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| The chronology of my professional life -- I haven't always been an author. | |
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| My professional life is probably vastly different than most Webmasters and authors at Macmillan. I started my writing career in radio and television (news, not comedy). | |
| Radio & Television | |
| I worked through college in
Houston as the all-night news anchor at KULF AM from 1974-1976, before moving on as a
general assignments reporter at KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston and the same station where Dan
Rather and Jessica Savitch started (I'm sorry to say I did not know either of them -- they
left before I started -- but I do have this hilarious videotape of Dan from the early 1960s). After about a year in Houston at KHOU-TV, I was lured away by KDFW-TV, the former CBS affiliate in Dallas (I say former because it was one of the first stations to jump ship to the Fox network when CBS lost its NFL contract). I worked at KDFW-TV as a general assignments and medical reporter through 1978. I left Dallas at the end of '78 to work for the Hearst Broadcasting station in Pittsburgh, WTAE-TV, as weekend anchorman and medical reporter (yes, I was "on-the-air", just as I was in Houston and Dallas before). I left WTAE-TV in August of 1982 thoroughly disillusioned with television news and the direction it was taking. (Just look at the recent media feeding frenzy over "sex in the White House".) I had come to the realization that I was an entertainer, not a journalist. To this day when people ask me why I left television, I tell them "to get an honest job". |
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| Start in Computers | |
| I began my career in computers with a brief stint at the local ComputerLand as a salesman (not quite the "honest" job I left television for). | |
| Move to Engineering | |
| After ComputerLand, I spent the next nine years as the chief PC support guy at Comstock Engineering, a small engineering company in Pittsburgh. During this nine years I developed engineering applications, supported a growing PC user base, and designed and installed an Ethernet LAN that evolved from 3Com 3+Open, to MS LAN Manager, and finally to Novell NetWare. | |
| Jump to Banking | |
| In 1993 I switched industries, going from engineering
to banking, to become a project manager at Mellon Bank
in Pittsburgh. During my first 3 years at Mellon,
I was extremely busy designing, installing, and upgrading Novell NetWare LANs. If you want
to see how busy I've been, select the Resume in HTML link below. After three years as a LAN Admin, I switched to a more project oriented job position. One of my first projects was designing and creating Mellon's first certification and testing laboratory for computer hardware and software. |
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| Switch to Academia | |
| In August of 1999 I made yet another career change, this time to academia. I joined the faculty of Penn State University at the McKeesport campus becoming the first full-time member of the School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). | |
| Resume | |
| If you want a more "traditional" look at my
career, I've also posted a copy of my "up-to-date" resume in several popular
formats . . . |
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Last Updated May 23, 1999 --- Copyright © 1999 Galen A. Grimes --- All Rights Reserved. |
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