Summary My professional career in managing computer databases began in 1983 with my position as a research technician for the Inyo County Water Department in Bishop, California. Although hired originally to gather vegetation data, I quickly became the leader in constructing the data processing infrastructure necessary for analyzing the notebooks full of environmental measurements occupying our bookshelves. Before taking on the responsibility of building a vegetation database for the Inyo County Water Department, I had coursework at UC Davis that demanded I develop considerable expertise in statistical and computer modeling for my master's degree received June 1983. Following my stint as a computer manager for the Water Department, I assembled the Owens Valley vegetation data into a project for my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Arizona. While completing my computer model as part of my doctoral research, the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station awarded me the position as their Senior Systems Programmer in March 1990. Since then I have been involved in every aspect of office automation and user training deployed by the University of Arizona at the Maricopa Agricultural Center. The technology that I have implemented for the University of Arizona spans the history of business computing from the lowly MS/DOS operating system to high speed Metro-Optical Fiber Networks that facilitate distance learning. Now retired from the University of Arizona, I would like to leverage my long career of supporting academic research into training the next generation of technical professionals.
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