2009: Participated in ”Keys to Effective Editing,” offered by Education To Go Instructor-Facilitated Online Courses through the University of Cincinnati Division of Continuing Education.

2004: Sponsored by the Department of Disability Services at the University of Colorado, participated in the first online training course in a typing system designed to provide real-time captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing, offered by the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in New York. Increased my typing speed to 175+ wpm, thus increasing both speed and accuracy in transcription.

2004: Completed an independent study medical transcription course.

1984-2004: In my 20 years at the University of Colorado at Boulder, I had the good fortune to be able to follow the major developments in computing, including word processing on the NBI system, typesetting in Chinese and Japanese on the Xerox Star system, the introduction of the IBM PC and the Macintosh, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, the Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer, HTML, and all the major developments in foreign language word processing. My full-time position as Foreign Language Communications Support Specialist for all of the language departments was eliminated in 2004 as a result of Colorado’s “ongoing budget crisis” (which is, sadly, still ongoing).

1979-1984: Through free-lance work in translation and with temporary agencies, I became familiar with the major word processing systems, including Savin, NBI, NEC, Wang, Alps, IBM PC, and Xerox.

1974: Learned word processing on the Savin Wordmaster, a blinking, beeping console attached by a magnetic band to an IBM correcting Selectric typewriter.

1970: Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota. Major: German. Minor: French. Phi Beta Kappa