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Emanuele F. Portolese served as a nuclear weapons electronics specialist while in the army.  After his tour of duty, he worked on classified research projects for the Navy at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington.

In 1972, Emanuele traveled internationally as a management consultant and lecturer.  His seminars were accredited by fourteen colleges and universities nationwide.  During that period, he wrote nonfiction articles related to management and leadership, which appeared in national trade magazines and journals. 

Through the eighties and nineties, he made numerous visits throughout the world as director of the largest professional exchange program between the US, the Soviet Union and the PRC.  He personally taught the first western style management seminars ever conducted within the Soviet Union and directed the organization which planned the largest law conference ever held in the Peoples Republic of China; it involved over 1,000 US attorneys led by the US Attorney General.  In the mid-nineties, he personally led a delegation of over 300 US engineers down the Yangtze River to meet with Chinese engineers working on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.  He delivered a speech entirely in Chinese that was broadcast to a large portion of the population in central China.  Emanuele has spoken many times before audiences at the White House, the Department of State, the Pentagon, in the Kremlin and in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and was the keynote speaker at the Brandenburg Gate for a commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

Before his retirement, Washington’s Secretary of State invited Emanuele to serve in an advisory capacity to the state regarding special international projects and he was also elected to serve as Chairman of the organization that reviews and approves international student exchange and travel programs for the United States.  He is now semi-retired in the beautiful northwest, traveling only for fun, writing political thrillers and volunteering to help in various community service organizations.