To be the best at what I do, and

To make the most of a vocation or job and to obtain the Highest Echelon Possible 

Qualifications - Am capable in most aspects of the seafood industry. I have sold fishing gear, invented and marketed fish traps, exported fresh flounder/tuna to Japan, consulted to the FAO (branch of the U.N. in Sri Lanka). Owned Seafood Restaurants along with Wholesale and Retail seafood operations.

Work History
1976 - Taught school, Piscataway High School, N.J. - Building trades instructor, curriculum was welding, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, taught until 1979. Got another B.A. at night during this period at Rutgers.
1982 - Layout engineer on new Conway hospital. Liaison between contractor and architect.
1983 - Consultant, United Nations/ Master fish trap fisherman, attached to the FAO, small-scale inshore subsistence fisheries program in the Bay of Bengal. Worked in Sri-Lanka for almost a year.
1984 - Owner of Offshore Seafood. Started a retail/wholesale seafood market, sold the retail operation in 1991.
1992 - Exported fresh flounder to Japan with ADS Enterprises. Shipped an average of 300,000 lb. of fresh fluke per 3-month season.
1994 - Shipped oysters to Hooters on the East Coast on a national contract. Operated in Murrells Inlet S.C. Started to cut fish again for the local restaurant chains.
1996 - Moved the operation to Myrtle Beach, opened a fish cutting/flounder/tuna export operation in a fish house on Broadway Street with a 30--seat restaurant in the front of the fish operation. Sold 1.5 million dollars per year in fresh fish. Sold this operation to Phillips Foods from Baltimore.
1998 - Global Fish Director/Director of Fish Production - Started as a consultant to Phillips Foods  Set up fish processing operation in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Started the Fish Program from the Very Beginning. My mission was "To take a product from the 3rd world and make it into a premium frozen product with the taste profile of fresh".

 There still is no Equal to the Frozen Product I created for Phillips.

Taught 75 women (in Sulawesi) how to cut fish to my specs, set up logistics and processing procedures. Worked with the fisherman, showed them how to use ice, insulated boxes, gilling and gutting practices and how to make simple and more effective bottom longlines.  Brought over circle hooks and had them make "passive fishing gear" (fish traps made from bamboo and pipe pole fishing multiple hooks).

Opened up the following fish processing facilities from 1998-2008:

1. Sulawesi Indonesia
2. General Santos, Philippines
3. Ranong, Thailand
4. Pasarewan, (Java)
5. Tawau, East Malaysia
6. Gauyaquil, Ecuador
7.  Suriname
8. Brazil
9. Panama
10. Oman
11. Yemen
12. Peru
13. Indonesia

Performed surveys in:

1. Costa Rica
2. Sulawesi, Indonesia
3. Phillipines
4. Indonesia
5. Panama
6. Ecuador
7. Oman
8. El Salvador
9. Suriname

Criteria for survey - Ascertain biomasses of demersal and pelagic species to see whether there are substantial landings to make the harvest of such species a viable entity for commercial processing. If species do exist, where and to whom will the product sell.

Present - Writing the Data for a Mr. Fish website.   MrFish.com will be a site for consultants to post their resumes and also for prospective employers to view who and how many seafood experts are available for the fields needed. No longer working for Phillips Foods out of Baltimore. Their Loss...

Capabilities -

• In plant employee education = supermarkets, food purveyors, restaurant chains, international seafood processors. (fish school)
• Surveys - Biomass, determination, commercial viabilities.
• Plant inspections - HACCP compliance, health and sanitation practices  PUFI Standards
• E.U. Specifications - labeling, types of cuts, sizing etc.
• Quality control standards
• Cold smoking of tuna and other species/well versed in different types of cold smoking processes. TRI-Gas
• New product development - Train staff how to cut fish to your specs
• Kosher certification - Enact process of Kosher Application. Understanding the laws of Kashrus and working with the Orthodox Union inspectors to certify the plant and products.  
• Sales - Have sold fish for 25 years, know a lot of Buyers in the Business, can walk into a restaurant and saute' a piece of fish for a chef to make a sale.
• Seafood buyer training - show him how to buy better, especially fresh fish.
• Importing/Exporting - Well versed in the methods of container stuffing, use of temp-tales temperature recording and the ins and outs of customs and documentation for different species.

Languages - Spanish, can get by in a Spanish speaking country

Accreditation - Federal Bluefin Tuna License, HACCP Certificate

Education -
1965 - High school, Hightstown, N.J.
1966-1968 - Hiram Scott College, Nebraska
1968-1972 - USC Columbia, S.C.- Bachelor of Arts degree
1976-1979 - Rutgers University - Bachelor of Arts Vocational Education degree
1979-1980 - Rutgers University - Masters Credits, Vocational Education
 

Certificates - 2 teaching certificates Vocational Education

Patents - Have 2 patents pending and 1 patent applied for on my oyster-shucking machine, fish traps and chaffing dish.