PATRICK JOSEPH Chalmers

Talented Owner with excellent marketing, customer service and facility oversight skills and more than thirty years of experience. Highly effective and comfortable working with people at all levels in organization.

In my first job as a clerk, writing lesson plans, speaker notes, test questions, student handouts and education of apprentices information represented the daily tasks.

Not much later I was in the Army; part of my duties included writing purchase documents and technical specifications.

Then back home from the Service, my job included writing training materials, workbooks, contracts, public relations articles for the local newspaper, and even fraternal and business newsletters.

Moving on to management work, I was called on to write all the above as well as proposed training programs for major corporations, like the Burlington Northern Railroad of St. Paul, MN. Later, Engineering Specifications became part of my writer's portfolio like major projects such as those for Special Hazards Systems in Tucson, Houston and around Chicago at the Daly Center Office Building as well as St. Joseph Hospital, and even for Chemical Plants near Lake Calumet.

My job titles ranged from shop-serviceman, soldier, to weigh-master and from District Manager to CEO. Later, I was a teacher, instructor, and, then, professor. Yep, I started as a “gofer” ending as “da boss”, and, during my last decade at work, became known as “Doc”. Over the years, I was ‘up and down, over and out”, but I never stayed down very long. One of my brothers-in-law said, “You had a good run.” And, you know, I'm still in the run.

As an educator I was called on to write papers about teaching and learning. For a time, I was a reviewer of others' writings for the Technical section of the International Communication Association; and occasionally for major textbook publishers. There was a Masters of Communications Degree Thesis: Conflict Resolution as a Positive Variable of Interpersonal Communications. Then it was Dissertation Time when I wrote: An interpretive description of What It Means to be a Professional Adult Educator.

Along the learning path: Millikin University was the center of most of my BA degree credits in Business studies; US Army Signal School for Electronics; ITT ESI for Electronics Engineering Technology; Governors State University awarded the BA in Liberal Arts Studies; Governors State also granted my MA in Communication Studies. The Ed D degree in Leadership and Educational Studies came from Northern Illinois University.

LaSalle Extension University Accounting Studies, and, Alexander Hamilton Institute Business Studies. Various Engineering Studies from Industry and US Army Signal Schools were central to my Engineering Studies in Manufacturing, Fire Protection, and Electronics Technologies, New York Institute of Photography and Governors State University both contributed to my Fine Arts Studies, Long Ridge Writers Group, and more, learning chances also put new tools in my work belt.

• Rotary International
• American Marketing Association

Awards -

NV-THS Certificate - 1999

Illinois Vocational/ Technical Educational Certificate - 1997

Instructor of the Quarter Award - 1995

SME - Senior Professional Engineer Membership - 1990

NICET SrFPET Certificate - 1986

GFPS FPS Hydraulics and Computer Program Certificate - 1982

US Army Signal School Avionics Graduate -1978

Alexander Hamilton Institute - Business Program-1970

LaSalle Extension University - Accounting Program - 1967

US Army Proficiency Award - 1965

US Army NCO Academy Graduate - 1963

Knights of Columbus 3rd Degree is a Charitable Organization sponsoring Community Societies such as Veterans, Single Moms, Orphans, and Widows

Knights of Columbus 4th Degree is a Patriotic Degree dedicated to Memorial Ceremonies and Recognition of Civilian, Veterans, an d servant Leaders in the Community and Nation.

Ordo Franciscanum Saeculorum (O.F.S.) is a Canonical Catholic International Secular Fraternity dedicated to human services for peace and good.