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What is your profession and title?: director, the piedmont private adjudiction center

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education): • J.D. – Thomas M. Cooley Law School
• Joint Certificate in International Law, Oxford University - University of San Diego School of Law
• M.L.I.R. – Michigan State University
• B.A. – Calvin College
• A.B.D., Duquesne University School of Education
• S.P.H.R. designation, Society of Human Resources
Management
•IMI certification in process

Better Business Bureau (“Basic Business Arbitration”), 1983; Durham Dispute Settlement Center (“Fundamentals of Mediation”), 1984; American Arbitration Association (“Arbitrating Commercial Disputes”) 1985; Raleigh-Durham Personnel Association (“Win-Win Negotiations”), 1987; Orange County Dispute Settlement Center (“Mediating Family & Divorce Cases”), 1988; University of Michigan School of Business Administration (“Negotiating the Labor Agreement”), 1988; U.S. Arbitration & Mediation (“Advanced Mediation Skills”), 1990, U.S. Arbitration & Mediation (“Interest-Based Negotiations Skills for Attorneys”), 1993; State Employee Relations Board of Ohio (“Advanced Labor Fact-Finding and Mediation”), 1993/1995/1997/1999/2001/2003; PA Bar Institute (“Interest-Based Negotiation Skills for Attorneys”), 1995; American Arbitration Association (“Labor Arbitration”), 1996; U.S. E.E.O.C. (“Employment Mediation”), 1997; Allegheny County Bar Association (“Alternatives to Litigation for Contested Workers Compensation Claims”), 1997; American Arbitration Association (“Advanced Employment Arbitration/Mediation”), 1998; U.S. Postal Service (“Transformational Mediation Skills”), 1998; The National Association of Securities Dealers [“Arbitrator/Mediator Training”], 1998; The Harvard University Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (“Renegotiating Health Care: New Models and Changing Relations”), 1998; American Arbitration Association (“Commercial Arbitration”), 1999; U.S. E.E.O.C. (“Technical Assistance Training for Employers – The EEOC Mediation Program”), 1999; U.S. Bankruptcy Court (“Mediating Bankruptcy Cases”), 1999; American Arbitration Association (“Mediating Construction Disputes”), 2000; American Arbitration Association (“Construction Arbitration”), 2000; Ombudsman Association (“Ombudsman 101”), 2000; Hospital Council of Western PA (“Labor Law Update”), 2000; The Allegheny County Bar Association (“Effective Construction Conflict Management: The Expanding Role of ADR to Resolve Disputes”), 2001; American Arbitration Association (“Expanding the Use of ADR”), 2001; U.S. Postal Service (“Transformative Mediation”), 2002, 2003; American Arbitration Association (“Advanced Employment Arbitrator Training”), 2002; American Arbitration Association (“International ADR”), 2003; National Association of Securities Dealers (“Securities Arbitration”), 2003; U.S. E.E.O.C. (“Advanced Employment Mediation”), 2004; Allegheny County Bar Association (“Mediating Employment Disputes”), 2004; UPMC (“Mediating Patient-Provider Healthcare Disputes”), 2005.