Dick Heiser: Work Experience

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Docent 2009 - present

Hospitality Kitchen of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Volunteer 1984 - present

       Vegetable chopper, water man, food flow, sporkmeister

A New Way of Life Foundation Criminal Record Expungement Caseworker 2012 - 2021

UCLA Sea World Cruising Classroom Field Trip Docent 2003 - 2007

Friends Outside Volunteer 2000 - 2011

       Orientation presenter for Watts probation and parole programs

       Visitor at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail and Twin Towers Correction Facility

Getty Museum Volunteer 1997 - 2003

      Docent 1999 - 2003

      Volunteer at the digitalExperience Internet computer lab 1997 - 1998

High School Teacher 1989 - 1999

      Computer Graphics Teacher at Fairfax Visual Arts Magnet 1993 - 1999

      Math and Physical Science Teacher Mid-City Alternative School 1992 - 1993

      Substitute Teacher 1989 - 1992

Short-Course Teacher 1978 - 1990

      Taught short courses in C++ programming for Learning Tree International at Hydro Quebec, IBM, Texas Instruments and public seminars

      Wrote, taught courses in computer graphics and computer-aided design at Northrop University

      Taught public short courses in user interface design and in data communications for Learning Tree International

      Wrote, taught short courses on software engineering tools for Computomata International at Banco Pastor in Spain, and Banco Nacional in Mexico

      Wrote, taught short courses on personal computing, spreadsheets, editing, modeling, business graphics, human factors, operating systems, expert systems for Computomata International, Learning Tree International, IBM, Hughes Aircraft, Westinghouse, Grumman, Transaction Technology, Pitney Bowes and public seminars

      Wrote, taught hands-on production planning short course for Hughes Aircraft

      Taught short courses in Pascal programming for Learning Tree International at Sperry Flight Systems, EG&G, GE and public seminars

Marched in the Great Peace March 3/1986 - 11/1986

      Outreach Speaker for nuclear disarmament

      Used microcomputers on the road, for filing, text editing and electronic mail

Human / Dolphin Foundation Volunteer 1979 - 1984

      Computer systems analyst, outreach speaker

Founder, Owner of The Computer Store in Santa Monica, California 1975 - 1982

      World's first computer store

      Reputation for creativity and innovation

      Profitable every year, $6 million sales

      Extensive customer training and consulting

Senior Programmer for Litton Data Systems 1973 - 1975

      Debugged command and control software

      Integrated concurrent software changes

Senior Technical Representative at Pertec Business Systems 1972 - 1973

      Organized overseas technical support and training

      Designed and documented a microfiche formatting program

Consultant to Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft 1971

      Organized on-the-air computer operations for TV election reporting

      Designed and programmed time-series data analyzer

      Improved and documented data center procedures 

      Taught time-series analysis in German

Computer Systems Analyst at the RAND Corporation 1969 - 1971

      Designed and programmed a network optimizer

      Designed and programmed a graphic decision tree editor

      Forecasted physician population and demand

Senior Systems Analyst for McDonnell Douglas Corporation 1967 - 1969

      Designed file structures for an on-line manufacturing system

      Wrote library code for file system

      Measured and tuned system performance

Systems Engineer for IBM Corporation, Data Processing Division 1963 - 1967

      Specialist in inventory planning, bills of material, critical-path method

      Conducted customer training

      Wrote utility programs in several languages