Employment

College Teaching Experience

Tuscarawas, Geauga, and Stark Campuses

Assistant Professor level, teaching Physical and Historical Geology (with labs), Oceanography, Environmental Geology, and the geology of Ohio and the National Parks. The student population at the regional campuses includes many 'non-traditional' students, many of whom have returned for more than one of my courses. Student evaluation reports include many kind and generous comments. I am also approved, but have not had the opportunity to teach, introductory geography, astronomy, and "Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe," an introductory course in the history/philosophy of physics.

Kent State University, Department of Geology 1986 - 1993

Dr. Rodney M. Feldmann, advisor

Graduate Teaching Assistant, with responsibilities for teaching and the maintenance and supervision of the Scanning Electron Microscope and paleontology collection database system and general computer maintenance. Courses taught include: Physical and Historical Geology, and Paleontology.

Cuyahoga Community College, West Campus, Parma, Ohio 1985 - 1987

Taught Physical Anthropology 202 (Human Evolution) on a part-time basis.

Elementary, Secondary, and General Public Education

Ms. Martha Regula, Director, John D. Ong Library,

Mr. Brendan Schneider, Director of Technology

For details, please see below

Gifted Challenge Institute July, 1992

Dr. Will Simmons, Director; P. O. Box 1648, Stow, Ohio 44224

Instructor for an intensive two-week program for gifted and talented students in grades four through eight. Course coverage was paleontology and field geology.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1980 - 1986

1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (216) 231-4600

Primary duties included teaching Anthropology and Paleontology to students from elementary to college and adult levels. Additional responsibilities included the administration of computer systems, audio/visual equipment and exhibit maintenance and repair, video production, and selection and purchase of materials for ongoing public film series. (Currently, I'm consulting in computer maintenance and database design for several departments.)

North Ridgeville, Ohio High School 1979 - 1980

Taught ninth-grade physical science, to students with little preparation and less interest in the subject. A challenging experience. By the end of the year, some of them had developed some enthusiasm, and I had developed approaches they never taught me in college.

Miscellaneous and Technical Employment

Summer employment as construction inspector, surveyor's assistant, overseeing the work of general contractors in excavation and placing of concrete and asphalt roadways.

Kent State University and the University of Akron

Work-study employment with each school's Audio-Visual department, maintaining and repairing AV equipment, and operating audio and video production equipment.

Network Systems Support

Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 2001 to present

Currently, I am the network systems administrator for Oberlin College, the Liberal Arts college and music conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio. I am responsible for Wintel servers, and serve as backup for those engineering our Enterasys network gear. I have maintained and upgraded Novell servers from version 4.1 through 5.1 to 6.0 and now we run a Netware 6.5 clustered environment. I have managed Native File Access for a mixed Windows/Macintosh/Linux client userbase, as well as legacy print queues, NDPS and IPP printing, ZenWorks for our lab systems, Novonyx and Apache home directory publication, and several applications hosted from the Novell environment.

Windows servers, from NT4 through 2003, are used at the College in an application-specific manner, we do not run Active Directory in any non-trivial manner. Several databases and specialized web document servers employ Windows servers, as well as several server and network management systems. We employ VMware virtual servers and blade servers for license management, and Citrix terminal servers provide access to Windows applications to our Macintosh clients where necessary.

We use Packeteer Packetshapers to manage our Internet bandwidth, and Perfigo CleanMachines to provide authenticated client access to our network. Those systems are my responsibility, from installation to configuration. Should misbehaving systems appear on our campus network, we use Enterasys’ Netsight Atlas Console and Policy Manager to locate and control their ability to do harm. I am part of the supervisory team planning and overseeing the implementation of wired and wireless networking on campus and negotiating with providers for our WAN access. I supervise student and professional staff in this work.

Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio 1998 to 2001

1998–2001 Technical Systems Support Coordinator

1996–1998 Library Technology Director

In Systems Support, I was responsible for the portions of our campus-wide network "behind the wall." I have pulled and terminated Ethernet cables, hung routers and hubs, patched fiber, and traced and diagnosed cable runs. I’ve configured our Cisco routers and switches to reduce the congestion on a network backbone carrying AppleTalk, IPX and TCP/IP traffic.

We had Macintosh, Windows NT and NetWare servers, all operating more or less happily together. I’ve set up and administered all three. The Macs are used for file and print services and WWW, and we used Apple’s At Ease and Network Assistant to rein in the public-accessible Macs. The NetWare servers host a stack of CD-ROM references for our library and communications with local public library systems. Shortly after I arrived, we upgraded the servers from NetWare 3.11 to 4.11 and installed a CD-ROM server. Our NT servers provide domain control for the PC clients, as well as DNS, DHCP, and our main email and Web servers. I rode herd on the PC clients with user profiles on either our domain controllers or a NetWare server, depending on the location. Each user has a home directory on one of the Mac servers, which is visible from any Mac or PC on campus. We retired the Netware boxes and replaced them with NT servers, a decision I somewhat regret, but the reduction in protocols was welcome.

In the library I combined the duties of an electronic reference librarian with those of a Novell network administrator and webmaster. I continued to have main responsibility for our online public-access catalog system. In addition, I designed and produced training sessions and materials for students, faculty, and staff. With the rest of our IT staff, I supervised student assistants in computer system maintenance and web page design.