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Below is my resume that I am sending in to IBGA in order to run for a position as a director. |
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Resume Summary My wife and I have a farm in Northeast Texas and have been raising registered Boer goats since 1997. I retired after 30 years from IBM in order to breed Boer goats full time. My broad range of business experiences with IBM has been invaluable in guiding us in our successful business of raising Boer goats. Currently all of the Boer associations have big problems with the leadership or lack of leadership from their board. These problems were born out of directors with personal agendas, big named breeders controlling board directions from behind closed doors and boards keeping the members in the dark as to what the board is or is not doing and why. International Boer Goat Association is no different and I am running for a director position to help change that environment. My 30 years of experience was in helping companies improve their business. The experience included critical skills such as Strategic and tactical planning; process and procedure improvements; requirement identification and prioritization; problem analysis and resolution. These skills can help to resolve problems such as the Boer Association are having.
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Goals If I am elected as a director, my goals would be: · Ensure members understand the scope of services that they expect their association to deliver; communicate a strategy and timeframes that would guide the board and members in delivering the services to the members successfully and to the members’ satisfaction. · Strong communications between the board and the members, in both directions. The communications should be to let the members know what the current board activities were, why the activities were financially justified related to a strategic plan that was agreed to and shared with the members. The communications must identify the member satisfaction level and what issues members had with the association that needed to be resolved. · Members will absolutely know I had no “personal agenda” for being on the board that I would benefit from the position or help any other individual benefit at the expense of the rest of the members. · Members would believe that they were in the premiere Boer goat association in the U.S. Experience Raising Boer Goats · We have been raising registered Boer goats since 1997 and doing it full time since October, 1999. We raise breeding Boer goats and some show animals. Our herd size varies between 60 and 150 according to the time of the year. · We have had three bucks born on our farm that became Ennobled animals. The first was Xtender. Then we had Painted Warrior that was a son of Xtender. The latest was PW’s Bold Warrior, a son of Painted Warrior. That is three generations of Ennobled animals that we are very proud of their bloodlines and the interest breeders have shown in them. · Our bloodlines have been shipped to over 30 states in the U.S. We have shipped animals out of the U.S. to the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico and St Maarten Islands. We have had requests, for our Boer goats, embryos or semen straws, from at least 8 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Brazil, Norway, Guam and South Africa. We did not ship to any of those countries because of the shipping complexities · I believe we were the first U.S. breeders to document a “proactive ethics policy”. In 2006, we decided to have DNA tests on all of our breeding bucks and publish the results for anyone to use. We stated we would allow anyone to do a DNA test on any of our animals and we would give them $500 if there was a problem. · I have successfully passed ABGA judges training taught by South African breeders and we sponsored another judges training classes a few years later that was also taught by South African breeders. This allowed us to spend additional time with the South African breeders and allowed them to visit our farm. · We have been featured in the “American Small Farms” magazine two different times related to raising Boer goats and was on the cover once. We have also had four other regional papers across the U.S. request to do articles about our Boer goat business. · We have had visitors come to our farm from all over the U.S. Visitors have also come from England, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico. Some of the visitors brought translators with them because they did not speak English. · When ABGA was the only U.S. Boer goat association that did not recognize colored boers, I created a web site stating the reasons why colored or non-traditional colored animals should be accepted by ABGA for Ennoblement. I also collected 150 names of other breeders along with their statements for accepting colored boers. This was presented to the ABGA board requesting colored Boers be accepted for visual inspection and Ennoblement. The board voted to accept colored Boers and now have Ennoblement for non-traditional Boers. · We receive around 3-5 calls a week from other breeders with health problems with their goats. We also receive several calls a month from potential breeders wanting to discuss getting into the business. We receive 100s of emails a month related to people wanting to get into the business or having health questions. · I developed one of the first web sites focused entirely on Boer goats. Our Boer goat marketing and sales are done completely thru our web site. We do not participate in any production sales. · I have been a speaker at many different regional, local group meetings where I discussed how to use the internet and personal web sites for helping in the goat business. · Our web site offers many services to help other breeders. The services include: o Listing by state or country of other Boer goat breeders with a web site. o Health information listing diseases, symptoms and treatments. o Listings of scheduled Boer goat production sales across the U.S. o Management tips for raising Boer Goats o Articles on the different business categories in raising goats. o How to develop a business plan for raising goats. · I was one of the first breeders in the U.S. to write articles about American Boer goats possibly becoming “high maintenance” because of how American breeders are managing the Boers. I stated the different areas of concern and what different approaches we are taking to change the genetics to a hardier breed in the U.S. · I have been a strong voice in the industry against boards of Boer goat associations ignoring the voice of their members and having little or no communications between the board and the members on the actions taken or directions of the board. I have written many articles that were listed on our web site and spoken out on chat rooms concerning the problems of the regular members being ignored in their own association. I have been called by presidents and/or directors from all three associations to discuss association issues I have raised .Business Experience My 30 years of experience with IBM and their customers has been invaluable for me in utilizing it with our business of raising Boer goats. I moved thru many different areas of the business and that has given me extensive training and experience in all areas of any business from developing strategies to analyzing the root cause of a specific problem. The areas of my business experience include: · Strategic and tactical planning - For several years I participated in and led 10-15 different strategic planning sessions per year for internal groups within IBM and for companies IBM was doing business with. Strategic and tactical planning is the same whether it is for a company building cars or for a family raising goats and it is just as important for the family as it is for a company. · Requirements Analysis - Whether a company is building a car or an association is delivering services to their members, it is critical to understand the true requirements needed to ensure a successful strategy. IBM had special training for us with professors from Harvard University. I spent several years working at analyzing the requirements for products IBM was developing and getting the right features added into the products that were important to the potential buyers. · Quality – Quality was always an important issue in IBM. Employees would have yearly training on understanding what quality was and how to ensure that we continued to improve on the quality of our work. I worked for 5 years in job areas where I had continual training on quality and I did planning and tracking of quality on our job within IBM and for their customers. · Business Process Development/Improvement - I believe one of the most important components of a successful business is having good processes/procedures developed, documented, understood by everyone, measurements of the processes results and continual improvements, all focused on achieving the Mission and goals of the company. I had this job for 5 years in IBM. We had special training by a professor at Harvard University that was known in the press as “the father of Business Process Re-Engineering”. I led several teams in developing processes/procedures for new business service groups being implemented in IBM. I also led teams going across the country and helping customers evaluate and improve some of their business processes. · Project Management – Most of the work I did for IBM required project management experience. Project Management requires a project to be broken down to individual tasks, prioritized, prereqs identified, and responsibility assigned to an individual, time lines developed, continual tracking of status and refinements made according to issues or problems in the original plan. · Problem Analysis - For 8 years, spread across the 30 years, I had jobs where I was responsible for helping identify problems, research the reason for the problem to find the “root cause” of the problem and implement solutions so the problem would not occur again. I have seen many of the Boer goat associations have a problem and fix the symptom but never identify what the real “root cause” of the problem was. That is very expensive to fix the same problem over and over. It is also very expensive in losing customer satisfaction. · Marketing – Finally, I have been associated with the technical marketing side of IBM’s business for most of the 30 years. There was continual, extensive training in how to market, develop solutions, get a commitment from the customer and implement a solution that was satisfactory to the customer. Conclusion I believe that I have very special and unique skills/experiences that qualify me to help International Boer Goat Association members get the quality services they want and expect from their association. I have used my business experiences to create a very successful business in raising Boer goats even though I initially came into the industry with absolutely no knowledge or experience in raising livestock. That same business experience will be especially valuable when it could be focused on improving the association, services and member satisfaction. If I am elected to a director position, my total focus will be to help make International Boer Goat Association be known as the premiere Boer goat association in the U.S. and I believe that is very achievable if we can get the members all focused on that common goal and agreed upon strategy. Open communications between the members and the board is a must and I will do everything I can to harness the power of the internet, web sites and chat groups to make this association #1 in the U.S. Jack Mauldin
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