Lt. Col. Steven E. Thomas

**Email: <stzion@charter.net>**

# HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

-   An accomplished professional with over 27 years of experience in
    counseling, pastoral care (drug/alcohol, psychological, geriatrics,
    hospice, grief, administration, volunteer services and public
    affairs).

-   **Strong skills in organizing work flow, ideas, materials and
    people.**

-   **Strong communication and interpersonal skills and building trust
    levels.**

-   **Background broadened by overseas travel and positions.**

# EDUCATION

-   **University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Bachelor in Social Studies
    Education**

-   **Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, IN, Master of
    Divinity**

-   **Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne IN, (ABD) Dr. of
    Ministry**

-   **American Association of Pastoral Counseling (4 units)**

-   **Clinical Pastoral Education (3units)**

# PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

**SUPERVISION/CRISIS INTERVENTION**

-   **Prison Chaplain, Male Medium Security Prison, Program and
    Administration for 10 years.**

-   **Senior Coordinating Chaplain for Wisconsin Department of
    Corrections for 5 years.**

-   **Ordained Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Pastor for 27 years.**

-   **Crisis Intervention counselor and social case worker experienced
    in techniques and case management from pastoral, social work and
    psychological background involving issues of physical, emotional,
    addiction, sexual abuse/neglect, stress illness, divorce,
    separations and death and corresponding grief, hospice, AIDS,
    employee relations and Critical Incident Stress Management.**

-   **Developed and worked plans to provide thorough demographics on
    residents and study information for prevention and intervention
    programs for workplace stress.**

-   **Served 5 years as Commanding Officer of a Marine Support Unit with
    focus on emergency response to combat terrorist activity and natural
    disaster. Responsibilities were to recruit, interview, select
    personnel, develop tasking, and develop individual and unit goals
    and training to meet those goals and evaluate.**

-   **Served in Desert Storm in Casualty Assistance Officer Training,
    and forward deployed to Okinawa, Japan as Deputy Group Chaplain
    Third Force Service Support Group in charge of 20 chaplains and 50
    support personnel serving on various task forces involved in
    disaster response.**

-   **Deployed to the Combat Services Support Detachment (Operation
    Provide Comfort) Northern Iraq, Kurdish Refugees as the Marine
    Liaison and Critical Incident Stress Manager.**

-   **Served 3 years as the Command Chaplain for Military Sealift
    Command Far East headquartered out of Yokohama, Japan. I coordinated
    for the spiritual and emotional and support needs of the crews and
    their families of 40 ships attached to the command, from Oakland, CA
    to Persian Gulf from Arctic to Antarctic Circles. During this time I
    was able to keep all vessels supplied with an enlisted liaison and
    maintained direct contact in times of crisis intervention and
    providing the necessary support to meet the needs of the fleet.**

**TEACHING AND TRAINING:**

-   **Qualified Instructor/Teacher, Undergraduate work done in Social
    Studies Education and Economics, secondary level.**

-   **Health Services Instructor for Integnet, Agnesian Health Network
    in CPR, First Aid, Blood Borne Pathogens.**

-   **Training Officer for Pastoral Care Department, Naval Hospital
    Portsmouth, VA developed and coordinated and provided weekly
    refresher training for departmental and hospital staff, volunteers
    and community organization in dynamics of family, intervention,
    communication skills and use of available community resources.**

-   **Commanding Officer of Marine/Naval Support Unit tasked with
    setting up training for twelve Western US units in various climates
    ranging from desert, tropical to cold weather environments that
    included radiological, biological and chemical conditions**

-   **Experienced in developing curriculum and creating activities to
    facilitate application of learned material.**

**ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES:**

-   **Coordinated a wide range of logistics for office functions to
    successfully integrate the many demanding priorities of high
    pressure, faced paced operations, working quickly, efficiently and
    cooperatively with management and employees.**

-   **Prepared edited, proofed correspondence, reports, proposals grant
    agreements and contracts.**

-   **Planned organized and presided over conferences, ceremonies,
    meetings and media training.**

-   **Planned and executed operations to bring 12 military support units
    to central locations for training.**

## Lt. Col. Steven Edward Thomas

**Email:** <stzion@charter.net>

Work History:

Part-time work while attending school

MAY 73-MAY 74 University of Illinois @ Urbana, Student Accounts Clerk

### MAY 74-JUN 74 Urbana Public Schools, Temporary fill Social Studies teacher 

### SEP 71 - MAY 78 Teaching Assistant for Dr. David P. Scaer, Concordia Sem/Univ. IL

JUL 74 - JUL 76 Avis-Rent-A-Car, Springfield, IL, Computer Rental Agent

NOV 74 -- JUN 76 Springfield IL, Public Schools, Home Bound Instructor

JUL 76 -- JUL 77 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Lowell, MI (internship)

JUL 77 -- AUG 77 US Navy Chaplain School (8 week basic officer training)

SEP 77 -- JUN 78 Avis Rent-A-Car, Fort Wayne, IN Rental and Maintenance
Agent

#### Ordained Minister JUN 1978

JUL 78 -- OCT 80 Peace Lutheran Church, Detroit, MI, Assistant Pastor

OCT 80 -- MAR 84 US Navy Active Duty

MAR 84 -- MAY 86 Immanuel Lutheran Church, Sheboygan, WI Assoc. Pastor

MAY 86 -- OCT 92 Immanuel Lutheran Church, Sheboygan, WI Sr. Admin.
Pastor

FEB 91 -- SEP 91 Active Duty US Navy/Marine Corps, Active Duty

MAR 93 -- NOV 93 St. John's Lutheran Church, Port Washington, WI ,
Interim Pastor

AUG 93 -- SEP 03 Dept. of Corrections, Fox Lake Correctional Sr.
Chaplain.

Senior Chaplain WI Dept. of Corrections (1995-2000)

JUN 02 -- Present Zion Lutheran Church, Burnett WI

#### Military Service: CDR,CHC, USNR

JAN 77 -- JUL 77 Reserve Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 26, Grand
Rapids MI/Staff

SEP 77 -- JUN 78 Voluntary Training Unit, Fort Wayne, IN, Staff Officer

SEP 78 -- OCT 80 4^th^ Marine Air Wing Support Group 47/Wing Medical HQ
Selfridge ANG, MI

Medical Administration/Staff Officer/Chaplain/General's Staff

OCT 80 -- MAY 82 USS America CV-66 (aircraft carrier) Norfolk, VA,(Wing
Chaplain, Damage

(active duty) Control/Fire Fighting, Nuclear Weapons team, Medical
Triage support, Naval Flight Officer Training Pensacola, FL

MAY 82- MAR 84 Naval Hospital Portsmouth, VA, Staff Chaplain, Division
Officer, Clinical Resident, and Ancillary Services Dept. Training
Officer, Special Psychological Response and Treatment team member.

JUN 84 --DEC 88 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Naval Air
Station, Glenview,IL

Planning and Mobilization Air/Ground Team, Staff, Chaplain

OCT 86 -- OCT 88 2^nd^ Reserve Naval Construction Regiment, NTC Great
Lakes, IL Chaplain

JAN 89 - SEP 93 Marine Expeditionary Force, Support Unit 713, NTC Great
Lake, IL

Commanding Officer

SEP 90 --SEP 90 Desert Shield, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, CA

(active duty) Mortuary and Mass Casualty Assistance Training Instructor

FEB 91 -- JUL 91 Desert Storm 3^rd^ Force Service Support Group,
Okinawa, Japan

(active duty) Deputy Command Chaplain 3^rd^ FSSG, 9^th^ Motor Transport
Batt., 3^rd^ Landing Support Batt., deployed Northern Iraq for Operation
Provide Comfort, Staff Officer, Air/Ground Mobilization team, Refugee
Liaison, Road Master/Nuclear Materials team, transport driver/Hazardous
Jump Platoon, Break Out Officer Typhoon and Natural Disasters.(mobilized
for Okinawa Typhoon, Bangladesh Cyclone, Mt Pinatubo eruption).

JUL 91 -- SEP 91 Base Operations, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,
IL, staff/project officer,

SECDEF, Washington, DC, Fort Sheridan Housing Evaluation Project.

OCT 93 -- OCT 94 Voluntary Training Unit 1318, Madison, WI. Mobilization
Officer, Community Liaison Officer (Red Cross Services, Dane County
Area)

OCT 94 -- OCT 98 Military Sealift Command Pacific/Far East, US Navy/ US
Merchant Marine Air/Ground/Sea Mobilization team, Disaster Support
Officer, Load Officer, Liaison Officer, Ship Habitability Officer,
Refugee Support Officer, Community Services Officer, Command Chaplain.
Mobilized for Typhoon Ikki. Forward deployed to Yokohama, Japan and
Pusan, Republic of Korea for operations.

OCT 98 -- MAY 00 Voluntary Training Unity 1318, Madison, WI,
Mobilization Officer.

JAN 97 -- present Wisconsin Wing Civil Air Patrol, US Air Force
Auxiliary. Dodge County Composite Squadron 004

MAR 04 -- present Great Lakes Region Deputy CISM

**Military Annual Training:**

1977. Officer Basic Training, NETC Newport RI 8 weeks

1978. OJT Naval Air Station Glenview IL (30 day staff officer training)

1979. Desert Survival Training/Mobilization, MCAS El Toro/MCB 29 Palms,
      CA

1980. Field Medical School/ Marine Corps Base, Camp LeJeune, NC

1981. Active Duty Deployment to Persian Gulf/Mediterranean

1982. Aviation Division Officers School/AODA Clinical Resident Training

1983. Instructor Naval Hospital Orientation/Mass Casualty Triage

1984. Naval Construction Battalion Training

1985. Operation Green Stinger, RNMCB, NAS Glenview, ANGB Fort McCoy,WI

1986. Earthquake Reconstruction and Mobilization Training MCB Camp
      Pendleton,

1987. US Army Jump School Fort Benning GA.

1988. Cold Weather Operations/Blizzard Training, ANG Camp Ripley, MN

1989. US Coast Guard Support Training, Gov. Island, NY

1990. Advanced Supervisory Training, Naval War College, Newport RI

1991. 1^st^ Marine Brigade Service Support Group, MCAS Kaneohe, HI

1992. Field Grade Officer Training/FBI Terrorist Training, MCDCC
      Quantico, VA

1993. 1^st^ Recruit Regiment Chaplain/4^th^ Recruit Battalion, MCRD
      Parris Island, SC

1994. TRANSCOM Mobilization course/Travis Air Force Base, CA

1995. Supervisory Command Tour of Operations Japan, Korea, Guam,
      Singapore, Persian Gulf, and pre-planning Operation Ulchi Focus
      Lens (ROK re-invasion)

1996. Operation Ulchi-Focus Lens, Republic of Korea

1997. TRANSCOM Load Officer Course, Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA,
      Critical Incident Management Course, NTC Great Lakes, IL

1998. Military Sealift Command, Port Operations Officer School, Naval
      Supply Base, Oakland,CA

1999. Medical First Responder Training

##### Region Chaplain Staff Colleges

1999,2001,2002,2003,2004 GLR, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Wisconsin Wing CAP Squadron Chaplain of the Year 1999 and 2004

Great Lakes Region CAP Squadron Chaplain of the Year 2004

Deputy Director Great Lakes Region CISM