Other Education & Training:
2000 - 2001: Merced County Office of Education night classes and workshops
HTML 4.0 Web design
FrontPage 2000
Access 97
Grant Writing workshop
1994 - 1996: Home Study
Stock Investment study guide - National Association of Investors Corporation
Time Management - FranklinCovey tape course
California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
Work Experience:
January 2005 - Present: Overnight grocery stocker, Wal-Mart SuperCenter, Los Banos, CA
JOBS INCLUDE: stocking grocery shelves, unloading meat and produce trucks, keeping track of overstock,
make myself available for carry-out, cashiering, and working general merchandise areas of store
August 1981 - December 2004: Small Business Consultant, Self-employed, Los Banos, CA
JOBS INCLUDE: installing computer components, loading software, teaching about computer hardware and
software, data entry, bookkeeping, minor PC maintenance, general office work, writing/editing a church newspaper,
and creating advertising and other forms
August 2000 - August 2001: Americorps VISTA, Family Resource Council/Local Childcare Planning Council, Merced, CA
JOBS INCLUDE: creating Access databases, and webpages with HTML & FrontPage, answering all computer-
related questions, and assisting the people using the Childcare Resource Center
June 1988 - September 1990: Bookkeeper/Computer Operator, Hammonds Ranch, Inc., Firebaugh, CA
This job was full_time during the summer and part-time during the school year.
JOBS INCLUDE: setting up new companies on the computer, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, generating/running reports,
data entry, crop inventory control, bank reconciliation, writing, entering, and posting journal entries, account analysis,
and other computer work
November 1983 - December 1987: Computer Operator, Wolfsen, Inc., Los Banos, CA
JOBS INCLUDE: printing accounts payable checks, posting general ledgers, account analysis, running reports, data
entry, computer supplies control and minor personal computer/printer maintenance
January 1981 - March 1981: Computer Operator, Central Telephone & Utilities, Lincoln, NE
One day I would operate the console, then the card readers/punchers, followed by the printers, with the tape drives
and disk packs being the last part of the rotation
JOBS INCLUDE: printing and punching water bills, telephone bills, electric bills, printing payroll checks and testing
program changes
August 1979 - January 1981: Computer Operator/Programmer, Union Insurance Co., Lincoln, NE
OPERATIONAL DUTIES: running edits, setting up nightly work, gathering scratch tapes and some inventory control
of computer supplies
PROGRAMMING DUTIES: adding, removing, or changing sections of programs, writing new programs using RPG
II and COBOL, and documenting changes to programs
Presentations, Publications, and Websites:
2001 - 2004: Co-Editor, Merced County Community Resource Directory
2000 - 2004: Co-Editor, www.frc.merced.k12.ca.us/frcweb
2002: Co-Author, mrfitness101.tripod.com
2002: Author, childcareresource.tripod.com (deleted from internet by request of site owner)
2001: Co-Author, Child Abuse Prevention grant proposal
2001: Co-Author, Central Valley Technology Listing
2001: Presenter, Central Valley Technology Listing, Family Resource Council, Merced, CA
2001: Co-Presenter, Central Valley Technology Listing, Great Valley Center, Modesto, CA
2001: Co-Presenter, Central Valley Technology Listing, AT&T Conference, Oakland, CA
1991 - 1994: Co-Editor/Reporter, The Spirit of Los Banos
Associations and Activities:
Community Resource Council of Los Banos
Family Resource Council
Merced County Local Childcare Planning Council
National Association of Investors Corporation
Navigators
CSU, Stanislaus Accounting Club
CSU, Stanislaus Business Club
Phi Beta Lambda - Epsilon Eta chapter
Personal interest:
family and church activities, window shopping, taking long drives, cycling, walking, and reading