Professional Consulting Associates

Reg was born, raised, and attended public schools in rural southwest Alabama, an area where farming and forestry are the dominant industries. Growing up in this rural environment, he worked in several family-owned businesses. These included the family farm, a full-service gasoline station, and a gasoline distributorship. Early employment outside th... e family businesses included work as a daily newspaper carrier, warehouse laborer, and in residential and commercial construction. After graduating from high school in 1971, Reg studied criminal justice at Jacksonville State University in Alabama and later at Auburn University. Always inquisitive about people's interests and life goals, he changed the focus of his studies from a police science orientation to a human services orientation. Reg graduated from Auburn with a Bachelor of Science degree in rehabilitation services in 1976 with a focus on vocational evaluation. Upon graduation, Reg was employed by Auburn as a vocational evaluator until completing a Master of Education degree in rehabilitation services in 1980. During this time, he provided vocational evaluation and career counseling services to a diverse clientele including those with varying disabilities. Reg left Auburn in 1980 to develop a community-based vocational evaluation services program within the Research and Training Center at Texas Tech University. After completing this project, Reg resigned from Texas Tech to pursue a business opportunity in the private sector. He remained an advisor to the vocational evaluation program at Texas Tech and also was appointed to the South Plains Employment and Training Consortium Advisory Council by the mayor of Lubbock, Texas. During his tenure at Auburn and Texas Tech, Reg was directly involved in completing over 2000 vocational evaluations. In 1984, Reg first entered private sector rehabilitation as a workers' compensation case manager with Paul M. Deutsch and Associates, serving primarily the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Here he was introduced to, what was then, ...Read More