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I have had many years of experience in business, management, coaching and teaching; a very diverse career.  I have never been motivated by the

dollar, rather by the interest that any particular job, task, etc. brings to the plate, and the individuals on that plate.  After high school I worked in a sporting goods store before I went to college.  I first taught & coached (two sports) at S.U.N.Y. at Oswego, then became a tenured Assistant Professor in the field of Health and Physical Education at Plymouth State College, where I coached five different varsity sports at one time or another and taught aerobics at night through the recreation department.  During the summers I was a Program Director at a YMCA boys camp (Camp Belknap) in Wolfeboro, NH.  I left that tenured position at Plymouth (best career decision I have ever made) to become an Athletic Director at a public school (Hanover High) in NH, where I also coached girls tennis.  Two years later I left that profession to seek other challenges.  

For a bit of time I became a writer for a regional newspaper, worked in a prison as the Director of Computing, as a videographer (weddings, etc.), as a

computer salesman during the Christmas rush (only time I've been fired, just after the "rush"), and for a mapping company plotting zip codes.  I think that was it.  Then my wife and I opened a fitness studio (FitNuts) for a year where we did everything from teaching aerobics & step classes to bookkeeping & accounting, sales, advertising & marketing.  We closed the business when we couldn't keep up with the financial drain.  That is when I started teaching again, at night, but this time in the computer field (Lebanon College).  During the day I managed a sporting goods store for a few years until I became a Business Manager working for the owner of that store.  I also started consulting small businesses with computer needs.  The computer courses I taught eventually led to a full-time teaching position and Department Chairman of the Computer Department, but I continued as a business manager and computer consultant in a part-time capacity.

The college where I taught computer courses has since closed and I have left my position as Business Manager (but will stay on as a consultant).  I am now

          concentrating on consulting in the computer/business field and improving my photography skills.  Life is a journey and continues to move on.  I am

          enjoying the ride.  My strengths include, but are not limited to:

Organization of information - I can organize most anything.

Problem solving - I like to solve problems logically & systematically.

Personnel management - I have hired over 50 coaches & other personnel (and sadly, fired a few).

Database design & implementation - I have designed databases for non-profits for over twenty years.

Spreadsheet manipulation - I have used spreadsheets personally and for business purposes for many years.

Bookkeeping & accounting - I have done bookkeeping for at least eight businesses (part-time) in the last twenty years.

Financial acumen - I have a great deal of experience with budgets, profit-loss statements, balance sheets, etc. I am currently the Treasurer

     of the Goose Pond Lakes Association in Canaan/Hanover, NH.