Short Vita

MA, English Literature, 1989
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Master's Thesis -- Bodies and Influence: The Construction of Culture in Victorian Social Discourse (Published in Culture and Education in Victorian England, Associated Universities Press, 1990)

BA, English Literature, 1985
BA, Political Science, 1985
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

December 1997 - May 2001

Chairman & CEO
DecisionPoint Applications, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon


April 1997 - December 1997

CIO and Practice Manager
The Sales Consultancy
Dallas Texas


June 1996 - April 1997

Chief Knowledge Officer
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon


June 1995 - June 1996	

Director, Strategic Marketing
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


May 1994 - June 1995		

Principal Strategist
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


May 1993- May 1994		

Manager, Corporate Architecture Group
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


November 1991-May 1993			

Product Manager, Decision Support Group
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


October 1990-November 1991		

Marketing Training Development Manager
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


July 1989-October 1990	

Senior Writer/Project Leader, SubSequent Division
Sequent Computer Systems
Beaverton, Oregon


1987-July 1989		

Project Leader, Technical Education and Publications
NCR Corporation
Columbia, South Carolina


1985-1987			

Graduate Instructor, Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Programming Languages	



	C (UNIX and Microsoft), BASIC, Visual BASIC, VBA/ASP, Toolbook, Java

	Bourne and C shells (UNIX)

	perl, awk and tcl 

	nroff, troff, pic, tbl, grap

	HTML, HTML+ and Windows Help compiler





Operating Systems



	CTOS (Convergent Technologies Operating System)

	BTOS (UNISYS)

	AT&T UNIX V.2 - V.4

	BSD UNIX 4.2/4.4

	MS-DOS/PC-DOS (3.1 - 6.X)

	Macintosh (System 6/7)

	Win32


Networking Technologies



	NetBIOS/NetBEUI

	Ethernet (Xerox and IEEE 802.3)

	Token-Ring

	OSI (X.4XX, X.5XX, OSI Transports and Session, CMIS/CMIP)

	ISDN

	TCP/IP, WWW

	SPX/IPX (NetWare) 

	SNA

	Middleware (SQL*Net, OpenClient/OpenServer, SequeLink)

	network planning, management and security.





Process Management



	Information Mapping (structural documentation)

	Criterion-Referenced Instruction (instructional design and delivery)

	Process Management/TQM

	Structured Systems Design