Word Processing/Web Design

Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, Alaska
Web Design, June 2005-present, 30 hours per week
Design and implement the Arctic Geobotanical Atlas website. Site architecture, image preparation, proofreading, direct student helpers. Insure compliance with W3C standards, University of Alaska Fairbanks website standards, and American Disabilities Act standards. Organize one day retreat and monthly seminars for thirteen lab employees.

Adult Education Classes, Community Schools Program, various local stores, Fairbanks, Alaska
Instructor, September 2001-present
Instruct adults in crazy quilting, embroidery, and breadmaking. Prepare lecture notes, lesson plans, websites, and projects to accompany instruction. Crazy quilting classes include teaching beginning sewing skills, embroidery, information on fabrics and tools, and finishing techniques. Breadmaking classes include teaching how to put ingredients together in proper order, kneading technique, shaping dough into desired form, and discussing different types of ingredients for different breads. Embroidery classes include basic embroidery instruction, tools, threads, and fabrics to use. See Breadmaking and Crazy Quilting websites.

Regional Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP), Fairbanks, Alaska
Administrative Assistant, January 2004-June 2005, 30 hours per week
Maintain student database and student records; coordinate rooms, instructors, and scheduling for RAP courses; purchase supplies and equipment as necessary. Monitor RAP funds for levels and uses to insure that funds are used appropriately and are within budget, using Qmenu. Monitor student grades, classes, and status through use of Banner. Coordinate RAP meetings, including scheduling rooms, food, and equipment. Maintain RAP calendar; prepare the Weekly RAP (student newsletter). Maintain student database and records. Teach students how to build a webpage; prepared website with templates and links to assist in webpage preparation and obtaining an ASUAF student account (http://www.staff.uaf.edu/fnemb/).

Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN), Fairbanks, Alaska
Temporary Communications Coordinator, March 2003-August 2003, 40 hours per week
Web and graphic design for communication of organization goals and projects. Design, produce, and distribute BRIN and EPSCoR newsletters and publications. Maintain and organize database for tracking internal proposals, prepare proposals for reviewers, and inform recipients of awards; maintain confidentiality of grant applicants. Assist with budget reconciliation and bookkeeping, using Banner and MS Excel. Prepare travel documents and make travel arrangements; maintain database of travel, including personnel and reasons for travel. Use ProCard and travel credit cards for purchase of supplies and airplane tickets, maintain spreadsheets for weekly and monthly credit card reports.

Cooperative Extension Service, Fairbanks, Alaska
Temporary Administrative Assistant, January 2003-March 2003, 40 hours per week
Answer phone and direct callers as appropriate. Operate fax and copy machines; type addresses for mailing; assist with daily mail. Maintain address database for mailing publications. Assist with filing project. Word processing using MS Word on PC, checking for grammar, clarity, and spelling. Make travel reservations for the Director; prepare TA and TER (using Excel) for Director's travel.

Caribou Web Design, Fairbanks, Alaska
Owner/Web Designer, March 2001-2003, 10-20 hours per week
Design and maintain webpages, promote and manage business. Focus is on nonprofit and educational sites.
Recently under contract with the University of Alaska Museum, performing as a site redesign team member, focusing on site organization and documentation, easy access for low technology users, compliance with ADA standards, statistical information collection, updating and formatting public programs pages, and editing pages for HTML consistency as well as grammar, spelling, and clarity.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Curriculum Department, Fairbanks, Alaska
Program Secretary, January 2001-June 2001, 37.5 hours per week
Design and implement Curriculum website for distribution of District curriculum guides. Format, proofread, and edit hardcopies of District curriculum guides. Maintain confidentiality of student files. Train co-worker in web design and desktop publishing. Answer phone and direct callers to appropriate person. Assist Administrative Secretary as necessary.

Oregon State University, Department of Forest Resources, Corvallis, Oregon
Office Specialist II, January 1998-December 2000, 40 hours per week
30% Information and Assistance: Promote the Forest Resources Department by designing and maintaining departmental, recruitment and instructional webpages (Department of Forest Resources home page and associated pages). Provide information and assistance to staff, visitors and students. Prepare class & thesis defense announcements, PowerPoint presentations, slides and other graphics projects for classes and seminars. Update and print student recruitment brochures.
30% Instructional Support: Graduate Admissions Coordinator, check, prepare and update FR section of OSU Schedule of Classes and General Catalog, create print & web versions of student newsletter (the Leaf, http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fr/leaf.sht) each quarter, maintain and update recruitment brochures, prepare curriculum proposals.
30% Academic Hiring and Faculty Development: Specialized and varied support for academic hiring, academic promotion and tenure, and faculty reviews. Work closely with professors to prepare prof reviews, promotion and tenure materials, award packets, and curriculum vitae. Prepare hiring documents for new positions including advertising, position descriptions, and OSU documentation.
Administrative Support Services: Coordinates work activity with other office staff, copying, word processing, and special projects as needed.

Utilize MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, JavaScript, Quark, HTMLed, scanner, and Netscape on Macintosh and PC computers.

California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest & Disease Center, Sacramento, CA Temporary Biological Technician, March 1997-January 1998, 16 hours per week
Assist with graphics and editing of the California Plant Pest & Disease Report (CPPDR). Prepare pictures, graphs, data and text for inclusion in the CPPDR. Manipulate drawings and photographs on the computer for inclusion in the Report. Maintain CPPDR address database with FileMaker Pro. Prepare CPPDR and scale key for inclusion on CDFA website. Use of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Pagemaker, MS Word and MS Excel for construction of CPPDR and PageMill for web version of CPPDR. Maintain NAPIS federal plant pest database weekly, using MS Word, FileMaker Pro, Fetch & Telnet. Macintosh computers.

California Pear Advisory Board (CPAB), Sacramento, CA Web Page Construction and Update, July 1997-September 1998, 10 hours per week; April-September 1996, 30 hours per week
Build (1996) and update (1997) research section of web page for CPAB in 4 sections: Entomology, Orchard Management, Pathology and Postharvest. Update the 1997 Marketing Order, add the early and late shipper's lists, the 1996 Annual Report and the Baking Contest to the site. Construct HTML documents containing WWW links, tables, graphics and text documents and other data. Use scanner and associated software for graphics and text documents; add text to figures as necessary; present figures as clearly as possible; edit research reports for clarity, spelling and grammar. Access WWW documents to aid in construction of web page. Used Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, FTP, Netscape, Eudora, Corel Photopaint, LViewPro and other programs in construction of web page using a PC. These webpages are no longer active.

UC Davis, Department of Entomology, Davis, CA Post Graduate Researcher, March-September 1996, 20 hours per week
Maintain lab, order and receive supplies, hire and train students, organize and maintain bibliographic database, conduct literature search for information on elderly individuals in the natural world, verify data for and build life span table. Used Melvyl, Eudora, Netscape, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and EndNotes on PC computers.

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Administrative Assistant for the Associate Dean of SFOS, Oct. 1992-Sept. 1994
Secretarial duties, organize meetings, edit & format SFOS newsletter, assist with or write & format reports, brochures, seminar announcements, grant proposals, memos; responsible for editing, checking grammar, spelling and clarity. Backup Personnel Clerk. Developed computerfisheries game as study aid for students. Used MS Excel, MS Word, Word Perfect, Aldus Persuasion, Super Paint, Lynx, Mosaic, Pine and HyperCard on Macintosh computer.

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Research/Agriculture

UC Davis, Department of Nematology, Davis, CA
Post Graduate Researcher, October 1996-January 1998, 20 hours per week
Dissect insects & count nematodes using dissecting or compound microscopes, maintain nematode cultures in insects, rear insects as needed, enter data into computer, conduct literature searches using Melvyl. Set up greenhouse experiments with soil and pots, infest pots with nematodes and insects, water plants. Assist in field experiments by setting up plots, collecting soil and insects. Dismantle finished experiments, wash glassware, maintain lab cleanliness and other duties as necessary. Put Entomology classes 10 and 135 schedules & outlines on Web page. Update lab web page. Use of Adobe Photoshop, MS Word on Macintosh computer.

UC Davis, Bay Area Research and Extension Center, Santa Clara, CA
Senior Agricultural Technician, Oct/Nov 1994, Mar-Sept 1995
Perform general agricultural operations including soil preparation, planting, weeding, pruning, irrigation and harvesting. Crops included fruit trees, corn, melons, lawns and landscaping species. Operate tractors, front end loader, backhoe, disc, bedder, mowers, forklift, chainsaw, weedeaters, small power tools, table saw, drill press, bandsaw. Perform routine repairs and maintenance of buildings, fences, sprinklers, equipment, greenhouse and heating/air conditioning systems. Apply chemical, biological and mechanical pest control methods safely and according to manufacturer's or researcher's recommendations. Perform safety inspections.

Georgeson Botanical Garden, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska; Volunteer, Summer 1993 & 1994
Collect and record data concerning flower development and lifespan for annual and perennial beds. Assist with bookkeeping for gift shop.

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, Palmer, Alaska; Enumerator, July, 1993 & July,1994
Gathered statistical information on wage levels, hours and type of work from farms in Delta Junction and Fairbanks, Alaska.

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Marine Invertebrate Technician, Jan.1992- Aug. 1992
Estimate age and measure length of mussels for study of Prince William Sound after the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Data entry, sample storage and organization.

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fisheries Technician, July 1990- Jan. 1992
Collect samples and habitat data for studies on intertidal fish in Prince William Sound after the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Data entry, sample storage and organization, dissect samples, store organs, generate graphs on computer depicting relationships between various data.

Northern Testing Laboratory, Fairbanks, Alaska
Purchasing Clerk/Critical Glassware Washer, May 1989-July 1992
Purchase equipment and supplies, prepare sample kits. Clean glassware for soil and water testing, using acid rinses and proper drying procedures.

University of Alaska Fairbanks Student Garlic Research Project, Jan. 1989-May 1989
Eradicate garlic mosaic virus from heat treated garlic bulbs. Use ELISA test to determine non-existence of virus in tissue culture grown bulbs. Scientific paper written discussing methods used to conduct experiment and results.

Calgene, Inc., Davis, CA
Lab Assistant, Sept. 1986-Feb. 1987
General care, planting and propagation of research crops, particularly corn and tobacco, but including tomatoes, rape, cuphea, flowers and other species. Monitor plants for disease, pests, nutrient deficiencies, pesticide spray damage and other problems; determine and apply treatment. Supervise student helpers in performance of routine greenhouse tasks. Prepare potting soil mixes, inventory supplies and order as necessary. Assist scientists with data and tissue collection.

Harris Moran Seed Co., El Macero, CA
Technician, June 1985-Aug. 1986
Planting and general care of greenhouse and field research crops, including melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, eggplant, squash, watermelon, parsnip and other crops. Hybridization and daily care of greenhouse melon trial. Apply hormones and collect data from melon growth regulator trial. Collect data from 2 acre cucumber trial. Rogue off-type watermelons for seed increase. Harvest, clean and pack hybrid and open-pollinated seeds with identifying labels. Assist with beekeeping. Apply pesticide sprays. Monitor fertilizer solution for automatic watering systems.

UC Davis, Department of Viticulture and Enology, Davis, CA
Technician, Sept. 1984-June 1985
Plant, prune and care for vines in greenhouse, apply pesticides as necessary. Record observations, collect data and tissue samples, prepare samples for dry weight analysis. Assist with lab procedures, slide preparation and lab cleanup.

Peto Seed Co., Woodland, CA
Technician, Summer-1984
Hybridization of slicing and pickling cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and peppers in seed production field, breeding plots and greenhouses. Clean, package and label seeds collected from research plots.

Shenandoah Springs Vineyard, Fiddletown, CA
Vineyard worker, Dec. 1982-July 1983
Pruning immature wine grape vines in a 40 acre field. Trained vines onto cordon, planted new section of vineyard. Supervised one pruner, demonstrating pruning techniques and monitoring pruning skills.

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Livestock/Veterinary

Quarterhorse Racetracks, AZ, CA, CO, MT and NM
Groom, Asst. Trainer, Pony, 1976-1981
Feed, water, clean stalls, groom horses. Minor veterinary care, bandage legs, saddle and ready for races. Pony to starting gate, exercise pony in mornings. Assign chores to other employees.

Veterinary Assistant
Racetrack Practice, Denver, CO, 1976-1980; Elk Grove Veterinary Clinic, 1981-1982
Assist veterinarian with preparing for clients, restraint of animals, have appropriate drugs or equipment ready as directed by doctor. Clean up exam room/practice vehicle. Restock exam room/practice vehicle with drugs and supplies.

Assistant Farm Manager
Wiese Racing Stable, Elk Grove, CA 1981-1982; Chimaree Farm, Davis, CA 1983-1985
Feed and water horses, goats, sheep and pets. Minor veterinary care as needed. Maintain supplies of hay and grain, fly spray, etc., as necessary. Maintain barns and fencing. Milk goats, assist with kidding, lambing or foaling as necessary.

Student Assistant
Primate Center Air Pollution Facility, Davis, CA 1984-1985
Feed, check water, clean cages of monkeys, mice, guinea pigs and other research animals. Note deaths, irregularities in daily log. Notify supervisor when feed supply low.

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