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Douglas has more than 30 years of experience managing Job Corps’ operations and as a corporate executive. The Kansas City native is a graduate of Kansas City Junior College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Baylor University. He has done postgraduate work as well. Before launching his career in Job Corps, Douglas was a teacher and counselor in the Missouri school system. Douglas has spent much of his career in Job Corps, including director of guidance and deputy center director at the Pine Knot Job Corps Center; field program specialist at the Job Corps Regional Office in Kansas City, Missouri; recruitment and placement branch chief, Job Corps Regional Office, Kansas City, Missouri; deputy regional director, Job Corps, Kansas City; CETA federal representative, ETA, Kansas City, Missouri; financial/grant manager, ETA, Kansas City, Missouri; and regional director, Region VII/VIII, Job Corps. After 34 years with the Job Corps program he retired from federal service in 1999. He currently serves as a member of the National Job Corps Association board of directors. | 