• College of Wooster, Wooster, OH; B.A., International Relations, 1983
• Defense Language Institute, (Presidio of Monterey), CA; Linguistic Certification for Chinese Mandarin, 1994.
• Drake University Law School, class of 2007.

• In UNIX & NT environments, supported developers by building, importing, exporting and maintaining software.
• Wrote, tested, implemented and monitored Unix (C Shell) scripts that used embedded SQL (Structured Query Language), SED and AWK to search, manipulate and format data in support of online builds.
• Performed on-line builds of software using Powerbuilder.

• Monitor and troubleshoot the automated production of reports that use data generated from daily nationwide trades and sales of securities.
• Write, test, implement and monitor Unix (Bourne Shell) scripts that use embedded SQL (Structured Query Language), SED and AWK to search, manipulate and format daily trades data. (To see sample scripts I've written, click here, here and here).
  
• During off hours responded (via remote access) to paged alerts announcing data processing errors. Researched script-generated error logs to correct programming errors.
  

Petty Officer Second Class (E-5), U.S. Navy 7/94-3/98. Naval Aircrewman, stationed in Hawaii.

While ashore:

• Serve as Assistant AIS Manager for NSGA's 123-member Direct Support department.
  
• Set up and maintain inventory of 50 PCs and peripherals and more than 1,500 line items of ADP storage media and software.
  
• Work at department Help Desk, responding to over 200 user requests for assistance, resolving complaints such as printer assignments and system re-loads.
  
• Assist in the creation, editing and maintenance of over 2,000 departmental web pages.
  
• Served as department's correspondent to command's quarterly newsletter (distributed to all NSG commands worldwide).
• Completed Microsoft course 770 (Installing and configuring Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0), Sep '97.
  
• Experience with WordPerfect, MS Word, Excel, QBasic.
  
• A power Unix user with 2 years' experience in Unix scripting using SED and AWK.
  
• (See Military Honors below)

Reporter/Photographer 5/91-10/91 THE ST. PETERS JOURNAL (one of the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis), 1529 S. Old Hwy 94, St. Charles MO 63303-3707. Covered and photographed city government and general news in growing St. Louis suburb. Wrote cover stories and features. Terry Dean, city editor. (314) 724-1111. Stories covered include:

• Return of Gulf War vets
  
• Faulty construction work in new subdivisions
  
• The birth of a city program to house bats for mosquito control
  
• Debate over whether to build a new county gov't center
  
• Progress of the city's recycling program
  
• Efforts to use a local quarry as a landfill
  
• Redistricting
  
• Why local chimneysweeps continue to thrive
  
• Fallout from a city council decision (passed without soliciting public comment) to ban all playing in streets and cul-de-sacs
  
• The usual fires, accidents, natural disasters, rare diseases, dog bites and drunks attempting to wrestle bears at the zoo.

• A 4.6 earthquake jump starts disaster preparedness programs
  
• Effects of stagnant local economy and shrinking population
  
• Growth in services offered by the county hospital
  
• Local service people serving in the Gulf War
  
• Schools fighting for state aid
  
• Jail fires, prize vegetables, lost hunters and capsizing prom queen floats.

• Gun control and tax hikes as major issues in congressional race
  
• Business, housing and landfill developers' battles with NIMBYs, environmentalists and Civil War historic preservationists.
  
• Effects of recently legalized state lotteries and pari-mutuel racing
  
• Fallout from a principal's decision to cut from his high school's newspaper stories dealing with abortion
  
• The near victory but eventual defeat of one builder's plan to develop a 2,800-home development on the Potomac River
  
• Features on the county's working poor.
  
• Plane crashes, leaking landfills and crowded juvenile detention centers.

• Opening of the Northern Virginia branch of the Whitman-Walker AIDS clinic.
  
• Sarah Brady coming out as a gun control activist.
  
• A McLean-based Libyan student group accused of illegally funding anti-U.S. demonstrations.
  
• Roundups on area bookstores, thrift shops and health food stores.
  
• County raising $600,000 by auctioning off 85 tax-delinquent properties, including a 1.5-square-foot lot.

Marketing/Sales 5/90-8/90 ST. LOUIS DATA DESTRUCTION, 2497 Adie Rd, Maryland Heights, MO 63043-3503. Promoted and sold products and services used for (1) protection and shredding of discarded confidential documents and (2) office recycling of paper and aluminum. Ken Walsh, Sr., president. (314) 997-1131.


Marketing Manager 5/89-5/90 BELLWETHER SYSTEMS INC. [Defunct] St. Louis, MO. Designed and coordinated direct-response and media promotions for business stationery concern. Maintained day-to-day accounting and office management. H.D. St. John, president.


Legal Assistant 12/85-8/87 SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE, 2300 `N' Street NW, Washington, DC 20037-1122. Researched legal matters, monitored and digested government and private periodicals for firm's banking division. Justice Zormelo, supervisor. (202) 663-8000

• THIRD PLACE for portrait or profile, Virginia Press Association., 1988.
  
• OUTSTANDING WOODWIND [tenor saxophone] SOLOIST, Central Ohio Jazz Festival, Ohio State University, 1983.

Two NAVY ACHIEVEMENT MEDALS, including one for, according to citation, writing a UNIX-based "automated message identification and sorting program which reduced the time required to process incoming messages by 60 percent."

• HONG KONG; OKINAWA, JAPAN; PATTAYA, THAILAND; SINGAPORE: Temporary duty assignments in accordance with military service, 1995-97.
  
• ISRAEL/JORDAN: Joined Pax World Foundation on 14-day goodwill tour, 1989.
  
• RUSSIA (then USSR): 8-week, Georgetown University-sponsored program at St. Petersburg State University, 1982.

Interests:
Running, reading, body boarding, bicycle commuting, checking out old tunes and writing/playing in groups like Elektra-Glide.

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