RETIRED - and yet...
Called back for part-time work - Shoreline Community College
This is nice after 49 years of working without a employment gap. I did return to the college for a small amount of part time work from 2019-2022, so I was there when most of the campus was a ghost town during the pandemic in 2020-2021. My total work life was 53 years.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST 2 - Shoreline Community College
Information Technology Department --- Retired: June 29, 2018.
Employed in the S.C.C. IT Department. Schedule service calls, job priorities, and streamline installations of new systems. Provide technical support to computer users who use of a wide variety of software and hardware with corrective solutions. Working in all aspects of this classification with special "website emphasis". Also worked on the deployment of "Campus OU" implementation for Shoreline Community College in the Fall of 2011 for the main website. Conversion of the 1998 Intranet began in the Spring of 2012 and continued to 2013. Total time developing, maintaining, and final conversion of the college website to a CMS: 17 years of Webmaster duties. As you can see, this website work overlapped 3 different jobs. (Details of the Webmaster duties).
PROGRAM MANAGER - Web Development - Shoreline Community College
Information Technology Department
Employed in the S.C.C. IT Department. Schedule service calls, job priorities, and streamline installations of new systems. Provide technical support to computer users who use of a wide variety of software and hardware with corrective solutions. Working in all aspects of this classification with special "website emphasis". Also worked on the deployment of "Campus OU" implementation for Shoreline Community College in the Fall of 2011 for the main website. Conversion of the 1998 Intranet began in the Spring of 2012 and continued to 2013. Total time developing, maintaining, and final conversion of the college website to a CMS: 17 years. As you can see, this website work overlapped 3 different jobs.
"The Audience Strikes Back" (shot in 2005)
PROGRAM MANAGER - Webmaster - Shoreline Community College
Public Information Office
Webmaster of the Shoreline Community College Web Site: http://www.shoreline.edu. Campus Photographer: film and digital images. September 1998 through June 2007.
OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN
Focus Vision Worldwide, Inc.
Operated conference systems using changing technologies. Started with traditional T1 line type of conference gear and later with internet web casting. I eventually resigned when the company cut reimbursements for travel to other cities.
MEDIA TECHNICIAN II - Shoreline Community College
Media
Campus Photographer - Desktop Publishing - Electronic Film Imaging (Since April 1987) Graphic Design - Photography - Silk screening - Diazo - E6 Automated Processing - B&W and Color Printing - Horizontal Camera Operation (Since 1984) Equipment Management - General audio visual equipment distribution and maintenance. September 1984 through August 1998. Webmaster of the Shoreline Community College Web Site starting April 1996.
AV TECHNICIAN
Photo and Sound Company
Equipment Management - General audio visual equipment distribution and maintenance. Equipment Installation. Worked at 6 different hotels and at the main offices for Photo & Sound Company, mostly evenings and weekends – also July and August from 1978-1984.
MEDIA TECHNICIAN I - Shoreline Community College
Media
Equipment Management - General audio visual equipment distribution and maintenance - Audio Recording Studio Projects - Equipment Installation - Photography. September 1978 through August 1984
AUDIO VISUAL TECHNICIAN - Clatsop Community College
Library - VP Office
Instructional materials graphics production - Offset press operation - Photography - Television Production - Audio Visual Equipment Distribution - Inventory Control - Equipment maintenance - (Resigned to take the position at Shoreline Community College). September 1976 through August 1978.
OWNER
Holmes Photography and Video
Sole business proprietorship in Wedding Photography (1974 - 1994), wedding videography (1984 - 1998), Portrait Photography (1981 - 1994), and Research Video Recording Service (1978 - 2010) [This involved video services to corporations and Market Research companies].
GROCERY CLERK
Art's Food Center
Grocery clerk at Art's Food Center on Holman Road in Seattle for 7.5 years. Helper clerk to Journeyman clerk. Worked in Produce, front check out, dairy, general stocking. April 1969 through August 1976.
1974 to 1976 --- Bellevue Community College, Bellevue Washington
A.A. in Media Technology with Honors
2016 --- The Monastery ULCM
Doctor of Divinity Degree - Ordained Minister
Professional Photographer: 1976-2007 (31 years).
Professional Videography: 1978-2010 (32 years).
Paid Writer: of four articles in the final three issues of the "Computer Paper", a Seattle based Computer Journal: 1997.