Richard Lowe Jr

Richard Lowe Jr

Clearwater, Florida, United States
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    The Writing King

    Clearwater, FL

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    Clearwater. FL

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    Clearwater, FL

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    Clearwater, FL

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    United States

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    United States

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Montreal, Quebec Canada

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Monrovia, CA

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    Long Beach, CA

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    Camarillo, CA

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    Cypress, CA

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    San Bernardino, CA

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    Lake Arrowhead, CA

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    Lake Arrowhead Village, CA

Education

  • Mercer-MacKay Freelance Writing Program

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    Activities and Societies: 6-Figure Freelance Writer Blueprint; Delivered several webinars to other writers and ghostwriters.

    The Mercer-McKay Freelance Writing Program Is designed to help freelance writers find steady work and turn their passion into a six-figure annual income.

    This program has been invaluable in helping me build my career as a ghostwriter, freelance writer, blogger, and LinkedIn branding expert.

    Some specialities covered in the courses include:

    👉 Blogging
    👉 Publishing
    👉 Case Studies
    👉 White Papers
    👉 Technical writing
    👉 Technical blogging

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    Reach More Readers is dedicated to helping authors promote their books by connecting with their audience with the result of higher sales and more income.

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    The premier online course about how to research, write, publish and monetize a book.

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    Serious Bloggers Only is a course designed to teach the strategies and tactics needed to set up a blog, get traffic, develop blogging skills, and become a successful blogger.

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    I took quite a few online courses while I work full time at Trader Joe's Company. Most of these courses were related to writing.

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    Activities and Societies: Teachers assistant in computer lab

    San Bernardino Valley College has been in operation for 90 years, and is a comprehensive community college that offers a full range of degrees, transfer programs and certificates for a wide range of careers.

    While I went to San Bernardino Valley College, I worked full-time.

Licenses & Certifications

  • CIW (Certified Internet Web Professional) V5 Associate

    CIW

    Issued
    Credential ID 335803

  • MCSE+I

    Microsoft

    Issued

  • A+

    COMPTIA

    Issued

Volunteer Experience

  • Member

    Community Emergency Response Team (Los Angeles)

    - 15 years

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is an all-risk, all-hazard training. This valuable course is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors and your neighborhood in an emergency situation.

Publications

  • Safe Computing is Like Safe Sex: You have to practice it or you might be infected

    The Writing King

    I’ll bet you think your computer is safe from viruses and hackers. But is it really? Isn’t it reasonable to expect your computer to be secure straight out-of-the-box? What does it mean to secure a system anyway?

    Huge security breaches have been all over the news lately. It sometimes seems that not a day goes by without another massive computer hack being announced. If huge corporations with multi-million dollar computer security budgets can get hacked, what hope is there for the…

    I’ll bet you think your computer is safe from viruses and hackers. But is it really? Isn’t it reasonable to expect your computer to be secure straight out-of-the-box? What does it mean to secure a system anyway?

    Huge security breaches have been all over the news lately. It sometimes seems that not a day goes by without another massive computer hack being announced. If huge corporations with multi-million dollar computer security budgets can get hacked, what hope is there for the ordinary person? If you are anything like me, you don’t have huge amounts of money and time to spare to protect your computer. So how do you keep your system safe?

    This book is intended to help the average Windows user protect their computer. You can practice safe computing without using your life savings. You don’t need to get a university education to understand the concepts, and there is no need to lose your weekends twiddling with your computer system.

    The data which resides on the computer is often far more valuable than the computer itself. You can always buy another machine, but how difficult would it be to replace your digital photos or the documents you’ve been writing for years?

    “This book will prove to be useful and informative to anyone who uses a computer, especially if you don’t know much about computer security. It is written in a manner that is understandable and digestible, which is a welcome treat for those of you who have ever been subjected to trying to read through technical books.” -- Steve Levinson, Managing Director of OBS Global’s security consulting practice.

    You can find more information here:
    ★Amazon: http://myBook.to/safecomputing

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  • Internet Tips (series)

    Internet Secrets

    A series of over 500 articles about how to use the internet and computers effectively.

  • Computer Tips and Tricks (series)

    DEC Professional

    A series written for DEC Professional Magazine which gave technical tips for improving system performance and security.

Courses

  • 12 Weeks to a First Draft

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  • A+

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  • Administering MS WIndows

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  • Advanced Programming Techniques

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  • Author Audience Academy

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  • Build Your Novel Scene by Scene

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  • Building web documents in HTML

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  • Butterflies of the Desert

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  • Certified Internet Webmaster

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  • Community Emergency Response Team (Los Angeles)

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  • Configuring and Managing Complex OpenVMS clusters

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  • Cyber Security Forensic Investagator

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  • Desert Survival Class

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  • Ethical Hacker

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  • Flora of Joshua Tree National Park

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  • Guest Blogging Certification Program

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  • IIS

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  • INET+

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  • Introduction to Cascading Style sheets

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  • Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Package

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  • Management Skills for New Supervisors

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  • Map and Basic Compass Skills

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  • Mastering Adobe Photoshop

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  • Mastering Web Application Development Using Microsoft Visual InterDev

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  • Microsoft Internet Information Server

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  • Microsoft Network Essentials

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  • Online Novel Writing Diploma Course

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  • Overview of Unidata

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  • Photography: Nature to the Digital Studio

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  • Planning Website requirements

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  • Planning and Implementing a Secure Internet

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  • Reach More Readers

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  • Read World TCP/IP

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  • Serious Bloggers Only

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  • Social Media Training Package

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  • Solving the Management Problems of the Technical Professional in a Leadership Role

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  • Supporting MS Windows

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  • The Supervisors Job Today

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  • Understanding Network Essentials

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  • Unibasic Programming

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  • Unidata System Administration for VMS

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  • VMware administration

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  • VMware vSphere 5.1 fast Track

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  • Various Microsoft Office classes

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  • Various Photoshop classes

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  • Web Security

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  • Webmaster Essentials

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  • Wildflower Wanderings

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Projects

  • Internet of Things Ghostwriting Project

    Ghostwrote a book about the Internet of Things

  • Update Cyberheist book for KnowB4

    The KnowB4 website features a free downloadable book called Cyberheist, which was written in 2010. I was contracted to update this book for 2016 and 2020.

  • Ghost wrote book about Afghanistan leader

    Lead ghost-writer on book about a high-ranking official who lived in Afghanistan just before the Soviet occupation.

  • Ghost wrote book about property management

    Lead ghost writer on project to write book about how to manage property. Required in-depth interviews with client, research using Google to learn about property management, outlining, proofreading, revising, and delivering completed manuscript.

  • Ghost wrote book about sales process

    Lead ghost-writer on project to write book about sales process. Required interviewing client, researching sales methods, outlining, proofreading, revising, and delivering completed manuscript.

  • Operations documentation for Trader Joe's

    Led project to write up documentation on all procedures for Operations department of Trader Joe's.

    👉 Lectured team on all aspects of each application and system
    👉 Wrote technical documentation about how all systems work internally
    👉 Provided detailed flowcharts

  • Virtualization of warehouse systems

    Lead the team that designed and implemented a VMware solution for warehouses all over the country. The idea was to create a small yet highly redundant and fault tolerant cluster which could be built in the main office and shipped to the warehouse for easily installation and could be managed by the local IT staff.

  • Virtualization research project

    Managed project to investigate various virtualization products (VMware and Hyper-V primarily) to determine which was best for our environment. This required setting up a test lab, creating requirements documents, learning the two products, performing the testing and comparisons, and finally choosing the product and determining the architecture. We chose VMware because, at the time, it was a superior product.

    Other creators

  • SCADA (Systems Control and Data Acquisition) for Las Vegas Valley

    Team lead and senior designer to complete the implementation and installation of the Las Vegas Valley Water District SCADA system. This system had over 128 remote telemetry units, each controlling dozens or as many as a hundred devices. Included graphical interface to allow operators to see status of entire system in one glance, and to control or monitor each device independently.

  • SCADA (Systems Control and Data Acquisition) for New Haven, Conn

    Senior designer for SCADA system for New Haven Connecticut. This application had to be designed to allow operators to monitor and control, but also to handle communications outages. The remote devices were intelligent and would continue to regulate the flow of water automatically if they detected they could not communicate with the central computers.

  • Public Broadcasting System (PBS) system recovery

    I have spent years working in disaster recovery and business continuity. My very first disaster occurred in 1983. The Public Broadcasting System had a fire in their building on the upper floor. The computers were in the basement and were soaked, while turned on, by the water used to put out the fire. My team and I were contracted to aid in recovering these systems and getting them back into production.

  • Virtualization of production and disaster recovery environments

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    Managed, designed and implemented virtual environment to consolidate all of Trader Joe's physical servers (over 500) to run on a dozen VMware hosts. Created proof of concept, got approval from management, specified storage, networking, fiber, and system requirements, built those environments, and converted over 450 systems from physical to virtual. Improved performance and security, and upgraded cluster hardware and software several times. Included disaster recovery using SRM (Site Recovery…

    Managed, designed and implemented virtual environment to consolidate all of Trader Joe's physical servers (over 500) to run on a dozen VMware hosts. Created proof of concept, got approval from management, specified storage, networking, fiber, and system requirements, built those environments, and converted over 450 systems from physical to virtual. Improved performance and security, and upgraded cluster hardware and software several times. Included disaster recovery using SRM (Site Recovery Manger). Eventually outsourced VMware administration to third party.

  • Disaster recovery for Oracle, SQL and VMware

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    Designed, implemented and maintained disaster recovery environment for all production servers in the organization. This includes the mainframes using Oracle, the SQL databases using SQL log shipped and, later, SQL mirroring, and the VMware-based systems using Doubletake and SRM. This protected over 100 systems from major disasters.

  • Ghostwrote Series of Blog Articles About Trucking Automation

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    Ghostwrote a series of blogs about the fascinating future of automation in the trucking industry.

Honors & Awards

  • Author Audience Academy Award Winner

    Author Audience Academy

    Congratulations Richard G Lowe Jr. on being the latest Academy Reward winner as part of my program, Author Audience Academy.

    You are amazingly prolific! Woot!

    "Using the techniques I gained in Author Audience Academy, I overcame my biggest problem: starting on a book then setting it aside to start on another. Now I know how to focus on one project, get it completed and published, then move on to the next.

    Since beginning with this class just 3 weeks ago, I have published 5…

    Congratulations Richard G Lowe Jr. on being the latest Academy Reward winner as part of my program, Author Audience Academy.

    You are amazingly prolific! Woot!

    "Using the techniques I gained in Author Audience Academy, I overcame my biggest problem: starting on a book then setting it aside to start on another. Now I know how to focus on one project, get it completed and published, then move on to the next.

    Since beginning with this class just 3 weeks ago, I have published 5 books."

  • Technical Writer

    DEC Professional

    I wrote technical articles for DEC professional magazine, and for RSTS professional magazine. I’ve written over 500 articles online regarding various aspects of the computer industry and technology.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Alliance of Independent Authors

    Author Membership

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    The Alliance of Independent Authors is a global non-profit association for self-publishing writers and good author services. We have four grades of member: associate, author, partner and professional.

  • Real Talkers Toastmasters Club #7306

    Member

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    At Toastmasters, there are a series of workbooks, each intended to teach members how to apply certain speaking concepts.

  • Clearwater SciFi and Fantasy Critique Meetup Group

    Organizer

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    A weekly gathering of science fiction, fantasy, gothic and horror writers. We read a few pages of our works to the group, and accept critique in order to improve our writing skills. We occasionally have a guest speaker on any writing or publishing related subject.

  • Florida Writers Association

    Member

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    The Florida Writers Association (FWA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization for writers of all genres. Our community of hard-working volunteers is dedicated to providing members with an incredible networking system. FWA is focused on the beginning and advanced writers within a professional atmosphere.

  • NonFiction Authors Association

    Member

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    The Nonfiction Authors Association (NFAA) is a vibrant community for authors to connect, exchange ideas, and learn about book publishing and promotion. Our primary focus is to provide our members with educational resources and community support for nonfiction books including business, self-development, health and fitness, memoir, history, how-to, creative nonfiction and reference books.

  • American Writers & Artists, Inc

    Member

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    American Writers & Artists Inc. (AWAI) has been helping people launch profitable careers as freelance writers for more than 15 years. ★ Copywriting ★ Web writing ★ B2B writing ★ Blogging ★ Publishing ★ Travel writing

  • Association of Ghostwriters

    Member

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    The premier organization for writers interested in the ever-growing writing specialty of ghostwriting.

  • East lake writers workshop

    Author

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    Writers getting together once a month to critique each others work. Receiving input from others is an essential part of being a professional writer. ★ Read a few pages of a work out loud to other authors ★ Authors provide feedback on what has been read ★ Written feedback is given as well ★ The work is open for discussion ★ Everyone in the group is exposed to different styles and genres. .

  • Palm Harbor School of the Novel

    Member

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    Writers critique group in which selected passages are read out loud and critiqued by all writers present. The focus is on helping writers polish their novels-in-progress.

  • National Novel Writing Month

    Member

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    National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30. Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.

  • Network After Work

    Member

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    Network After Work is America’s premier face-to-face business networking company with monthly mixer events in over 60 cities catering to nearly 1,000,000 members. Attendees make valuable connections with other members of their business community while enjoying different exciting venues including clubs, restaurants, hotels, and special event locations. Network After Work launched in 2009 and has become the largest and fastest growing organization of its kind. Each event attracts a diverse mix…

    Network After Work is America’s premier face-to-face business networking company with monthly mixer events in over 60 cities catering to nearly 1,000,000 members. Attendees make valuable connections with other members of their business community while enjoying different exciting venues including clubs, restaurants, hotels, and special event locations. Network After Work launched in 2009 and has become the largest and fastest growing organization of its kind. Each event attracts a diverse mix of up to several hundred professionals from all industries and career levels. It all takes place on a weekday right after work in a fun and relaxed atmosphere conducive to making connections.

  • Writer's DIgest University

    Student writer

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    Developed by Writer’s Digest, the premier resource for aspiring authors for more than 90 years, each workshop was designed to get you writing and keep you writing for a long and inspired career. Writers Digest University offers a variety of online writing workshops for writers at every experience level.

  • National Retail Federation

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  • International Webmasters Association

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    IWA is the industry’s recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals. IWA supports more than 300,000 individual members in 106 countries. Founded in 1996, IWA is the creator of the industry’s first guidelines for ethical and professional standards, Web certification and education programs, specialized employment resources, and technical assistance to individuals and businesse

  • VMworld

    Member

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  • Disaster Recovery Journal

    Member

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  • HTML Writers Guild

    Member

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    The HWG was founded in 1994 as the World Wide Web's leading training organization for the Web design community, with over 150,000 members in more than 160 countries world-wide. In 2001 the Guild joined with the International Webmaster's Association to form IWA-HWG, the professional association for the growth of the professional web design company and individual.

  • IEEE

    Member

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    IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals everywhere, and be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical professionals in improving global conditions.

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

    Member

    - Present

    ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional…

    ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking. Founded at the dawn of the computer age, ACM’s reach extends to every part of the globe, with more than half of its 100,000 members residing outside the U.S. Its growing membership has led to Councils in Europe, India, and China, fostering networking opportunities that strengthen ties within and across countries and technical communities. Their actions enhance ACM’s ability to raise awareness of computing’s important technical, educational, and social issues around the world.

  • RGA Network

    Team Leader/Co-Director

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    The RGA Network is the fastest growing networking organization in the country, Meeting locations throughout the Tampa Bay Area, which include Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Seminole, Largo, Indian Rocks Beach, Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Countryside, Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Trinity, New Port Richey, Hudson, Brandon, Bradenton, Sarasota, Riverview, Plant City, Wesley Chapel and Lakeland. With meetings forming in the following cities: Orlando, Ft. Myers, Orlando, Lake Wales, Port St. Lucie, St Louis…

    The RGA Network is the fastest growing networking organization in the country, Meeting locations throughout the Tampa Bay Area, which include Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Seminole, Largo, Indian Rocks Beach, Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Countryside, Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Trinity, New Port Richey, Hudson, Brandon, Bradenton, Sarasota, Riverview, Plant City, Wesley Chapel and Lakeland. With meetings forming in the following cities: Orlando, Ft. Myers, Orlando, Lake Wales, Port St. Lucie, St Louis, Kansas City, Nashville, Dalton & Chattanooga.

  • Digital Equipment Users Groups (DECUS)

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    DECUS was for Digital Equipment Corporation to support their hardware (PDP-11 and VAX), operating systems (RSTS/E, RSX, and OpenVMS), and applications.

  • Microsoft User Groups

    Member

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