Mr. Glenn Rhoades, spent over 36 years at Martin Marietta (MMC), Lockheed Martin (LMCO), Jefferson County Government, Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowes, National Non-Profits and Organizational Advisory Boards in various positions including: executive management, engineering planning, special product sales/consulting, operations, administration, subcontract management.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design (Urban and Product Design) degree from the University of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix. From 1979 through 1982, Mr. Rhoades studied language at the Mangold Institute in Madrid, Spain and worked for the Christian ministry, The Navigators, at the University of Santiago de Compostella in Spain and studied philosophy and ethics at L’Abri Fellowship in Huémoz, Switzerland.
He joined Martin Marietta in 1979 and retired in 1999 from the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was on the 1988 Martin Marietta Operations team that took over operations of Johns Manville’s World Corporate Headquarters located in Deer Creek canyon southwest of Denver and later helped the LMCO facilities team relocate the newly acquired General Dynamics Centaur and Atlas Rocket programs from San Diego to Denver. In 1990, Mr. Rhoades was presented the Marietta Martin Peter B. Teets Presidential Inventors Award for his work on the Graphic Equivalency Ruler, a concept tool that Martin Marietta deemed as having a significant potential use by aerospace engineers and designers.
Some of the MMC and LMCO projects included the Instrumentation and Flight Safety System Program (IFSS), the Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program (SICBM), the Peacekeeper Missile Program (MX), the Barstow, California Heliostat plant and various interplanetary spacecraft lab and operations support. He holds a Martin Marietta patent award for the Graphics Equivalency ruler which MMC deemed a valuable tool for engineers to translate drawings from one scale to another with ease.
In 2002, he was the Republican Nominee for Colorado’s newest 7th Congressional District’s State Board of Education seat and later for Colorado House District 26 in 2006. He also served as an Associate Member of the Foresight Institute, which promoted nanotechnology awareness and education and served on the Jefferson Center of Mental Health Board of Directors.
In 2003, he became the CEO and founder of the Colorado Nanotech Initiative, Inc., a 501-c3 non- profit. He joined the group in February of 2003 whose mission was to bring Colorado into the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). In that same year he became a member of the National Science Foundation’s workshop on the ethical, societal and legal implications of nanotechnology.
On November 16th, 2006 he helped open the University of Colorado’s Nanofabrication Lab which finally allowed Colorado to be accepted into the NNIN. Later in 2008, Mr. Rhoades was appointed to the International Editorial Advisory Panel for the International Journal for Green Nanotechnology-Bio-Medicine published by the Taylor and Francis Group London, England. He also served as an advisor to Left Side Research, Montana.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design (BED – Architectural/Product Design) degree from the University of Colorado and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Phoenix in 1993.
From 1979 through 1982, Mr. Rhoades studied language at the Mangold Institute in Madrid, Spain and worked on staff with The Navigators (a Christian University Ministry) at the University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain. Later, he studied environmental philosophy and ethics at the L’Abri Fellowship in Huémoz, Switzerland. In 2014, Mr. Rhoades joined Dr. Peter Pry’s Electromagnetic Pulse Task Force on National and Homeland Security, first as the Colorado State Coordinator and in 2015 promoted to the Director of US National Operations.
The team works to bring public awareness of a multitude of threats from EMP, CME, cyber, directed energy and physical actions that could damage or destroy the American power grid. He is also a national steering committee member of the Secure the Grid Coalition, co-chaired by former Clinton Administration CIA Director, James Woolsey and former US Representative, Newt Gingrich and a proud member of InfraGard’s Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP-SIG), an information-sharing partnership between federal law enforcement and critical infrastructure providers, organized under Presidential Decision Directive 63 and with oversight by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has been interviewed on several films, television and radio stations including The Black Sky Event feature documentary film, https://vimeo.com/user70267526/review/468258966/6b8af6d6d6 Fox 31 and KOA in Denver, WLS in Chicago, Coast to Coast AM, a syndicated late night radio program and multiple other radio and television stories. He and his family live in Lakewood, Colorado.
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