Thomas E.

Hennefer CV, Page 1 of 9

THOMAS E. HENNEFER
1301 N. Prince Edward Island
Olathe, KS 66061
913.764.3762 (office)
thennefer@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

PhD, Organization and Management Spring-2007

Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
Specialization: Leadership
Dissertation: Professional Military Corporations as Force Multipliers.
MBA, Total Quality Management 1992-1994
MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS.
Specialization: Statistical Process Control

BA, Management and Human Relations 1989-1990

MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Substitute Teacher 2006-Present

Spring Hill Unified School District, Spring Hill, KS
• On-call substitute teacher for assigned teacher for secondary and high school students.
• Supervised class projects, maintained class attendance and district class policies.
• Worked with students with discipline problems and danger of non-academic progress.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
• Taught American and world history, social studies and computer applications.

Substitute Teacher 2006-Present

• Olathe Unified School District, Olathe, KS
• On-call substitute teacher for assigned teacher for secondary and high school students.
• Supervised class projects, maintained class attendance and district class policies.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
• Taught American and world history, social studies, music, and computer applications.

Adjunct Instructor of Computer Sciences 2000-2002

Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
Course taught: Introduction Computer Applications
• Taught three 12-week courses to 150 undergraduate students.
• Classes on this subject met three days each week.
• Developed study guides, weekly quizzes and final examinations.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on course objectives.
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• Committee member on new faculty selection and hiring.

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Baker University, Baldwin City, KS 2001-2002

Courses taught: Principals of Operations Management
• Taught 12-week course to 50 undergraduate students.
• Developed study guides, weekly quizzes and final examinations.
• Organized inclusion of subject matter experts for in-class lectures.
• Classes on this subject met weekly for four hours.

Adjunct Professor of Business 2000-2002

Baker University, Lee’s Summit, KS
Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies
Course taught: Introduction to Microsoft Office
• Taught 8-week course twice weekly to 35 undergraduate students.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
• Organized inclusion of subject matter experts for in-class lectures.
• Class met every Saturday morning for 4 hours.

Adjunct Professor of Business

Baker University, Overland Park, KS 2000-2002
Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies
Course taught: Information System Decision in Management
• Taught 8-week course twice weekly to 35 graduate students.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
• Organized inclusion of subject matter experts for in-class lectures.

Adjunct Instructor of Business 2000-2001

Webster University, Kansas City, MO
School of Professional and Graduate Studies
Course Taught: Introduction to Information Systems Management
• Taught 8-week course twice weekly to 30 graduate students.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
• Organized inclusion of subject matter experts for in-class lectures.

Substitute Teacher 2001-2001

Desoto Unified School District, Desoto, KS
Desoto High School
Course Taught: Introduction to Desktop Publishing and Web Design
• substitute instructor for assigned teacher on emergency maternity leave.
• Taught 6 courses each day to 90 secondary students.
• Supervised class projects, maintained class attendance and district class policies.
• Held parent-teacher conferences to discuss grades and student progress.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.

Technology Instructor 1999-2000

Wright Business School, Overland Park, KS
Course Taught: Introduction to Desktop Applications
• Instructed 50+ economically, socially and educationally challenged returning adults.
• Taught 6 evening courses each day including some weekends.
• Supervised class projects, maintained class attendance and school policies.
• Held individual faculty and student conferences to discuss grades and progress reports.
• Maintained regular office hours counseling students on materials and objectives.
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• Instructed students on MOUS certification preparation, MS Office Suite 2000,

FrontPage, PageMaker, proofreading/editing techniques, typing for speed and accuracy,
data entry, and 10-key, business communications, and Internet browse and research
theory.
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TRAINING EXPERIENCE

American Management Association 1998-1999

Course Developer and Instructor
Course Taught: Hard As Nails Negotiation.
• This hands-on seminar gave participants a step-by-step guide to effective negotiation
from establishing a formal planning process to prioritizing issues. Seminar covered a
range of subjects including: mastering persuasion techniques to identifying the
communication styles of effective negotiators.
• Seminar also covered breaking deadlocks to negotiating as part of a team, recognizing
and using leverage to adjusting a strategy, and using the media in the negotiation
process.

Course Taught: Microsoft Access Secrets.

• This seminar introduced participant to the basic concepts of database planning and
design. Subject introduced included: what a database is and how it can make
information management easier, basic reasons to use a relational database rather than
a flat database, and how to plan a database project correctly to avoid repetitive
rebuilds.
• Other topics included: what a query is and when to use it, how to run a Select Query,
and how to run Cross-tab queries to calculated totals in a spreadsheet-like format.

National Seminars 1997-1998

Instructor

Course Taught: Trouble Shooting and Maintaining the Macintosh

• This hands-on seminar gave participants step-by-step techniques on how to upgrade
the Mac increased performance, how to bring a “crashed” systems back to life,
techniques for recovering lost data, how and when to use diagnostic software to
pinpoint problems, identifying and correcting common networking issues.

Course Taught: Advanced Trouble Shooting and Maintaining the Macintosh.

• This hands-on seminar was intended for participants who wanted to precede father
with troubleshooting techniques.
• Topics included: setting up a local area network (LAN), integrating Windows and Macs
on the same network, advanced system configuration, re-installing software after a
hard drive fails, and selecting diagnostic software. To successfully complete this
course, participants were required to identify and repair a crashed system and re-
establish it on an in-house LAN.

Course Taught: Building Powerful PowerPoint Presentations.

• This seminar was designed to introduce participants on how to enhance their message
with a cohesive, visually stimulating PowerPoint presentation, how to avoid common
design mistakes, how to build charts, graphs and tables that help the audience
understand complex information.
• The seminar focused on: how to create customized templates for original, fresh-
looking presentations that capture the audience’s attention, how to add pizzazz with
high-quality custom animations and animate an organizational chart or diagram, how
to produce professional-looking handouts, how to use color schemes and backgrounds
effectively, and incorporation of other MS Office applications into a presentation for
added impact.
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Micro-Consultants 1990-1994
Course Developer and Instructor
Course Taught: Advanced Microsoft Excel Techniques.
• This seminar was designed to introduce participants to advanced Excel tools in an
effort to make the development and maintaining of spreadsheets easier while
increasing the sophistication of data reporting and analysis.
• The primary focus was on timesaving techniques and included: creating interactive
macros, creating customized worksheets with text boxes, radio buttons, and dropdown
lists, and adding logic power to macros with the If/Then command, combining data
from multiple users by setting up shared workbooks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OCS, Inc., Kansas

Strategic Operations Manager 1995-2006
Competitive Intelligence

• Worked with a wide range of senior executives to set objectives for intelligence
gathering, and analysis of oppositional data.
• Improved overall intelligence productivity by 23%. Automated and streamlined
information reporting process, which reduced cost by 18% and increased productivity
by 28%.
• Assessed resource capabilities and requirements of current competitive intelligence
(CI) groups. Recruited staffed, and retained subject matter experts (SME) as needed.
• Redesigned organization reporting structure. Redesigned improved project and
information flow by 12% improving project completion while reducing cost overruns in
excess of 10%.
• Designed historiographical executive profile matrix to track psychological, sociological
and socioeconomic indicators to predict executive competitive actions, temperaments,
risk avoidance, and ability to adapt to a new crises.
• Enabled clients to influence competitor actions and anticipate counter-competitive
reactions to new market dynamics.
• Directed the monitoring of financial, technological, and demographic factors to
capitalize on market opportunities and minimize impact of competitive activity.
Increased projection reliability by 30% while decreasing developmental cost by 8%.
• Developed extensive internal/external human intelligence (HUMINT) network of
industry specific SMEs (subject matter experts). Increased HUMINT activity by 22%
resulting in an increase market share in excess of 9% per annum.

Manager of Strategic Planning/Target Acquisitions 1991–1995

Competitive Intelligence

• Supported domestic and international operations while increasing sensitive information

delivery to decision-level intelligence and counter-intelligence clients by 20%.
• Evaluated current dissemination procedures, resulting in a profitability increase of
11%.
• Organized and chaired project briefings to insure that all decision makers were kept
abreast on current issues and developments.
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• Pre-distribution of briefing materials insured all executive-level decision-makers

remained appraised of new and up to date intelligence related issues. Increased
reaction-time 11% over previous system.
• Developed economic, financial, industry-specific and international market forecasts and
reports, as well as quarterly reviews to identify domestic and international
opportunities.
• Worked closely with clients to identify target acquisition cost, and retaliation
capabilities. Results increased productivity by 30% and reduced risk exposure by 22%.
• Charged with the development and administration of qualitative and quantitative
matrix for intelligence operations.
• Became the “go to” point of contact by providing performance quality feedback to 40-
plus operatives.

WORKSHOPS

Fundamentals of Leadership
• Workshop focused on the basics of effective leadership, personal awareness and
growth, working relationships, influence skills, and conflict resolution. During this
workshop, participants gained an understanding of their current leadership strengths
and development needs, and how they affect the functioning of their group.

Developing Strategic Leadership

• Workshop focused on gaining a better understanding of the complexity of strategic
leadership as it relates to the individual, teams, and the organization. Participants
discovered more about their personal strategic leadership effectiveness, thinking
strategically, acting decisively and in alignment with the strategy, and influencing
others' commitment to long-range objectives.

Building Resilience: Leading in the Face of Change

• Workshop helped participants deepened their understanding of the leadership
challenges posed by significant transitions, through an honest exploration of the
impact on self and others. Participants received feedback relative to the strengths and
developmental gaps in their personal styles. Participants learned how to build and
support an environment of trust. Participants developed authentic leadership capacities
to facilitate the revitalization process in themselves and others.

PUBLICATION/CONSIDERATION

Origins of Insurgent Operations

 Submitted to the US Army peer review journal Parameters.

Use of Private Military Corporations to Supplement Traditional American Ground Forces.

• An Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict.
• Presented at the Combat Studies Institute Military History Symposium. Ft.
Leavenworth, KS, 2-4 August 2005.

Closing Pandora’s Box: Using Military Contractors in Counterinsurgency Operations.

• Submitted to the Combined Arms Center Commanding General’s 2006 Special Topics
Writing Competition: “Countering Insurgency”
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The Mormon Battalion and the Equipping of an American Ingenious Force.

• Submitted to the Combat Studies Institute 2006 Symposium “Security Assistance: U.S.
and International Historical Perspectives.”
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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Course Title Completion Date
Dissertation Research III..............................................................................Fall-2006
Dissertation Research II...........................................................................Spring-2006
Theories of Leadership..............................................................................Spring-2005
Survey of Applied Research Methods...........................................................Winter-2005
Theories of Leadership..............................................................................Winter-2005
Dissertation Research I.................................................................................Fall-2005
Conflict and Management Negotiation.........................................................Spring-2004
Dark Side Leadership.............................................................................Summer-2004
Management Theory Creation.................................................................Summer-2004
Management and Organizational Behavior..................................................Spring-2003
Ethics and Social Responsibility.................................................................Spring-2003
The Developing Leader.................................................................................Fall-2003
Strategies for Organizational Management ..................................................Spring-2002
Leading the High Performance Organization..............................................Summer-2002
Strategic Planning.................................................................................Summer-2002
Accounting and Financial Management...........................................................Fall-2002
Financial Management and Planning...........................................................Spring-1994
Management and Information Systems.......................................................Spring-1994
Strategic Management and Ethics...............................................................Spring-1994
Legal Environment of Business..................................................................Spring-1993
Advanced Statistical Processes..................................................................Spring-1993
Leadership in Total Quality Management.....................................................Spring-1993
Computer Applications..................................................................................Fall-1993
Organizational Management and Change.........................................................Fall-1993
Marketing Management.................................................................................Fall-1993
Entrepreneurship..........................................................................................Fall-1993
World Economics.........................................................................................Fall-1992
Total Quality Management.............................................................................Fall-1992
Qualitative Methods.....................................................................................Fall-1992

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/CERTIFICATES

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) 2006–Present

U.S. Naval Institute 2003–Present
Emergency Substitute Teaching Certificate (KSDE) 2000–Present

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education 2006–Present

The Nazi Olympics 1939
Lecturer/Presenter

Boy Scouts of America 2000–Present

Heart of America Council
Assistant Scout Master/Merit Badge Counselor