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A seasoned professional with proven capability as a trusted advisor with cross-cultural capability, deep experience as a convener and negotiator, with global experience on high risk programming, maximizing cost benefits through the use of cutting edge tools and technologies to develop next generation approaches to productivity and right size failing programs. Proven leadership experience includes: development of public-private partnerships, cost benefit analysis, compliance and oversight, federal contracts and grants, innovation and technology, infrastructure (water/sanitation), energy (wind/solar/nuclear), economic development, transportation and manufacturing; social science and economic research and analysis, corporate social responsibility and business sustainability with excellent communication and problem solving skills and the ability to lead multi-cultural teams.

Philippines’ public-private partnership program

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Alito L. Malinao, published this article about the failures of the Philippine’s governments PPP program in xinhuanet.com

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/21/c_134542472.htm

The article provides information that though there is a pipeline the majority of the projects never got off of the ground and those that did were not big ticket items.   I am interested in looking into this to see if there is more information and possible lessons learned.

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Public Private Partnership in Detroit

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Risemedia posted on 8-27-15 a great story of the Rehabbed and Ready PPP with the City of Detroit, the Detroit Land Bank, Quicken Loans and Home Depot.  This $5 million PPP will renovate more than 65 homes.

http://rismedia.com/2015-08-27/public-private-partnership-to-bring-much-needed-pricing-stability-to-detroit-neighborhoods/

Here is more information from buildingdetroit.org and Quicken Loans.

http://www.quickenloans.com/press-room/2015/08/26/rehabbed-and-ready-public-private-partnership-to-renovate-and-auction-homes-in-detroit-neighborhoods-bring-much-needed-pricing-stability-to-area/

http://www.buildingdetroit.org/

 

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

Russia Adopts Laws on Public-Private Partnerships, Municipal-Private Partnerships

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Karina Chichkanova wrote on 8-17-2015 in the Moscow Times how the Russian Federation adopted a law to provide the legal framework for PPP which will come into place by 2016.  According to the article, though it establishes the groundwork it does not go far enough.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/b2b-russia-adopts-laws-on-public-private-partnerships-municipal-private-partnerships/528086.html

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

Manufacturing as a Service

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Andrew Zaleski write in Fortune on 8-25-18 how Dassault Systems are able to push “Manufacturing as a Service.”  Using advanced modeling and simulation, 3D printing and a focus on prototype  “at the very least, let software begin to shift the manufacturing industry from one focused solely on a final product to one that equally emphasizes quick design and prototyping services.”

http://fortune.com/2015/08/28/dassault-manufacturing-service/

This is something that I worked with in the Council on Competitiveness Public Private Partnership to support HPC and Modeling and Simulation.

http://ndemc.org/index.php/tag/council-on-competitiveness/

The picture is from ProtoDesign

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

Disruptive Change

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  posted an interesting blog post about disruptive change, R&D and innovation within the manufacturing sector on the Huffington Post. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zvonimir-mrsic/innovating-transformation_b_7977960.html

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

Discovery News Great Title: Black Holes Slug it Out in Quasar Deathmatch

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Ian O’Neil has a very interesting article in Discovery News from 8-28-15.  I really like the title.  Black Holes Slug it Out in Quasar Deathmatch.    His article is full of information has has a good video too.

“As they orbit one another inside the quasar’s core, the smaller black hole carves out a region at the inner edge, also creating its own, smaller accretion disk. Calculations show that the pair complete one orbit every 1.2 years. The larger black hole is approximately 150 million times the mass of our sun and its smaller partner is 4 million times the mass of our sun.”

http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/black-holes-slug-it-out-in-quasar-deathmatch-150828.htm

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Yearly Excavations Begin at Van Castle

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According to the Dogan News Agency  over 40 scientists from 12 universities are in Van for the yearly dig at the ancient Urartian capital.  Work is ongoing at the Castle Mound,  the picture taken from Hurriyet Daily News shows the size and complexity of this fortress which is 5,000 years old.   The focus of the expedition is to understand how the Urartian civilization was destroyed and how came after.   I would argue that it shows the continuous occupation of Van since pre-history by Armenians or pre/proto Armenian peoples.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/millennia-old-urartian-site-in-van-still-has-secrets.aspx?pageID=238&nID=87192&NewsCatID=375

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

What’s going to turn up in a harbor?

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Elif Batuman’s article in the August 31st 2015 edition of the New Yorker discusses the challenges of infrastructure in an archaeologically rich area such as Constantinople.  Her story discusses the rich find beneath the Bosporus in the effort to build a high speed tunnel across the straits.

Of particular to interest me was the role of archaeology in the Kemalist national identity.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-big-dig

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies, and Fewer Than Half Got the Same Results

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On 8-27-15 Smithsonian Magazine highlighted an article from Science  which showed that fewer than half of the studies published in 2008 in the top three psychology journals were reproducible.    This is a serious problem for psychology and challenges the methods they are using in collecting their data.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-replicated-100-psychology-studies-and-fewer-half-got-same-results-180956426/?no-ist

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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