"Professional" volunteer preparing tax returns during tax season, tutoring an adult in English all year and tutoring middle school and HS students in math during the school year. Enjoying three book clubs, two of which I moderate.Formerly, Professional Sales Engineer with over ten years of successful experience representing storage, systems and software to Fortune 500 companies. Experience includes all aspects of sales engineering from pre-sales prospect qualification and requirements gathering through proposal generation and installation.I've made formal presentations to all levels from department manager to board of directors, performed on-site demos, handled technical objections, done performance testing and led sales planning meetings.Specialties: Explaining new concepts, understanding customer problems, finding solutions to problems.Professional Software Engineer, developing systems in multiple primarily languages (Java, PL/1 and FORTRAN) for multiple industries, including travel, financial, intellectual property management, and civil engineering, among others. Worked on all levels of code from user interface through data processing to database design, implementation and maintenance.Specialties: quick prototyping, ability to work on any aspect of code, efficient debugging.