Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Texas, District 32, 2016

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 32, 2014

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 30, 2012

Chair, Dallas Mayor’s Committee for the Employment of People

Board Member, Disability Rights Texas, 2007-2010

Board Member, Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, 2004-2010

Chair, Dallas Mayor's Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities, 1990-1992

Leader/Learning/Development, CompuCom Systems, 2010-present

Leader, Learning and Development, CompuCom Systems, 2009-present

Author

Executive Coach/Founder/President, Manera Group, 2007-present

Business Development, Everest Group, 2005-2006

Human Resource (HR) Outsourcing Practice Leader, Alsbridge Group, 2004-2005

Chief Executive Officer/Owner/Founder, PeopleSolutions, 1994-2004

Senior Vice President, Optimance, 1990-1993

Manager, Ernst and Young, 1988-1990

Director, Human Resources, Recognition Equipment, 1987-1988

National Recruiter, Frito Lay, 1985-1987

Manager Executive Search Research, Arthur Young Executive Resource Consultants, 1985-1986

College Relations Manager, InterFirst Bank Dallas, 1983-1985

Manager, Employee Relations, Public Service Company of North Carolina, 1980-1983

Member, The Dallas Assembly, 2000-present

Member, Board of Directors, Clean Dallas Incorporated

Member, Board of Directors, Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities

Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Human Resources Certification Institute

Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federatiion

Member, Board of Directors, Dallas Chapter, American Society for Training and Development, 2012-2013

Member, Board of Directors, Disability Rights Texas, 2009-2012

Member, Board of Directors, International Coach Federation of North Texas, 2010-2012

Member, Board of Trustees, Southlake Carroll Independent School District, 2000-2001

Member, Board of Directors, United Cerebral Palsy of Texas, 1995-1996

Founding Member, Carroll Education Foundation, 1995

Graduate, Leadership Dallas, 1993

Graduate, Partners in Policymaking Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, 1993

Awards:

Commendation, President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1991

Incorporated (Inc.) 500, Incorporated (Inc.) Magazine, 1999

Portfolio Company of the Year, National Association of Small Business Investment Companies, 2001

Partners in Policymaking, Texas Council for Developmental Disabilties, 1993

Dallas 100, Carruth Center for Owner Managed Business, Southern Methodist University, 1998

Volunteer of the Year, Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, 1991

Favorite Book:

Tragedy and Hope by: Carroll Quigley

Favorite Quote:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Travel and Physical Fitness

Publications:

Educational Inclusion: Segregating the Disabled is Costlier in the Long Run, The Dallas Morning News, 1994

Give Your Employees Better Benefits by Firing Them?, Dallas Business Journal, 1997

The Search for Good Employees Will Never be the Same, Dallas Business Journal, 1997

Altered Ego(Link), Incorporated Magazine, 1999

Eight Elements of Effective Recruiting, Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Tech Biz, November 2000

Farming Out Human Resources May Reap Greater Efficiencies, Dallas Business Journal, 1997

Building the New Employee Loyalty is Worth the Investment, Dallas Business Journal, 1997

Sexual Harassment Investigation, Texas Association of Personnel Consultants, 1997

The Capital Funding Needs of Start-Up and Emerging Businesses, Congressional Record, 2001

Practice What You Preach, Texas Lawyer, 1999

Employers Must Learn How to Invest in the Hiring Process, The Business Press, 1999

The Bridge Act-A Tax Plan to Help Small Businesses Keep Growing, The Business Forum Online, 2003