Summary of Qualifications & Accomplishments

• A nationally respected cosmetology school and salon industry futurist!
  
  
• Served 14 years as CEO of the National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences.
  
  
• Served 15 years as Vice-President and Controller of twelve beauty colleges and one trade technical school in the Southern California, Arizona and Nevada areas.
  
  
• Outstanding organizational and team management skills. Political savvy, common sense and knowledge to guarantee a smooth-running, cost-effective operation.
  
  
• Outstanding understanding of 21st century IT technology necessary to run a well-organized office and lead it into the future.
  
  
• As the youngest Chair of the National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences (NACCAS), was nationally commended for bringing a new cohesiveness and unity to the Commission, while successfully creating a more open, vital and effective forum.
  
  
• Superior communication and public relations skills. Offers a unique sense of fair play, humor and uncanny perceptiveness in all interpersonal relationships.
  
  
• Expert leadership and management abilities complemented by the ability to inspire cooperation and respect from peers, public and management teams.
  
  
• The professional beauty business is a highly segmented and fragmented marketplace. Through expertise, network contacts and leadership abilities, was able to organize the first all-inclusive federation to help solve problems that face each of the many different beauty industry sectors.
  
  
• Developed the most advanced state-of-the-art computer system currently used within the accrediting community to track a full range of information on accredited schools.
  
  
• Responsible for moving the cumbersome, yet required accreditation process from a slow mail delivery system to one that is conducting it business instantaneously with its schools over the Internet.
  
  
• Developed an award-winning professional salon and school industry website that attracts over 400,000 hits per month. The website provides a full range of information and services needed by accredited schools as well as the entire professional salon industry. It offers a totally free Job Bank with a list of career opportunities that most closely relate to the training that the schools provide. Over 2,500 jobs were listed. The website also provides and a free Resume Bank where cosmetology school graduates and salon industry professionals can post their resumes.
  
  
• Responsible for expanding the readership of the NACCAS Review Newsletter to over 4,000 schools, manufacturers, associations and salon industry resources throughout the country. This has become one of the leading publications read by cosmetology school owners who need pertinent up-to-date industry information.
  
  
• Developed the only recognized National NACCAS Job Demand Survey for analyzing career opportunities, cosmetology earning power and the state-of-the professional beauty industry. This study has been quoted in numerous professional and consumer publications worldwide. It remains the only credible source of qualitative and quantitative information inclusive of the salaries and demands for the salon professional. This survey has been facilitated four times over the last fourteen years, with the extremely consistent results each time. The last survey covered not only data on a national level, yet it also researched the state-by-state employment demand within each of the various professional beauty industry segments. The most recent survey was mailed to over 66,000 salons nationwide with a 10 percent return at a cost to the commission of just under $130,000.
  
  
• A major player in developing and delivering changes to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act from 1990-2004. This also includes working with others to effect legislation through the appropriation process of Congress that would have adversely affected beauty schools across America.
  
  
• A member of a family who has successfully run beauty schools for over Sixty Two Years in Southern California. You can say "I have grown-up in the cosmetology school and beauty businesses. This includes everything from making shampoo to building a school in my lifetime. There is little that I have not seen in my 54 years of being part of the professional beauty industry.