Soccer Sports Administration Expert Witness

EXPERIENCE

SOCCER REFEREE & ADMINISTRATOR
1982 – present
•    USSF Referee (1995 – 2009)
•    AYSO, National Referee
•    AYSO, Advanced Referee Assessor
•    AYSO, Advanced Referee Instructor
o    Trains and certifies AYSO Referees
o    Trains and certifies AYSO volunteers on AYSO policy and Safe Haven
•    AYSO, Area Referee Director of Instruction (1999 –  2003)
o    Coordinated and conducted referee training programs throughout the West Side, Central, and South Central Los Angeles and surrounding communities
•    AYSO, Regional Referee Administrator (1996 – 1999)
o    Responsible for all aspects of referee program in Santa Monica, CA

CITY OF SANTA MONICA – Santa Monica, CA
Internet Systems Analyst, 1992 – present
•    Coordinates 45 departmental web content managers
•    Responsible for on-line government services delivered via Internet and Intranet
•    Created City of Santa Monica Web Site
•    Frequent speaker on technology and public policy

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE – Santa Monica, CA
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, 1997 – present

MCS REHABILITATION – Los Angeles, CA
Controller, 1990 – 1992
•    Reported to Managing Partner

WAHL INSTRUMENTS, INC. – Culver City, CA
Aerospace Projects Manager, 1988 – 1989
•    Reported to President and Chief Executive Officer
•    Responsible for aerospace business segment
•    International marketing support
•    MIS Manager

HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY – El Segundo, CA
Sr. Project Engineer, Space Strategic Systems 1978 – 1988
•     Design and manufacture of civilian and military space borne electronic subsystems
•    Individual projects budgeted over $10 Million
•    Computer Aided Design Center Management
•    VLSI circuit design
•    Computer Aided Design Methodology Development

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – Pasadena, CA
Software Consultant 1977 – 1981
•    Developed operating systems for imbedded microprocessor systems
•    Developed real time data collection software on RT-11 systems

Les McCann, Ltd. – Beverly Hills, CA
Road Manager 1975 – 1976
•    Responsible for equipment transportation, maintenance, and technical aspects of performances on live tours.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Master of Business Administration, 1981 – 1984
Concentration in Marketing, Hughes Aircraft MBA Fellow.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Bachelor of Science, Engineering, 1973 – 1979
Concentration in Computer Engineering, Vice President of UCLA Water Ski Club

COMMITTEES
•    Santa Monica AYSO Executive Board (1996 – 1999)
•    North Hills AYSO Board (2006 – present)
•    Chairman, District Advisory Committee on Instructional Technology, Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District (1993 – 2002)
o    School Board appointment to chair technology oversight committee
o    Conducted public hearings, investigated, and recommended on policy issues
o    Created and maintained School District Technology Use Plan
o    Recommended technology budget enhancements to School Board
•    Treasurer, Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, California (1994 – 1997)
•    Southern California Governments Internet Users Group Steering Committee (1995 – 1996)

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS – Available Upon Request

SPEECHES, TALKS, & PANELS
•    “An Institutional Fiber Optic Network (I-Net),” Public Technology Institute, Congress for Technology Leadership, Portland, Oregon, April 13, 2005
•    “Planning and the Digital World,” California Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 8, 2002
•    “Managing Your Municipal Web Site,” California Association of Public Information Officials Annual Conference, Shell Beach, California, April 24 & 25, 2002.
•    “E-mail Push and the World Wide Web” and “Streaming Video, Council Meetings Live on the Web,” 2001 Web Forum and E-Government Seminar, California Association of Public Information Officials “Crime Prevention On-line: Making Your Web Site Work Harder,” California Crime Prevention Officers’ Association, 2001 Southern Chapter Conference, April 26, 2001
•    “Putting in Your 2 Cents, On-line!,” Digital Government 2000 Principal Investigators Workshop, Los Angeles, California, May 2000
•    “The Future of E-Government,” Palm Springs, California, California Association of Public Information Officials Annual Conference, April, 2000
•    “Technology in Municipal Government,” Ventura, California, MMASC Ventura County Chapter Monthly Meeting, January 27, 2000
•    “Citizen Access to the Web-enabled Government: Technologies for Public Engagement,” Third Annual Southern California Executive Leadership Forum, Pasadena, California, August 18, 1999
•    “Connecting People, Business, and Government with Technology,” Lyons International, Santa Monica Chapter, Santa Monica, California, August 5, 1999
•    “Delivering Services Electronically,” Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Membership Luncheon, Santa Monica, California, January 11, 1999
•    “Delivering City Services Through the World Wide Web,” Connecting Electronically With Your Constituents, City of Los Angeles Information Technology & General Services Committee, Los Angeles, California, November 13, 1997
•    “The Virtual City Hall – Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet for Municipal Management,” MMASC Annual Conference, Ventura, California, August 7, 1997
•    “Electronic Delivery of City Information and Services,” Y’s Men Club, Santa Monica, California, January 28, 1997
•    “Local Government on the Internet,” Transforming Local Government Conference, Long Beach, California, May 19, 1996
•    “Communicating With Your Public Through Technology,” California Society of Municipal Financial Officers Annual Conference, Pleasanton, California, February 25, 1997
•    “HTML and the World Wide Web, No Big Thing” or “How to Create a Home Page on the Internet and HTML,” California City Clerks Conference, Santa Barbara, California, April 26, 1996
•    “Politics of Doing a Web Site,” Southern California Government Internet Users Group Workshop, Lakewood, California, April 25, 1996
•    “Community Building and Access,” Electronic Government: Opportunities in Conducting the People’s Business on the Internet, Association of Bay Area Governments Conference, San Jose, California, April 19, 1996
•    “CityLink and the Internet Superhighway,” League of California Cities Public Works Officers Institute, San Diego, California, March 13, 1996
•    “Using Electronic Delivery of Government Information for Better Contact with the Community,” 3CMA Mini Conference, Moreno Valley, California, December 7, 1995
•    “Public Access,” The Greater Southern California Government & Business Tech Expo, Los Angeles, California, September 27, 1995
•    “Electronic Democracy in Santa Monica, The Public Electronic Network,” The 1995 Municipal Information Systems Administrators Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 9, 1995
•    “Electronic Democracy in Santa Monica: The Public Electronic Network,” Technology in Government Week, Ottawa, Ontario, October 26, 1994
•    “Serving Communities Through Technology,” League of California Cities Community Services Conference, Sacramento, California, April 15, 1994
•    “Who Will Pay?,” invited testimony delivered to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce at a public hearing titled “Telecommunications to Serve the Cities: Universal Service in Urban America,” Los Angeles, California, February 16, 1994
•    “Electronic Democracy in Santa Monica,” Community Information Technology Forum, Pasadena, California, December 3, 1993
•    “Ask the Expert: Technical Assistance for Creating Services That Utilize Technology,” Connections: Telecommunications & Human Needs (Alliance for Public Technology Workshop), Culver City, California, September 28, 1993, San Diego, California, September 30, 1993, San Francisco, California, October 20, 1993, Sacramento, California, October 22, 1993

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