December 1960 to May 1964:
Paper Carrier ($40/mo.)
The Capital Journal
Salem, OR
Wrapped and delivered newspapers,
collected money from customers.
Named Paperboy of the Month for February 1964.
June 1964 to May 1966:
Paper Carrier ($40/mo.)
The Oregon Statesman
Salem, OR
Wrapped and delivered newspapers,
collected money from customers.
1966:
Janitor The Vogue of Salem
Salem, OR
Emptied garbage, vacuumed carpets for a dress shop.
Sept 1966 to May 1967:
Janitor (PT, $1/hr.)
Judson Baptist College
9201 N.E. Fremont St. Portland, OR 97220
Emptied garbage, cleaned restrooms, took care of floors.
June 1966, 1967 & 1968:
General Laborer ($1.95/hr.)
Willamette Cherry Growers, Inc.
1520 Woodrow St. N.E. Salem, OR
Unloaded cherry boxes from trucks.
July-September 1966, 1967 & 1968:
General Laborer ($1.95/hr.)
California Packing Corp.,
Del Monte Cannery,
1250 Mill St. S.E. Salem, OR
Controlled flow of beans on belts, swept beans from the
floor, loaded canned beans into containers.
Christmas Vacation 1967:
General Laborer
Pilgrim Turkey Packers
Front Street, Salem, OR
Thawed frozen turkeys.
Winter 1966 to 1967:
Box boy (PT, $1.60/hr.)
Harold's Shopeteria
8535 N.E. Fremont St. Portland, OR
Bagged and carried groceries.
March 1968 to May 1968:
Assistant Baker ($1.60/hr.)
Teeny's Middle East Bakery
80th & Stark St. Portland, OR
Assisted in mixing, forming, and preparing the dough for pocket bread.
March 1969 to August 1969:
Bicycle Messenger ($1.63/hr.)
Western Union Telegraph Co.
545 Court St. N.E. Salem, OR 97301
Averaged 40 miles a day delivering telegrams over the entire Salem area. Joined the Army.
August 1969 to February 1972:
Reproduction Equipment Repairman (E-5)
U.S. Army
Ft. Lewis, WA; Oakland Army Base, CA; Ft. Belvoir, VA;
Sukiran Army Base, Okinawa.
While waiting for the Reproduction Equipment Repair
course to start,
I pulled Kitchen Police, Charge of Quarters, and Guard Duty.
I learned to disassemble, reassemble, and repair printing presses
and related equipment. In my fully trained capacity, I helped keep
the offset printing presses running, and kept the spare parts room
stocked and organized.
April 1972 (1 week): Tree Planter
Barry's Tree Farm
Salem, OR 97301
Planted Christmas trees. Rain ended the tree planting.
April 1972 to May 1972: Assistant Truck Loader ($1.25/hr.)
Hopfer's Trucking
3152 Alberta Av. N.E. Salem, OR 97301
I worked with the driver of the Goodwill truck, loading
and unloading it. Was called to work at K-Mart.
May 1972 to 1973: Custodian ($2.25/hr.)
K-Mart
2470 Mission St. S.E. Salem, OR 97302
I worked with one other to empty garbage, sweep and mop
the floors, occasionally stripping and waxing them. Cleaned restrooms. They
claimed they didn't fire me, and I claimed I didn't quit. A hearing agreed with
me.
April 1973 to May 1974: Janitor ($2.25/hr.)
ABC Window Cleaners
630 Marion Street N.E. Salem, OR 97301
As teams, usually in twos, went from business to
business on a schedule, cleaning offices and buildings, emptying garbage,
sweeping, mopping, stripping & waxing floors, and cleaning bathrooms.
May 1974 to March 1976: Night Desk & Custodian
Y.M.C.A. of Salem, Oregon
685 Court St. N.E. Salem, OR 97301
Managed the front desk, rented rooms, answered the
phone, made wake-up calls. Maintained floors, walls, cleaned furniture,
restrooms, gathered waste.
March 1976 to April 1992: Calender Operator ($12/hr)
Asten Dryer Fabrics, Inc., formerly
Asten-Hill Mfg. Co.
859 7th St. N.W. Salem, OR 97304
Operated calender for heating, stretching, smoothing,
sizing, and chemically treating dryer fabrics. Wrote programs for laptop
computer to help monitor condition of fabrics, and insure accuracy of
procedures. Participated in Team Management, Attendance Rules Team &
Quality Assurance Team.
June 1992 to June 1993: Writing and Computer Tutor
($5/hr) Chemeketa Community College, Information Technology
Group
Salem, OR 97301
Assisted students with basic use of computers. Helped
students with applications: Lotus 123, Word Perfect, Windows, DOS. Managed
desk: assigned equipment to students, answered the phone, took head count every
half-hour.
1994 to 1994: Telephone Surveyor ($?/hr.)
Public Affairs Counsel (The Nelson Report)
Salem, OR 97301
Used my home phone to phone people from a list, ask them
questions from a list, and record their answers.
January 4, 1994 to July 1994: Tape Clerk (minimum
wage) Brandon Systems, Corporation
One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 635 Oakland, CA 94612
Worked on a project for BASF being handled by StorageTek
of Texas, copying old data tapes for the State of Oregon onto new data tapes.
Brandon supplied the manpower. I worked the Graveyard shift by myself, another
worked Swing shift, and two others worked Day shift.
November 15, 1994 to April 15, 2002: Computer Programmer
($2,250/mo.) Agency Automation, Inc.
14136 S.E. Stark St. Portland, OR 97233 but currently:
2251 E Hancock St. Ste #202 Newberg, OR 97132
Maintaining Specialty Auto modules already “out there”,
i.e., making improvements in technique, logic, or in the look of the output.
Updating the modules per company changes and revisions. Finding and correcting
errors or problems found with our existing modules. Writing modules for New
Markets. Letting Distribution know when changes are ready to be sent out.
Documenting the process, both in the modules, as well as in the database, and
by email to others. Attended two-day course in Visual Basic 4.0 presented by
Application Developers, provided by the Company. Was made manager of the
project to convert the Specialty Auto modules from DOS-based BASIC to
Windows-based Visual Basic with VB 4.0. I wrote a number of programs to help
automate parts of the programming process.
