Work Qualifications – Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
– Update and Mise a jour 8 Aug 2022
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.’s Summary
- Extensive managerial, administrative and PR experience in corporate, start-up and academia.
- Strong knowledge of sales, business, marketing and trade operations in the U.S. and overseas.
- Creative and innovative in business negotiation and in building relationships within the United States and in various local, regional and international markets and cultural spaces.
- First insights on countries serviced such as United States, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, China, Vietnam, India, Japan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Cameroon and Ghana.
- International Academic, Researcher, Administrator and Faculty for online and onsite programs.
- Record track of publications in France, Italy, England, United States and Morocco.
- High level of Integrity with straightforward and direct communication skills along with virtual interactive abilities in English and several foreign languages.
Global PR Manager, Tate Yoko Research Institute – TRI, Kyoto – Hong Kong, Present – Oakland, CA
Founder & Research Director, AIEA In Association with Global Center for Trade, June 2001 – Present – Oakland, CA
- Extensive portfolio of consulting on business, marketing and sales planning and trade development for local, regional and international operations.
- Developed and implemented strategies focusing on Business Organizational Structure, Export Marketing Management, International and local Marketing Formulation and Adaptation, International and Local Business Planning, Integration of Business Modeling, Feasibility Studies on Projects, Evaluation of Investment Performance and SWOT Analysis.
- Designed and delivered Online programs, Executive seminars and workforce development training workshops that help attendees to learn the dynamics of the American Management Policies and Strategies which can leverage and enhance their knowledge on business growth and governance of U.S. based enterprises and U.S. owned international companies.
- Provided consulting services and conducted training sessions for large and small and mid-sized businesses in partnership with for-profit and nonprofit organizations and universities.
- Countries Serviced: USA, Mexico, France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Vietnam, India, and South Korea and China.
Program Manager and Business Consultant, California Resources and Training, 2009 – 2012 – Oakland, California
- Provide executive leaders of business development organizations in-depth training and instruction on how to market their organizations and improve communications with employees, stakeholders, founders, and the community as a whole.
- Provide inputs for the design of Online curriculum and online workforce development programs that helps business advisers to provide consistent, high quality services to entrepreneurs and small business owners and make a meaningful, lasting impact on their business clients.
- Participated in the development of instructional training program for the staff members of small business development organizations in partnership of external organizations.
- Develop training for international operations and business development consulting services for international markets and international distribution networks.
International Busines Project and Trade Consultant East Bay Center for International Trade Development, June 2001 – June 2007 – Oakland and Berkeley, California, USA
Designed, implemented and conducted international marketing strategies and business development plans to facilitate the opening of markets in Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Vietnam and organization of International Projects including Trade Missions in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Dailan, Kunming, Guizhou) India, Morocco (Representing 25 US companies at the American Cafe in Casablanca and organized by the USDA, US State Department and US Embassy in Morocco) for the signing of the US.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
Designed and managed the website and all the related online activities including the management of monthly Reporting to State of California Workforce Development agency.
Responsible for California’s Workforce and Economic Development and Federal Grant Preparation and Writing for the US Department of Labor for Logistics and International Trade in California.
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Extensive improvement applied in the management of inter-cultural and Inter-ethnic Center’s Staff and the Internship Program at the Vista Community College and later with the Berkeley City College, the Student International Trade Association and the Student Exchange Program.
Initiated and developed participation of the East Bay Center for International Trade Development in Trade Shows, Business Missions and Trade Delegations as well as the hosting of International Visitor Program and the organization of training Seminars in-house and in partnership with organizations and Government agencies.
Active participation in the Initiative for the Logistics and International Trade Development sponsored by the US. Department of Labor, the California CITD, the California Economic and Workforce Development Program and the California Community Colleges.
Responsible for the design, negotiation and delivery of Training Seminars and Business Conferences for Foreign Governments Officials and Authorities.
Managed at the East Bay Center for International Trade Development the entire process of the Workforce Training Curriculum and Workshop Program.
Adjunct Instructor for Training Programs with the East Bay Center for International Trade, Vista College and Berkeley City College – 2002 and 2007 Berkeley, California
Designed new curriculum and certified training program for visiting Chinese Delegation formed of Executives and Senior Officials from the Guizhou Province.
Discussed the Study Program with the Director of the East Bay Center for International Trade and Development and worked with the Dean of Instruction at the Vista Community College, Berkeley to develop a version for accreditation.
Participated in the designation of the members of the Faculty team to implement my training and teaching proposals.
Conducted teaching sessions and delivered several courses as well as provided one-on-one consulting sessions, guidance and advises to the Member of the Chinese Delegation.
Designed and implemented outreach promotional and collaborative programs within the various departments at the Vista Community College, the Student Associations and external representative organizations, professional entities and academic institutions.
Adjunct Professor Holy Names University, September 1995 – June 2003, Oakland, CA
Developed new programs for the nascent School of Business and taught courses on Business Policy and Strategy, International Management and International Economics.
Participated in Faculty Meeting and Business Forums with Dr. David Fike, former Economics Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
Organized and developed programs of several set of activities for minority and women-owned business with Dr. Fike and the East Bay Small Business Development Center in Oakland to stimulate the economic growth of Downtown and the Fruitvalle urban areas of Oakland.
Conducted workshops of training, consulting sessions and conferences in cooperation with Dr. Fike, the Holy Names College and the Oakland Chamber of Commerce as well as other business representative associations and organizations.
Made the proposition to Dr. David Fike to change the name of Holy Names College to Holy Names University.
Associate Professor and SME, Touro University California, 2000 – 2003, Greater San Diego Area
Designed customized online curriculum for several business courses.
Delivered and improved the mode of delivery of Online Graduate Courses.
Monitored and delivered online Doctoral Seminars and provided online Doctoral thesis Monitering.
Adjunct Associate Professor and Lecturer, Golden Gate University, School of Business, School of Technology and Industry, School of Public Service: 1987 – 2002, San Francisco Bay Area
Taught several Graduate courses with with Dr. Tony Branch, Former Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost at the Walnut Creek Campus. He gave me the privilege and the duty to teach and advise « Gentleman Officers » at the Travis Air Force Base. This episode of teaching and forming Senior Pilots was and is still one of the « Top Gun » in my collection of my Medals of Honors that I cherish at the Academic Battle Field of School of Thoughts (See here below letters from US Air Force Officers).
Introduced new curriculum and related program studies for the first time in the history of Golden Gate University and taught courses on Latin America, European Economic Community and Asia at the School of Business.
Organized International Business Meetings and Conferences with local and international participation, such as the Chinese Delegation from Beijing and Yunnan and the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce.
Published articles on NAFTA and EEC in GGU publications, for details, refer to Publications section here below.
Adjunct Associate Professor Golden Gate University, School of Technology and Industry: 1998 – 2001, San Francisco Bay Area
Created new curriculum on the integration of telecomnunications and information technology and developed new study programs for the Executive MBA Program at the Silicon Valley Campus (See Letter here below).
Taught Graduate Courses and assisted the research of Senior Managers and Directors of Silicon Valley companies at the Palo Alto Campus (See published articles here below).
Provided guidance and professional inputs for graduate teaching activities and worked with Dr. Miro Costa, the Associate Dean and Chairperson to introduce new courses on software programs, database development and telecommunications.
Published articles and research papers on telecommunications, information technology and CRM, including on information technology and CRM.
Executive Director of Business Development Amient: 2000 – 2000, Redwood City, California
Member of the Executive Management Task Force and the CEO Key Advisory Board.
Strategically increase the visibility and gather feedback from financial institutions and small businesses. to customize Amient’s patent-pending e-procurement software that extract and itemized online ordering and shopping cart invoices, transfer purchasing data to accounting and enable marketing products based upon individual online purchasing patterns and businesses trends.
Directed the business development team toward high-level industry such as Visa, Sprint and other provider of financial services.
Adjunct Professor DeVry University, 1998 – 2000, Fremont, California and Online
Created and taught Online courses for Managers and Graduate Programs on telecommunications and Information Technology.
Developed curriculum and extra-curricula activities for Students on Technology and Security at the Campus of Fremont.
Invited the Students to the Sprint facility in Foster City and San Mateo where I worked to enable them to be in real situations.
International Business / Sales Development Manager, Sprint Corp. 1998 – 1999, San Francisco Bay Area
Led multi-site, multinational businesses and built, managed and trained cooperative, multicultural managerial teams for global sales, marketing and business development projects and accounts.
Secured and managed major regional and global client including in the US, Mexico, Canada, China, Philippines, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, and countries in Middle East and Africa.
Built web content and designed an international Intranet service on international clients, marketplaces, product and services offered by Sprint, and Global One, French Telecom and Deutch Telecom.
Prepared and responded to international RFP/RFQ/RFI/ITT and Proposals. Delivered presentations to Executives in the Fortune 500, 1000 and Global market, sample at this web site: ATM Concept and Application
Responsible for more than 14 Million of quarterly revenues and achieved straight quarters of profitability and revenue growth up to 121.52% for San Francisco Area and 108.43% for Silicon Valley Area, Northern and West Coast of California.
Dominican University of California, 1992 – 1999, San Raphael, California
Worked with Dr. Young Wesley, the Director of the Pacific Rim Studies Program and we developed more business oriented curriculum, courses and seminars. Dr. Wesley gave the opportunity to teach and develop my research on the Southeast Asian Economies and the related technological development and Business Growth which culminated in my publication on telecommunications and information technology in China listed above.
Introduced and taught in the first time of the Dominican College of San Rafael’ academic history 2 cohort distinct and complementary courses on Economic Development and Political Cultures of Latin America for Dr. Boitano and Chairman Milroy. I was referred and recommended to them by a Bay Area Expert of that time, Dr. James Baker.
My dedication to this institution through the aforementioned educators-practitioners made me to be also the first to enunciate the need to modify the name from College to University in meetings.
Designed the core proposal of new graduate program on Leadership and Organizational Development for Chairman Milroy.
Co-Chair of the International Business Committee, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1993 – 1998, San Francisco, California
With Laurent Roffee, we Chaired the International Business Committee on Middle East and Africa and Asia.
Laurent was an astute consultant and was born in Casablanca and grew up in France and we share the same cultural and intellectual foundations that enable us to work as team to develop California trade relations with Sub-Saharan and North African Countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, Gulf States, Israel, Erithea, Ethopia and Tanzania), France, Spain, India, China and Vietnam.
Organized the First Business and Trade Mission from these countries to California and created forums and seminars as well as conference to enable meeting and interactions with U.S. and Bay Area Business and Enterpreneurial communities.
Chair of Doctorate and Adjunct Associate Professor, Golden Gate University, School of Public Service and International Studies, 1994 – 1997 (3 years) San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with Dr. Larry Brewster, the Dean of the School in strengthening the Doctoral Program and Research Assignment for Doctorate Candidates.
Adapted new courses to the needs of the new programs on the Dimension of International Public Administration by including regions and processes that were innovative on the study of local policies and its impact on building international relationship.
Taught courses on comparative analysis of public administration and international affairs.
Directed Doctoral thesis and taught Doctoral Seminars.
Adjunct Faculty, Saint Mary’s College of California, Department of Business, 1995 – 1996, Moraga, CA
Within the international program, created new curriculum on business operations, technology and economic development with case-studies as the core subject of analysis and demonstration.
Provided students with guidance on the inclusion and the development of infrastructure in developing countries and in emerging marketplaces.
Used comparative approach to define and differentiate the development policies implemented and to facilitate the understanding of local and regional determinations in the design and the selection of the corresponding strategies.
Department Chair / Professor – Department of Management and International Business, International University of America, College of Business Administration, 1992 – 1996, San Francisco, California and Paris, France
Directed Doctoral dissertation, provided guidance to doctorate candidates and taught several core courses on business strategy and international business.
Budgeted, planned and scheduled new programs, managed fiscal and contractual responsibilities.
Developed a chart on placing French-origin students in internship program that I developed with San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the World Trade Center of San Francisco, the Center for International Trade Development and the East Bay Small Business Development Center at Oakland.
Selected by the Student and the Dean and acted as the Commencement Speaker for the First Cohort of the University’s Graduation Ceremony in San Francisco.
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.’s Education
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)
Ph.D, Economics – Latin American Studies 1982 – 1992, Grade: Honors
Created new theory and related concepts on the economic development that I formulated as « Subcapitalism and Subcapitalist Economies ». An analytical and critical study of the Western-based theories on the internationalization of direct and indirect investments was conducted and evaluated through the integration in the international market of Leading Latin American Economies. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru provided the field of application for my Theory on Subcapitalism.
Activities and Societies: Economie politique du subcapitalisme en amérique latine (1830-1930) : Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Pérou
Institut de Recherche Economique et de Planification, Grenoble University
DEA, Economic Strategy for National Development and Growth 1978 – 1982, Grade: Honors
Started my research with Yves Barel and Ian Dessau at the Institut de Recherche Economique et de Planification, Grenoble.
Yves Barel introduced me to Celso Furtado who became my mentor in Paris. I had to choose between the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales and the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amerique Latine. Brazilianists Pierre Monbeig and Frederic Mauro and friends of Celso Furtado convinced me to continue my research at the IHEAL with Raymond Prats and Aubert Rabenoro. See publications of Raymond Prats: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3APrats%2C+Raymond.&qt=hot_author
In the late of 1970’s, while conducting my research on Brazil I discovered the real spiritual reason of such choice in form of a footnote listed in an old book written by Prado Junior, Caio: Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo – Colônia, see this link:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forma%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_Brasil_Contempor%C3%A2neoless
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble Diplome du Second Cycle, Section Economie-Finance, Economics & Finance: 1975 – 1978
I conducted a field research in Morocco, wrote and submited a thesis on « the Economic intervention of the State with the Case-Study of the Textile Industry in Morocco ».
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.’s Languages:
- French (Native or bilingual proficiency)
- English (Full professional proficiency)
- Spanish (Professional working proficiency)
- Arabic Moroccan (Native or bilingual proficiency)
- Italian (Elementary proficiency)
- Portuguese (Elementary proficiency)
- Arabic Classic (Native or bilingual proficiency)
- German (Elementary proficiency)
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.’s Certifications
- Certificate as Trainer on International Trade: Export and Import for the United States of America
- East Bay Center for International Trade Development Center, Oakland, California, 2004
- Certificate on U.S. Export and Import
- US Department of Commerce, San Francisco and Oakland, California, 2001
- Certificate on Faculty Workshop Assessment of Student Learning, Devry University
- DeVry University, 1999
- Certificate on International Telecommunications Business Regulatory Compliance, Sprint Corporation
- Sprint, 2000
