August 24, 2023 Join us to explore and discuss our One America-One Africa RX5 Cybersecurity-Artificial Intelligence Workforce Training initiative www.njmdsbn.com. JAMES “JIMMY” WHITEHEAD graduated from Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., joined the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged 1978. Thereafter Mr. Whitehead worked for the anti￾trust litigation law firm of Howrey and Simon, while continuing to participate several additional years as a U.S. Navy Reservists at Washington, D.C. Bolling Air Force Base. Between 1979 and 1984 Mr. Whitehead served in numerous U.S. House of Representatives and Senior Executive Service (SES) White House Appointments, with a primary focus on domestic and international business development, as well as Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Congressional advocacy initiatives. Mr. Whitehead managed a variety of legislative and administrative activities for United States Congressman Frank Guarini (NJ-D) Jack Kemp (NY-R), Senator Phil Gramm (TX￾R) and Senator John W. Warner (VA-R). During 1981 through 1983 Mr. Whitehead served in various White House Schedule C and SES appointments for President Ronald Reagan as Special Assistant to the ACTION Agency Director Donna Alvarado at the nation's premier agency for civic engagement and volunteerism, and from 1984 through 1989 Mr. Whitehead was served as a U.S. Department of Energy Office of International Affairs Schedule C appointee coordinating high level energy officials and diplomatic meetings and forums. Prior to Mr. Whitehead’s White House political appointments, and in support of United States and South Africa’s 1988-1990 anti-apartheid initiatives, Mr. Whitehead worked behind the scene with Bateman Engineering Company President John Herschelman, Thabo Mbeki, President F. W. DeKlerk, Zulu King Mangosuthu Buthelezi and respected Senior ANC leaders, to form the first ever United States-South Africa Academy for Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) workforce training initiative. In 1990-1991 Mr. Whitehead served as te Director of the Republican National Committee’s Small Business Council reporting to Chairman Lee Atwater, where he managed the RNC’s national small business outreach program. Mr. Whitehead would coordinate and manage the RNC’s small business membership fundraising campaigns and build state small business coalitions to support President Bush’s small business legislative agendas. While at the RNC, one of Mr. Whitehead’s proudest accomplishments.