Regularly attend various Linux user group and System i user group meetings. 2006 Northeast User Group Conference for System i. American Translators Association. ProZ.com translator community.

New York University, New York, NY; October 2004 to December 2007. Certificate in German to English Translation received December 2007. Grade average: A- German to English courses: Introduction to G-E Translation, G-E Legal I, G-E Medical, G-E Translating the News, G-E Commercial. French to English courses: Introduction to F-E Translation. Also completed course in translation project management. Timken Aerospace, Lebanon, NH; January 2004 to present. Courses on SAP. Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY; October 2004 to present. Continuing education courses in German. IBM MVS/XA Systems Development, Poughkeepsie, NY; Summer 1987. Summer co-op position as systems programmer. Created menu-driven system using ISPF to facilitate input of MVS SLIP command parameters. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; September 1986 to December 1987. Completed 21 credits toward master's degree in computer science. Courses in systems programming, operating systems theory, DB management, software testing. Assignments written in C included an assembler, extendible hashing database, LISP interpreter. Taught C class & answered C/UNIX questions as help desk monitor. Williams College, Williamstown, MA; September 1980 to June 1984. BA in English, June 1984; minored in computer science. Two years of German; music courses in theory, keyboard history & humor in music. Supervised over 30 student workers in dining hall. Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NY; September 1976 to June 1980. Graduated June 1980. Six years of French (starting in middle school). Also received numerous AATF awards, took French AP, and tutored French. Studied one year of Latin.