Counseling Career and Educational Counselor
omoted through 11 ranks over 20 years and retiring as a Lieutenant Commander ('79-'99)
Tim has an extensive background in Educational Administration as the founder of the Higher Education Resource Center (HERC) and Mission: Degree! - a 501c3 nonprofit educational services organization which provides a wide array of support to major corporations and higher education institutions across the nation. More than 200,000 students have received comprehensive educational assessments and multi-institutional degree plans created and distributed over the past two decades by the systems and processes that Tim created.
Tim provided process, policy, and program analysis as an professional advisor to several major universities, resulting in restructuring of degree programs, major changes to curriculum requirements, and aligning of policies to ensure regulatory compliance and accreditation standards are met. The recommendations that he made were adopted and have benefitted tens of thousands of students across the nation.
Educationally, Tim has earned a Master’s degree in Management from Regent University in Virginia Beach, undergraduate degrees in Technical Management (University of Phoenix), and Aerospace Technology (University of the State of New York at Albany), and, for his own personal edification, degrees in Biblical Studies and Theology. He also began working on a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a major in Applied Computer Science, earning 12 semester hours, however, due to the high demands of his job, he discontinued pursuance of that degree and has recently picked back up in the pursuit of an education-focused Ph.D. In addition, Tim has completed the 80-hour professional certification in Total Quality Management from Organizational Dynamics, as well as the 84-hour professional certification from the American Society for Training Directors (ASTD) ias a Certified Professional Trainer.
BTW, Tim has been privileged to be the husband of Dr. Sabine Scoggins for 37+ years! (In his opinion, she deserves a medal considering all the moves their family made over these years in Germany, Alabama, California (twice), Alaska, Florida (twice), Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee (twice).)
