## Ted Schooley

Curriculum Vitae

Summary of Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineer, State of Louisiana (Mechanical)

• 2 4 years successful experience in small and medium business management

• Experience in HR management including recruitment, development

, and retention of personnel

• S kill ed in engineering , business management, customer service

, and problem solving

• S olid knowledge of Window software applications, various special purpose software programs (HTML web site design, 3D CAD, desktop publishing, gr aphics design, video editing, etc.)

, as well as custom ization of proprietary software

Management Flexibility and Accomplishment s :

• Entrepreneurial Skills : Conceptualized, created, and managed CompServCo , a successful software development , marketing, a nd 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 al so 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 dis tributorship 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

dat abase 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 Uni ted States, Canada, and Europe (i.e. Masco, Woodmode, Aristocraft, Craftmaid, and Merillat).

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

R esponsible for conc eptualizing and coordinating a national marketing campaigns for several software products , including personally creating display ads, internet advertising (web site & e

mail campaigns), national trade shows (booth design and marketing focus), and negotiati ng co

marketing efforts. As VP Sale & Marketing, I grew a commercial print shop to win American Printing Magazine’s “Top 50 Fastest Gr owing Printing Companies” award. I also put systems in place to diversify the sales base and move the company to web

- bas ed publishing.

• Software Development : Managed software programmers developing various pr oducts 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 des ign 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 a n 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 oxy gen) 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 p romoted to G eneral M anager, 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 Revie w and Technical Services Unit s) of the Air Quality Bureau, N ew 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

Mexi co. Under my management the re 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 i nitiated 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 Manu facturing, Inc. General Man a ger Harvey , LA

• 2/79

– 1/82 Martin Marietta Aerospace, Corp. Facilities Design Engineer Metairie, LA (Space Shuttle Exterior Tank)

• 8 /7 7

– 1 / 79 LSU at New Orleans Student, engineering New Orleans, LA

• 2/74

– 7/77 A braxas Jewelry Manufacturing Owner New Orleans, LA

Education , Certifications : Professional Engineer, L ouisiana Mechanical Engineering LSU, New Orleans BS. Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at El Paso BS. Math, Physics

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