Any Problem of any Scale

The faculty

We mean “faculty” in the primordial sense. The faculty is the body, mind and spirit of the organization.

In inverse alphabetical order...

Barry Willdorf - BA History, Colby College; J.D. Columbia School of Law. Currently a trial Attorney and Writer. Defendor of civil rights, defender of democracy, defender of the sick and the poor, author of Bring the War Home.

James Warner - BA Philosophy and Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, United Kingdom. Currently a novelist specializing in literate comedy.

Michael J. Vinson, Ph.D. - BS Physics, Cornell; Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago - dissertation on Chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics. Two decades experience in mathematical modeling systems including consumer trends, financial markets, the human heart, and topics in condensed matter physics. Currently SVP/Director of Digital Insights and Analytics at GM Planworks.

H.E. (Hal) Stephens - BA UCLA, MBA San Diego State, President/CEO Mission Federal Credit Union (ret)., Restaurant Owner/Partner, Travel Agency owner, Board member: San Diego Symphony, San Diego Pops, US International University, Cal Western School of Law. Currently business management/financing consultant, Developer/Partner Hal and the Girls, LLC real estate ventures, Professional Mediation and Court Appointed Special Master.

H. Lee Sawyer - BS Physics, Ph.D. Particle Physics, Florida State University. Currently Associate Professor of Physics, Louisiana Tech University.

Grace Sauce - Mother of three, Arlington TX

Dusty Resneck - Over 20 years experience in landscape, xeriscape, energy conservation, local politics. Perfecter of the Safety Meeting.

Terence Murphy - Carpenter, Architect, Artist, Draftsman, Baseball Player. UC Berkeley (ext.), CSU San Francisco. A true renaissance man with the uncanny ability to see directly to the core of any issue and throw a wicked slider.

Marcus Mueller - Dipl. Ing. Environmental Engineering, MSc Water Resource Engineering and Management, Stuttgart University, Germany. Switched gears in 2000 when he abandoned environmental fluid dynamics and joined Agilent Technologies High Speed Digital Test Division as an R&D Engineer. Co-editor and co-author of Digital Communications - Test and Measurement. Loudest trumpet player in southern Germany.

Andy Martwick - BS Physics, SUNY Excelsior. Twenty-five years electronics experience - player pianos, chemical mixing, robotics, gambling equipment, video, high speed analog, EMC, ESD, metamaterials, surface plasmons, jitter, error correcting codes, and spherical cows. Holder of 30+ Patents: The more difficult the problem, the better!

Paula Hendricks – AB Smith College. Author, writer, b/w photographer, book designer, book producer, book shepherd, independent publisher, consultant. President Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA.) I love books! Author / Co-Author of The Tire House Book, Timber Reduced Energy Efficient Homes, “September in Corrales,” and dozens of articles. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Ms., and Soldier of Fortune.

Yanina Gotsulsky - BA Literature, York University, Toronto; MA Philology, Lomonosov State University, St. Petersburg. Professional translator/cross-cultural expert with experience in legal, political, diplomatic and business. Clients have included the U.S. State Department, the RAND Corporation, the Provincial Government of Ontario, Canada, and several international corporations. Extensive experience in pre and post Soviet era Eastern European countries lends a unique perspective on the influence of post-communistic capitalism in emerging markets and the precarious balance of American-European relations.

Lee Goldberg - BS Electrical Engineering, Thomas Edison College. Author of Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line: A Commonsense Guide to Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management (Newnes Press), two decades experience in all phases of the electronics industry - robotic vision to interplanetary spacecraft instrumentation to solar and wind power generation. Currently the senior technology editor at analogZONE.com, member of the International Society of Turtles, and an honorary lesbian.

Stan Goldberg - BA Philosophy of Science, MS Political Theory, Ph.D. Speech Pathology, University of Pittsburgh. Professor of Speech, San Francisco State University, Author of six books and hundreds of articles and presentations. A change consultant and expert legal witness, serves at the bedsides of hospice patients, plays and makes Native American flutes.

Karen Garber - BS International Business, The American University, Washington DC; RN, Santa Rosa Junior College. Former industry icon, graphic artist, decorator, hospice volunteer, wild woman. Currently a registered nurse in oncology at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

Christine Comaford - Former Buddhist monk, software engineer, geisha trainee.  entrepreneur, five-time CEO/entrepreneur, founder of First Professional Bank, Kuvera Associates, Corporate Computing, PlanetU and Artemis Ventures. Currently CEO of Mighty Ventures, a business accelerator, Business Week columnist, and author of Rules for Renegades: Hot to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.

Darrend King Brown - BA English Literature, BA Chemistry, MFA Creative Writing (abt). Expert in story structure, prosody, and manuscript critique. Languages: English, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Visual Basic, C#, Java, etc. United States Chess Federation Class A rated, and a very...very...slow writer of fiction.

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