Denis R. Murdock boasts 55 years of Entrepreneurial Small
Business Start-up, Business Development and General Business
Management experience, with 43 years of concurrent experience
in Career-Outplacement and Business Consulting, Executive
Business Coaching and Mentoring. His General Management experience
includes a strong background in Sales, Marketing and Operations,
with a good working knowledge of Finance and Accounting.
His entrepreneurial business and consulting background is
complemented by 20 years in the US Army Reserve, beginning
in 1966 during his senior year in high school. After completing
Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia in
1971, he received his commission as an infantry Second Lieutenant,
then culminating his Army career with the rank of Major. In
1980, he accepted a two-year active-duty assignment as a General
Staff Officer to (LOGistics EXercise) LOGEX 80 and LOGEX 81,
a prominent Army Command Post Exercise at Fort Lee and Fort
Pickett, Virginia. He received a commendation award and special
recognition from the Fort Lee and Logistics Headquarters Commanding
General.
The Murdock Group, a full-service career-outplacement and
business consulting firm, was founded by Mr. Murdock in 1983
in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1986 he opened an office in
Richmond, and in 1987, a Washington, D.C. office was added.
In 1989, Mr. Murdock relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah, and
in 1996, he sold controlling interest in the firm to facilitate
further expansion. Soon thereafter, it began trading publicly
on NASDAQ, with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle,
Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He resumed controlling interest
in the firm in late 2004.
From 1983 to 1996, The Murdock Group served more than fifteen
thousand clients nationwide: from Virginia to California,
and New York to Florida. Most clients were either former military,
or mid to upper management executives and professionals seeking
career change or advancement. Many clients also wanted to
leave the mainstream job market in pursuit of entrepreneurial
new business start-ups.
Prior to founding The Murdock Group, Mr. Murdock was appointed
manager of the Virginia Beach office of Robert Jameson Associates,
and introduced the career consulting concept into Virginia.
Preceding his appointment, he was a consultant in the regional
Washington, D.C. office. Robert Jameson Associates, at the
time it closed its offices, was one of the largest career-outplacement
consulting firms in the U.S.
Preceding his affiliation with Robert Jameson Associates,
Mr. Murdock was the founder of a marketing firm headquartered
in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mountainwest Security Systems was
a regional wholesale and retail distributor of wireless digital
security systems products for Dynamics, Inc. of Charlottesville,
Virginia. Additionally, as Rocky Mountain Regional Business
Development Director, he established a dealer network for
Dynamics.
While in his early twenties and working his way through college,
he began his business career as owner of an automotive repair
business and used car dealership. Flipping Porsches paid his
way through college, along with a couple of scholarships.
 Mr. Murdock is a published authority in the fields of career
planning, job changing, sales, marketing, communications,
and business optimization. He is a Bestselling Author: The
Job Seeker’s Bible – Your Dream Job In Record Time and
The Art & Science of Success Volume 3, Proven Strategies
from Today’s Leading Experts.
A BYU alumnus majoring in Humanities, he has conducted numerous
training programs and seminars, been interviewed frequently
by the print media, and appeared on a variety of radio and
television programs. He has been inducted into Who's Who Worldwide,
Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in
Sales and Marketing, National Directory of Who's Who and Two
Thousand Notable American Men.
During the period 2000-2005, Mr. Murdock consulted and managed
billing for medical clinics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and from
2006 to 2015 consulted and managed medical clinics and dental
practices in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2015 he formally retired
from medical management and consulting, discovering a new
passion in Cryptocurrency. From 2015 until 2019, he traveled
around the world twice as a Cryptocurrency advocate and VIP
guest speaker promoting Cryptocurrency trade shows in Southeast
Asia and Australia.
Mr. Murdock’s current activities include: (1) Leading weekly
hiking and kayaking groups in Nevada, California, Utah and
Arizona; (2) Publishing an eNewsletter as an independent news
aggregator sharing selected syndicated news items ignored
by the legacy media, presenting a broader picture of what's
going on behind the curtain; (3) Mentoring clients with Service
Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE). SCORE is a non-profit
organization that provides free business mentoring, education,
and resources to entrepreneurs and small business owners.
SCORE is a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA) and has been helping small businesses launch, grow,
and succeed since 1964.
Denis Murdock is the father of six children, twenty-two grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren, and currently resides in Las Vegas,
Nevada since 2006.
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