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