User:Ferrierd
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David F 17:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Career summary
- 2001 to date - provided English tutoring at the post-secondary level
- 1966-2001 - designed, developed, and documented business computer systems
Roles and responsibilities
1966-2001
- business application computer system analysis and design, program design, programming (12 years)
- provided technical support to programming and operations personnel working on IBM mainframe application systems development and operation (11 years)
- wrote software manuals, operations procedures (5 years)
- taught technical writing, IBM computer programming (2 years)
2001 to date
- English tutor
- coaching post-secondary students on essay writing
- proofreading essays
- advising on how to deal with problems in spelling, grammar, diction, syntax, style, and rhetoric
Education
- at 16, graduated from high school first in a class of 300
- at 19, obtained a B.A. from the University of Alberta in English literature and physiology
- one of two persons in the 1966 Faculty of Arts graduating cohort to achieve an 80% (Honours) average
- subsequent to obtaining a B.A., completed six university courses, the equivalent of an additional undergraduate year; took two years of industry technical training (fifty weeks of IBM courses); and obtained a microcomputer programmer certificate (eleven months)
