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Director of Simulation-Based Learning Environments
College of Exploration
Potomac Falls, Virginia, USA
April 2003 - present
Supporting the development of online learning environments
based on simulation models.
Principal
Organomics Consulting
Seattle, Washington, USA
July 1993 - present
Providing consulting services for public and private
sector clients engaged in instructional design, curriculum development
and strategic planning (especially, urban and regional planning, natural
resource management, environmental planning, and business/corporate planning).
Recent projects include:
- preparing in-house technical training courses for
electrical, building and site team inspectors, as a instructional designer,
for the Department of Design, Construction and Land Use, City of Seattle.
- developed and implemented testing lab and testing/documentation
procedures and hired testing staff for comprehensive Year 2000 testing
program, for Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
- coordinated the instructional design and development
of on-line courses in environmental studies, offered separately for
on- and off-campus students, or in professional development certificate
programs, for the University of British Columbia.
- developed technical documentation for the computer
interface between accounting programs and an Oracle-based inventory
system (for cellular phone group at US West NewVector Group (now AirTouch/Vodafone/Verizon)).
- co-authored a technical due diligence report on a
new class of ceramics-like materials that uses industrial waste streams,
including carbon dioxide, to make commercial products, for Generation
7 Power Company.
- prepared curriculum design for 3-year Ph.D. program
in the science of complexity, cybernetics and systems theory, for the
Institute for Applied Systemics and Antioch University- Seattle.
- developed reports and presentations for a group
proposing a sophisticated interactive educational service that would
use the broadband telecommunications, for The Quilt Project and Alcatel.
- designed a CD-ROM-based simulation game intended
to teach basic ecological principles, using different learning styles,
for ESSA Technologies.
- developed project management application and revised
database,for Washington (State) Special Olympics.
Resource Planner
Resource Planning, King County Environmental Division
Bellevue, Washington, USA
July 1991 - March 1993
Responsible for the implementation of the Growth Management
Act (GMA) for critical areas and resource lands.
- coordinated preparation of documentation for King
County's initial compliance with GMA and of proposed environmental policies
for countywide planning and comprehensive plan.
- developed budgets and workplans using spreadsheets
and project management software.
Principal
NEQ Organomics
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
August 1985 - May 1990
Developed sole proprietorship consulting business. Responsible
for all aspects of its operation. Clients included BC Hydro, Environment
Canada, Statistics Canada, NWT Dept. of Renewable Resources and the BC
Ministry of Environment.
- prepared a software and data design for a national
residuals simulation system. Estimated industrial pollution as a function
of economic activity and followed its environmental fate.(for Environment
Canada and Statistics Canada)
- designed and implemented detailed simulation model
to represent the population dynamics, regulated harvest and population
status of most managed wildlife species (e.g., ungulates, and black,
grizzly and polar bears). (for NWT Dept. of Renewable Resources and
the BC Ministry of Environment)
- prepared presentations (in November 1989, March 1990)
for BC Hydro's Resource Planning and Load Forecasting groups on modeling
future energy consumption from a demand-side-management perspective
using some powerful decision support software developed by Statistics
Canada.
Research Associate Faculty
Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Research Unit
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
June 1987- May 1990
FEPA is the principal policy research group funded by
Forestry Canada. International reputation for its work in developing computer
models of forest activities.
- developed computer software to simulate the dynamics
of forest growth and harvest, silvicultural treatment, and forest products
production and trade.
- researched and prepared reports on the implications
of future product technologies on current forest management decision-making,
and on forest product trade in the Pacific Rim;
- co-authored a major monograph on alternative methods
of evaluating silvicultural investments;
Research Associate Faculty
Institute of Animal Resource Ecology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
Feb. 1984 - May 1987
Initiated and conducted a major research grant on the
role of public participation in technological risk management. Compared
the U. S. and Canadian approaches to the technical, legal and social aspects
of managing chemical risks.
Associate Consultant
DPA Consulting Ltd.
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
March 1982 - May 1984
DPA was a large economics/environmental consulting firm
(with 60+ professionals and 8 offices nationwide) with both governmental
and corporate clients. Clients included BC Hydro, Environment Canada,
Chevron Canada, PetroCanada and the BC Ministry of Environment.
- developed software and co-wrote reports on social
benefit/cost and financial risk models of a natural gas pipeline for
BC Hydro. Introduced the idea of risk analysis to the BC Hydro planners
for the first time.
- Co-authored two major initial environmental assessments
of oil explorations off the northern B. C. coast (responsible for the
sections on the fishing economic impacts of a potential spill);
- co-authored a large study of the socio-economic impact
of acid deposition in Canada (responsible for the sections on the economic
impacts of material and infrastructure damage) (for Chevron Canada and
PetroCanada) ;
- developed computer software design for decision support
models for salmon management (for Canada Fisheries and Oceans);
Research Technician (Oct. 1982 -Jan. 1984)
Research Associate Faculty (April - Sept. 1982)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Sept. 1980 - March 1982)
Instructor (Sept. - Dec. 1980)
Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
IARE was one of the premier ecology institutes in the
world. It developed the application of computer simulation to resource
planning and the idea of adaptive environmental assessment and management
- prepared a paper on a new approach to modelling ecosystems
(published in 1983).
- prepared a report on risk assessment and its application
to ecological management problems.
- prepared a paper and two presentations on the implications
of self-organization in complex systems for resource management.
- co-taught with C. S. Holling and I. Vertinsky a course
for graduate planners, resource mangers and ecologists on the Anatomy
and Physiology of Surprises: Systemic Responses to Disturbance.
Ph. D. Graduate Student (Sept. 1978 - Aug. 1981)
Teaching Assistant (Sept. 1978 - Aug. 1980)
Department of Philosophy , University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
- participated in classes, seminars and lectures in
philosophy and philosophy of science (including special seminars in
philosophy of biology, public policy and energy issues).
- completed first draft of Ph.D. thesis, entitled Systems
and Information: An Inquiry into the Modelling and Design of Complex
Systems.
- last year (Sept. 1980 - Aug. 1981) spent at the
Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, Univ. of B. C.
- marked undergraduate philosophy of law course, tutorial
leader for undergraduate course in critical thinking and symbolic logic.
Ph. D. Graduate Student (May 1975 - Sept. 1978)
Research and Teaching Assistant (May 1973 - Aug. 1978)
M. Sc. Graduate Student (May 1973 - April 1975)
B. Sc. Undergraduate Student (Sept. 1969 - May 1973)
Department of Chemistry , University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- participated in classes in organic, inorganic, physical,
analytical and theoretical chemistry and in applied mathematics and
numerical analysis.
- Honours Project on the application of spectral analysis
techniques to Mössbauer lineshape problems.
- assisted in research and gave demonstrations in the
general, analytical and physical chemistry undergraduate laboratories.
Ph. D. Graduate Visitor
Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford
Oxford, U. K.
Sept. - Oct. 1976
- investigated the use of finite element and R-matrix
methods in molecular scattering calculations.
M. Sc. Graduate Visitor
Division of Chemistry, Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago, Ill. U.S.A.
May 1975
- used their computer facilities to calculate the
ab initio interatomic potential for the He-Ar interaction.
Process Control - Chemist (May - Sept. 1970,
May - Sept. 1971)
Process Control - Sampler (June - Sept. 1969)
International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd.
Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada
- analyzed smelter samples and geological core samples
using atomic absorption and traditional wet-chemistry methods.
- collected samples throughout the Copper Cliff concentrator
and smelter.
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