Personal Resume

Charles W. Fromhold
11406 SE 19th Street
Vancouver, Washington 98664
Telephone: 360-254-6583

Date of Birth: August 11, 1942, in Seattle, Washington
Married: Wife, Marlene K. Fromhold
Family: Two daughters

Education

Stadium High School
Tacoma, Washington
Graduated: 1960

Olympic Community College
Bremerton, Washington
Graduated:1963, AA Degree

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington
Graduated:1966, BA Degree

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington
Graduated:1970, MBA Degree

Employment History

Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
Vancouver, WA
Position: President/CEO
Date of Employment: 9/1/98 to 4/30/00
Nature of Position: Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Officer
Typical Responsibilities: Carried out general supervision and management of the office and business affairs of the organization. Directed all planning to carry out Chamber objectives and implemented Chamber policies.

Evergreen School District No. 114
Clark County, Washington
Position: Associate Superintendent, Business and Support Services
Date of employment: 4/15/97 to 8/31/98
Nature of Position: Administrator of non-instructional services.
Typical Responsibilities: Supervised support services for a school district that enrolls approximately 20,000 students and employs a staff of 2,000. In addition, I was liaison for governmental and business affairs, as well as liaison to neighborhood associations and the independent Levy and Bond promotional committee, Evergreen Citizens for Schools.

Seafirst Bank
Seattle, Washington
Position: Vice President, Municipal Finance
Date of Employment: 2/15/94 to 12/31/96
Nature of Position: Investment banker for Seafirst Bank. Underwriting of municipal bonds for municipalities, primarily school districts.
Typical Responsibilities: Worked with municipalities to help them structure their long term debt needs. Advised and assisted them in meeting their capital needs for both operation and construction. Arranged and facilitated the underwriting process for original issue and refunding bonds. Assisted the municipalities in preparing and presenting rating information to rating agencies such as Moodys and Standard and Poors.

Educational Service District #112
Vancouver, Washington
Position: Superintendent
Date of Employment: 7/1/81 to 12/31/93 (Retired)
Position: Business Manager
Date of Employment: 7/1/72 to 7/1/81
Nature of Position: Chief administrative officer of the Educational Service District.
Typical Responsibilities: Carried out policy directives of seven member boards of director. Established administrative guidelines for and supervised staff of 300 employees. The role and function of the organization was to provide administrative, instructional and support services to 30 local school districts located in the six counties of Southwest Washington.

Washington State Auditor's Office
Olympia, Washington
Position: State Examiner III
Date of Employment: 6/70 to 7/72
Nature of Position: Planned and conducted fiscal legal audits of state agencies. Agencies assigned included Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Coordinating Council for Occupational Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Washington State Liquor Control Board.
Typical Responsibilities: Planned and conducted audits, conducted entrance and exit briefings, wrote audit reports. Prepared audit programs for subordinate examiners. Advised agencies relative to accounting systems and desirable management controls over financial transactions. Examiner in charge of contracted audits of Manpower Development and Training Projects administered by the Coordinating Council for Occupational Education. Developed interim and post audit programs. Coordinated internal audit and field audit reports. Reviewed audit work papers and wrote report.

Weyerhaeuser Company
Tacoma and Snoqualmie Falls, Washington
Position: Assistant Quality Control Supervisor
Date of Employment: 6/69 to 7/70
Nature of Position: Maintained an ongoing quality control program in line with company standards. Developed quality control policies to be issued by management.
Typical Responsibilities: Developed and applied quality control programs. Worked with industrial engineers, production and time studies. Accumulated, analyzed and reported statistical production information to management. Conducted a research project for the Weyerhaeuser Marketing Department. Project was used as thesis for MBA study.

United States Army
Position: 1Lt Operations and Training Officer Enlistment Date of Employment: 6/66 - 2/69 - Honorably Discharged
Date of Employment: Primary staff officer responsible for planning all field operations and training of an Infantry Battalion of 900 men in Baumholder, Germany.
Date of Employment: Compiled annual training plan in accordance with division level guidelines and reviewed subordinate unit training schedules. Developed battalion policy for allocation of resources (men, material and equipment) to meet annual training objectives. Also responsible officer for auditing non-appropriated unit funds.

Civic and Social Activities and Memberships

     Current Activities

Clark College, Vancouver, Washington
Member, Board of Directors

Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Member, University Foundation Board of Trustees

Leadership Clark County, Clark County, Washington
Member, Board of Directors

Evergreen School District Foundation
Member, Board of Directors

Columbia River Economic Development Council
Member, Board of Directors

     Past Activities

Columbia River Economic Development Council
Member, Board of Directors

Washington State University, Branch Campus
Member, Advisory Council

Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands
Member, School of Construction Funding

Advisory Committee established by Jennifer Belcher,
Washington Association of School Administrators Legislative and Finance Committee
Member and Past Chair

References

Senator Al Bauer
(360) 786-7696
49th Legislative District
360-573-1852

Tana Hassart
President, Clark College

Bob Levin
(512) 478-9383
President, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce