- Evolution Web Development, Santa Fe, NM; WIT/Microsystems, Inc. Santa Fe, NM
- Conducted interviews, developed and presented project proposals.
- Developed and conducted user training for software packages, web sites and content management systems.
- Wrote user guides for many different projects and audiences.
- McDevitt Law Firm, P.A. Santa Fe, NM
- Drafted, proofread and edited documents.
- Filed pleadings, prepared documents and notebooks for court hearings.
- Interfaced with court staff, lawyers, clerical staff and clients, maintained office calendar.
- Beckman Instruments Brea, CA
- Created and presented project proposals and reports both technical and financial.
- Researched and created a document on CP/M operating system functionality and viability for integration into medical products.
- Wrote departmental and inter-departmental project status memos.
- Composed employee reviews and conducted interviews.
- Westinghouse Hanford assigned to Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM
- Created and presented project proposals and reports both technical and financial.
- Made presentations to DOE, LANL and Westinghouse Hanford management.
- Presented the co-authored paper “A High-Energy Beam Transport System” by K. E. Melson, J. A. Farrell, D. J. Liska and P. Meads at the 1979 Particle Accelerator Conference (paper M-l), San Francisco, CA, March 12-14, 1979
- Co-authored the paper “High-Energy Beam Transport in the Hanford FMIT Linear Accelerator,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-26, No 3, pp. 3050-3051 (June 1979).
- Technical Writing: Long-term experience writing successful proposals and design specifications, developed and conducted training and wrote user guides. Proficient in Madcap Flare, Snagit, Word, Excel, Open Office, Photoshop, Sky Indexing software, XMind, ePubChk, ePubPak, and other software packages.
- Ideas to Products: Extensive experience conducting successful interviews then translating the client’s ideas and needs into detailed specifications. Excellent listening, verbal and written skills. Ask questions to both elicit information and confirm understanding of the information. Able to adapt to an audience, to reframe information, for the highly successful transmission of ideas.
- Management and Project Development: Skilled manager experienced with a wide variety of projects and audiences. Customers have included government agencies, large business organizations and sole-proprietor companies in NM, CA, AZ and HI.
- Financial: Created and managed project budgets and schedules. Performed accounting tasks; billing, accounts receivable and payables, payroll and budgeting.
- Customer relations: Maintained long-term client relationships by providing responsive, quality support to build customer loyalty. Helped the client feel good about the project and the work.
- IT: Specified, installed and managed LANs, intranets and web hosting services. Setup and managed local windows networks including use of Dropbox. Web Host Services: HostGator, Opensourcehost; VPS plan, eHostpros (now FastWebHost), Directnic. Extensive use of CPanel.
- Programming: Extensive programming experience of custom database packages including local and web systems; intranets, CMSs, CRMs, and e-commerce sites. Experienced in data analysis, production of reports, graphs and graphical analysis of data.
- Languages: PHP, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, XML, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, 8085 Assembly.
- Packages: Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Apache, Aamps, SQLYog, MySQL, RBase relational database, JGraph, authorize.net, Novell Netware.
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, CP/M.
- Working style: Independent, self-starter, able to work well with others. Creative and tenacious problem solver. Organized, detailed and comfortable working on multiple projects in parallel. Committed to providing an exceptional product on time and on budget. Constant learner, willing to research and learn new skills.
