List of skills

General Skills

  • Instructional design (in-person, fully asynchronous, and hybrid course formats)
  • Technical curriculum and course content design and development (both synchronous and asynchronous formats)
  • Adult education (from end-user to advanced technical, and covering a range of subjects)
  • Homeschool teaching (general studies at elementary school level, including unit-based teaching to multiple grade levels)
  • Skilled business traveler (consulting, education/training, mentoring, conference)
  • Writing (educational/training, documentation/technical, persuasive/business case, creative fiction, and casual blogging)
  • Liaison between engineering, management, sales, and/or field personnel
  • Technical support and problem-solving for networked desktop and mobile users
  • Business analysis and field-level requirement identification
  • Retail store operations (e.g., point of sale system, inventory management, staffing, planning)
  • Nonprofit businesses (both as employee and as volunteer)
  • Functional interpretive naturalist (e.g., Kenai Peninsula area flora, fauna, geography, history)
  • Creative and efficient solutions (drawing widely from everyday and natural exemplars)
  • Quick to learn, quick to distill usable principles
  • Ongoing interest in continuing development (e.g., 4-H leadership, homeschool and community volunteering)
  • Shameless musical student of the guitar, fretless guitar, mandolin, and other unfortunate instruments
  • General music theory and practical approaches to chord construction and improvisation
  • Craft and art of the rifle and pistol, grounded in the Jeff Cooper legacy
  • Backpacking, general outdooring, and trail maintenance

Technology Skills

  • IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5, 8.0, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, 8.0, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x
  • IBM Web Content Management (WCM) 8.5, 8.0, 7.x, 6.x
  • IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF) 8.5, 8.0
  • IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory (WPF) 7.x, 6.x
  • Bowstreet Portlet Factory / Bowstreet Factory 5.x, 4.x, 3.x
  • IBM Notes/Domino 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x
  • Java / JEE / J2EE framework (EJB, JSP/servlet, JMS, JNDI)
  • Web Services (WSDL/SOAP, REST)
  • Portlet containers (Java Portlet Specification 2.x/JSR-286, 1.x/JSR-168)
  • Apache FOP (XSL-FO transforms and custom PDF generation)
  • Davalen/Fusion Charts and other charting tools
  • JavaScript frameworks (Dojo, JQuery, MEAN stack)
  • Apache Tomcat server 7.x, 6.x, 5.x
  • Eclipse/RAD/WSAD (Eclipse versions 4.x, 3.x, 2.x)
  • Lotus Sametime 9.0, 8.5, 8.0
  • Lotus Quickr 8.5, 8.0, 7.x, 6.5
  • Video editing: Camtasia Studio 8.x, 7.x, 6.x
  • Audio editing: Audacity, Cubase LE, GarageBand, AmpliTube
  • Ektron CMS400.NET
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Learning Management Systems: Blackboard, Moodle
  • Point of Sale Systems: CounterPoint, Square
  • Database: IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Apache Derby
  • Data transformation: XML, XML Schema, XSLT, SAX/DOM
  • Medical document management and transformation: Canonical and extended CDA schema
  • OS / Platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Debian Linux

IBM Certifications

  • IBM Certified Application Developer – IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 8.0, 6.0
  • IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer – Lotus Notes/Domino 6/6.5
  • IBM Certified System Administrator – Lotus Notes/Domino 6/6.5
  • IBM Certified Instructor – Lotus Notes/Domino 6/6.5
  • CLP Lotus Notes/Domino R5 Principal Application Developer
  • CLP Lotus Notes/Domino R5 System Administrator
  • CLI Lotus Notes/Domino R5
  • CLP Lotus Notes Principal Application Developer R4
  • CLP Lotus Notes Principal System Administrator R4

Other Certifications

  • CompTIA A+ Certification