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EDUCATION:
Washington
University, St.
Louis, MO
BSEE 1964, GPA = 2.40 (First in class)
MSEE 1966, GPA = 2.63 (max = 3.0)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Summer 1998: Government Technical Institute, Georgetown, Guyana. As an educational consultant to the Guyana Ministry of Education, led a three-week workshop for eight digital electronics teachers from Guyana. The purpose was to help them improve their knowledge of digital electronics principles, and to learn ways of incorporating new competencies into a Digital Electronics Technician curriculum.
Summer 1997: British Council, Ankara, Turkey. As an educational consultant provided to the Turkish Council of Higher Education, evaluated the curriculum and implementation of Turkey’s Biomedical Equipment Technology college programs. Over the course of four weeks workshops in Istanbul and Izmir were conducted, and planning and debriefing meetings were held with Turkish educational officials in Ankara.
Summer 1995: Government Technical Institute, Georgetown, Guyana. As an educational consultant to the Guyana Ministry of Education, taught a three-week workshop for fifteen technology teachers from Guyana and Surinam. The purpose was to help them learn methods of revitalizing their technical schools, curricula, and laboratories; and to develop advisory liaisons with local businesses.
Fall 1988: Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechoslovakia. The first teacher of a pilot project for an exchange agreement between Czech and American colleges. As a professor in Prague for five months, taught approximately 200 students, including about 150 undergraduates, about 40 PhD candidates and about 10 other teachers. Educational video tapes were created which are in use in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1987-1988: St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. Campus Computing Coordinator. Planned, scheduled, budgeted and staffed academic and administrative computing activities for the college campus. Supervised full time and part time employees staffing Campus Computing Center and all computer maintenance activities on campus.
1979-present: Quest Instruments Limited. Owner and CEO. Quest Instruments is a Missouri corporation specializing in design and development of high-quality audio instruments. It is now also providing electronics and electrical consulting services to the legal and insurance industries including forensic investigations; and educational consulting services including the preparation of job qualification tests.
1977-1988: St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. Chairman, Technology Department. Planned, scheduled, budgeted, staffed, marketed and recruited for a department of approximately 40 employees and 15 educational career programs in 4 major areas (Electronics, Mechanical, and Automotive Technologies and Drafting). Among my achievements while in this position, I:
2007-present: St. Louis Community College. Part-time faculty member in Technology Department, duties as below. Rank since July 2007 is Professor Emeritus.
1974-2007: St. Louis Community College. Full-time faculty member in Technology Department, developing and teaching courses in electronics and biomedical technologies and computer programming; student recruiting, counseling and advising; and department, division, campus and district committee work. Rank since 1985 was Professor, most recently assigned to Florissant Valley campus.
1973-1974: United States Postal Service. Instructor in electrical, electronics and mechanical maintenance. Taught classes for repair technicians on mail sorting equipment and optical character readers.
1972-1973: Artronix, Incorporated. Chief Engineer and Technical Manager. Directed draftsmen and technicians to assure a smooth flow of products from the assembly line. Design and development responsibility for all instruments produced.
1969-1972: Lewis-Howe Company. Director of Biomedical Engineering Laboratory. Manager and chief designer of a project to develop and test an ingestible physiological telemetry transmitter built of hybrid circuit chips. Responsible for development of precise pH measurement within the body, including both chemical and electronic considerations.
1967-1969: Washington University. Director of Engineering Technical Services. Full responsibility for $200,000 per year budget and management of a department providing electronic design and repair, mechanical design, machine shop, drafting, printing and copying services to the School of Engineering.
1966-1967: Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. Research Engineer. Research and development in the characteristics of ultrasound in vivo, ultrasonic echo encephalography. Developed an instrument for recording the velocity of blood flow as a function of time using ultrasonic Doppler techniques.
1964-1966: Washington University. Teaching Assistant and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Research Assistant. Taught electronics and laboratory courses and researched applications for new families of digital integrated circuits. Interface design and construction for the LINC, a laboratory oriented mini-computer.
HONORS:
Full tuition undergraduate scholarship (four years)
Chosen "Outstanding EE Junior" by IEEE, 1963
Chosen "Outstanding EE Senior" by IEEE, 1964
Elected to Tau Beta Pi, national engineering
honorary
Elected to Eta Kappa Nu, national EE honorary
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Member of Westminster Place Board of Trustees, 1984-88; and President of the Board of Trustees, 1984-86 and 1987-88. This is the governing body for a private street of 56 property owners in the Central West End of St. Louis.
Member, St. Louis Community College College Wide Council 1984-88. Chairman, 1985-86. This is the single council representing all factions and employees of the Junior College District and making recommendations to the Chancellor and his management team.
Member, Board of Directors, Wild Canid Survival and Research Center (Wolf Sanctuary) 1987-1995. Chairman of the Board Oct. 1987-Oct. 1991, Secretary Oct. 1991-Oct. 1993, and President Oct. 1993-Dec. 1995. The basic purpose of the WCSRC is to contribute to the survival of the wild canids of the world.
PUBLICATIONS:
"Measuring the Phase Difference of Two Small Radio Frequency Signals", Washington University, 1966
"Detection of Carotid Artery Bifurcation Stenosis by Doppler Ultrasound" (with Brinker and Croley), Journal of Neurosurgery, 1968, Vol. XXIX, No. 2
"Of Signals and Circuits and Things That Go Glitch in the Night: An Interfacing Handbook for the PC-12" Artronix, Incorporated (published for use by customers)
"Analog Considerations in Digital Signal Processing", Acta Polytechnica, Fall 1989, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"Finding Your True IRQs", Computer Service & Repair, March/April 1996, Searle Publishing Company
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Radio Relay League
American Society for Engineering Education
American Technical Education Association
American Vocational Association
Association for Career and Technical Education
Association for Computing Machinery
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Missouri Technical Teachers Association
Missouri Vocational Association
National Association for Trade and Industrial Education
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