A strong entrepreneurial background demonstrating multiple business start-ups, business management, growing small businesses into multiple staff organizations, with high customer retention, low employee turn-over, and positive financial growth. Currently, James C. Tanner is remotely managing from Canada, a growing real estate investment business based in the USA. As a way of staying connected to his local community, James C. Tanner provides on a very limited basis, general home and building repairs in the areas of drywall repairs, textured ceiling repairs, and interior painting. A professionally trained investigator, formerly licensed under the BC Attorney General's Police Services Branch, James C. Tanner has served professionally as a special investigator who specialized in religious, cult, and occult related crime with a targeted focus on the ritual slaughter of animals. In addition to these areas, he has been active in undercover roles in cross border commercial smuggling cases; insurance fraud; and missing persons cases. James C. Tanner is a highly published writer in the areas of business, marketing, psychology, and matters related to the human spirit. He was first published at the age of 16. He has written and taught, under contract, business skills development programs for clients such as the Government of Canada.