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Greg
Fair, MBA, PMP
President/C.E.O.,
Principal Consultant
G
Force Technology Consulting, Inc.
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Business Consulting
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Technology Consulting
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Government Contracts
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Project/Program Management
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Team Lead/Group Management
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Executive Management
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Business Intelligence
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Information Technology
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Artificial
Intelligence
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Executive Missions
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Change Management
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International Business
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Education, Training, and Mentoring
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Gregory Fair, MBA,
PMP - Principal Consultant
G Force Technology Consulting, Inc.
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 the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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.
Specifically
selected to receive specialized training: Special
Forces Sniper Course (SFSC) and Special
Forces Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
(S.E.R.E.) course, Mr.
Fair was then assigned to several overseas
Top-Secret missions in many
different countries, supporting the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, N.A.T.O.,
C.I.A., Special Forces, and State Department in
Forward Operating Base
(F.O.B.) and covert mission operations.
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 and Spain (along with many additional
Top-Secret missions in
undisclosed territories).
Security
Clearance held: Top Secret/SI/SCI - NATO,
ATOMAL.
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 global
network-wide problem that had been perplexing
Sprint engineers for several years, Mr. Fair
solved it in less than 30 minutes upon arriving
on-site. 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, 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 Design Expert (NCDE)
Nortel Certified Architect (NCA)
Then in 2001, after enduring several employer
downsizing's, Mr. Fair founded G
Force Technology Consulting, Inc.,
specializing in comprehensive business and
technology consulting services and Project/Program
Management. Mr. Fair has helped countless
C.E.O.'s, C.I.O.'s and 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, Technology Consulting,
and business process 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.
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 manages the agencies Zero Trust and
Cyber Security Programs per:
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 the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
program at St. Petersburg College in Florida.
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 revealed Mr.
Fair's unique ability to interpret, visualize, and
manage extremely complex structures.
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U.S.
Army
Signal Corps
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5th
Signal
Combat Badge
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U.S.
Army
Special Forces
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Joint
Chiefs
of Staff
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Pentagon
Command
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Info.Systems
Command
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160th
Signal
Brigade |
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