What Hue Is Your Bungee Cord? is a take-off of Richard Bolles' What Color Is Your Parachute? Be careful in blindly following everything you hear from pseudo-experts. Before you leap, check out the hue of your bungee cord! Checking out the hue of your bungee cord assures that your job-searching strategies, tactics, and tools work correctly before you take the leap into your job-search adventure.If I wanted to find out how a terrorist really feels, I would talk to a terrorist. I would not talk to a person with a PhD in terrorism. Analogously, if I wanted to find out how to secure a good job in the current, competitive job-searching environment, I would talk either to those who are successfully searching and receiving good offers or to those who have recently found and accepted good jobs. I certainly would not talk to a supposed job-search expert who has not searched for employment in years.
Robert T. (Bob) Uda, PhD (ABD), Certified Manager (CM), currently serves as vice president of the West Coast Division of SIG Homeland Security, LLC, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. Bob furthermore serves as president and principal consultant of Bob Uda and Associates (BU&A), a counterterrorism research firm. Bob previously served as chairman, president, and CEO of Apollo Systems Technology, Inc., a system security engineering company in Canyon Country, California. He served in the USAF for over eight years and worked in the aerospace and defense industries for over a quarter century.
Bob earned BS degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Oklahoma and in general business from Regents College (now called Excelsior College) of Albany, New York. He further earned an MS degree in astronautics from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and an MBA from the University of La Verne (California). Additionally, he received a diploma in The Executive Program in Management from the UCLA Graduate School of Management. Currently, Bob pursues a PhD in Business Administration with specialization in Homeland Security from Northcentral University (NCU) located in Prescott Valley, Arizona. He has achieved the Doctoral Candidacy Status. He is doing his dissertation research on exploring elements contributing to potential improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in the U.S. homeland. He is scheduled to graduate in 2011.
Bob has prepared over 50 publications plus 17 books. He has written/published four counterterrorism books including (1) Principles of Asymmetrical Warfare: How to Beat Islamo-fascists at Their Own Game, (2) Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Victory Over Islamo-fascist Jihadists, (3) Combating Terrorists in the USA: Protecting the CONUS from Terrorists, and (4) Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, and Cyberwarfare: Crime, Terror, and War without Conventional Weapons. Currently, he is preparing a book titled Those Blasted IEDs! Defeating the Deadly Improvised Explosive Device.
Bob is certified in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program. He is a member of the City of San Marcos (CA) CERT and is a disaster service worker (DSW) with the Unified San Diego County Emergency Services Organization. He earned a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) Amateur Radio "Technician" License with call sign KI6SQW. Bob also holds the Certified Homeland Security Professional (CHSP) certification with specialization in Counter-Terrorism from SIG Homeland Security, LLC. Additionally, he received the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) in Homeland Security from NCU.
Bob Uda holds memberships in the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals (IACSP), International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, Inc. (IALEIA), International Counter Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA), InfraGard San Diego Members Alliance, Business Espionage Controls & Countermeasures Association (BECCA), and National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Bob is also a member of Alpha Phi Sigma, the honorary society for Criminal Justice and Homeland Security, and was awarded the 2009 Provost Scholarship Award ($500) and Certificate of Achievement from NCU.
Bob received the Honorable Mention Award in the Maritime Security Expo and NCU paper competition. The paper is titled "Detecting and Defeating Waterborne Improvised Explosive Devices (WBIEDs) Onboard Small Vessels." Further, he published an article on "Thoughts of a Volunteer Hostage" in Volume 7, Issue 3, of the Counter-Terrorism Quarterly, the official newsletter of the ICTOA. Additionally, he serves as chairman of the board (COB) of the Institute of Certified Professional Managers (ICPM) Board of Regents (BOR) headquartered at the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
