RÉSUMÉ (updated June 2008)

›I. Personal data •

Riddle, Thomas A.

The best way to contact me is through e-mail: tomriddle@att.net
Home page: http://www.Thomasriddle.org

›II. Education

• Course work in Digital Video
     Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, California, 2002, 3, 4, and 5. Classes include Basic Video Production, Camera Techniques, Lighting, and Editing.

• Certificate in Desktop Publishing
     University of Oregon, Continuing Education Center 1996

• Master of Arts in Anthropology,
     University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1989 (Ph.D. course work completed)

• Bachelor of Arts, English and Education
     Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 1974

›COMPUTER SKILLS:

Microsoft Office (taught Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access to American university students for 3 years), Corel Draw, Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Premiere CS 3(movie editing), Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe PhotoShop CS3, Adobe Encore 1.5, and Adobe PageMaker 7 . Experienced in home page design and maintenance and CD, VCD, and DVD design and production. Also familiar with Macintosh platform.

›III. Summary of Professional skills and/or expertise.

As will be explained in “work_experience” have spent most of the last twenty-five years working as a member of a team in some form of humanitarian relief or education-based project in the developing world. Have excelled as a teacher, writer, and computer support person.

›IV. Summary of relevant work experience.

Computer Consultant and movie maker 1999 to the present

Highlights include:

• Computer support person for Orchid Press, a small publishing company.
• Working for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) to train their staff in Microsoft Office, to design a database to be used to keep track of bombs and munitions, and to clean up their computers. MAG sent me to the northern province of Xiangkong (the Plain of Jars) and to the southern province of Saravaghn.
• Teaching PageMaker in Laos, Indonesia, and Nepal. At the end of the class students were able to reproduce the formatting of articles from popular magazines.
• Teaching Adobe Premiere Pro and digital movie production to the staff of two NGOs in Laos. At the end of the ten-day course the students premiered their work to their peers and supervisors.
• Teaching PhotoShop and digital photography to the staff of an NGO in Laos. I later taught the same course in Indonesia.
• Producing photo libraries for two NGOs in Laos.
• Editing a 45-minute movie for an NGO in Vietnam and then training that same staff in PhotoShop.
  
• Traveling from one end of Indonesia to the other (Timor to Aceh) to produce a photo library for an NGO in Indonesia. At this time I also produced several movies for the same NGO.
  

As part of my consultancy work I have also used my two professional movie cameras to produce movies. Highlights include:

• a 30-minute fundraiser for a school in Bodh Gaya, India.
• a 17-minute fundraiser for learning center in Laos.
• a 40-minute movie to explain a health care project in northern Laos.
• a 20-minute promotional piece for a Buddhist temple in Thailand.
• a 25-minute performance piece for a professional dancer.
• a 19-minute teacher-training movie for an NGO in Indonesia.
• a 12-minute movie about a survivor of the tsunami in Indonesia.
• editing a teacher-training movie for an NGO in Vietnam.
• a 23-minute movie that documents the programs of an NGO in Laos.
• a 17-minute movie for a small development project in India
• a 5-minute Internet-only movie for a meditation centre in France

I have also made various home pages:

http://www.kpsnusantara.com is a site for a Malay martial artist.

http://www.reyum.org is a promotional site for an NGO dedicated to the arts of Cambodia

http://www.rockmekong.org presents the work of the Bangkok office of the Rockefeller Foundation

http://www.cwslaos.org explains the work of Church World Service in Laos.

http://jdsdevelopers.com helps sell houses in Arizona

http://www.geocities.com/riddlecah/ - the official site of the Riddle Coach and Hearse Company

 

Computer Applications Class teacher, Chaminade University and Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu 1996 to summer 1999.

• In this course students were taught the skills they would need to produce reports, spreadsheets, computer-based presentations, and databases in their university and professional careers. Applications included Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. The emphasis was on hands-on production skills. Students were also introduced to the Internet.

Writer, Thailand 1994-95

•  Wrote three novel-length books, see publications.

Computer Liaison Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), 1993

• Worked with 17 electoral trainers as the in-house computer consultant and graphics designer. Produced training materials to illustrate voting procedures. Designed the voting ballot that was reproduced eight million times for the election.

Data entry Supervisor for UNTAC, 1992

• In charge of training 240 data entry clerks. Clerks were taught how to enter voter registration data and query the database in a UNIX-based system consisting of 90 terminals linked to a minicomputer. At the completion of training, supervised 80 data entry clerks who entered data on the 4.8 million people registered to vote in the 1993 UN-supervised election.

Computer Analyst for UNTAC, Cambodia, 1992

• One of two computer analysts working under the chief programmer in a project to gather statistical information for the election. Duties included daily database entry and retrieval, inventory control, report writing, training, and computer troubleshooting and maintenance.

Database Designer, Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna, Ohio, 1991

• After consulting with hospital staff, designed and implemented a database program for tracking high risk patients and the medical equipment assigned to them.

Freshman English and Anthropology 101 teacher, Kingdom of Tonga, 1989

• Instructed students at `Atenisi University in English composition and Anthropology 101, Human Adaptation.

WordPerfect Teacher, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988

• Taught WordPerfect to hotel staff as a part of the Sheraton Waikiki's in-house training program. Developed curriculum, weekly lesson plans, and the final evaluation for this ten-week course.

Refugee Camp Worker, Southeast Asia, 1981-1987

Originally sent to SE Asia as a United Nations Volunteer, worked in various positions around refugee camps in Southeast Asia. Duties included:

• Cultural Orientation teacher. Taught skills that refugees needed to facilitate their smooth entry into American society.
• ESL School Manager. Supervised and trained 21 Vietnamese and Cambodian English teachers in a program run by Save the Children and funded by the United Nations.
• Curriculum developer. Produced lesson plans and the book Writing Back, described below

Peace Corps Volunteer, Kingdom of Tonga, 1974-1978

Taught English and Science in the middle and high schools of Tonga.

›V. Publications

The Fire has Jumped: Eyewitness Accounts of the Eruption and Evacuation of Niuafo'ou. (My interviews make up about one third of the book.) Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji, 1986.

Writing Back. (Excerpts from the letters of newly arrived Southeast Asian refugees in the United States.) The Experiment in International Living in Brattleboro, Vermont. 1986.

Cambodians in Hawaii and Their Relation to Employment and Welfare. (One of my graduate school papers.) 1988. Available on the ERIC database, file number ED309772.

Cambodia Interlude, Inside the United Nations' 1993 Election (White Orchid Press, 1997)

Various articles for the Bangkok Post, including a four-part series of articles on digital movie making.

›VI. Languages

Native North American English speaker

Tongan, speaking, reading, and writing. Score of four (fluent) on FSI test.

Thai and Spanish tourist-level speaking.

›VII. Other

No relatives working in international humanitarian organizations. References, all of whom can be contacted by E-mail, available upon request.

I CERTIFY THAT ALL INFORMATION STATED IN THIS RESUME IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

--Tom Riddle, 2008