RESUME FOR STEPHEN JOLIN

4820 SW Barbur Blvd. #34PortlandOR97201

Tel. 503-227-0422, Fax 503-227-3104, E-mail sjolin@teleport.com

ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, EXPERIENCE

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT CONSULTING.February, 1981 to the present.Owner and sole principal of MuniCom.

·Assisting Cities and Counties planning, negotiating and administering cable communications franchises in many States, including OregonWashingtonCaliforniaArizonaTexas and others.Major projects have included assisting in design and implementation of franchising processes, negotiations for initial franchises, franchise renewals, and transfers of cable system ownership, feasibility studies and ascertainments for municipal and educational telecommunications, evaluation of cable system construction and technical performance, evaluation of annual cable company reports, budget planning for local programming, verification of franchise fee amounts, rate review, evaluation of proposals for interconnection of area cable systems, evaluation of cable data transmission feasibility, development of PEG access programs, municipal cable system ownership study.

·Conducting information seminars, brainstorming, performing organizational analysis, doing feasibility studies and carrying out other work to identify communications needs and goals for organizations, and evaluate potential uses of communications technologies, including cable, satellite, telephone, audio and video production.

·Conducting financial and management planning for local government emergency communications and other agencies. 

·Teaching the course "Cable Television in the Cities" in the Urban Studies graduate program at PortlandStateUniversity; writing; and participation in professional organizations, including the Oregon and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS.1975?1981.Director of City of PortlandOregon Office of Cable Communications; Aide to Portland Mayor and City Commissioner Connie McCready.

·Planning and directing the City of Portland's cable communications franchising process, including preparing RFP, draft ordinance and evaluation procedure, designing regulatory process, staffing citizens' committee, evaluating cable industry proposals, holding public hearings, coordinating political process, negotiating franchise agreement.

·Administering Portland cable franchises.

·Planning and coordinating development of City-owned, closed-circuit cable system.

·Planning, system design and project management for development of Portland/Multnomah County Emergency Medical Services system.

·Planning for Portland/Multnomah County 911 emergency telephone system.

·Serving as management liaison with Portland Fire Bureau, Public Works Department, other agencies.Writing speeches, assisting in drafting various city legislation.

BUSINESS AND FINANCE.Intermittently, 1961 to 1987. 

·1983-1987--Principal and President of corporation raising capital for start-up and developing businesses.Raising capital and/or serving as principal in variety ofbusinesses??including energy, electronics, agriculture, timber.Major projects included raising funds for drilling more than 200 oil and gas wells in PennsylvaniaIllinoisKansas and Texas.

·Performing financial analysis, long?range planning, market analysis, marketing, business plan preparation, return?on?investment analysis, both for own and for client businesses, and authoring articles for the Financial Services Times.

·Serving as partner, broker and manager in real estate development firm 1961?1964:Negotiating real estate sales;Producing promotional and advertising literature.Producing television commercials.

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING.1969 to Present.Assistant Professor at University of Portland (full?time 1969?1975), Instructor and Adjunct Professor at Portland Community College (part?time 1973?present) and Portland State University (part?time 1984?1985) in Oregon.

·Teaching courses in Critical Thinking, Public Finance, Cable Television, Philosophy, Political Thought. 

·Researching, writing, publishing.

DEGREES, STUDIES, HONORS, BOARDS, MEMBERSHIPS

·Earning Ph.D. (1970) and M.A. (1967) degrees, Philosophy, MarquetteUniversityMilwaukeeWisconsin.Earning 

B. A. (1963), English, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.

·Winning Fulbright Grant for study at University of ParisFrance (1968? 1969); National Defense Educational Act Title IV Fellowship (1964?1968); National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Humanist Grant (1973)

·Studies in Public Administration, Lewis and ClarkCollege (1978).

  • Board of Directors, Oregon Public Affairs Network (1999-Present); Board of Directors, Portland Cable Access (1999-Present).
·Member: NATOA, Alliance for Community Media

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