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Non-Family Things That Have Influenced My Life
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International Order of DeMolay 1973-1979 |
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Master Councilor, Bluegrass Chapter (Lexington, KY), July-December 1978 |
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| Registrar, C. Frye Haley Memorial Priory, Order of Knighthood |
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U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, 1977-1980 |
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USAFROTC Scholarship |
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| 2921st Escort Squadron, University of Kentucky |
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Honorably Discharged Feb. 15, 1980 ... because I was/am |
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Gay and Lesbian Union of Students, University of Kentucky, 1984-1986 |
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President 1986 |
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| During my tenure as President, the Board of Trustees of U.K. included sexual orientation as a protected category with regard to student housing (but not admissions). Not bad for central Kentucky in the mid-80s. The protection was later removed. |
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Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, Lexington, Kentucky, 1985-1987 |
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Developed a computer-based telephone call-forwarding system - long before it was available as an affordable commercial service - for our HelpLine. Volunteers could take calls from their home phones without revelaing their home numbers to callers. |
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President 1986-1987 |
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During my tenure as President, we added "and Lesbian" to the name of the organization, funded a successful billboard campaign, inaugurated AIDS care training with Hospice of the Bluegrass, and lobbied the local Dept. of Health to fund a full-time AIDS coordinator even though there were no known cases of AIDS at the time. Resigned because the rest of the Board were wrapped up in their own lives (eg working towards master's degrees, working overtime, not getting over being dumped by me - yeah, I mean you, Barry, etc.) and were concerned about my efforts to increase the visibility of the organization. |
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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space |
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University of Kentucky, 1986-1987; University of Texas at Austin 1988-1989 |
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Funded and co-developed a Space BBS system to facilitate interaction and discussion among general space enthusiasts. Developed first Chapter Starter Kit using PageMaker desktop publishing. Developed SEDS Information Network for distributing SEDS materials and facilitating e-mail discussion and coordination. Received SEDS "Exceptional Service Award" on August 27, 1988 at the national conference in Huntsville, AL. |
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SEDS-USA National Co-Chairman, 1988-1989 |
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Increased online coordination and activity within the community of SEDS chapters. Authorized and encouraged Alan Montgomery (Texas A&M SEDS) to develop SEDS-L listserv facility. Don't recall much else and lost my files. |
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International Space University |
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Attended Founding Conference, MIT SpaceFair'87 First Graduating Class |
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| Attended ISU'89 Summer Session, Strasbourg FRA; Space Physical Sciences Dept.; Artemis Lunar Polar Orbiter design project (gravitational mapping; Acteon sub-satellite) |
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Computer Facility Manager, ISU'90, Toronto CA |
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| ISU Director of Information Systems, Oct. 1990 - Jul. 1993; ISU Executive Office, Cambridge MA |
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Responsible for day-to-day operation of technology infrastructure for Executive Office, planning/development/implementation/management of infrastructure for summer sesisons in new locale every year, and long-term strategic planning and development for ISUnet to support ISU's vision (then) of a globally-distributed, virtual campus system. Resigned rather than support unethical mis-appropriation of earmarked funds by new ISU management. |
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Faculty, ISUnet design project, ISU'92, Kitakyushu JPN |
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Lead faculty: Jim Burke. Resident Assistants: Bastiaan Zwijnenberg, Donna Wine. |
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| Thirty graduate-level students from 20 countries and 11 disciplines to develop concept for globally-distributed, |
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virtual campus system. This was the point at which I began to be really interested in distributed work, on a global |
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scale, as a necessary precursor for humanity's development into a space-faring civilization. |
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NASA Academy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 1993-1997 |
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Technical support for Academy programs and general consultation with the late Dr. Gerald Soffen (Academy founder, Mission Director for Viking I and II missions 1975-1978, NASA/HQ Special Assistant for Astrobiology & early organizer for NASA Astrobiology Institute). |
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Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA/Ames Research Center, 2003 |
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Summer Research Fellow. Conducted a meta-analysis of factors attributed as causes for 57 mission failures in support of the Mishaps & Anomalies Information System being developed by Dr. David Bell. Surveyed archive of 137 mission design reports developed by NASA/JPL's Team X Study Archive to develop an ontology of risk-oriented characterizations. |
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This page is current ... I just have been deep into data analysis for my dissertation research and have not done anything lately to warrant an additional enty here -- steve, 2006.08.07 |
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