Member Specialities

In addition to being writers and artists of various stripe, many of us have day jobs and careers. This is a summary of posts to the Parasitorium, so if you need help with research, check here for an expert on your subject matter!

Del Stone/delstonejr
journalist and a newspaperman

Charles Gramlich/kainja2001 [email protected]
My own training is in Experimental Psychology (research type psychology rather than clinical), with a speciality in biopsychology. I teach at a small university in New Orleans.
Well,let's see, outside of work I have some knowledge of Chess, Motorcycles, Guns, Sword and sorcery fiction, Robert E. Howard, and drinking beer.

Anna/Murina_Anidre
I am a costumer specializing in medieval and renaissance garb.

Pris/nixit777us [email protected] http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sears
My day job is webmaster/computer tech support, so if anyone needs that kinda help, feel free to ask. I read everything under the sun, have interests in plants, welding, glassworking, bass-playing, multimedia sculpture, modern poets.

Kat/sidhekat
Iknow quite a bit about Biblical Theology, Wicca, Paganism, Herbs, Tarot Cards, Celtic Myths. I also have seven kids, but I'm not an expert at parenting, but I am able to see trends amoung teenagers as there are four of them. In the real working world, I have been everything from a waitress to an inventory control supervior and bookeeper.

Annie/annmorris1 http://FencerGirl.tripod.com/index.html
I worked in bookstores I have worked in the printing department of a bank, as an information receptionist at a university (my first paying job), a substitute teacher, and as a museum guide.
I have a B.A. in speech (communication, not pathology) from the University of South Florida. I love costuming (HI, ANNA!), and I have helped run NECRONOMICON for twenty years. I was a market research interviewer for several years and I know quite a bit about that business.

Richard/richardbamberg
My background is: Logging, road crew, radio operator, forward air control, missle launch crew, flight test, energy weapons, chemical weapon defenses, building electrical design, avionics, and now missle defense.

Garrett/garrettp_32086
I've been deeply involved in theater, at the amateur, semi-professional and professional levels, so if anyone has a question regarding that I'd be happy to help them. I'm also very well read in the horror field, so I might be able to help with any questions about that as well.

Andy/A_Pratt75 http://www.itsmysite.com/andy/ [email protected]
I worked for two years at IBM after highschool before I realized that I was getting nowhere, so I went back to college and studied Broadcasting - Radio and Television. I specialized in television, and upon graduation was lucky enough to land a job at Dome Productions here in Toronto as a Master Control Operator.
I may be able to help folks with questions in this arena.
BTW - I'm a fairly darned decent fisherman, too!

Nova/nosferatunova http://www.geocities.com/iz682
Ok, if it interrests anyone, we could say I have a speciality in depression and am familiar with other types of mental diseases too, anxiety disorder (don't ask me anything about panic attacks though, despite a lot of people described the feeling to me, I never experienced it first hand so I could not be of any help here), Manic depression, just... plain old insanity! My beloved suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder so can also share about that! And if you have a run-away teen in one of your stories, I can help you out too!!! Ok... (ducks and hide under the desk)

Willie/williemeikle http://www.willie.meikle.btinternet.co.uk
I'm also in IT. I used to be a programmer (lots of different stuff - COBOL, PL1, Z80 assembler, 8080, 8086, 6809 assemblers, later some UNIX scripting and SQL, PL-SQL) Then I moved up the ladder, and software support management became my thing.
About 4 years ago I was made redundant in a hostile takeover, so I went freelance, and since then I've got into developing Best Practice and Procedures for support management for large companies.
Through that, I became more of a technical writer, until in October last year I was finally able to say that I wrote full time for a living. (currently working for Agilent Technologies, formerly HP, developing best practice and procs for a new suite of Project/Support management tools)
I find I'm now a lot less stressed than I used to be, and my writing career is all the better for it.
If anybody wants to see the CV of someone who's been in IT for nearly 20 years, have a look at http://www.willie.meikle.btinternet.co.uk/CV.html and have a chuckle at some of the quaint technologies that used to be state of the art.
I also know a fair bit about British archaeology, blues guitar players, wildlife, and european mythologies.

E./evil_girlie666 [email protected]
I can find my way through a bit of Unix scripting, but I consider it a deeply dark art*. Mainly do Delphi, which is Visual Pascal, and a wee ickle bitty of C++....
I got offered the chance to be a technical author right at the start of my IT career, cos I did some advertising blurb for the company I worked with, and they were really impressed with the way I wrote and thought I had potential. I turned it down, cos I was convinced at the time I wanted to be a programmer. Now wish I'd taken them up on the opportunity to do technical authoring cos hey! at least it would have been writing, for a living.

rleebyers
I'm one of those people who know something about a lot of subjects, but am not an expert in many. I used to work in a psychiatric facility, so I have some professional knowledge of the mental health biz, though it's fifteen years out of date. I'm an avid fencer, and I like to think I know quite a bit about the sport and also about real, historical, let's-kill-the-other-guy sword fighting. Beyond that, you might find it worthwhile to contact me about comics, the pulps, roleplaying games, poker, chess, fantasy, horror, detective fiction, the occult, mythology, martial arts, or history, but, to be honest, probably not unless you truly have little knowledge of the subject in quetion yourself.

Carnie Pollock aka Ladyrattles
I am a freelance web designer as well as being a wife & Mum. I have a BSc Marketing honours Degree from Lancaster University, UK but also studied Computing & Law. I run an Interactive Science Fiction Community in my spare time & have links with several publishers. Anyone wanting free publicity of their Science Fiction/Fantasy book/s should get in contact with me as I have a review section on my site. I am into Playstation games, reading, writing, kids, cats, movies and the internet. http://www.mars7.co.uk
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