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Personal Data

  • Full Name: Gregory Barrington Pool
  • Address: (available upon request)
  • Home:
  • Work: (831) 582-4119
  • Fax: (831) 582-3656
  • Email: gpool at mac dot com
  • Portfolio: hompage.mac.com/gpool

Background

Education

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

  • Degree: M.A., Geology
  • Thesis: "Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of Lower-Crustal Xenoliths, Central Mexico" (abstract)

University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

  • Degree: B.A.
  • Major: Geology

Monterey High School, Monterey, California 93940


Positions Held

2000-current:

  • Lead Staff, Web Services (webmaster), California State University, Monterey Bay

1997-2000:

  • Web Services Specialist (webmaster), California State University, Monterey Bay
  • Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Monterey Bay (Basic Web Design, Web Design, and Advanced Web Design - syllabus)

1996:

  • Web Publishing Coordinator (interim), California State University, Monterey Bay
  • Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Monterey Bay (Technology Tools I+II)

1995:

  • Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Monterey Bay (Technology Tools)
  • GATE teacher (Gifted and Talented Education), Monterey High School, teaching Internet skills (WWW, email, ftp, gopher, HTML) (Spring and Fall semesters);

1995:

  • Student teacher, Monterey High School (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Internet)

1994:

  • Owner/network manager, California Teaching Network, a database of public school job listings
  • Long-term substitute, Monterey High School, teaching Chemistry and Physics for Randy Randall (8 weeks);
  • Emergency Coordinator, Monterey Peninsula Amateur Radio Emergency Service

1993-1994:

  • Substitute Teacher, junior and high schools, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District;

1993:

  • Temporary Teacher, Waiakea Intermediate School, Hilo, Hawaii, eighth grade Earth Science (Spring semester); sixth-eighth grade Computer Laboratory (Summer);

1992:

  • Wildland Fire Fighter, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Nov-Dec '92);
  • Emergency Coordinator, American Red Cross, Lihue, Kauai; co-coordinated emergency Amateur Radio communications after Hurricane Iniki (9/13-9/25);

1991-1992:

1991:

  • Geological Field Assistant to Prof. I.S.E. Carmichael and Dr. P. Wallace (U.C. Berkeley) in the Mexican Volcanic Belt, Central Mexico (9 weeks);

1988-1990:

  • Teaching and Research Assistant, Washington University: physical geology, petrology;

1988:

  • Geological Field Assistant to Prof. W. Alvarez and V. Langenheim (U.C. Berkeley) in the Apennine Mountains, Piobbico, Italy (5 weeks);

1987-1988:

  • Laboratory Assistant, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Institute of Human Origins.


Skills

  • Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Web Publishing: Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Web Database: Blueworld Lasso and Claris FilemakerPro, PHP and MySQL, JSP and Oracle
  • Code: HTML, DHTML (JavaScript, CSS1, CSS-P), PERL
  • Multimedia: QuickTime, Flash
  • Operating Systems: MacOS 6-X, Windows 95-2003, Linux
  • Hobbies: guitar, disc golf, house concerts, board games


References (available upon request)