San Jose, CA • ooo0001@aol.com
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Computer Instruction Résumé and General Profile of:
San Jose, CA • ooo0001@aol.com
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COMPUTER EXPERIENCE: |
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Currently working as a self-employed contract computer applications instructor. |
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Periodically contracted as a video designer, web page designer, graphic illustrator, technical writer and editor. |
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Employed as graphic designer for Crain & Associates, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, 1992. |
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Worked as assistant manager of desktop publishing for Zebra Copy, Palo Alto, CA, 1991-1992. Also organized and taught desktop publishing courses, for which I wrote and designed the course handbooks. |
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Taught basic through advanced Macintosh and Windows applications for Computer Literacy, Seattle, WA, 1990-91. Also designed several course handbooks. |
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Produced graphic art for CANODROS, a major Ecuadorian tourism company (Guayaquil), 1989-1990. |
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Designed and taught computer operation classes to Ecuadorian government personnel (in Spanish), 1988. |
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE: |
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Thai Boxing student instructor for the Muay Thai Academy International, San Jose, CA (1993-2003). |
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Created shareware HyperCard programs for Steve Jackson Games products (1990-95). |
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Naturalist/Guide aboard the M/V Galapagos Explorer cruise ship in the Galapagos Islands (1989-1990). |
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Advanced English Instructor: freelance in Ecuador (1988), and for Virginia Tech University ESL Program (1989). |
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Writing Tutor for Virginia Tech University athletes (1987-1988). |
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Infantry Paratrooper, Personnel Clerk and Mailman for the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division (1985-1987). |
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Freelance Adventure Game Designer for Iron Crown Enterprises (1982-1984). |
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Laboratory Animal Handler/Trainer for The Colorado College Psychology Department (1981-1985). |
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Sex Education Teacher for the Girl Scouts of America (1984). |
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Geological Field Assistant for Amoco Minerals Company (1978). |
EDUCATION: |
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B.A. English/Evolution, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, June 1985. |
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Graduate work in creative and technical writing at Virginia Tech (VPI), Blacksburg, VA, 1987-1988. |
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Galapagos National Park Naturalist Guide Course license, Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Islands, 1989. |
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National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) Rescue Diver and Divemaster certification, 1992 |
OTHER ACTIVITIES/INFORMATION: |
Positions/Awards: |
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Military unit certificates of appreciation for the highest work performance and highest physical proficiency. |
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Vice-president of high school senior class. |
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Representative of the Model United Nations at Harvard University. |
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Macintosh and Windows computer operation, including programming and web site design. |
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Completion of a number of writing projects, including many screenplays and two full-length novels. |
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17 years of residency in over half a dozen different countries. |
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Writing, reading and viewing speculative fiction and trilex poetry. |
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Computer and traditional cartooning and other artwork. |
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Composing/mixing music. |
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Science and technology studies (especially nanotechnology and the Singularity, evolutionary sciences and natural history). |
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Debating religious fundamentalists. |
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Physical fitness and health. |
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Martial arts and weaponry of all periods. |
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Motorcycling, scuba diving, parachuting, trap and skeet, hunting and fishing. |
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Computer and role-playing gaming. |
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Born: Chuquicamata, Chile, 30 February 1962 (U.S. nationality). |
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Languages: English and Spanish. |
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Health and Physical Condition: Excellent. |
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