Free Lance Writing and Photography

• Kalamazoo Gazette (1997-present) Also published in Business Insight, Career Source, Pharmacia Newsletter, Hook, Calliope
  • Submitted over 800 articles/stories and usually with photographs: Feature articles on personal and professional achievement / innovation, local problems and concerns, human interest, local government and news, school board and educational issues, elections, tractors, clowns, engineering, and biography

• Western Michigan University Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Kalamazoo MI 1992-present
  • Teach technical communication and engineering teams
  • Coordinate IME 4220 course
• Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI 1990-1997
  • Taught composition, technical writing, interpersonal communication, literature, developmental writing and grammar, tutorial & independent writing classes
• Plainwell Adult/Community Education, Plainwell, MI 1987-1992
  • Taught Basic English: composition, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling
• Portage, Mattawan, Plainwell, Galesburg-Augusta public schools 1980-1992
  • Substitute taught in all areas and levels in local public schools
• Volunteer Instructor: Portage Public Schools 1980-1989
  • Volunteer director: Junior Great Books and Young Authors programs
  • Volunteer editor of Paw Prints elementary school newspaper
• Barry and Kalamazoo County 4-H Programs 1978-1985
  • Club leader in basic photography

Volunteer Instructor: Portage Public Schools 1980-1989

• Volunteer director: Junior Great Books and Young Authors programs
• Volunteer editor of Paw Prints elementary school newspaper