My Resume

AUG272013

Charles C. Mallon

Charles (Charley) C. Mallon

3095 Ouray Street

Boulder, Colorado 80301

And

2269 S. Via Massari

Green Valley, Arizona 85614

720-235-7483

charleymallon@comcast.net

Personal

Born Los Angeles, California, December 26, 1945

6’0, 175 lbs

Two adult children, three granddaughters and long-term relationship with Cindy Schlager

Education

California State University at Los Angeles

B.A. Latin American Studies 1970

Work Experience

Retired

2014 to present.

 

Colorado Affordable Health

September 2002 to December 2013

Helping individuals, the self-employed and their families find quality, affordable health insurance.

Owner                                            Boulder, Colorado

Major Medical, Accident, Dental, Short-Term, Term Life and International/Travel Insurance.–

Fort Howard, later Fort James Corporation

April 1983 to August 1999

Sales of industrial, janitorial and food service paper products through distribution to the “away from home market.”

Western Division Manager                    April 1991 to August 1999

Seattle District Manager                        April 1985 to April 1991

Los Angeles District Manager               April 1983 to April 1985

Responsibilities as a Division Manager included: 35 sales people covering the western third of the country; hiring, training, developing new distribution while maintaining rapport with established clients; setting and following division budgets, increasing end-user sales and devising distributor promotions while facilitating corporate initiated plans and programs. –

Management Recruiters of Seattle/Southcenter

October 1981 to April 1983

Owner                                                    Seattle, Washington

Franchised Search and Recruiting firm specializing in the placement of Engineers and Industrial Salespeople.–

Scott Paper Company

September 1971 to October 1981

Sales of sanitary paper and wiper products through distributors to the “away from home market.”

Seattle District Manager                          April 1979 to October 1981

Boston District Manager                          April 1977 to April 1979

Omaha Area Manager                              August 1974 to April 1977

Portland, Oregon Sr. Sales Rep.              April 1973 to August 1974

Los Angeles Sales Rep.                           September 1971 to April 1973–

Peace Corps

March 1966 to June 1968

Volunteer                                                  Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela 

Conducted recreation programs, coached sports and taught English in a small but rapidly growing community. –

Languages

Speak and read and write broken Spanish–

Recreation

Exercising, reading, euchre, bridge, pickleball and traveling the world, often to attend Rugby events.

Clean Water for the Community of El Siuce in Jalapa, Nicaragua

On December 15, 2017 for the third time I travelled to Nicaragua to promote a clean water project. Once again, I was joined by my friends from Boulder Valley Rotary, John and Maud Kenyon. John is at the beginning stages of writing a Rotary Global Grant for the small village of El Siuce, located on a rutted, steep, dirt road outside the mountainous northern city of Jalapa, fast against the Honduran border.

We previously have been involved with successfully rebuilding gravity-fed potable water systems in the near-by communities of Pasmata and El Trapiche. Again, we are partnering with Boulder Friendship City Projects (FCP) and their local representatives Karla Pozo and Greg Bowles.

I arrived the evening of the Friday the 15^th at the Managua airport and was met there by Greg, a U.S. citizen married to a Nicaraguan. They live about an hour south of the capital city near the small town of Diriomo. He invited me to spend the first night at his place. There we turned off the porch and yard lights to appreciate the stars, something not possible with all the ambient light at home.

day.

Saturday and Sunday, December 16 and 17- As we always try to mix fun with work on these trips,

I spent the next two days in the old colonial city of Managua. I followed a walking tour suggested in the Lonely Planet Travel Guide that included centuries-old architecture, museums, the central plaza and a boat tour of the small islands in Lake Nicaragua. I stayed at the wondrously named Mansion de Chocolate. 

John and Maud, who arrived in-country on the 16^th, joined me for the second 

day.

 

                                                                                                    

Monday-December 18- Greg, John, Maud and I traveled by taxi to Ciudad Sandino, just north of Managua, to meet with Mike Woodard, an American member of the local Rotary Club.

Afterward we ventured a short distance to the closeby clay water filter factory, where we met up with a delegation down from El Siuce in their chartered bus that included Karla Pozo, the Jalapa based FCP representative.

After a tour of the facility and a training session in the use and maintenance of the filters, we loaded the 127 clay filters, along with their plastic containers, onto the bus for a long slog north to Jalapa.

The trip was highlighted by an hour stop by police who had a difficult time figuring out what we were all about.

El Siuce presently has a barely functioning, cobbled together, dam and pipe (in some cases garden hoses) water system. Tests on the water show high concentrations of agriculture waste, e-coli and other impurities. 

These filters are a stop gap measure. If properly maintained, they can provide from one to three liters of 99.8% pure water an hour for up to 5 years. Boulder Valley Rotary and FCP are in the beginning stages of writing grants to cover the expected cost of up to $80,000 for and entirely new system. The grant process takes time however, and the filters are a way to provide drinkable water to the residents until we can get this done.

Tuesday-December 19- We woke up in our home-away-from-home in Jalapa, the Pantano hotel.

We then all headed out through rain to the site of El Siuce to distribute the filters to community members. Boulder Valley Rotary and FCP had each contributed $2000 dollars for the purchase of the units at $23 each. Recipients were required to cover the cost of transportation from Ciudad Santino, which amounted to $450, so they to had “skin in the game”.

Our hoped for festive distribution of the filters was muted by the wet weather, as we all huddled on the porch of someone’s home for an impromptu training session conducted by Karla. 

The handing out of the filters was a laborious process that involved making sure those who received one had originally ordered and paid their portion of the transportation cost. 

Nevertheless, the atmosphere was that of appreciativeness, as the community has come to recognize that many of the health problems they are suffering from are probably caused by the contaminated water. As not everyone chose to sign up for the original order, Karla took a list of names for a future order that will total about 30 more units.

The village provided all we visitors with a hearty chicken soup meal.

Wednesday-December 20- We drove from Jalapa to visit a previously unknown, nearby clay filter factory, that will be much closer to our Jalapa projects than the one in Ciudad Sandino. We will thus be able to reduce transportation costs on future orders.

We then spent most of the day hiking, wading, floating and swimming the Coco river in Somoto
Canyon.

That evening with participated in a meeting with the Somoto Rotary club and secured their commitment to serve as the Host Country Club for the new Rotary grant for El Siuce.

Thursday-December 21- Our trip from Somoto back to Managua was highlighted by a side trip up to Galería del Arte de Jalacate. This arduous hike up Jalacate mountain brought us to the site of the interesting rock carvings done by Antonio Guitierrez, a semi-hermit octogenarian, who has spent his life in his work.

This evening we met with Rob Bell of El Porvenir, who agreed to help us in several ways with our El Siuce project.

Friday-December 22- Travel back home to begin Christmas season.

All in all, a good trip for moving the El Siuce work ahead and for finding fun and adventure.

The Best Birthday Party

On January 28, 2017 Cindy Schlager celebrated her "I'm Still Here" 67th birthday party.

What made the party special is that she IS still here and the way she celebrated it.

Cindy has been battling cancer now for almost two years. She has gone through radiation and chemotherapy with little positive affect. In the summer of 2016 she reached a low point of needing a cane and wheel chair to get around. That is also when she started a two year clinical trial for a test drug called Keytruda at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

The results so far for this trial have been miraculous. So Cindy invited 150 of her friends to a big party to show them how much better she is feeling. Click below to see for your self-


For sure check out "Chicken Lips Parts 1 & 2" and "Cindy, Alex, Michael and Neyla Driscoll tap dance".

Cindy and Alex Ryer sing "I'm Still Here"

Michael Moore Yodels

Chicken Lips Part 1

Chicken Lips  Part 2

Cindy, Alex, Michael Gold and Neyla Driscoll tap dance

Bob Wells Toast

Linda Trenbeath Toast

Claudia Barkmeier Toast  Part 1

C Barkmeier Toast Part 2

Crowd and Cake Cutting

Group Dance