documenting the military service of some 90 Virginians and Americans resulted from this collaboration.

• Volunteer Presenter, Commentator and Concept Developer

  United States Military Academy and Kosciuszko Foundation

  July 2008 – Present (7 years 10 months)Arts and Culture

  Since 2008 I have participated in the capacity of a volunteer presenter, commentator and concept developer in several important initiatives to enhance the modern awareness and appreciation of General Kosciuszko's contribution and relevance as a champion of American and international individual liberty and as an exemplar of military officership in its most ideal form. Work supported several key projects such as the installation of a bronze bust of General Kosciuszko, the brilliant work of Tracy Sugg and contribution of classmate Phil Harris, in the new Military Academy Library in October 2008 and concept development support to the restoration of the historic Kosciuszko's Garden at the Academy, an initiative led by Dr. Betsey Blakeslee.

• Contributor

  U. S. Army in Germany Website

  June 2013 – Present (2 years 11 months)Arts and Culture

  Provided photos, documents, publications and interpretation regarding 2nd Battalion, 6th Mechanized Infantry,1st Battalion, 46th Mechanized Infantry, 547th Engineer Battalion, 34th Signal Battalion, 1st Battle Group, 30th Infantry, 16th Infantry Regiment, 39th Infantry Regiment, 169th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 9th Infantry Division, 11th Airborne Division, 43rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Division, and 112th Service Center Headquarters, DoDDS schools and other subjects concerning the USAREUR experience from 1951-1994 of 8 uniformed and ten dependent family members.

• Volunteer

  National Infantry Museum

  PresentArts and Culture

  From September to October 2013 in cooperation with Director of Military Staff Zachary Hanner at the National Infantry Museum, engaged in a project to successfully transfer to the museum an old pattern 50th Infantry Regimental color.

• Volunteer Support

  International Theological Institute, Trumau, Austria

  1984 – January 2014 (30 years)

  From 1984 until 2014 I supported the President Rector in various volunteer capacities frequently traveling to Austria and the two campus sites (one previously in Gaming) over that time, most recently in August 2013.

• Mentor

  Royal Military College of Canada

  March 2014 – October 2014 (8 months)

  The College sponsored a virtual mentor program until October 2014 that allowed the sharing of experience with developing leaders.

• Partner

  West Virginia University

  January 2014 – Present (2 years 4 months)

  In cooperation with Dr. Gary Winn engage in work to develop/promote enhanced occupational safety and health organizational leadership systems.

Education

• Kaiserslautern American High School

• Kaiserslautern American High School

• University of Massachusetts

  MBA, Business Management and Leadership--focus on logistics, A

  Combined graduate study at the University of Massachusetts and the the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College involved completion of 103 graduate semester hours completed in two continuous 12 month resident programs. There were no summer breaks--a virtual immersion program. Courses focused on corporate business operations to include quantitative analysis, accounting, finance, security operations of large combat formations, logisitcs as well as public policy, program management and program development aspects. Much of this background was applied effectively while assigned to the U. S. Army Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force, Collective Training Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training, U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Virginia State Parks, and Design and Construction, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

  Activities and Societies: Exercised instructor privileges as an assistant professor subsequent to degree award for several courses to include a three credit hour management/leadership course and a three credit instructional methods course at the University of Massachusetts, Western New England College, and Westfield State College for three and a half years. Coached youth soccer in Amherst for four years.

• U. S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Diploma, Ground Security Operations Brigade to Division and Staff Functions, A

  One year of resident study completing 67 graduate hours essentially equivalent to a specialized masters degree in public policy. Study focused on larger combat formation tactical and operational functions, operations, planning, logistics and leadership. Some elements of the course addressed Army development programming.

  Activities and Societies: -Youth soccer coach -Intramural soccer team--midfielder -Catholic Chapel

• U. S. Military Academy

  BS, Engineering

  At the time the Military Academy was attended the curricullum was an engineering program requiring completion of 170 semester hours. Significant course work in public policy, political systems and economics and leadership supplemented the engineering study. With 30 semester hours taken at the University of Connecticut, 200 undergraduate semester hours were completed in five years.

• Additional Education and Programs

  Diplomas and Completion Certificates

  Resident programs have been completed through Peking University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Connecticut, U. S. Army Infantry School, OSHA Training Institute, National Institute for Standards and Technology, U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1st Armored Division and 2nd Infantry Division Troop Schools.
  
  Infantry School completions were the Officer Basic & Advanced Courses and Parachute & Ranger Schools. Eight years of 6 month to 4 year resident instruction have been completed at the Univ. of Conn., U. S. Military Academy, U. S. Army Infantry School, Univ. of Mass. and the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College.
  
  Courses also completed--conflict of interest, occupational safety & health, personnel (HR), supply, incident command management, and veteran training through the U. S. Army Adjutant General's School, FEMA Emergency Management Institute, Commonwealth of VA Knowledge Ctr., VA Dept. of Labor and Industry, and VA Dept. of Veteran Services.