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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Forty years of management and operations experience in manufacturing and Hospitality industries.
Thirty three years in hotel/resort operations and marketing
Ten years in multi hotel/resort management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2001 to present
Have enjoyed early retirement with limited consulting assignments in hotel and resort operations

THE SAGAMORE RESORT, on Lake George @ Bolton Landing, NY
Managing Director: September 1991 - June 2001
Full responsibility for operation and marketing of this four diamond, 350 room lakeside resort with six food and beverage outlets, banqueting and conference center, full service European spa, tennis center and a Donald Ross eighteen hole championship golf course. This property was under management contract with Omni Hotels through July 1995 and has operated as an independent property since.

OMNI HOTELS (DUNFEY HOTELS), HAMPTON, NH
August 1976 - August 1991

Sr. Vice President, Franchise Operations, 1989 - 1991
Led effort in concert with development staff to increase the number of franchised properties from two to sixteen.

Sr. VP, Service Management, 1988 - 1989
Responsible for leading corporate national sales and marketing program, operations quality control and standards and corporate centralized purchasing.

Sr. VP, Operations and Asset Management, 1986 - 1988
Responsible for and supervised the financial/operations functions of twenty-one hotels with a staff of four VP's of Asset Management. Led the operations opening of newly constructed hotels and the take over process of properties acquired from other owners and management companies

VP, Regional Director of operations, 1981 - 1985
Supervised the general managers of four to seven properties throughout the eastern half of the USA, Responsible for the operations merger/acquisition process of the Omni Hotels Company by Dunfey Hotels in 1984

VP Managing Director, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC 1980 - 1981
Assigned to this newly acquired 770 room property to install company operating standards and to begin the process of a total renovation in concert with co-owners architects and designers

General Manager, Omni Parker House, Boston, MA, 1976 - 1980
Directed the operation of this 556 room property during its post renovation market place repositioning period bringing it to the flagship position in the company

SONESTA HOTELS, BOSTON, MA, 1968 -1976
VP General Manager, Sonesta Hotel , Atlanta, GA, 1974 - 1976
Opening general manager of this 220 room property from early construction phase through first year of operation

The Plaza Hotel (a Sonesta Hotel) New York, NY, 1968 - 1974
Started hotel career at this 900 room historic property and held the following positions:

- VP, Sales and Service, 1973 - 1974
- Director of Rooms Division Operations, 1971 - 1973
- Director of Management Services, 1968 - 1971

PROCTER & GAMBLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 1960 - 1967
Held a series of plant engineer and production manager positions with this consumer product manufacturing and marketing company in four different locations over seven and a half years.

EDUCATION
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, TROY, NY
B. S. Industrial Engineering, 1960