Richard Scheffing

Background

About Richard Scheffing

Mr. Scheffing is a retired Army Warrant Officer whose operational support, program management, and instructional experience spans over 30 years and four continents. Rick served as an operations manager at the U.S. Embassies in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Hungary providing exceptional administrative, fiscal, logistics, security, and personnel support to Defense Attaché Offices. Rick’s duties in the Embassies also included managing complex, multi-faceted security and military assistance programs worth several million dollars and involving extensive coordination with host country military forces, Geographic Combatant Commands, and the Military Services in the United States. Before retiring, Rick spent his final tour in the Army as a military instructor at the Joint Military Attaché School (JMAS) training new personnel in Embassy operations. His time as an instructor at JMAS and teaching Military English as a Second Language to deploying NATO forces at the George C. Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies gave him a solid understanding of adult learners and curriculum development. Rick has taught English as a Second Language to students at the University of Northern Colorado and Aims Community College and has developed curriculum for four intensive English language programs involving students from Mexico and China. Finally, Rick is an exceptional linguist whose knowledge of the Russian language was the key to his success as the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor in Uzbekistan.