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Ronald L. Acker
Director, Gallery Sydney-East Art & Design Consultancy
Principal negotiator for establishing domestic and international contracts between Gallery Sydney-East and US-based art galleries/art museums. Performs similar functions on an international level acting as primary liaison between Australian art centers for the purchase, shipping, promotion and representation of established and newly emerging Aboriginal artists.
Coordinator/facilitator between Darwin office of the Association of Northern, Kimberley & Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) and Washington, D.C. office of Austrade and the Cultural Affairs Minister for the Embassy of Australia in connection with public outreach materials for Gallery Sydney-East clients and new initiatives for introducing Australian Aboriginal art to clients on the East Coast of the United States.
Gallery Sydney-East's Chief liaison officer to the Government of Australia's Minister of Cultural Affairs officer, governing board members of Artbank and Directors of over fifty art centers in Australia.
Chief financial officer, responsible for all art purchasing decisions, US Customs requirements, annual Federal and State tax filings, State Corporate Commission filings, and all other fiduciary requirements attendant to gallery operations and structure.
Contractual officer for coordinating and approving the leasing and placement of Gallery Sydney-East's brick-and-mortar facility at the Workhouse, Lorton, Virginia.
Web site and graphics materials developer; responsible for uploading site to ISP (Internet Service Provider), for the currency of all Internet-based materials and for user accessibility.
Public Relations coordinator and event planner for hosted events & activities.
Writer, editor and publisher for all marketing and educational materials relating to corporate/private client and public outreach.
Past/Present Projects
Embassy of Australia Exhibition: The Art of Hiromi Ashlin
Kanvas Gallery, Charlotte, NC – Placement of 26 Australian Aboriginal paintings for the Grand Opening of the gallery.
Cyros Charlotte
Cyros Sushi and Sake Bar, Charlotte, NC – Placement of 18 origami paintings by Asian Australian artist, Hiromi Ashlin; held in conjunction with the Charlotte Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Kimberley Magic
The Art of Hiromi Ashlin: Kimberley Magic Show – Broome, Western Australia-featuring the art of Hiromi Ashlin. Responsible for organizing on-line outreach and web promotion.
Related Experience
U.S. Department of State, Editor-in-Chief, Visa Manual - 1996 to 2007
Successfully supervised numerous teams of subject matter experts in the creation of content for inclusion in Volume 9 of the Foreign Affairs Manual while always striving to update content to the most current technological production standards available.
Recipient of two Superior Honor Awards, five Meritorious Honor Awards and two Hammer Awards for systems integration initiatives and reengineering of office business processes, including the first Web-based conversion of the Department's formerly-1,250 page listing of visa reciprocity schedules and documentary requirements, the first on-line registration process for consular coordinators around the world, the first graphical e-mail message promoting the revision of Volume 9 of the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM), the Visa Office's first Web-based content management application for tracking changes to Volume 9 of the FAM, all regulatory and legislative products and providing Visa Office management with tools to measure employee level-of-effort, case assignment histories by date, officer, statutory or regulator citation, rate-of-receipt, and case disposition and status.
Domestic and international events participant and lecturer in connection with United States visa policy and administration.
U.S. Department of State, International Events Coordinator - 1996 - 2007
Fifteen years' experience in managing and directing mass document entry for international events and leveraging the latest technology.
Well-respected in the international sports community for innovative and cutting-edge work involving foreign document entry.
Guest speaker and lecturer to principals of National Olympic Committees, International Federations, Organizing Committees and foreign governments. Conceptualized, marketed, developed, and oversaw the deployment of the United States' first-of-its-kind electronic visa- issuance protocol for the Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
Awarded the Department of State's highest award for technological innovation, the "Innovation in the Use of Technology Award."
Event planner for numerous Olympic-related international and domestic conferences involving as many as 300 participants.
U.S. Department of State, Middle East Security Advisory Opinions Officer - Visa Office - 1994 to 1996
Served as Security Advisory Opinions Officer for NEA (Near East Asia) cases. Following the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, April 19, 1995, directed overhaul of the Security Advisory Opinion process, resulting the a reapportionment and realignment of roles and responsibilities in the Office of Coordination.
U.S. Department of State, Legislative Analyst Visa Office - 1984 to 1994
Instrumental in reorganizing the Office of Legislation and Regulations' legislative and regulatory agendas and incorporating database management business processes for archiving, tracking and distributing the Visa Office's growing regulatory and statutory products.
Acted as Capitol Hill reporter covering congressional hearings and markups and providing principals with legislative updates and reports.
Coordinated, reviewed, and edited the products of other officers who were responsible for producing similar information products.
U.S. Department of State, Executive Correspondent Visa Office - 1976 to 1984
Drafting officer for high-visibility correspondence sent under the signature of the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary or Secretary pertaining to visa-related cases, policy or issues determined to have regional, national or international ramifications. Correspondence was tagged "Red Border" for it's importance and the necessity of an appropriate and coordinated response.
Served as lecturer and speaker for governmental, congressional, public and legal organizations throughout the United States.