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Recent work

As a self-employed trainer since 1975, Steve has been involved in many projects, including:

• Writing course materials to be used by other instructors in the business, including materials purchased by Toppan Moore-Learning Co. of Tokyo, Japan which were translated into Japanese and used to teach classes in Tokyo and Osaka

• Providing training to both technical and marketing personnel from companies in the IS industry, such as Storage Technology Corp., Pansophic Systems, and IBM

• Helping companies like Neodata Services in Colorado, and Sarsfield Systems in Ireland train entry-level programmers

• Making presentations at training and technical conferences, such as SHARE

• Helping talented people such as Hunter Cobb and John King get started in the technical training business as self-employed professionals

• Teaching classes for companies such as US West Communications (now Qwest) in Bellevue, WA and Denver, CO, Sears in Hoffman Estates, IL, and Great West Life in Englewood, CO., State of Wisconsin, and UCLA

• Steve has primary course development responsibilities for courses in these areas:
  * TSO / ISPF / Dialog Manager / CLIST / REXX
  * JCL / Utilities / Linkage Editor / Program Binder
  * Assembler Language
  * COBOL
  * Inter-Language Communication
  * Dump reading / batch debugging
  * VSAM
  * z/OS
  * z/OS Unix System Services
  * Web on z/OS
  * Language Environment (LE).

1974-1975: Denver

IBM Educational Development Representative. Created and taught training programs on the IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS) around the U.S. and in Europe.

1971-1973: Denver

IBM Instructor. Taught customer classes in DOS, OS, OS/VS, COBOL, Assembler, and PL/I.

1968-1971: Albuquerque

IBM Systems Engineer. Served clients in banking, inventory, accounting and government.

1966-1968: Duluth

Mathematics Instructor, University of Minnesota (Duluth campus). Taught classes in calculus, group theory and complex variables.

Education

M.S. Mathematics, 1967, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

B.A. Mathematics, 1965, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois

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