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Robert
May
bobmay99@yahoo.com |
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Experience
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7/01
- Current
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Information
Technology Specialist / Peace Worker, GBGM, West Bank, Palestine |
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Designed and coded websites for various religious and humanitarian agencies. Taught classes in "Using the Internet as a Communications Tool" and "Website Design" Documented life in
the West Bank through my website http://www.bobmay.info Dozens of my photographs from Palestine used by newspapers, magazines, churches, schools, websites, newsletters, etc.
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1/01
- 6/01
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Student, United
Methodist Missionary Training and Itineration, GBGM, |
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Attended training
and workshops in
areas including Understanding Missiology, the Theology of John Wesley,
Images of Christ in World Christianity, Economics, Confronting and Dismantling
Racism, Living with Uncertainty, and Survival Training. Delivered informative messages about life and work in Central Asia to ten Virginia-area churches. Also spoke about what American churches can learn from South Korea.
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9/00
- 12/00
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Information
Technology Engineer and Instructor, UMVIM, Myanmar, Philippines, Cambodia, and Thailand |
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workshops in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint to university
students and staff. Offered 'Words of Encouragement' presentations to twelve Bible colleges. Assisted in evaluation of various sites for future projects in remote regions. Photos from Burma published in New World Outlook, national mission magazine. |
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3/00
- 9/00
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Acting Comms Manager / Information Technology Engineer, GBGM |
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international NGO's communications operation in manager's absence. Designed and developed relational databases to manage assets and track inventory of organization. Helped provide communications services and software to remote regions. Solved technical challenges in a hazardous and nearly inaccessible environment. Established computer networks for several international NGOs. Taught daily computer workshops to both ex-pats and nationals. Managed information technology training programs. |
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2/99
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Information Tech Consultant /Instructor Wesleyan University, UMVIM, Cabanatuan City, Philippines |
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monthly workshops in HTML and Web Page Design, JavaScript, Visual Basic,
Java, and Visual C++ to computer science faculty. Taught workshops in Windows 95, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint to university staff. Created several Web-based Intranet course tutorials. Conducted seminars on computer information technology trends. Provided university reports with recommendations on computer science curriculum, area Internet Service Providers and computer training services. Mission experience project paper and photos published in New World Outlook, national mission magazine. |
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8/97
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Senior Programmer,
Datatel, Inc., |
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Two-time winner of
Datatel's "Outstanding Achievement Award" |
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3/91
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Senior
Research Scientist, Honeywell / Alliant Techsystems, Arlington, VA |
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winner of Alliant's "Great Performer Award" for customer service and teamwork.
Winner of several "Contribution Awards". Individually selected by customer to provide Object-Oriented technical programming services and consultation at their site. Supported marketing efforts by describing our innovative monitoring system to customers and demonstrating it for national news media. Experience building web pages coding Java applets, Microsoft FrontPage, and HTML. Responsible for ensuring the reliability of new software and hardware system, including 24-hour monitoring, diagnostic testing, maintenance and debugging. Instructed technicians remotely about servicing system. Developed many GUI applications for various end-user levels using Visual C++ and Java. Interfaced Visual C++ and Java GUI to Microsoft Access database. Designed and coded software to send, receive, sort, distribute and display messages from Defense Internet for large-scale simulations. Wrote code to interface with hardware. Won Alliant teamwork award. Wrote X-Windows and GL code in C on a UNIX and Silicon Graphics workstation to animate the results of several simulations. Project required interfacing with multiple organizations. Required knowing DIS standard. Member of twelve-person team. Won Alliant Great Performer Award for teamwork. Singled out for special commendation by project director. Solved planning problem by suggesting and implementing a new approach using CLIPS expert system shell on Sun workstation. Took on responsibilities of simulation project after principal engineer abruptly departed. Accepted and completed, within schedule and cost, the tasks in the incomplete and nearly delinquent contract. Rescued project from cancellation after meeting with defense customer. Won Alliant Great Performer Award for customer service. Under severe time constraints, translated and redesigned expert system shell simulations to C code for live testing. |
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4/90
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Knowledge
Engineer/AI Programmer, Physical Dynamics, Arlington, VA |
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design and translation of Navy tactical guidance into simulation rules.
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7/85
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Computer
Scientist, Applied Concepts Corporation, Aberdeen, MD |
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Lead programmer on 2D and 3D graphics application and data acquisition system using C, HP-Basic and UNIX. Graphics software
design paper published in research laboratory journal. |
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Education
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8/86
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MS, Computer Science Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
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8/81
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BS,
Applied Mathematics University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Won "Duren Prize" for best undergraduate Applied Mathematics thesis. |
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Additional
Computer Training
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Oracle PL/SQL Database
Programming 1999, 40 hours |
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Research
Interests
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