TOM S.

TARGOS
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Grant Specialist, Aurora Health Care; April 2012 present. Communications Project Manager, Kenosha Community Foundation; January 2011 - present. Southern Lakes Newspapers; October 2010 March 2012:

SKILLS Project Management: Professional (PMP) Certification.

Correspondent for the Westosha Report and Lake Geneva Times. Staff Writer and Editorial Assistant, Delavan Enterprise.

Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State; 2000 2009 (Resigned to care for ailing parent in the US):
Officer at the Kandahar (Afghanistan) Provincial Reconstruction Team. Latin America Regional Refugee and Humanitarian Aid Coordinator; Bogota, Columbia and Quito, Ecuador. Human Rights Officer-Columbia, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Washington DC. Program Officer, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM); Washington DC, Belgrade, Serbia and Pristina Kosovo.. General Services Officer, US Embassy Minsk; Minsk, Belarus.

Technical Communications

Computer (PC, Mac)

RECENT TRAINING University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Agile Project Management, Microsoft Project 2010. Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design: Visual Literacy Coordinated Use of the Adobe Creative Suite in Marketing Design & Communications. College of Lake County (IL): Project Management Foundations / Exam Preparation.

Ameritech / SBC Communications (now at&t); 1995 2000:

Project Manager- Product Management division. Project Manager Consumer Services division. Internal Auditor Administrative Services division.

Program Evaluator, State of Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau; 1992 1995. Connecticut General Assembly; 1992 Legislative Session.
Aide to State Representative Irving Stohlberg.

Olin Corporation (now Arch Chemicals); 1986 1992

Group LeaderResearch & Technical Services Cleaning Products. Research Scientist Surfactants.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1985 1986

Laboratory Research Scientist in material science.

EDUCATION Gateway Technical College, Certificate - Advanced Technical Communications. The University of Hartford, Masters - Public Administration. The Pennsylvania State University; PhD Chemistry. The University of Illinois; Bachelor of Science - Chemistry.