Fey to oversee Professional Automotive Training Center

Dean of Workforce and Continuing Education Dan Fey is on the road to additional responsibilities at Shoreline Community College.

Dan Fey

Fey, who joined the college in February after a distinguished career at the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County, will oversee the Professional Automotive Training Center at the college. Responsibilities for the training center had been with Alison Stevens, Interim Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs.

Fey said he is excited for the opportunity to work closely with those who established not only one of the premier programs at the college, but in the nation.

“The Professional Automotive Training Center is the blueprint for how education and industry can work together to help students, business and society,” Fey said. “I’ll have the chance to learn from those who drew those plans and built the program.”

During a transition that will take place over the coming months, Fey will draw on the experience of a number of people, including Don Schultz. Currently Special Assistant to the President for Automotive, Schultz is the recently retired founding director of the program. Fey will also be able to consult with Dean Susan Hoyne, who had overseen the program in the past.

Fey will coordinate with Jim Hammond, Executive Director for the Puget Sound Automobile Dealers Association. Association members and automobile manufacturers have raised more than $9 million over the years in support of the center, Hammond said. The association offices are housed at the center.

More leadership changes are on the road ahead for the center.

The center’s day-to-day operations are now handled by Interim Director Bob Biesiedzinski, who is also the Honda program instructor.

“Bob was very gracious to step into the interim role and did a great job,” Interim President Campbell said. “But, he is the top Honda instructor in the country anxious to have more time to devote to his students.”

Campbell asked Schultz to come back to the college through June 30, 2014 to assist on a variety of projects, including advising on the search for a permanent, full-time director. Vice President Stevens said that search process is underway.