Employment History
Industrial Myth and Magic
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1999 –
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Writer, Editor, Graphic Designer, Boss
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Design books, books, books, flyers, posters, websites; Write press releases, newsletters, web content, marketing documents, business plans, marketing plans, technical reference manuals. Clients includ Dotomi Inc, Accurate Fasteners, Dane Brady & Haydon, Ubiix Systems, Proximy Networks, Infolibria, Akamai Technologies, Ibbetson Street Press, Červená Barva Press, Akaza Research, Wheels TV, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Tools used: Microsoft Office, Visio, Acrobat, Open Office, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Paint Shop Pro.
Middlesex Community College
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2003 – 2005
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Adjunct Professor CS
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Designed & taught: Introduction to Network, and Server and Website security & administration [WB1210], Introduction to Linux [CS1105] also Taught Introduction to Computer Applications [CA1101] (Internet & Microsoft Office)
ISCS
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1985 – 1999
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Writer, Editor, Project Manager
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Designed technical reference manuals; Wrote technical reference manuals, business plans, monthly technical columns, trade text books. Clients included Netezza, NSC Corporation, NEIME Inc., Berger Instruments, DAG Corporation, Addison Wesseley Longman Publishing, Vianet Data Corporation, Information Access Center, Bose Corporation, Lau Technology, InfoSoft International, NASA, Langley Field, Kronos Corporation, Fidelity Investments, State Street bank, Ziplink, QUE Publishers, New Riders Publishers, Altos World, Unix Review.
Atex
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1984 – 1985
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Senior Product Manager
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Word processor & newspaper composition software manufacturer: Defined product requirements for system software; Defined product capabilities for sales & marketing; Designed introductory seminars for new products.
Wakefield Software Systems
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1983 – 1984
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Technical Writer
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Manufacturer of bar code data collection software: Wrote functional specification documents.
Logistics Systems Inc.
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1980 – 1983
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Software Programmer
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M.I.T. Sloan School
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1979 – 1980
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Teaching & Research Assistant
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Wrote critiques of the System Dynamics Group national economic model; wrote summery of worldwide research in inflation theory.
Sail Magazine
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1976 - 1979
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Art Director
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Designed monthly magazine, designed production management system
Brahman Publishing Services
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1974 - 1976
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Owner & hands on manager
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Managed typesetting, graphic design and Photostat/Process photography service. Clients included major universities in the Boston area as well as major publishers, graphics designers and architecture firms.
Dynamic Learning Corporation
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1973-1974
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Acquisitions Editor
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Found and developed authors; represented publisher at Frankfort Book Fair.
Media Engineering Corporation
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1972 - 1973
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Publishing Director
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Managed publication of a number of products including a monthly tabloid in Russian for American Students of Russian, Drug education kits under contract to U.S. Navy
Model Rocketry Magazine
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1970 – 1972
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Managing Editor
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Managed monthly production of magazine: edited & wrote articles, managed typesetting and layout.
Et Cetera
Author of numerous books & columns
Books:
Co-Author: Using Unix, Que (March 1994), 964 pages, ISBN:
1-56529-2
Author: Inside SCO Unix (2nd & Special Edition), New
Riders Publishing (August 1993), 818 pages
ISBN:1-56205-183-0
Author: Downsizing to Unix, New Riders Publishing (August
1992), 506 pages, ISBN: 1-56205-074-5
Co-Author: Inside SCO Unix, New Riders Publishing (March
1992), 728 pages, ISBN: 1-56205-028-1
Author: Seven Days in Fiji, ISCSpress (February 2006), 98
pages, ISBN: 978-1-4116-8649-6
Other Technical Publications:
Contributing editor: Patty Seybold’s Unix in the Office
(edited news section)
Contributing editor: Sony Monison - on DEC (Ultrix)
Contributing editor: Altos World (column: PANIC!)
Contributing editor: Unix Review (column: Famous Last Words)
Classes Taught and developed:
Webinars & online courseware for Hewlett Packard
Installing Red
Hat Linux
Installing Suse
Linux
Online course –
Linux System Administration
Introduction to Computer Applications, Middlesex Community College,
Bedford & Lowell MA (multiple sessions 15 week class)
Introduction to Networking & Web Server Security and
Administration, Middlesex
Community College,
Bedford & Lowell MA (multiple sessions 15 week class)
Linux System Administration – multiple sessions (1 week) all
over the US and Fiji.
Unix System V Release 4 System Administration (1 week),
DataPoint Corporation, San Antonio
TX,
Introduction to Unix for engineers and programmers (1 week),
ADE Corporation, Newton MA
Introduction to C, Advanced C Programming, New England
Telephone (1 week - multiple sessions)
Introduction to Unix & Shell Scripting:
New England Telephone (1 week - multiple sessions)
TRW Data Systems, Dallas (multiple sessions)
Memorial Hospital, Gulfport MS
Unix System Architecture for Programmers, INFORT Company, Moscow Russia
(1 week)
Network & Unix Design & Administration (1 week), Memorial Hospital,
Gulfport MS
Integrating real-time process control equipment in an SCO
Unix Environment (1 week) ADE Corporation, Newton, MA
Listed in Who’s Who in America and the World
Past President, Rotary Club of Littleton Massachusetts
