Vocation

A vocation includes one's career (the collection and progression of work that one does to make a living) as well as productive activities outside one’s job or principle career path, volunteer activities, and any formal and informal education which support those activities. I want to have a page to show these activities in my life, not just the income producing career.

Web Design and Development

• Completed Web Developer Certificate Program from Regis University, October 2000.
• Have been consulting part time for past 5 years in this field, producing numerous web sites on both a professional and volunteer basis.
• Click here to see my portfolio.

Photography

I've been involved in photography as a hobby for most of my life, and recently have done some things professionally. Much of my web design and development is supported with my photography, and I have had several recent interesting photography projects, including the documentation of a pottery collection and promotional works for another client involving thematic posed photos for calendars. I have skills in color balance and lighting correction in Photoshop (tm) and knowledge of color theory. I am well versed in many photo editing techniques. See the photography pages of my web site for examples and more information.

Previous Career(s)

I have over 16 years experience in software engineering as an embedded systems software engineer. This has given me extensive experience in computer programming, especially in C language and related computer languages. For more information, click here for my employment history.

Volunteer Work

• Volunteer for BCAP (Boulder County AIDS Project), primarily delivering food bank groceries to clients in Longmont, CO. and also as a "gofer" in various fund raising events and activities.
• Web developer, photographer, informal graphics design for flyers, brochures and newsletters for various social and activities organizations that I belong to.
• HOA board member.
• Involved in local political organizations (more on this on my "concerns" page) and volunteered in efforts to elect local candidates to office.

Odd Jobs

• Part time retail clerk work at a novelty / gift shop (summers of '03 and '05)
• Packing and Shipping at a local small business.

Education

In the fall of 2000, I completed a 200 classroom hour certificate program from Regis University for Web Development. It was an intensive course which included Internet fundamentals, HTML, the use of Dreamweaver, graphics editing with Paint Shop Pro, JavaScript, LINUX fundamentals, CGI programming with Perl, and a quick survey of Java.

In the Spring of 2002, I took courses in Java and art composition design at Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado.

Summary of education:

• BS of Electrical Engineering - Colorado State University,1974.
• Graduate work in EE at California State University at Sacramento (Spring,1978 -no degree)
• Graduate level courses from University of Colorado at Boulder including Software Engineering,Data Communications,Data and Computer Networks.
• Class in Digital photo processing, Colorado Free University, January 1999, Jim Austin, instructor.
• Web Developer Certificate program, Regis University, completed November, 2000.
• Coarse work in Java and Art Design at Front Range Community College in Westminster, CO (Spring semester, 2002).