Personal

Date of Birth: August 28, 1956
Citizenship: United States. Passport valid through September, 2013.
Height: 6 ft./ 180 cm.
Weight: 180 lbs./ 82 kg.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Health: Excellent
Marital Status: Married

Education

Juris Doctor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio May, 1983.

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. June, 1980.

Bachelor of Arts in English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, June 1978.

Graduate Courses, Cleveland State University Department of English, Cleveland, Ohio. Literary Theory and Criticism. Summer, 1991.

Employment

Instructor of English, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, August 2007 - Present. As an Instructor of English, I am teaching spoken English to second-year English majors and first-year non-English majors.

World Language Center and New World Language Center, December 2005 - August 2007. I have been involved in training working adults in business English as well as providing corporate training to several companies in Ningbo, including Maersk Sea/Land and Bao Wang Battery Company.

Instructor of English, Ningbo University of Technology, February 2005 - February 2006. As an Instructor of English, I taught basic spoken English to primarily first year students in both the three-year degree program as well as the four-year degree program.

Instructor of English, Ningbo Dahongying Vocational Technical College, February 2004 - January 2005. As an Instructor of English, I taught second and third year students basic spoken English. I was also involved in evaluating students as they prepared for various speech competitions throughout Zhejiang Province.

English Instructor, Various English Language Centers in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, June 2004 – August 2007. I have had the opportunity to instruct adults in night classes at several schools and language centers in the greater Ningbo area. I have truly enjoyed teaching at these schools as the motivation and dedication shown by these working adult students to learn English is truly inspiring.

Senior Case Law Editor, Lexis-Nexis Corporation, September 2001 - February 2004. In this position I continued summarizing cases and was given the additional duties of reviewing summaries written by case law editors, giving them instruction on how to improve their work and preparing teaching materials for the editors.

Case Law Editor, Lexis-Nexis Corporation, January 2001- September 2001. In this position I summarized reported and unreported cases for on-line use by attorneys doing research. This was a home-based position, and I worked on-line from my own office.

Attorney at Law, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1983 - June 1994. During this period of time I was a practicing attorney. I was involved in many criminal and civil jury trials as well as in preparing and arguing cases before courts of appeal.

Other Teaching Experience

Instructor of Research, Advocacy and Writing, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. August 1982 - June 1983. I taught first-year law students how to research and write briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents.

Instructor, Cleveland Paralegal Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. September 1985 - June 1986. In this position I taught paralegals (assistants to lawyers) the fundamentals of researching and writing legal documents.

Tutor, Michigan State University Department of Athletics, East Lansing, Michigan. September 1979 - June 1980. I was primarily involved in one-on-one instruction with student-athletes and helped them develop their reading and writing skills.

References

Available upon request