Leveraging Experience
I would like to introduce you to my background. I have owned a home here in Raymond since 1984 and currently live in my forever home in a town that I truly love.
Community Service
- Coached Windham Little League for 10 years.
- Coached Windham Soccer for 10 years.
- President or Vice President of the Andersen Road Association for 26 years.
Career
- City of Portland Firefighter/EMT; 1979 through 2005.
- Elected as Portland Firefighter’s Association President for 13 years.
- Sole labor representation when the Ford Foundation selected the City of Portland as one of the top five best labor/management cities in the United States.
- City of Portland’s Employee of the month in 1988.
- Appointed by Governor McKernan and served over twenty years to represent public safety on the Consolidation and Oversight Committee of all local districts in Maine.
Raymond Public Service
- 2004 Comprehensive Plan Committee
- Served on two Raymond Hiring Committees
- Wage and Benefits Committee
- Public Safety Building Citizen’s Needs Assessment Committee including the Space Analysis, and Review Committee and the development of the Request for Proposal (RFP) building specifications, utility needs, and future expected annual expenses to operate.
- Shared duties with Bob Murray as “Clerk of the Works” and “Supervisor”, providing oversight of the construction phase of the current Public Safety Building. I personally saved the town over two hundred thousand dollars because I recorded everything I saw with photos.
Chief of the Fire/Rescue Department for 13 years.
During my tenure as Fire Chief, I led the design of the hydrant location system; Negotiated the donation of land for the parcel on which the station sits; Initiated the Fire Department finance model that currently raises over $200K revenues to offset the Public Safety’s budget and reduced the average scene arrival time in half from 23 minutes to an average of 12 minutes.