This Maven is a real world, real road, real vehicle high-speed driving expert ...
• We work with military, police, and private corporations/executives and their families, training car control skills for operational environments, all speeds and surfaces (pavement, gravel, cobble, stone, sand, snow, etc.), on- and off-road. • We are not a racing school or typical "security" driving school. We teach people to drive real cars in the real world, expertly under high-stress. Our approach is simple. • We teach fundamental car control skills. They save lives and enable extraordinary capability. • We teach how to execute car control skills under high stress. There is no such thing as tactical driving ... only driving well at all times. • We teach specific techniques for specific vehicles and events. • Our Training Teams: racing champions, former elite special forces, and security experts. No single instructor is critical to accomplishing our training mission. • Provide lead instruction in English, Portuguese, Spanish, or French. • Typical Deliverables, All Vehicle Types and Drivelines (Indigenous and Duty), High and Low Speed: Left Foot Braking; Braking in the Turn; Lift Oversteer; Trail Braking; Straight Line Braking; Hand Braking; Reversing; Reversing Direction; PIT/anti-PIT; Ambush Mitigation; Evasion/Escape; RAM; Culmination Runs; Scenarios; off-road and recovery • Night Driving, High- and Low-Speed: NVGs/NODs
CLEARANCE: TOP SECRET, SSBI 4/24/08 Currently serving as lead/consultant in support of various elite SOF training and applied research programs based on my work in high-speed, loose-surface driving. Contact me for details. Work very closely with SOF operator community Defense-wide, as well as with Homeland Security operational communities, public safety, and National Guard. Currently serving as lead/consultant for a research program developing more effective equipment for the adaptive skiing community. CAREER SUMMARY: Director/Program Leader with a record of successfully creating and managing programs that deliver technical solutions and of building effective teams among Defense, Homeland Security, scientific, academic, other government, and public service communities. CONFERENCE KEY NOTES • DIRTY, FAST CARS International Society of Terrain Vehicle Systems (ISTVS) Annual Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, 24 June 2007 • Extreme Driving: What the Sport of Rally Can Teach Us About Autonomous Ground Vehicle Control MIT/Army Research Office Workshop on Robotic Vehicles in Challenging Environments, Olin College, MA, October 2006 DRIVER’S TRAINING • 90-Hour, MRAPU, “Train the Trainer,” All Variants, Red River Army Depot, TX • Ford Motor Company, Tier 3+ Test Driver • Team O’Neil Rally School, Various, Dalton, NH • Advanced Mobility 2 Recovery, Off-Road and Recovery, Portsmouth, NH • various road course training since 1979
Director, Absolute Vehicle Control/Vehicle Control Training, LLC, Franconia, NH 2006 – 2010 • conceptualized, created, administered, and developed U.S. Congressional funding for an applied research program focused on developing and implementing revolutionary understanding that reduces the rates of motor vehicle accident deaths and injuries worldwide. • trained elite SOF and developed/delivered technical solutions toward SOF tactical requirements. • assembled, teamed and managed a technical partnership with multiple universities, including MIT and Georgia Tech, as well as private industry partners. • directed development and implemented broad applied research plan. • developed relationships within both public and private market segments conditioning acceptance, channels, and distribution for various products as they emerged from research. • directed hardware development, including novel input devices for tele-operation of high-speed ground vehicles and novel vehicle synthetic environments. • directed software product development, unique surface estimates for more accurate modeling of vehicles in all conditions, terrain, and weather. • directed development of synthetic environments for advanced driver skills training, mission rehearsal, and UGV control. • verified and validated findings. • work very closely with SOF operator community Defense-wide, as well as with Homeland Security operational communities, public safety, and National Guard. • performed live testing with human subjects to validate and verify synthetic training development. Subjects performed complex, loose-surface maneuvers designed so that only one series of driver inputs would allow successful completion of test. • held full P&L responsibility
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