Ted Schooley

Curriculum Vitae

Summary of Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineer, State of Louisiana (Mechanical)

• 24 years successful experience in small and medium business management

• Experience in HR management including recruitment, development, and retention of personnel

• Skilled in engineering, business management, customer service, and problem solving

• Solid knowledge of Window software applications, various special purpose software programs 

(HTML web site design, 3D CAD, desktop publishing, graphics design, video editing, etc.), as 

well as customization of proprietary software

 Management Flexibility and Accomplishments:

• Entrepreneurial Skills: Conceptualized, created, and managed CompServCo, a successful 

software development, marketing, and fulfillment company that produced a product MacCAD 

that won a “Top 100 Macintosh Products” award. CompServCo also won fulfillment contracts 

(packaging design, packaging, and shipping) for several other engineering software products. 

These contracts also included co-marketing efforts such as multi-product display ads in national 

magazines, technical support, packaging and national trade shows.

• Marketing: After a few years, CompServCo won the exclusive North American distributorship 

of a proprietary 3-D CAD kitchen design software product, Planit. To fulfill this contract, 

CompServCo spun off another software distributing company, Planit USA. In return for a 

lucrative distributing contract, CompServCo though Planit USA, capitalized the marketing and 

database development of Planit in the USA, and brought this new product from being unknown 

in this vertical market to a market leader within a few years. Sold the company in 1997.

• Contract Negotiations: 11 years experience in upper management level contract negotiations

with major manufacturing firms in the United States, Canada, and Europe (i.e. Masco, 

Woodmode, Aristocraft, Craftmaid, and Merillat).

• Sales & Marketing: Over 17 years experience in marketing, sales, and customer service. 

Responsible for conceptualizing and coordinating a national marketing campaigns for several 

software products, including personally creating display ads, internet advertising (web site & email campaigns), national trade shows (booth design and marketing focus), and negotiating comarketing efforts. As VP Sale & Marketing, I grew a commercial print shop to win American 

Printing Magazine’s “Top 50 Fastest Growing Printing Companies” award. I also put systems 

in place to diversify the sales base and move the company to web-based publishing.

• Software Development: Managed software programmers developing various products for 

CompServCo: MacCAD (3-D graphic engineering templates), Riddler (teaching software that 

incorporated text-graphics-sounds in a gaming style user interface), My Family Tree 

(genealogy software that mapped and produced a family book with text and photos), Planit Cut 

List (produced a cut list of panel parts and sizes from a list of kitchen cabinets).

• Engineering: Space Shuttle External Tank: As a facilities design engineer for Martin 

Marietta, under contract to NASA, building the External Tank for the Space Shuttle I designed 

and managed construction of a dust collection system for Thermal Protection System (TPS) 

machining facility, re-designed a faulty lifting hook and insertion mechanism that inserted an 

umbrella-like washing probe into the interior of the liquid hydrogen portion of the space shuttle 

external tank, designed and oversaw the TPS application on an emergency basis on the dome of 

the LOX (liquid oxygen) tank of the External Tank used in the first Space Shuttle flight.
• Engineering & Manufacturing Management: Starting as an engineer at Dixie 

Manufacturing, I co-designed pneumatic instrumentation that sensed emergency conditions at 

the oil wellhead and shut down all operations using pneumatics only (no electricity or sparks to 

ignite fuel). After being promoted to General Manager, I was responsible for all aspects of 

production and marketing of the company’s products. In my youth, I started a jewelry 

manufacturing business that successfully mass produced and marketed silver and gold jewelry 

before returning to school to obtain my engineering degree.

• Environmental Regulatory Management: 12 years experience managing permitting 

programs (New Source Review and Technical Services Units) of the Air Quality Bureau, New 

Mexico Environment Department. Responsible for overseeing of constructing permitting (new 

sources and source modifications) for all applicable sources of air pollution in the State of New 

Mexico. Under my management there was a marked increase in the quality of permit review, 

permitting guidance, as well as timeliness and quality of permits issued. Additionally, finding 

the unit’s team spirit and job satisfaction at remarkably low levels, I initiated programs and 

management style to bring the team spirit to a high degree of harmony and sense of purpose. 

Work History

• 6/01 – Present NMED, AQB Manager, NSR Permitting Unit

Santa Fe, NM Manager, Technical Services Unit

• 6/97 – 5/00 TLC Printing & Copying, Inc VP Sales & Marketing

Metairie, LA

• 1/97 – 6/97 Sabbatical USA, Europe, Asia

• 5/86 – 1/97 Planit USA Owner (sold in 1997)

Slidell, LA

• 7/84 – 1/97 CompServCo Owner

Slidell, LA

• 1/82 – 7/84 Dixie Manufacturing, Inc. General Manager

Harvey, LA

• 2/79 – 1/82 Martin Marietta Aerospace, Corp. Facilities Design Engineer

Metairie, LA (Space Shuttle Exterior Tank)

• 8/77 – 1/79 LSU at New Orleans Student, engineering

New Orleans, LA

• 2/74 – 7/77 Abraxas Jewelry Manufacturing Owner

New Orleans, LA

Education, Certifications: Professional Engineer, Louisiana Mechanical Engineering

LSU, New Orleans BS. Mechanical Engineering

University of Texas at El Paso BS. Math, Physics

Interests: Gardening, reading, jewelry making (certified gemologist), writing, sailing, and hiking.