INTRODUCTION:  I have an extensive technical background with college teaching, computer and engineering experience including planning and estimating. I have designed telecommunication plant, estimated costs, and was responsible for tracking costs of projects.  My communication skills are evidenced by the publication of numerous manuals, contributions to physics and mathematics test bank data bases, a journal publication, two theses, seven formal paper presentations, and lecturing. 

EDUCATION

All coursework is complete towards a Ph. D.  except dissertation, which has been started.  Research is in comparing two methods for determining conductivity in layers of the Earth from electromagnetic signals of various frequencies.  This degree will be in Engineering and Applied Science.

M. S. degree in applied physics from the University of New Orleans, December, 1985.  A thesis was written on Channel Clearing in Power Spectral Estimations.  Course concentration in Fourier analysis and wave theory.
 
M. S. degree in mathematics from the University of New Orleans, May, 1976.  A thesis was written on Probabilistic Automata.  

B. S. degree in mathematics from the University of New Orleans, December, 1971.

B. S. degree in physics from the University of New Orleans, January, 1971. 

Miscellaneous Education: 
Correspondence course from Penn State in physical meteorology.
One week course in UNIX at an AT&T school in Illinois. 
Eight engineering courses ranging in duration from one to four weeks at a South Central Bell school in Alabama.  Included transmission and running cost analysis.
Some short management skills schools were also completed for South Central Bell locally. 
A grant writing course and a course on publishing at UNO Metropolitan College.

St. Aloysius High School, New Orleans, Louisiana.  Graduated in May 1965.

EXPERIENCE

College teaching:
June 2001 – Present:  River Parishes Community College.  Current rank:  Assistant Professor.  Responsible for physics, physical science, and mathematics.  All physics and physical science courses taught were also development.  Also, responsible for laboratory materials and experiments, including the initial ordering for and establishment of the physics and physical science laboratory.
Developed an online college algebra course and two online courses in physical science.  Developed remote courses for a special population, including two physical science courses and one physical science laboratory.
Submitted a number of grant proposals, and have been successful in obtaining funding for five of them.
Developed the initial workshops for the Student Success Workshop Program.

August 1997 – August 2001: Instructor of mathematics at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Serve on the committee involved with graphing calculators.
Worked at the Literary Rally.
Participated in the colloquium series by presenting a paper and frequently attending other presentations.
Assisted at the Math Lab tutoring.
Developed an online trigonometry course.

June 1993 - August 1997:  Instructor of physics at Delgado Community College.  Assisted with a major grant proposal for a multimedia course.
Worked with TechPrep, a program involving local high schools.
Worked on text searches.
Worked on grant proposal.

September 1986 - August 1993:  Instructor of mathematics at the University of New Orleans.   
Responsible for student workers, including paper graders.
Chaired Finite Mathematics/Business Calculus committee.
Chaired the Mathematics for Liberal Arts majors committee.
Was on the Intermediate Algebra/Introductory Algebra committee.
Was involved in about eight text searches.
Represented department on JETS competition committee.
Chaired section and graded for Literary Rally.

June 1985 -:  Taught mathematics and physics part-time at various colleges in the New Orleans area.

Experience Computer and Engineering:
June 1973 - May 1986:  BellSouth Services Incorporated / South Central Bell.  Worked in a Minicomputer Operations Center for two years.  Was responsible for troubleshooting many networks that covered the state.  Was also responsible for hardware operations of several systems.  Most of these systems were DEC and most operated in UNIX. Oversaw a conversion to a new disk configuration for one system.  Was responsible for the documentation on several systems. 

Was an engineer at South Central Bell for eleven years.  Was a member of the planning group for three years.  Controlled work by other engineers, supervised a clerk, and oversaw work from contract engineering firms.  Made formal project submittals, estimated and tracked costs, designed facilities, conducted cost studies to determine optimum plan, ran several programs on the computer, and wrote long range plans which were formal corporate documents.  Designed projects which included central office recentering, fiber optics, digital carrier, conduit and cable construction, building cabling, and an air pressurization system.  Was assigned the pilot project of air pressurization for South Central Bell.  The cost of some projects was in the millions of dollars.  Supervised work of contract engineers.

June 1972 - May 1973:  Graduate assistant for the Mathematics Department, the University of New Orleans. 

August 1971 - December 1971:  Taught mathematics and chemistry at Holy Redeemer, a high school no longer in operation, in LaCombe, Louisiana.

WRITING PROJECTS:

Books:

Have published a book “The Thread of Andromeda” in 2005.  Published by PublishAmerica.

Have a book accepted for production by PublishAmerica titled “Finding Confidence and Help with Math.”  This manuscript is currently in production.

Have submitted a book titles “Vacation with Pooch” to PublishAmerica.  This book is still in the review process.

Made significant contributions as coauthor to Students Pocket Companion Cutnell & Johnson Physics. 

Have written or contributed significant material for numerous manuals/data bases to be used as ancillaries in statistics, physics, calculus, business calculus, algebra and finite mathematics.

JOURNAL and CONFERENCES:

 "Positivity by a Single Point Evaluation"  published, May, 1991, in the Classroom Capsules section of The College Mathematics Journal.

Presented a talk titled "Expanding the Fundamental Principle of Counting" at the Louisiana-Mississippi Section meeting of the MAA, 1992.

Presented "Creating Clear Channels in Power Spectrum Estimation" at the 1993 MAA Louisiana-Mississippi Section meeting.

Presented Trapezohedron Mirror with Solar Energy Applications at the 1998 meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Science.

Presented Searching for Cycles at the 1998 MAA Louisiana-Mississippi Section meeting.

Presented Global Error Analysis for the Parabolic Wave Equation as part of the Southeastern Louisiana University mathematics colloquium series in April, 1998.

Presented material on the topic of using the graphing calculator for statistics at the 2003 meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Science.

Presented material on the topic of teaching gravitation at the 2003 meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Science.

Workshops Presented:

Frequently offered multiple workshops at River Parishes Community College, and brought the idea of workshops from experience at Southeastern Louisiana University.  The original offerings served as the pilot for the Student Success Workshops offered by the LRC.  The below have been offered more than once.

Offered a workshop on Overcoming Math Anxiety at river Parishes Community College.

Offered a workshop on Using the TI-83 Graphing calculator at river Parishes Community College.

Offered a workshop on Dimensional Analysis at river Parishes Community College.

Offered a workshop on Solving Application Problems at river Parishes Community College.

Offered a workshop on Finding Help with Math at river Parishes Community College.

Frequently presented a workshop on Solving Application Problems  at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Frequently presented a workshop on Using the TI-83 Graphing Calculator  at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Courses and Exams:

I wrote the online College Algebra Course at RPCC.

I wrote the online TRIGONOMETRY course at RPCC.

I wrote the Physics exam for the Tech Prep program at Delgado Community College.

I served on numerous committees that wrote final exams.

Grants:
In addition to the grants that were successful, many more were proposed.  I frequently have the creative idea, than bring others into the grant proposal.  In addition to the BOR and LCTCS grant proposals in which I was the principle investigator, I was involved with an unsuccessful grant with Nichols State University, Delgado Community College, and Fletcher.  Nichols State was the source of the idea and the proposal.  I am the Principal Investigator on all of the below grants except the one on Service Learning.

A BOR grant has recently been approved for Creating Hybrid Courses with Multiple Presentation Forms.  This grant has not yet been started.

Worked on a grant on Service Learning.

A BOR grant to provide technology in science  This grant is approved for $40,000, and has completed.

A BOR grant to purchase demonstration material for the science courses.  This grant has completed.

A BOR grant to increase technology in the mathematics courses has completed.

A LCTCS grant to purchase manipulative material for the Math of Education Majors courses was successfully completed during the 2003-2004 academic year..

A mini-grant to develop a trigonometry online course at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Math Lab:

I identified sources for materials and made arrangements to have them acquired, often at no cost, to establish mathematics tutorials at RPCC.  This was a need I saw and acted upon through initiative to fill a need.

Photo Contest:

I conducted RPCC’s first photo contest, which was a success.  I had experience in doing this since I had previously conducted a photo contest for the Knights of Columbus, and made a photo contest an annual event for Cub Scout Pack 116 when I was Cubmaster.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT WORK: Provide a professional service of reviewing textbooks in mathematics and physics.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Can work with MATLAB and FORTRAN.
Proficient with Window, WordPerfect, MS Word, Basic, and FORTRAN and familiarity with Unix.
Extensive work with FFT. 
Worked with systems that used UNIX and took a course in UNIX for managers at a Bell school in Illinois.
Experience with data base.
Worked with computer hardware and networks.
Was responsible for major systems and overseen installation.
Have been responsible for documentation.
Worked on software testing

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS and MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Mathematics Association of America

Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Award at RPCC in 2005.

Louisiana Academy of Science membership in 1998 and 2003.

Passed the first actuarial examination.

Received an Individual Incentive Award from BellSouth Services in October, 1984. 

Received a Management Team Incentive Award from BellSouth Services in June, 1985. 

Mathematics Association of America (member until Dec. 1993)

American Meteorology Society (associate member until 1992)

Have in the past been a member of the American Chess Federation, and have played in chess tournaments.

Studied Karate

In college was a member of the physics club and the student physics section of the American Institute of Physics.