Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic and VBA, HTML, and SQL.
Database Systems: Programming and operating MS Access, Foxpro, and Oracle based systems, and other specialized databases.
Environments: PC format machines in Windows 95, Windows, and DOS environments. Some experience with Unix machines and Macintosh.
Internet: Netscape, Internet Explorer, E-mail, Telnet, FTP, other Internet applications. Designed and edited web pages given awards by Lycos and the Education Index.
Applications:
Spreadsheets: Quattro Pro, Excel, Lotus 123
Word Processing applications: Word Perfect, Word
Other: Some familiarity with Harvard Graphics, Adobe Pagemaker and Adobe Photoshop.
Easily learn basic skills in various applications
with minimal training.
Winter 1998: Access Programmer, through MSX International for GM Truck Group. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining Access databases, and writing and debugging VBA macros for Excel.
Fall 1996 to Winter 1997: Administrative Assistant, Midwest Environmental
Consultants, Inc. of Michigan. Responsibilities include
editing and preparation of proposals, qualification statements,
and project reports; creating and maintaining databases of
proposal, project and client information; and management
of office equipment and supplies.
Summer 1996: Department Secretary, Contracts Department,
Environmental Research Institute of
Michigan. Duties included maintaining databases and
files of proposals and contracts, correspondence, ordering
office supplies, and office equipment maintenance. Position
obtained through Lee Temporaries.
Winter 1996: Receptionist/Data Entry Clerk for
Diehl Auto Parts, through
Olsten Staffing Services. Duties included maintaining
computer databases of inventory and customer accounts, and
answering eight-line phone.
Fall 1994: Receptionist at Great Lakes Bancorp,
Human Resources Department, through
Olsten Staffing Services.
Summer 1993: Secretary at The Gerhardstein
Insurance Agency.
Winter 1993: Office Manager at Keehn Stewart
Executive Search Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Duties included
maintaining computer files, correspondence, bills and invoices,
and company and candidate research.
Summer 1984, 1985 and 1986: Receptionist, word processor,
and Data Entry Clerk positions at AT&T, Marine Midland Bank, and others
in Buffalo, New York. Work obtained through temporary service agencies,
including Kelly Services.
Summer 1992. Supervisor under Ken Hirth
(University of Kentucky) of Mexican work crew.
Excavations of an Epiclassic urban center,
in Morelos, Mexico.
Summer 1990. Supervisor under James Payne of student crews
for the Saginaw Valley College Field School.
Surveys, shovel tests, and excavations of Woodland Period sites
in Tobico Marsh, Bay City, Michigan.
Lab Research Assistant:
Summer 1991. Assistant to Gareth Lowe and John Clark
at the New World Archaeological Foundation.
Ceramic analysis of material from Formative period sites,
Chiapas, Mexico.
Crew member:
Summer 1992. Under Michael Smith
(State University of New York at Buffalo).
Survey and surface collections of an Aztec urban center,
Yautepec, Mexico.
Summer 1989. Under Kevin Smith.
Excavations of an early medieval farm site, Haals, Iceland.
Also soil core sampling and phosphorus testing of soil samples.
Summer 1988. Under Professor John O'Shea (University of Michigan).
Excavations at Klarafalva, a Bronze Age site in Hungary.
Also processing of flotation samples.
Summer 1987. Under Mark Aldenderfer (Northwestern University).
Excavations of an Archaic Period site, Asana, Peru.
Field School:
Summer 1986. University of Arizona's
Grasshopper Pueblo Field School.
Teaching Assistant:
Anthropology 101, Introduction to Anthropology,
at the University of Michigan
, under Professor Conrad Kottak, Winter 1990, Fall 1990, and Fall 1991.