Annexation Coordinator - City of Lake Stevens

Managed Development and Analysis of Department's Budget. Managed Administrative Staff. Evaluated Departmental Management needs. Worked with Executive's office and facilities regarding space in new county building and revamp of current building space. Managed the specification and design of Web based Subpoena Confirmation. On-going analysis of Department's District Court Prosecution Unit business processes. Supported analysis of creation of 'Driving While License Suspended in the third degree (DWLS3)' diversion program and Child Advocacy Center.

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Participated in redesign of Snohomish County Planning Department. I provided fiscal and data analysis support to team. Learned a great deal about designing and managing complex systems in a public setting.

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Worked with Directors and Electeds to update the Goals and Performance Measures methodology to make it an active part of the budget process. Revised the 1996 Cost of Services study to be multi-year from 1996-1999. Provided financial analysis of impact of annexation, served on the School Mitigation Fee Committee, contributed to the GIS ad Hoc Committee, and worked with BIA, Tulalip Tribes and County departments to establish a system that identifies and maps Tulalip Tribal Trust Lands .

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Research Assistant
University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs 1998-1999

Worked for Paul Waddell, under his grant from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, getting the UrbanSim Land Use modeling software ready for publication. I helped to establish the web server and make it available over the internet.

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I founded this organization at a MacWorld meeting in August of 1986. It was a nonprofit (501c[6]) corporation dedicated to developer self-help in object-oriented programming techniques. It had 1200 members worldwide, published developers’ software, a 48 page newsletter every 2 months and held a conference once a year. Worked with Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Taligent and other software tools providers to raise awareness of Object Oriented Technology in the programmer marketplace. 

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Founder and VP of R&D

I founded a small software consulting and development company and with the right choice of people it grew into a 28+ person software business with gross revenues greater than $2.5 million and continues to prosper. We created semi-custom versions of SCSI drivers and installer software for Apple Macintosh computers. I held the positions of President, Engineering Manager and VP of R&D. I sold my share of SAI to my partners in order to be with my family and I remained on the board of directors until 1998. Our customers included: HP, SONY, Canon, Panasonic, Olympus, Phillips, Apple Computer, 3M Corporation, IBM, many small OEMS of Storage Devices. We worked with ALL manufacturers of storage devices such as Seagate, Quantum, Maxtor, SyQuest, and IOMega.