RICK A RICE CONSULTING
Technical and Marketing Communications for the IT, Software, IT-Security, Change Management, AEC, and Media Sectors
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RAR Consulting was founded by Rick Alan Rice, who has been writing for publication and pay since the late 1960s, first as a high school stringer providing reports on local sporting events for his hometown weekly newspaper, and then as a paid columnist and reporter on his university newspaper before embarking on a career that has extended on for more than 35 years. In 1976, after attending one year of graduate school at Ball State University in Muncie, Rick took a job as a reporter with a small circulation daily newspaper in Winchester, Indiana. For the next seven years, he worked for a variety of commercial publications as a news reporter, feature writer, and managing editor, primarily in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. He moved to San Francisco in 1984, working for Viacom, which at the time had the cable television contract in the city, and for a San Francisco fundraising consultancy. These experiences led to opportunities in the corporate training industry, which provided experience with product development, marketing communications, and proposal development. Rick joined Thomas Church-legacy landscape architecture firm Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey in 1994, and then in 1998 expanded his technical writing experience to include the electronics industry and development of software development documentation and user tutorials. In 1999 he expanded his practice into the financial services industry, developing procedure manuals for the licensing of securities brokers and processing of new business. In 2001 he added major A&E infrastructure projects to his repertoire, developing proposals for various Bechtel divisions (airports, light rail, vertical construction, as well as mining operations) as well as technical documentation (Department of Defense chemical demilitarization design-build, highway environmental impact and port/rail/mine feasibility studies). Over the past 10 years, Rick has worked with top-ranked firms in the A&E, Information Technology and network infrastructure fields, including Cisco Systems, URS Corporation, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, HNTB, Kiewit, Innovative Technical Solutions Inc., AHTNA Government Services, Granite Construction, MACTEC, Harris & Associates, and others. Rick has particular experience with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), particularly with regard to qualification and proposal development for large DoD (USACE, NAVFAC, AFCESA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of General Services (DGS) and State Department contracts. He also has extensive experience with California state government agencies, developing feasibility studies and special project reports for Caltrans, California Office of Internet Security and Privacy Protection (OISPP), Business, Transportation and Housing (BTH) Agency, and other. In 2010, Rick worked with KPMG to develop the feasibility study for the State of California Cap-and-Trade program, mandated by Assembly Bill 32, the historic Climate Control legislation signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. The program is administered by the Air Resources Board, a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Recent and current work includes the development of design guidelines and specifications for major data center design-build projects. |
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