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  • Training Progam Development and Delivery Experience
    • Developed and instituted a software training program for researchers and support staff of the Institute for Rural Economie Mali: October 1991 to May 1993. (Louis Berger)
    • Wrote the specifications for the training component of the Fiscal Policy Planning and Management Draft Project Paper for USAID/Belize: Aug. 1990. (Devres, Inc)
    • Trained a Forestry team from Auburn University in the use of a GIS in a USAID sponsored project in Haiti: 2 weeks, Jan. 1990. (Earth Satellite Corporation)
    • Designed and conducted a training course in micro-computer maintenance procedures for technicians from nine West African countries for the USGS AGRHYMETS project in Niamey, Niger: Nov. to Dec. 1989.  (Eros Data Center)
    • Designed and conducted a six week training program for the operators of SIARN: Jan. & Aug. 1989, & Jan. 1990. (OICD/USDA)
    • Developed and conducted a ten week training program in word processing, spreadsheets, data base management, and statistical packages for the 76 researchers, administrators, and support staff of the Agronomic Research Institutes in the countries of Burundi and Rwanda: Mar. to June 1988.  (University of Arkansas)
    • Conducted 3 three week resource evaluation training workshops for Ministry of Agriculture resource inventory technicians in the Dominican Republic: Mar. 1984, Sept. 1984, & Feb. 1985. (MSU)
    • Conducted two week training workshop in photo-interpretation for land use inventory technicians in Jamaica: June 1985. (MSU)
    • Developed and conducted sixteen week training program for systems operators, as well as a two week workshop and a ten week seminar for potential users of the Natural Resource Management System in the Hatian Agricultural Ministry: Jan. 1986 to Dec. 1987.  (University of Arkansas and MSU)
    • Taught Geographic Information Systems applications: Fall 1985. (MSU)
    • Coordinated on-campus summer training institute for 4 Ministry of Agriculture resource inventory technicians from the Dominican Republic: Summer 1983. (MSU)
    • Taught computer image interpretation applications: Jan. to May 1982, (UW-Madison); and Physical Geography, Aug. 1973 to May 1975. (Memphis State University)
    • Taught high school geography in Western Samoa: Dec. 1975 to May 1978. (Peace Corps)