| He then worked as Land Use Officer in the Dominica Department of Agriculture. Subsequently, Dave won an assistantship to study Resource Economics and Planning at Cornell University, NY, from which he graduated with the MS and PhD degrees. He then worked at CARICOM in Guyana, doing food demand forecasting, before moving to the US. He taught at Pace University in NYC then took a position in auto forecasting with General Motors, from which he recently retired as Manager, Truck Competitor Analysis, North American Operations. Dave is a member of the US Association of Auto Analysts, is active in his local community association, and takes a keen interest in West Indian economic affairs. He is married and has three children. Highlights of his career are as follows.
GM Employment
. Manager, Truck Competitor Analysis, North American Operations, Warren, MI
. GM Marketing Representative, National Automated Highway System Consortium
. Editor, GM Monthly and Quarterly Vehicle Outlooks
. Senior Auto Market Analyst, Long-term and Short-term market forecasts
Other Employment
. Adjunct Professor, Management Economics, Pace University Grad. School, NY
. Senior Agricultural Economist, CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana, SA
. Land Use Officer, Department of Agriculture, Dominica, WI
Education, Training and Travel
. Ph.D, Resource Economics and Planning, Cornell University, NY
. Diploma in Agricultural Planning, The Hague, Netherlands & Rome, Italy
. Training in Demming Quality Management, and Dialogue Decision Processes
. Traveled extensively - in N.America, the Caribbean, L.America, Europe and Japan
Papers and Presentations include
. Automated Highways in the US, Paris World Auto Congress paper (co-author)
. A Multi-equation Automobile Forecasting Model, London Forecasting Symposium paper
. Feeding Bananas and Coconut Meal for Pork Production, J. of Tropical Agriculture
. The Major Agricultural Land Types in Dominica, West Indies, M.S. Thesis
. Sugarcane Harvest Mechanization on Jamaican Plantations, Ph.D. Thesis
Volunteer Work
. President, Island Investors Club, Long Island, NY
. Soccer Coach, Birmingham Under 16 League, Birmingham, MI
. President, Fruehauf Homeowners Association, W. Bloomfield, MI
Awards and Honors
. B.S. Honors, Agricultural Economics, University of the West Indies
. Cornell Graduate Assistantship, and Phi Kappa Phi Honors (top 10% grad. class)
. GM President's Honors, for outstanding market research on automated highways |
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