University of Colo, Boulder, CO 1969
Front Range Community College 1985
| 4.0 GPA |
| Lifetime 3.65 GPA |
" " Westminster, CO 1999
| BA Anthropology | |
University of Colo, Boulder, CO 1969
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| AA Assoc. Electronic Tech. | |
Front Range Community College 1985
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Cisco CCNA Program
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| Details |
| BA Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 8 years to get a BA ! A very liberal education during the Viet Nam years.Dropping in and out of school to go climbing and change majors through Physics, Philosophy, Earth Sciences and finally Anthropology. With a little more time it would have been a triple major including Geography and Geology. It all began when the unsocialized wall flower met the CU Hiking Club, and lost his academic focus. |
| 1985 |
| AA Assoc. Electronic Tech, Front Range Community College |
| Coming back from my sabbatical in India and Europe I thought to change careers. JTPA funding saw me through Boulder VoTech electronics school until the program was bought out by Front Range Community College with credit giving clout. After a winter of day and night courses I was through! 6 more months of On the Job Training and JTPA was through with me. Still I could never make the grade into a salaried job. Suddenly the companies with my applications started coming apart or being bought up and moved! I retreated to the relative secure continuity of retail sales. |
| 1999 |
| CCNA Network Program Front Range Community College |
| Perhaps I could salvage my electronics training after all. Cisco subsidized this course in routers and networks. As a college level class group we crammed 2 year's training into 1 year of weekends. Mid-week was spent in front of the computer monitor - distance downloading the course material. |
| A 4.0 point in the year class finally moved my lifetime GPA out of the doldrums left over from ancient early college disasters - 3.65 |
| A resulting salaried job? No, not yet. Seems the GenX geeks moving up to lower management don't want to be drug down by old folks who must be critical of them. "Not enough experience" is the litany. |
| As of 2001 the DotCom stock crash shattered hopes of being hired. 45,000 knowledge workers were out of work right then, multiples of that now after stock market plunges through the first half of 2002.. |
| Honors |
| Phi Theta Kappa international collegiate honor society |
| This invitation and membership came as a result of my grade point in the Cisco course in Community College climbing out of the self-inflicted low level GPA leftover from very early years in college. Only one other person in my class would have been eligible for honors if he had pursued his application before the deadline. It wasn't relevant to the youngster! |
| My last couple of years of college focused on honors and graduate level courses. I always did much better there, than in introductory survey classes meant to weed out students with too many options suddenly available to them. |
| 1987 |
| There was one previous episode regarding honors in my scholastic career. In high school the clique of student government types excluded me from the National Honor Society by denying me an invitation. In outraged reaction faculty members sponsored me to "letter" in Debate - a thing unheard of in Eastern Colorado's largely agricultural, sports oriented Lamar Union High! |
| Certificates |
| 1999 |
| Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA |
| Besides graduating from the community college course, the Cisco company test is the real measure of learning. |
| 1985 |
| FCC Commercial Radio License |
| This lifetime license resulted from a Christmas vacation intensive mini-course during my electronics training at Front Range. It was also a natural extension of my high school ham radio interest and expired novice amateur radio license. |