
Donald E.
Fischer
647 West
Shaw Ave.
Fresno, CA 93704
Phone:
(559) 905.4315
Fax: (559) 227.9810
Association for Conflict
Resolution Member #83605
Fresno County
Superior
Court
Panel of Mediators
Member
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Resume
I am established at Fresno Pacific
University (FPU), Mediation Services, as a mediator and Program
Director for Dispute Resolution Program Act court services. I
maintain an office in Fresno, California. I serve on the
Fresno County Superior Court’s Mediator Panel and hold
membership with the Association for Conflict Resolution. My back
ground for this work is through the master’s program in Conflict Resolution
and Peacemaking at Fresno Pacific University. I earned a BA in
Rhetoric with a minor in Public Policy from the University of
California, Berkeley (’77). I have in excess of 200 hours of
certified mediation training. My training includes an additional 110
hours from the California Bar Association and 25 hours from the
American Bar Association. I have been trained in construction
dispute arbitration certified by the New Mexico Bar and as an
employment mediator by the EEOC. I have twenty-eight years of experience in retail business ownership and real
estate management. I am a Research Consultant, Program Coordinator
and advanced mediator
trainer for the Fresno County
Superior Court. I consider myself to be a conflict specialist.
My work with FPU Mediation Associates is to direct and develop its
contractual relationship with Fresno County Superior Court.
This program functions provide litigants access to justice.
The program educates complainants and respondents about the opportunity to voluntarily mediate their conflict. I help
the parties set a mutually agreeable venue to mediate. Each party is
assisted in developing their voice to efficiently participate in
mediation. A graduate mediator intern, under my supervision, or I mediate the conflict. This work has provided me with over
400 case experiences.
I assessed the use of Early Neutral
Evaluation (ENE) in Federal and State Courts prior to contracting
with the Fresno Superior Court to implement the process into its ADR
program. ENE is now one of the processes available to satisfy
the court order for litigants to participate in alternative
dispute resolution.
I am a graduate of Leadership Fresno Class XVIII and Fresno County
Farm Bureau’s Future Advocates for Agriculture Concerned about
Tomorrow (FACT) program. These two programs exposed me to current
issues facing the Central Valley. The public policy issues visited
included population growth, land use, water use, environment, public
health, transportation, labor, import / export, poverty, nutrition,
air quality, new cross-cultural refugee populations and other
interests related to the development of Rural America. The
educational forum these programs offered was through panel
presentation by proponents with opposing views followed by site
visits that demonstrated the subject matter. The task of the class
was to become a substantial leader with the ability to facilitate
systemic change affecting the greatest public benefit.
I have had entrepreneurial management experience throughout my
entire life as a third generation businessman in the lumber and
hardware industry. My family’s retail lumber and hardware business
in California, provided me with total quality management
systems experience in labor, inventory, facilities, insurance,
vendors, customers and contracts. My work in project management has
brought all facilitating parties to a common vision that completes
the goals valued by each partner. This is one of my strong
attributes.
I became involved with the National and California Lumber
Associations. This gave me experience in the legislative process of
networking and lobbying for industry interests at state and federal
levels. I developed a working structure to identify, approach and
integrate appropriate stakeholders in a constructive problem solving
environment.
My contact with the agricultural industry has been life long as I
was born during the era initiating the Great Westside water projects
to the current era of the Westland’s land retirement program. I have
participated in water delivery system construction, water monitoring
and desalination projects, construction of field packing machinery
and conversion of cantaloupe packing sheds into alternative use
facilities. I stay in close contact with water issues as a
shareholder in Columbia Canal Company which has Exchange Water
Contractor’s rights. I further this contact through volunteer
support of the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust. I have participated
in forums during the past fifteen years exploring the potential
models that will evolve the Great Westside of the San Joaquin
Valley. Additionally, my involvement as a member of the Fresno
County Tourism Committee, the Firebaugh – Las Deltas School District
Vocational Advisory Committee and Committee for an Entrepreneurship
Development System for Rural America has put me in the forefront of
facilitating local change in a cooperative manner.
I am well rounded to administer and facilitate
processes of conflict management and conflict resolution. My
training and experience enable me to provide a safe environment that
allows clients, employers, counsel and support services to know they
have been heard during their effort to constructively seek options
that peacefully manage change and resolution.
Thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself. My focus and
heart are clearly set to excel as a mediator for your needs.
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