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OBJECTIVE

To obtain opportunities where I can maximize my creative, technical, teaching, and organizational skills for the benefit of businesses and individuals.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Results-oriented, high-energy, hands-on professional, with a successful record of accomplishments in the equine industry, various areas of computer science and systems administration, creative arts, personalized training, and communication.

Major strengths include strong leadership, excellent communication skills, exceptional crative abilities, and a strong team player.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Worked as an Equine clinician. Served riders of various abilities from beginner to advanced. Posses an ability to present concepts and ideas in a way that is easily understood and implemented. Horsemanship is an art, not a science. Therefore, there are no experts. I am but a student of the horse who loves to use my gifts, abilities and my understanding of these magnificent animals to help and enrich the lives of others.

Designed, created and am actively marketing CowZ by DallyPost. CowZ is a mechanical cow that can be controlled via preprogrammed runs, custom runs, or remote control. Key design challenges include:

• Development of a circuit that will be reliable and robust in a variety of harsh environments. Elements of this task include schematic creation, circuit board layout and design, and circuit board creation.
• Development of a discrete and teachable RF transmitter/receiver package that will perform reliably in harsh RF environments. Considerations of this task include: blocked signal which may occur when the signal must pass through a rider, horse, saddle, etc., and reflected signal which may occur when operating the device around or inside of metal buildings or near other objects that are capable of reflecting an RF transmission.
• Development of programs, written in C, that must reliably run on a microprocessor in a variety of harsh environments. Microprocessor projects present extreme challenges and limitations that do not have to be considered for more traditional programming projects. For example, in addition to writing the program, the designer must create the computer which includes the circuits, processor, components, controls, data storage, displays, and indicators. Additionally, consideration must be given to elements that may render a device useless in a harsh environment, including heat or cold, line noise that may be present because of nearby electronics including motors, lighting, etc.
• Development of program routines that will realistically simulate the movement of a live cow.
• Development of controls that will allow the user to interact with CowZ during the completion of programmed or remote runs via hard wired control panels and/or remote transmissions.
• Development of a vending system that will allow users to purchase blocks of time on a specific CowZ and use said time in one or multiple sessions over an unlimited period of time.
  

Developed and managed the DallyPost Ranch Horse program to assist all equine riders, regardless of skills and abilities. Major duties include:

• Organizing and managing as many as fifty days of equine clinics and equine competitive events annually in a five state area.
• Maintaining a rule book and scoring system to insure standardized event management over a large geographic region.
• Creation of a standardized training system that will be employed at all equine clinics over a large geographic region.

Developed and maintain the DallyPost Network of Web Sites. These sites are a network of individual web sites with a common objective. The networking aspect of these sites allows for the free sharing of content over many sites, The creation of a common, but personalized newsletter for the promotion and benefit of all network members, and the use of an event calendar that allows all network members to enjoy a private calendar with selectively shared elements. Skills required to develop and maintain this project include:

• A strong understanding of the PHP scripting language and HTML.
• A strong understanding of database administration.
• A strong understanding of LINUX, including server administration.

Thirty years of experience as a commercial photographer. Projects have included the photography of pot holes for a text book project to photography of professional sports for a major news paper, to aerial photography, to open heart surgery and just about everything in between. Clients have included Microsoft, Sports Illustrated, UPI, Intermountain Health Care, Rocky Mountain Helicopter, and more.

Thirty years experience in image editing and graphic design. Projects have included posters, newsletters, annual reports, brochures and more.

Served for seven years as a C-141 Flight Engineer with world-wide flight experience.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

I have three great loves in my life...

Family. I have an amazing wife, five incredible children and twelve perfect grandchildren. Nothing brings me greater joy than knowing that they are good and true before God and man.

Horses. W.C Fields said that "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." I find the honesty, trust and intelligence of a horse to be a refreshing and a necessary escape from the pressures of a man-made world.

Wood. I love to take a peice of wood and make something that becomes a part of my deepest self. Wood, for me, has a life and personality of it's own. When fashioned and formed by my mind and my hands it becomes something new and well... magical.

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