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Subject: City of Chula Vista Boards & Commissions Application - Web form A new entry to a form/ surveyyou havesubscribedto hasbeen submitted.
Form Name: Boards& Commissions Application
Date& Time: 02/ 18/ 2015 2: 57 PM
Response#: 8
Submitter ID: 301
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Time to complete: 18 min. , 22 sec.
Survey Details
1. Please indicate your areas of interest by checking the boxes below. x] Growth Management Oversight Commission
If you checked more than one box, which would be your:
2. First choice?
Growth Management Oversight commission
3. Second choice?
Not answered
4. Third choice?
Not answered
5. Forthefollowingboard/ commissions,pleasesubmityourresume: Boardof Ethics, Boardof LibraryTrustees,Civil Service Commission, Growth Management Oversight Commission, Parks& Recreation Commission
6. Prefix
o) Mr.
7. First and Last Name
Rodney Caudillo
8. Home Address
9. City
Chula Vista
10. ZIP code
11. Primary Phone
12. Secondary Phone
Not answered
13. E- mail
14. Are you registered to vote in Chula Vista?
o) Yes
15. Do you live within the City limits of Chula Vista? o) Yes
16. How Long?
14 years
17. Present employer
Self Employed
18. Occupation
Financial advisor
19. Are you currently serving on a Chula Vista Board/ Commission? o) Yes
20. Which ones?
Safety Commission 7 years
21. Have you previously served on a Chula Vista Board/ Commission? o) Yes
22. Which ones?
Safety Commission
23. Are you or have you been involved in any local, civic or community groups? 0) Yes
24. Which ones?
President Eastlake 2 HOA
25. What are your principal areas of interest in our City government, and what experience or special knowledge can you bring to those areas?
Interested in the Cities growth/ planning and to make sure we continue to build and maintain healthy and safe neighborhoods.
I have been very involved in the community I live in. I am our Board President and have helped shaped policy to ensure our neighborhoods have remained safe and properly managed.
My one strength is my ability to forecast and be proactive with issuesand to find solutions to potential community problems.
26. What would you hope to accomplish by your participation? To continue to ensure residents that our quality of living remains at the highest level while our city continues to grow and prosper. Make sure that our resources are adequate and utilized properly in regards to future developments.
I am familiar with the responsibilities of the Boards and Commissions on which I wish to serve. By submitting this application, I hereby attest that the above information is accurate and true.
Thank you,
City of Chula Vista
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RODNEY CAUDILLO
, Chula Vista, Ca
OBJECTIVE
Seekingthe GMOC Commissioner position to ensurethe residentsof Chula Vista that the growth in the southeasternsectionmeetsthe demand. I will make surethe quality of life remains at the highest level and that we operate efficiently.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1991- 1999 First Wall Street Investments, Financial Advisor. La Jolla, Ca Managed Customers Investment accounts, Made financial management decisions for customers, Retirement planning, Managed 401 K portfolios for large corporations. Business development.
1999- Present Wedbush Morgan Securities, Vice President Investments. La Jolla, Ca Investment portfolio Management with Individuals and large financial institutions. Design and implement large and complex Investment portfolios. Design and construct large 401k platforms for corporations.
Business development, Retirement planning, Branch manager.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2007- 2015 Chairmanof the Safetycommissionfor ourthe city of Chula Vista, Ca worked with the engineering department. Conceived and developed ideas and suggestions to contribute to the improvement of personal, traffic or property safety within the city.
EDUCATION
1991 BS degree in Business Administration SanDiego State University, finance.
James C. Clark
Clark is a native of Illinois, and a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana with a B.S. in Marketing.
After military service in New York, Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Würzburg, Germany, he began his professional career in San Diego as an advertising account executive. Among his clients at the time were the San Diego Padres, Caliente Racecourse and various real estate developments.
With a partner, he moved north and founded a Los Angeles-based magazine company to publish airline in- flight and hotel magazines. Clark was Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of all the publications. When he left that company—East/West Network—ten years later, more than 60 percent of all commercial flights in the United States carried the company’s magazines. These included such carriers as Continental, Delta, Eastern, Pan Am, PSA and United. Hotels included Westin, Holiday Inn, and InterContinental. Following publishing ventures included serving as President/Publisher of San Francisco Magazine, the city magazine for the Bay Area, and Publisher of The Executive, a business magazine that profiled Los Angeles and Orange County companies through the eyes of those companies’ chief executive officers. Clark was also Director of Magazine Development at Freedom Communications in Irvine, and interim publisher of both World Trade and Latin Trade magazines, based in Irvine and Miami, respectively.
Clark was the Founding Executive Director of the San Diego/Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. The Coalition is the leading bi -national organization working to ease border wait times between California and Baja California. It is the only regional organization with board members equally from both San Diego and Tijuana.
The Coalition also helps promote the San Diego-Tijuana Region for investment and is an advocacy group for bi-national border efficiency issues in Mexico City and Washington.
Clark was also the Founding Director of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Mexico Business Center and led the organization for 11 years . Before joining the SDRCC, he was Director for the Californias of the United States -Mexico Chamber of Commerce, based in Los Angeles. The United States -Mexico Chamber is headquartered in Washington, D. C. He also helped lead public policy trips to Washington and Mexico City. Clark is a citizen of the United States and holds Permanent Residency status in Mexico.
Clark was the Coordinator for the Tri-lateral North American Competitiveness and Innovation Conferences held annually in San Diego 2010-2013 under the auspices of the United States Department of Commerce and its Canada and Mexico counterparts.
He has been on the Board of Directors of Mainly Mozart/Promotora de Bellas Artes, South County Economic Development Council, and the German American Foundation where he was the binational chair. He is an International Friendship Commissioner for the City of Chula Vista and serves on the Advisory Boards of San Diego Citizen’s Diplomacy Council, San Diego World Affairs Council, XLNC1 Classical Radio , LEAD San Diego and Tijuana Innovadora. He is the Binational Director for Mainly Mozart working with the MM youth orchestra and those of several Mexican cities.
He has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Community Foundation and Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center as well as having served as the U.S. California Regional Team Leader for FUMEC’s BIMI (Border Intelligent Manufacturing Initiative) . He has been a member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW).
He continues as an Honorary Board Member of the San Diego/Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. He was inducted into the Tijuana Paseo de la Fama in 2015. Clark has been honored by the Congress of the United States, California State Senate, the State of Baja California, the Consulates General of Canada, Mexico and the United States, Tijuana Economic Development Corporation, and the Mayors of San Diego and Tijuana for his service to the region. Clark currently works on projects between San Diego/Tijuana and the Bajio Region of Mexico. He is also a Senior Advisor for the Institute of the Americas.