About
Me
I am seeking creative, open-ended volunteer opportunities that draw upon my various skills.
Career Highlights
• Pima Community College (PCC) Faculty, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
• Initiated / directed PCC’s first open access computer lab
• Pioneered PCC’s cable TV class presentation process / taught cable TV courses
• Initiated / directed / taught PCC’s online courses
• Grant awards from National Science Foundation / IBM Corporation
• Courses at Pima Community College
• Courses for Tucson IBM including user interface design,
software testing, finite mathematics for CS
Worldwide Teaching Experience
• HS English Teacher Training, Shunde School District, Shunde, Guangdong, China (2006 – 2017)
• Oral English Summer Program, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, China
• Oral English Summer Program for HS students / Teacher Training, Pervomaisky Settlement, Kazakhstan
• Fulbright Exchange Teacher, physics, Hastings College of Further Education, Hastings, England
• Fulbright Grant, Educational Technology, University Education Faculty Training, Centro de Procesamiento Arturo Rosenblueth, Mexico City
Website Developer
• Arcadia Square Homeowner’s Association (www.arcadiasquare.com) + others no longer active
• Many online classes through PCC’s WebCT classroom management system
• Skilled WordPress and Joomla CMS developer
Multimedia Developer
• PowerPoint presentations for cable TV classes, workshops
• Educational videos (YouTube Channel – 60 videos: Pre-algebra Review)
• Educational software development for Apple II, Macintosh, PC
• Travel videos – 40 videos: YouTube channel
Education
• Physics PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson
• Physics BS, University of Rochester, Rochester
Spanish Fluency – Intermediate Level
• Courses at Pima Community College
• Intensive language summer courses in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador
• Residence in Banámichi, Sonora, Mexico
Mandarin – Basic
• Two semesters at Pima Community College
• Teaching and Traveling in China
· Travel Experiences
• Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Antarctica
• U.K., France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan
• India, Sri Lanka, China (including Tibet and Inner Mongolia), Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
• Morocco, Rwanda, Tanzania
• New Zeland, Fiji, Cook Islands