• Post Graduate Coursework (18 units) - University of Pittsburgh. School of Information Science. Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications.
• M.L.I.S. (1982) - University of California, Berkeley IS-track course structure.
• B.A. (1978) - University of California, San Diego, Revelle College.
  • Major - Anthropological Linguistics
  • Minor - French Literature
• Languages : Spanish, French, working knowledge of German, Greek, Hebrew and Luiseno. Coursework in C, Pascal, PL/1 and BASIC.

SUBSEQUENT COURSEWORK

• Undergraduate:
  • Fall 1988 Nutrition : Nursing Department, St. Francis College
  • Spring 1989 Spanish 102: Basic Spanish grammar, St. Francis College
  • Summer 1989 CS101 : Introduction to computers, systems analysis, applications packages: WordPerfect, DBaseII, SuperCalc, minimal BASIC, St. Francis College
  • Fall 1989 Spanish 201 : Intermediate Spanish, St. Francis College
  • Spring 1990 French 202 : Intermediate French, St. Francis College
• Graduate:
  • Fall 1991 Hebrew 101 : Biblical Hebrew, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
  • Spring 1993 Theology and the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
  • Summer 1994 Summer Institute for Librarians -- Cataloging Nonprint Media -- Nancy Olson --Department of Library Science, University of Pittsburgh.
• Undergraduate:
  • Summer 1996 IS 0015 - Data Structures using PASCAL, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications,(DIST)School of Information Science,(SIS} University of Pittsburgh,(Pitt}.
  • Fall 1996 IS 1000 - Statistical Analysis of Data, DIST, SIS, Pitt.
• Graduate: All remaining graduate courses were taken at Pitt's DIST of SIS in the Masters Program.
  • Spring 1997 IS 2000 - Introduction to Information Science
  • Summer 1997 IS2610 - Data Structures and Programming Techniques using C
  • Summer 1997 IS2060 - Statistics in IS using Splus
  • Fall 1997 IS2440 - Artificial Intelligence
  • Spring 1998 IS2420 - Natural Language Processing
  • Summer 1998 IS2710 - Introduction to Database Management using Oracle and SQL