Program/Project Director

O. C. WORTHAM

125 Vermont, Rt. 100C

Johnson, VT 05656

802-479-3339 · E-mail: itxinc@yahoo.com

Career Goal: Project Management  
              Areas of expertise: Higher Education, Community Organizing, Criminal Justice, Social Services, Political Action, Fundraising

Adept Organizer with ability to resolve problems and obtain peak levels of performance:

• Designed and facilitated retreats for judges, district attorneys, police chiefs, and lawyers.
• Devised first Crises Intervention Network to reduce and redirect gang violence and hostility.
• Organized residents in Scarsdale, NY to form an effective Human Rights organization.
• Special Consultant to the FBI for psychological profiling, serial murders, and CSI.

Change Catalyst  to create common vision and forge positive and holistic relationships:

• Created model supportive services program for colleges enrolling non-traditional students.
• Administered focus groups of foundation executives for clients in the not-for-profit sector.
• Visited Scotland Yard to research personal project to predict where burglaries would occur
• Created shadow organization to peacefully assume control of an entire city in Ohio.

Results-Orientated Leader who consistently executes cutting-edge strategies & techniques:

• Saved social service agency over $500,000 by eliminating 30% of non-productive programs
• Lowered Philadelphia burglary rate 20% by using computer to assign police patrols
• Redesigned and certified training program of 160,000 volunteers & 6,000 paid staff at GSUSA
• Taught at Marist, Rutgers, Antioch, and Temple – Sociology, Psychology, & Criminal Justice

FORMAL EDUCATION

          PhD  ………  Higher Education Adm, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

          MA    ……… Community Psychology/Counseling, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

          BA    ………  International Relations/Political Science, San Francisco State University

          AA    ………   Liberal Arts, San Francisco City College & Santa Monica City College

          AS    ………  Computer Technology, IBM Apprenticeship and Dutchess Comm. College

                              Physics Major at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio for two years

RECENT PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Johnson State College, Johnson, VT ………..……………….………….…….…..    2007 – 2010

·        Adjunct Professor in Psychology and Sociology

TransCultural Awareness Institute^®  ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,…………..……  1988 - Present

·        Established consulting firm in trans-cultural and human relations training workshops

• Consultant to organizations developing projects in the United States and Africa