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Gregory
Fair,
MBA, PMP
C.E.O.,
Principal Consultant
G
Force Business & Technology
Consulting
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Business Consulting
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Technology Consulting
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Government Contracts
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Project Management
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Team Lead/Group Management
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Executive Management
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Product Management
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Independent Research
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Performance Verification
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Business Intelligence
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Information Technology
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Oil and Gas Technology
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UX/UI Consulting
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Civil Engineering
• Business Evaluation
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Executive Missions
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Enterprise Content Management
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Change Management
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Process Management
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Major Account Management
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Relationship Management
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Web Presence Management
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E-Commerce Consulting
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Marketing
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Contract
Administration
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Executive Steering Committees
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Policy Development
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Strategic Planning
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Business
Development
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Education, Training, and Mentoring
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Gregory Fair,
MBA, PMP - Principal Consultant
G Force Business & Technology
Consulting
Mr. Fair has demonstrated success in
overseeing many national/global business
and technology initiatives, with
experience in Business Consulting,
Technology Consulting, Business
Development, Project Management, and
Program Management.
Mr. Fair is an expert at Change
Management,
Business Analysis and Business Process
Management.
Throughout his career Mr. Fair's client
base has been extremely diverse, giving
him a very broad and unique perspective on
what it takes to succeed in complex
business and government environments, and
how to deliver comprehensive solutions
that deliver real-world value.
Working with literally hundreds of
National and Global Fortune 500 companies,
Governments, and Small/Medium Businesses,
Mr. Fair is adept at understanding the
core of what truly makes business work.
Mr. Fair started his career at the Pentagon
working with the cutting edge of Top
Secret Cryptographic, Fiber Optic, Video
Compression, and other emerging
technologies. Mr. Fair was responsible for
D.O.D,
F.B.I., D.E.A., N.S.A., State
Department, and The White House
communications networks, including Air Force One
communications, and the now
declassified Washington
to Moscow Hotlink (The "Red"
Phone).
While at the Pentagon, Mr. Fair also
worked on developing the precursors to the
Internet (the ARPAnet
and the Defense
Data
Network), and Mr. Fair actually came
up with the idea for the world's first DNS
Server while coordinating with Paul
Mockapetris in 1983. The
"Internet" had only one thousand end users
at that time.
Mr.
Fair
was also assigned to several overseas Top
Secret missions in many different
countries, supporting the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, C.I.A., Special Forces, and State
Department initiatives.
Later
stationed in Europe, Mr. Fair supported
Department of Defense, U.S.
Intelligence, and NATO communications
facilities in many different countries,
including Germany, England, Holland,
Belgium, Italy, Greece, Turkey &
Spain.
Security
Clearance held: Top Secret/SI/SCI
- NATO, ATOMAL, COMINT.
After the military Mr. Fair moved into the
civilian sector working with major network
hardware manufacturer and industry leader
Timeplex,
Inc. on major/critical projects
worldwide.
Mr. Fair was considered one of the leading
experts in emerging network technologies
and played an integral role in securing a
multi-million dollar contract with Sprint
by single-handedly solving a very complex
network-wide problem that had been
perplexing Sprint engineers for several
years, Mr. Fair solved it in less than 30
minutes. Sprint
then requested Mr. Fair as an on-site
consultant and he went on to redesign the
entire global SprintNet
backbone network (the Internet backbone).
Mr. Fair also developed a comprehensive
Project Management and Major Account
Management training program and conducted
on-site training and mentoring of other
Project Managers, Major Account Managers,
and Network Consultants.
Mr. Fair went on manage many more
large-scale national and global projects
for clients such as Bank
of America, Great
Western Bank, Blue
Cross, Walt
Disney, Universal
Studios and The
State
Department, and The F.B.I.,
just to name a few.
Mr. Fair was then promoted to Regional
Branch
Operations Manager for the
Timeplex Los Angeles region.
Then when Timeplex downsized Mr. Fair was
recruited by Madge
Networks, where he was hired
specifically to manage the companies 3
largest critical (in jeopardy) accounts, Cigna,
Aetna
and GE
Capital.
During his tenure with Madge Networks Mr.
Fair also worked with New
York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and
city administrators as Sr.
Program
Manager for the Times
Square Revitalization Project.
Mr. Fair helped facilitate the crown jewel
of the project by helping to broker a deal
with Walt
Disney C.E.O. Michael Eisner to
open a new Disney headquarters in the
newly revitalized Times Square.
Mr. Fair also worked with then Governor George W.
Bush on the Texas Natural
Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC)
as a Major
Account Manager
on several critical Energy Sector
infrastructure projects.
As Sr.
Project Manager for both B.M.W.
and Mercedes
Benz on their U.S. manufacturing
plant openings, Mr. Fair is an expert at
working with international businesses as
they establish U.S. based operations.
Many international companies have
benefited from Mr. Fair's international
business expertise including Banco Do
Brasil, Alcon, The Bank of Thailand,
Airbus, Deutsche Bundespost and Tel
Mexico.
For a time Mr. Fair also specialized in
the finance and investment industry,
working with companies like The New York
Stock Exchange, Solomon Smith Barney,
Morgan Stanley, etc.
When Madge Networks acquired Lannet
Technologies in Tel Aviv Israel, Mr.
Fair became the primary engineering
liaison to redesign the Lannet backbone
switch to meet U.S. technology standards.
Then again when Madge Networks downsized,
Mr. Fair went to work for one of the
worlds largest companies, Nortel
Networks, selling, designing, and
deploying multi-million dollar Core
Internet Backbone solutions. Mr. Fair's
expertise brought him center stage for the
Dot-Com
boom in Austin, Texas, and Mr. Fair
was among the first consultants to predict
the impending Dot-Com
bust.
As an industry leading Network
Security
Expert, Mr. Fair consulted with DoD, F.B.I.,
C.I.A.,
NSA and The
White House on Global Network
Security trends.
Certifications:
Nortel Certified Technology Expert (NCTE)
Nortel Certified Support Expert (NCSE)
Nortel Certified Design Expert (NCDE)
Nortel Certified Architect (NCA)
Then in 2001, after enduring several
company downsizing's, Mr. Fair took charge
of his own destiny and founded G
Force Technology Consulting,
Inc., specializing in comprehensive
business and technology consulting
services and Project/Program Management.
Mr. Fair has helped countless Business
Executives drive their businesses to new
levels of success.
With G Force Technology Consulting, Mr.
Fair works with business executives to
achieve real value through change
management, forward-thinking concepts, and
business/technology strategy consulting.
In appreciation for our nation's dedicated
Military, Police and Firefighters, in 2004
Mr. Fair also founded Uniform
Display, Inc. to develop, patent
and distribute a new product called The
Uniform Display Case, which has
since evolved to the veteran focused
non-profit organization Uniform-Display.org.
Mr. Fair was then appointed as the Sr.
Project/Program Manager for an
extensive enterprise wide Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) and Equal
Employment Opportunity (EEO) SharePoint
development project for The
Department of Treasury. As part
of this project Mr. Fair spearheaded
complex “network trust” initiatives with
multiple Treasury bureaus including the
I.R.S., at the C.I.O. and Deputy Secretary
level.
Mr. Fair also worked with civil
engineering firm A1
Consulting Group and D.C.
Department of Transportation (DDOT)
on expanding and developing Civil
Engineering initiatives such as the $5.6
Billion Metro Silver Line Extension and
the $905 Million Southeast Capital Project
in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Mr. Fair also has experience in
the financial services industry, and
while working on a Business
Development contract with a
regional financial services company Mr.
Fair brought in the company's largest
account ever, at $1.5 Billion.
More recently Mr. Fair has worked on
managing multiple contracts with The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
and the U.S. Department of the
Treasury/Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency (OCC) where he
currently manages the agencies Zero
Trust Cyber Security Program per Executive
Order of the President #14028,
and M-22-09 Federal Zero
Trust Strategy - The White House.
Mr. Fair is an experienced business
strategist and technology expert with a
proven record of producing innovative
solutions to complex business problems. An
intuitive and detail oriented process
manager, adept at balancing multiple
agenda’s to ensure forward momentum,
increased productivity, and bottom line
performance.
Mr. Fair leads by example and sets a high
standard of integrity, business
philosophy, and professionalism. A real
team player and innovative team leader
with the unique ability to strategically
implement high-level objectives and
deliver solid real-world results.
Mr. Fair attended PhD programs at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (M.I.T.),
and California Institute of Technology
(CalTech), and completed Master of
Business Administration (MBA) and PMI
Project Management Professional (PMP)
programs at St. Petersburg College in
Florida.
Mr. Fair was nominated as an honorary
member of the Washington D.C. Special
Forces Association for his work in
supporting the U.S. Army Special Forces.
Mr. Fair was recruited and inducted into MENSA
(High I.Q. Society) at the age of 19
based on Army GCT and ASVAB Test Results,
subsequent MENSA testing rated Mr. Fair's
I.Q. at 159, with a unique ability to
visualize and interpret extremely complex
structures.
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