With the guidance of a business adviser in San Marcos, California, Cliff founded NIS in 1988, when the company relied on typewriters, landlines, pagers, notebooks, and pencils. He memorized the locations of almost every payphone in San Diego county and used a pocket-dialer to expedite the process. For over 30 years, he has led NIS with a true sense of kindness, compassion, and humor that we all appreciate. Cliff is a gifted storyteller, an open-minded and supportive leader who considers every idea, and he has a wealth of unread messages in his sprawling inboxes. In addition to researching email protocols, Cliff pushes his staff to embrace new apps and procedures to achieve continuous improvement. He is deeply involved in both the front and back ends of the business, and he isn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and provide interpreting services when needed.
Before NIS Cliff worked as:
- Staff interpreter at Cal State Univ Northridge (CSUN)
- Community interpreter with OC-Deaf (GLAD) in Los Angeles and Orange Counties
- Interpreter coordinator at Deaf Community Services of San Diego
- Staff interpreter at San Diego State University