David Clanton - résumé for corporate representative to Korea

Thomas David Clanton, ph: 831-238-0856, email: [email protected]: www.pbase.com/davidclanton; address: 728 Newton St, Monterey, CA 93940

RésuméThomas ‘David’ Clanton

728 Newton Street, Monterey, CA 93940Cell phone: (831) 238-0856; Office phone: (831) 242-7236

Email: [email protected]; Alternate: [email protected] to current photo: www.pbase.com/image/132451184

Website: www.pbase.com/davidclanton

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

Exploring the opportunity to contribute expertise gained through managing up to 400 personnel and directly supervising up to 30 in a diverse, multi-cultural environment of Korean speaking civilians and US military personnel. My enthusiastic demeanor always helped me maintain a productive working environment that inspires mutual respect with a healthy degree of competitiveness. I attribute my fluency in Korean (3/3/3) to giving me an instant rapport with Korean national level leaders, diplomats and ROK military, security and police force General Officers (GO). I honed organizational skills while planning and conducting joint and combined operations. I polished effective writing skills creating bilingual English-Korean official correspondence, developing curriculum used by native Korean language instructors to teach US military personnel at an accredited institute of higher learning, writing magazine articles and editing commercially published books. Career progression from administrative specialist, 3/3 Korean linguist interrogator, First Sergeant, Operations NCO-In-Charge (NCOIC), bilingual liaison officer, distinguished visitor (DV) interpreter and translator, interviewer, writer and archivist for college accreditation, to 3/3/3 Korean language instructor and senior enlisted advisor (SEA) to the Dean of the Korean School at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) while also performing volunteer work as the Chapter President within the Association of the US Army (AUSA) have incrementally prepared me to excel as a corporate representative to Korea.Link to summative gallery (a picture says a thousand words so each area below includes a link with supporting documents): http://www.pbase.com/davidclanton/david_clanton_click_thumbnail&page=all

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

KNOWLEDGE OF KOREAN CULTURE, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES:Link: http://www.pbase.com/davidclanton/knowledge_of_korean_culture_and_issues&page=all

Personally recognized by the USFK C2 (General in charge of intelligence) for producing an intele report that earned an "A" evaluation for being a contribution to national security “of major significance”.

Recognized by national agencies for five subordinate sections producing 475 "B” intelligence reports “of high value” and "C” reports “of value” in one year from debriefing North Korean defectors at the Combined Military Interrogation Center and from translating over 3,000 pages.

Coordinated with host nation counterparts for cooperation while deployed to the DMZ areas of JSA Panmunjom, Cholwon, Pochun, Detachment (Det) J at Mt. Yawol, Det K at Mt. Kamak, Det L at Mt. Koryo, Kanghwa Island, and Kyodong Island.

Subject matter expert (SME) advisor and editor of North Korean dialect curriculum that included innovations in biology, nuclear technology, and development of rockets and satellites and a glossary of over 5,000 words unique to North Korea.

Researched North Korea’s auto manufacturing at the joint South-North Korean Kaesong Industrial complex and developed multimedia Korean language learning lessons for www.SCOLA.org

When receiving ROK Army DVs, advised the DLI Commandant, COL Sandusky, on Korean cultural differences and explained dozens of Korean proverbs; also translated for their PowerPoint briefs, open discussions and a formal luncheon.

Served one short and three long tours in Korea totaling 83-months between 1986 and 2000.

KOREAN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:Link: http://www.pbase.com/davidclanton/korean_language_proficiency&page=all

Achieved 2/2 in listening and reading on the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) in 1991, 2+/2+ in 1992, 3/3 annually since 1995 and became DLI's only non-heritage speaker to earn the 3/3/3 Master MLI Badge in Korean by scoring 3 on the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in 2000.

Served as subject matter expert (SME) advisor and Korean-English bilingual editor for the development of the three North Korean dialect science, technology, and economics textbooks.

Translated for or gave technical demonstrations to very high ranking military dignitaries including the KDIA CG 4-star GEN Chung, the DSC CG - subsequent JCS Chairman 4-star GEN Lee, Nam Shin, the EUSA CG 3-star LTG Timmons, the USFK C2 1-star BG Grant, the DIA Deputy Director, GOs from South Africa, GOs and Colonels from Canadian and the Ukraine all in an array of settings such as the SIGINT flight lines of RC7 and RC12


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reconnaissance aircraft, in FTX command post tents, in bunker war rooms, in high tech classrooms and in grand ballroom social dinner events.

Translated for, briefed or coordinated with US Embassy and foreign government key dignitaries including the Special Advisor to the Ambassador, ROK cabinet head and Director of the NIS Lim, Dong-Won, Consul Generals from the ROK and the UK and reported from events where ROK Minister of National Defense Cho, Sung-Tae and his successor Chun, Yong-Taek both spoke in separate years.

Translated for special background investigations conducted by counter-intelligence (CI) agents who interviewed professors at the campuses of Korean universities (SNU, Yonsei, Koryo, Ehwa, Hongik, etc).

Taught operational terms used by the US Army to field grade officers at the ROK Army Intelligence School (ROKAIS) located in Changhowon near Ichon pottery village.

In addition to a formal education in Korean at DLI and at Yonsei University, I can quickly bond with counterparts through mutual experiences and cultural knowledge gained from using the language in every province, major city, river and mountain from the Unification Observatory near Mt Sorak in the NE, to the Unification Observatory near Cholwon in the central DMZ, to Kangwha Fortress where the US had first contact with Korea in 1876 in the NW, to linguist immersion trips in the coastal areas of Cheju Island, Kangnung, Masan, and Taechon Beach, to liaison at 1st, 2nd and 3rd ROK Army HQ in Wonju, Daegu and Yongin respectively, and the HQ at Mt Gyeryong near Daejeon, to ten CI Dets at Yongsan, Camp Hialeah in Busan, Camp Carroll in Waegwan, Camp Walker in Daegu, Kwangju Air Base, Camp Page in Chunchon, Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Camp Long in Wonju, Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu and an outpost in Incheon.

RECORD OF PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE:

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Earned a Letter of Appreciation and coin from the Eighth US Army (EUSA) Public Affairs Office (PAO) for promoting the image of the US Army while translating for ROK and US General Officers (GO) conducting formal press conferences in a realistic training event at a Seoul hotel boardroom during RSOI exercise directed by ROK and US PAO reporters.

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Briefed the Bde Cdr as 1SG, the DLI Commandant as SEA to the Dean, and US and Korean Commanding Generals (CG) as a liaison. I served as guest speaker at a graduation ceremony and as Master of Ceremony for many graduations at DLI. Despite my rank being only SFC/E7 I was selected to attend the Leadership, Educational and Development Management Course (LEAD) because of the Senior Enlisted Advisor (SEA) E8 position I served in for 5-years. LEAD is mandatory training for senior leaders who supervise DA civilians and my classmates were all field grade officers and senior GS employees. My 1SG assignment in Korea was also an E8 position and my unique opportunity to serve as a Liaison Officer for 2-years came about because of my demonstrated maturity, responsibility


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and high proficiency in the Korean language and because the command did not have enough field grade FAOs and GS13-GS14 MICECP DA civilians to accomplish the mission otherwise. I earned distinct recognition in these positions and was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal once and the Meritorious Service Medal twice.

The 201st MI Bde in Fort Lewis and the 501st MI Bde in Seoul sent me to participate in the Worldwide Language Olympics where the best linguists in DoD compete in Monterey, CA for highest honors. My first year I won the 3rd place overall trophy, the next year I won the 2nd place overall trophy, and I also won six gold, silver and bronze medals in tense Jeopardy-style oral events and presentations while competing against 60 of the best Korean linguists in DoD, half of whom were native born, heritage speaker Korean-Americans.

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KOREA - US GOODWILL:Link: http://www.pbase.com/davidclanton/david_clanton_click_thumbnail&page=all

Handpicked over Foreign Area Officers (FAO) and GS13-GS14 DA civilians by the 501st MI Bde Commander for my wife and I to translate for the highest ranking of eight head tables at the Military Intelligence (MI) Ball which included US and Korean Commanding Generals (CG), other key leaders, and the Special Advisor to the US Ambassador and their spouses.

Helped organize and participated in ROK/US organization days with GOs and field grade officers from the ROK Defense Intelligence Command (DIC) and the 501st MI Bde and also between the Third ROK Army (TROKA) and US counterparts located in Yongin, Korea.

Conducted liaison while attending Korean counterpart and CG weddings, funerals, organization days, and change of command ceremonies.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS PROGRAMS:Link: www.pbase.com/davidclanton/community_relations_programs&page=all

As Chapter President of the Association of the US Army (AUSA) 2007 to 2010 I attended official functions meeting three local mayors, local base commanders, served as guest speaker at a graduation and at Boy Scout meetings, and presented awards to students at Seaside High School Jr ROTC, to E1-O5 US military students at DLI and to O3-O5 US and foreign military students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), while promoting the image of AUSA.

I helped my successor in AUSA, current Chapter President 1-star Brig Gen (Ret) Jerry Griffin build partnership alliances through office calls with NPS, DLI, and other nearby organizations. As Chapter President, I prepared the annual plan, obtained approval from the Executive Board and from AUSA HQ, managed the annual budget along with the Chapter Treasurer which was always subject to outside audit and I planned and executed fundraisers netting over $15,000 with all of the funds spent on programs benefiting the local military community.

Won 1st place in the AUSA essay contest in 1999 with $1,000 prize open to all members of US Forces in Korea.

Link to award winning essay: www.pbase.com/davidclanton/image/132325089 (Open link and click "Next" for nine additional pages of Grand Prize Essay)



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The US Army Recruiting Command lauded me for my effectiveness at promoting the image of the US Army at recruiting events at dozens of high schools and colleges in and around Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Diego.

Volunteer work references

BG(Ret) Jerry Griffin, M.D., Chapter President, AUSA, Pacific Grove, CA, ph: 831-917-0580, email: [email protected]

COL(Ret) David Appling, State President AUSA, Morgan Hill, CA, ph: 408-718-1009, email: [email protected]

COL(Ret) Tony Johnson, Chapter Director AUSA, Pebble Beach, CA, ph: 831-625-9024, email: [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

I performed duties and responsibilities at/above the GS11 level as a liaison officer for over two years even though I was an active duty SFC/E7 in the US Army. That assignment was authorized civilian clothing allowance so my ROK counterparts assumed I was the same rank as my predecessor, a GS13 who started as a GS11, as evident by a Certificate of Appreciation (CofA) from the CG, ROKAIS identifying me as a GS11. This is further supported by a Letter of Appreciation from the incoming 501st MI Bde Commander thanking me as a civilian liaison officer for translating and coordinating a high profile ceremony and related office calls with DVs and social events; of course he soon realized I was active duty but he kept the faith in my ability to perform at the GS11-13 level and gave me even greater responsibilities. Link to CofA by CG, ROKAIS: www.pbase.com/davidclanton/image/132832994 Link to LofA by Cdr, 501st MI Bde: www.pbase.com/image/132832866

Position: L3 Contract Military Language Instructor (01/01/2005 - Present)L3, Asian School II, Defense Language Institute (DLI), Monterey, CA Supervisor: Dr. Jielu Zhao, Associate Provost, DLI, Monterey, CA, ph: 831-242-5618, email: [email protected] Contract Manager: Bobby Lee, Director, Language Tech Svcs, GSES, A Div of L-3 Services, Inc, Monterey, CA, ph: 831-658-1801, email: [email protected]

Duties: Recognized by the Commandant and Provost for teaching excellence as the only non-native 3/3/3 Korean linguist at DLI and for being interviewer, writer and archivist for the DLI Accreditation Subcommittee, a member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Conducted interviews and reports of survey tasked by the Adjutant General to determine negligence. Appointed by Dean of Students Lt Col Astore to the Allen Griffin Teaching Award selection committee where I reviewed ten faculty nominations and decided which of the esteemed professors would win the cash award.




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Interviewed three Deans while serving as a researcher, writer and archivist for DLI Accreditation Subcommittee earning praise from the Commandant and the Provost. Position: Chief Military Language Instructor/SEA to Dean (07/15/2000 - 12/31/2004)Asian School II, DLI, Monterey, CASupervisor: LTC Michael J. Creed, Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations, DLI, Monterey, CA; ph: 831-242-5376, email: [email protected]

Duties: Led 11 NCOs and POs in providing 4,000 annual hours of class instruction, served as SEA advising the Dean on policies, training and discipline affecting 100 DA civilian instructors. Quote from DMSM award citation, “his superior leadership, extraordinary teaching skills, and dedication to the mission ensured over 1,000 students completed the rigorous Korean language program critical to military operations around the world.” Briefed and gave demos of multi-media technology used in the classrooms each year to DVs including the US Army G2, INSCOM DCG, DIA Deputy Director, SgtMajMarCor, USAR SMA, GOs and Consul Generals from the ROK, South Africa, and the UK. Translated and interpreted for the US Border Patrol, police departments, and narrated for the IBM Babylon handheld mechanical bilingual translator initiative. Managed the total relocation of the Korean School into a 4 story 206 room building during Exodus minimizing impact students with zero loss or injury. Position: Liaison Officer/DV Translator (09/15/1998 - 07/14/2000)HQ, 501st MI Brigade, ATTN: Bde Liaison Team, Seoul, Korea Supervisor: GS14 Ward Skinner, Pacific Liaison Detachment Chief, Yokahama, Japan, DSN 315-269-6301, email: [email protected]

Duties: Interpreted for NIS Director Lim, Dong-Won, a member of the ROK Presidential Cabinet in two official visits and formal socials when he met with the Special Advisor to the US Ambassador and with the CG, INSCOM. Conducted weekly liaison visits coordinating with the HQs of ROK MND, NIS, DIC, ROKAIS, KNPA, DSC, the Korea Coast Guard, and the Institute of North Korea Studies. Quote from MSM award citation, “he enabled the team to increase production of intel reports by 111 percent.”

Wrote Intelligence Information Reports (IIR), Liaison Contact Reports (LCR), point papers, fact sheets, decision papers, Staff Summary Sheets (SSS), talking points/read aheads for office calls. Translated high tech demos of polygraph, Deployable Intelligence Support Element (DISE) and the Counter-Intelligence HUMINT Automated Tool Set (CHATS) for ROK DVs.





Position: Bn S3 Operations NCOIC (01/10/1998 - 07/15/1998)HQ, 524th MI Bn, 501st MI Bde; Seoul, KoreaSupervisor: GS14 Rick Krebill, 501st MI Bde Operations Chief, Seoul, Korea, ph: DSN 315-723-4399, email: [email protected]

Duties: Published operation orders (OPORD) and After Action Reports (AAR) for battalion responsible for Korea-wide tactical and strategic intelligence collection operations including force protection liaison with police, Army base vulnerability assessments, background investigations, debriefing of North Korean defectors and polygraph.

Quote from MSM award citation, “supervised 30 Soldiers, tracked readiness of satellite communications, led the S3 through two tactical deployments.”

Helped manage successful espionage sting operation called Cablet Rope with surveillance, apprehension and prosecution of a traitor to the US Army. Position: First Sergeant (02/20/1997 - 01/10/1998)A Co, 524th MI Bn, 501st MI Bde, Seoul, Korea Supervisor: GS14 Rick Krebill, 501st MI Bde Operations Chief, Seoul, Korea, ph: DSN 315-723-4399, email: [email protected]

Duties:

Briefed Brigade Commander during each quarterly training brief (QTB). Managed key control, inspected and managed a 2 story barracks building, a separate gym building and the company orderly room, supply and operations building. Quote from MSM award citation, “Led five subordinate sections to produce 475 intel reports in one year from debriefing North Korean defectors at the Combined Military Interrogation Center and from translating over 3,000 pages.” Coordinated with USAF, Korean Government Agencies and other Army units to execute intel operations and live environment language training with North Korean defector participants. Supervised company PMCS of vehicles, weapons and equipment and advised the Commander on training management and disciplinary issues. The early years of my Army career included three assignments as an Administrative Specialist at Ft Bragg NC where I accounted for over $100,000 of Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and Army Emergency Relief (AER) donations, at Ft Eustis VA where I counseled and prepared DD Form 214s as a transition counselor for separating and retiring Soldiers, and at Camp Yongin, Korea where I managed a 12-person section that translated all correspondence between EUSA and TROKA. I studied Korean at DLI in 1990 and trained as an interrogator in 1991. My interrogator assignments prior to those detailed above were as Mobile Team Leader at Camp Hovey, Korea where I led the translation





of North Korean propaganda and deployed my team to nine joint and combined interrogation exercises in 12-months and as Operations NCOIC at Ft Lewis, WA where I earned a 3-Star Note from the CG of I Corps for training an award winning Worldwide Language Olympics team. Quote from MSM award citation I received from Ft Lewis, “translated for Army echelon senior staff officers during Cascade Peak and Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL) and supervised a Corps level interrogation exercise involving over 150 troops from six units.” Additional professional/personal references: Dami Son, former colleague, Korean Language Program, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 5 Bryant Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, ph: 831-224-4247, email: [email protected] Greg Monger, former supervisor, Instructor, Defense Strategic Debriefer Course, Fort Huachuca, AZ, ph: 520-533-7908, email: [email protected] Bruce Thompson, J.D., lifelong friend, Partner of Parker Poe Attorneys, Raleigh,NC, ph: 919-890-4147, email: [email protected] I never had a single break in employment since I was a teenager working summers on a farm and part time jobs as a student prior to enlisting in 1985. EDUCATION:Link to diplomas www.pbase.com/davidclanton/diplomas_and_certificates - BS, 2001, Liberal Arts, With Honors, Emphasis: Business Management, GPA: 3.9, Excelsior College, Albany, NY

- AA, 1996, Foreign Area Studies and Foreign Language-Korean, With Honors, Emphasis: Marketing, GPA: 3.9, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

- Level 7 of 8 levels in Advanced Korean, 1998, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

- Completed level 7 of 8 levels in Advanced Korean, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1998

- Team Integration Workshop, Defense Language Institute DLI, Monterey, CA, 2010

- AUSA Chapter Leader Development Seminar with GEN Sullivan, Kansas City, 2007

- Digital Streaming Conference, CA State University Monterey Bay, 2002, 03 and 04

- Leadership, Educational and Development Management Course LEAD, DLI, 2001

- First Sergeant Course, EUSA, Yongsan, Seoul, Korea, 1997- DoD Strategic Debriefer Course N7, Ft Huachuca, AZ, 1996


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- Korean Intermediate Course, DLI, Presidio of Monterey, CA, 1996

- US Army Advanced NCO Course, Leadership and Management, Ft Huachuca, AZ, 1994

- US Army Interrogator Course, Ft Huachuca, AZ, 1991

- Korean Basic Course, DLI, Presidio of Monterey, CA, 1991

- US Army Airborne School, Ft Benning, Columbus, GA, 1985 PUBLICATIONS:Link: http://www.pbase.com/davidclanton/published_articles_etc&page=all

- Edited four Korean language based English expression books with CDs commercially published in 2008.

- Featured in the 20 Jan 07 issue of Monterey Herald in an article with interview quotes about student immersion trips to Korea.

- Featured in the 4 Sep 05 issue of Monterey Herald in an article with interview quotes and a picture of me demonstrating a Smart Board.

- Wrote a 3-page article with a picture of a subordinate published in the summer 2005 issue of Globe magazine.

- Featured in a 2004 Army Times article with a full-page picture on the cover of me demonstrating a Smart Board in a special issue called Decision Times.

- Featured in a 7-page article with interview quotes and 18 pictures in the July 2004 issue of KoreAm magazine.

- Featured in the May 2003 issue of Globe magazine article with interview quotes.

- Featured in a 6-page article with interview quotes and four pictures in the October 2002 issue of Ladies Journal Yeosung Joongang magazine, a Korean lifestyle magazine owned by Samsung Group comparable to Vogue.

- Featured in a January 2002 issue of The Korea Times in an article with interview quotes and a picture of me with the Associate Dean LTC Creed and retired Ambassador and ROK Army Brig Gen Dr. Choi, SangJin visiting the Vice President of the newspaper.

- Wrote a 4-page article with pictures of Korea published in the February 2001 issue of Globe magazine that includes a 2-page centerfold of me at the site where GEN MacArthur led the famous Inchon Landing.


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