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A veteran marketing communications, marketing, advertising person with former duties as a higher education professor and administrator. I have taught History from pre-colonial America to International Atomic Diplomacy, as well as media in all forms from silent signals to interactive electronic media.

After teaching, my work has been developing a corporate image, mass media, advertising, research, and marketing communications. I�ve been involved almost exclusively with corporate launches, revamps, start-ups, new businesses, and turn arounds. My experience is extensive with value assessment. I have skills in professional video, film, photography, and electronic media. I have a knack for recognizing trends. Much of my work has been to identify, prepare, and deliver appropriate messages pertaining to the end user.

I have developed Nitpicker's Theorem. �The presentation form of information is inversely proportional to the audiences need to know.� In other words, the less important the information to be relayed the more of something is required to convey the information.

No silver spoons here. My formal education includes a B.A. in History (nuclear history and diplomacy), M.Ed. in Foundations of Education (training and mass media), and a Ph.D. in Communications and Technology (interactive media). Informal education has been life, travel, a personal wish list, and acquaintances. Most people call me by my first name. My friends can call me anything they wish.

I formerly belonged to Mensa but let it lapse. I like to think I�m quick to adjust, willing to help, able to tell and take a joke. I can speak relatively intelligently on a number of subjects and permit myself some opinions in the correct circumstances and in appropriate company.

I don�t take well to, and I am personally not a �screamer.� I hold people to their word. I take pride in not asking anyone to do stuff I would not do myself, and try to mentor if that�s what is desired. I like to work�especially with talented and creative people, but I have zero tolerance for, and don�t care a hoot for, so called �arteeists� who refuse to negotiate to reach a goal for the sole reason of �artist prerogative� or �creative process.� I appreciate their being willing to take a stand, but not so that it hinders a goal.

I go out of my way for museums, historical places, and a good flea market, and have been known to scrub tires stopping, when one appears. I�m good with and like working with my hands. I'm decent at it and getting better. Good tools of all sorts are my friends. They�re not for display. They are clean, tuned, used, and cared for.

When confronted with a difference of opinion, I want the opportunity to make my case. I do it for others and I expect no less. I enjoy a mix of people and cultures but I also reserve the right to prefer the company of my animals to some humans.