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Vic Desotelle – Resume
(831) 454-8046 vicdesotelle@gmail.com 2870 S. Palisades Ave. Santa Cruz CA 95062
Sustainability Officer, Corporate Social Responsibility Coordinator
Sustainable Development Manager, Green Business Trainer
See my blog for sustainable innovation and collaborative design roles in sustainable supply chains.
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I carry 20 years of experiences directed toward sustainability. Utilizing my skills, knowledge, and experiences in collaborative design, organizational learning, and sustainable innovation, I will help to build an enterprise and supply chain that is based on sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility.
Company Work Chronology
Sustainability Consultant : ASSIST DISCOVERY : SANTA CRUZ, CA 2005
Sustainability and Change Management, Collaborative Learning Process and Facilitation
Green Business Trainer : MARINA GREEN TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER : MARINA, CA 2004
Sustainable Business Planning Teacher, and Executive Coach to Green Business Startups
Sustainable Operations Manager : TERRANOVA ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING : SANTA CRUZ, CA 2002
Implemented Triple Bottom Line Management System, Sustainable Landscape Design and Installations
Green Energy Sales Engineer : SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES : SANTA CRUZ, CA 2001
Solar Accounts Manager, Formulated Sales Trainings & Product Delivery Strategies
Executive Director : ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL (501c3) : SANTA CRUZ, CA 2000
Shifted Mission from Environmental Advocacy to Sustainable Innovation, Rebuilt Board and Strategy
Green Startup Management : ROLLTRONICS SOLAR CORPORATION : MENLO PARK, CA 1998
Organizational Developer, Triple Bottom Line, Sustainable Strategic Planning Efforts
Directing Manager : SUSTAINABLE QUALITY (501c3) : SANTA CRUZ, CA 1997
Directed Triple Bottom Line Awards Program, Judged and Awarded Green Business Companies
Business Development Manager : MGA (PHARSIGHT) : BOSTON, MA 1996
Opened West Coast Regional Markets for Physical Phenomena Pharmaceutical Software
Technical Program Director : ACCLAIM TECHNOLOGY : SAN JOSE, CA 1995
Initiated EDA Technical Division, Created Business Plan, Developed Overseas Partners, Hired 12 Staff
Sales Applications Engineer : AVCOM SYSTEMS : SUNNYVALE, CA 1993
Supported Design Automation Tools for Major Companies HP, Motorola, & Intel
Design Engineer : BOEING (ARGO SYSTEMS) : SUNNYVALE, CA 1990
Designed, Tested, Installed Digital RF Signature Decoder Interface Via Multiplexed Antenna Arrays
Key Areas of Expertise
Sustainability, sustainable business, green technology, change leadership, enterprise collaboration, innovation management, corporate social responsibility, complexity theory, adaptive systems, triple bottom line, sustainability reporting, strategic planning facilitation, organizational learning
• Designing and facilitating stakeholder collaboration processes
• Develop strategic plans for organizations
• Critical understanding of triple bottom line solutions
• Broad technical background to quantify readiness for implementation
• Designing sustainability platforms using a ‘Whole Systems’ approach
• Building leadership ecologies throughout stakeholders and enterprise
• Implementing benchmarks to determine technical efficacy and social adaptation
• Using sustainability reporting as foundation for monitoring success
Direct Experiences and Applied Skills
• Founded sustainable innovation & change management consulting firm.
• Trained coached numerous startup company owners in sustainable business planning.
• Taught ethics and decision-making to Silicon Valley middle managers at UCSC ext.
• Developed eco-management workshops for local companies.
• Board member of green non-profit; moved mission from environmental advocacy to sustainability.
• Facilitated corporate teams in strategic collaborative planning, resulting in new service programs.
• Mediated board members through conflict resolution meetings, resulted in new decisions.
• Led yearlong men’s leadership program, creating personal change for dozens of individuals.
• Built EDA division VAR Channel; negotiated vendors, hired 12 sales & technical staff.
• Led campus sustainability redesign planning for Monterey Institute For International Studies
• Chaired Bay Environmental Network (BEN) committee in Silicon Valley
• Adviser to Sustainability Institute, Monterey, CA led by Dr. Laura Strohm
• Adviser to IN3 sustainability investments group led by Daniel Robin
• Team adviser to OccupyCafe.org community
• Initiated sustainability program within local chamber of commerce
• Consulted to Marina Technology business incubator for sustainable business planning
• Pioneered terms ‘whole systems’ & ‘sustainable innovation’
• Wrote articles & modeling for sustainable, organizational behavior change
Community Creation and Involvement
• ChangingNormal.com global transformation and sustainable change
• EntrepreneursForABetterWorld.ning.com online community
• O2SustainableDesign.ning.com world-wide sustainable design network
• Foundation For Global Community sustainability and culture change
• HumanSystemsDynamics.com (HSD) learning group
Primary Education
• BSEE Program, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology
• Strategic Environmental Management, University of Santa Cruz
Secondary Learning
Sustainability, Sustainable Business, Green Technology, Change Leadership, Enterprise Collaboration, Innovation Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Triple Bottom Line, Sustainability Reporting, Complexity Theory, Adaptive Systems, Strategic Planning Facilitation, Organizational Learning
o Systems Thinking, Fritjof Capra course Web of Life
o The Natural Step sustainability model, led by its founder
o Power of Myth Archetypal global change, Joseph Campbell
o Industrial Ecology, CERES principles, Global Reporting Initiative
o Green technologies, ecological design, sustainable innovation
ALSO SEE MY ATTACHED COVER LETTER AND SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE ARTICLE
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