My bio
I am a native Texan, raised in the panhandle town of Pampa. I was fortunate after high school to have had an opportunity to live in Helsingborg, Sweden with a family for a year while attending school there. It set the stage for the rest of my life – and for my love of Scandinavia – and was an experience I will never forget.
After receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1967 – with a major in transportation – I started a long career as an airline economist. This career afforded me a great number of travel opportunities around the world and found me working with the former U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, D. C.; with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to work in Geneva, Switzerland and later in New York, New York; [after a brief interlude as an entrepreneur in London and Arizona] with the Airline Tariff Publishing Company in the Washington, D.C. area; and lastly with Continental Airlines in Houston, Texas.
While working for Continental Airlines in their Cargo Division, I moved in the area of Corporate Communications and this altered my career path by spinning me into the arena of marketing, advertising and employee communications. Upon resigning from the airline, I focused on marketing and communications after receiving a Masters degree in Communications from Texas Southern University in Houston. I began teaching Communications as an adjunct professor at several colleges and universities in the Houston area. At the same time, I entered the real estate industry for the next 12 years as a licensed real estate Salesperson in Texas beginning in 1991 and as a Broker from 1993.
Upon resigning from Continental Airlines, I focused on marketing and communications after receiving a Masters degree in Communications from Texas Southern University in Houston. I began teaching Communications as an adjunct professor in Houston at Texas Southern University, San Jacinto College and Houston Community College. At the same time, I entered the real estate industry for the next 12 years as a licensed real estate Salesperson in Texas beginning in 1991 and as a Broker from 1993.
In 2003 I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to continue a personal relationship with a Dane. Shortly upon arrival, I began studying Danish and working on a souvenir CD about Copenhagen (now sold out). In 2004, I began a course at Roskilde University leading to my certification in 2005 as a tour guide.