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)