After 22 years of service, I retired from the Navy and accepted a job as a Training Analyst in Washington D.C. Three years later I entered Civil Service as a Training Specialist. I thoroughly like working with Navy personnel and I am able to give back some of the great training and experiences I have enjoyed through out my Naval service.

I am currently a Supervisory Training Specialist at TRIDENT Training Facility (TTF), Bangor, Silverdale, WA. At the training facility, we manage and train U.S. Navy Submarine personnel in the operation and maintenance of submarine equipment, systems and subsystems. I run the Instructional Standards Division and I have extensive experience in the instructional design and evaluation process. Within the Instructional Standards Division, I run the Instructor Training Branch, In-Service Training and Evaluation Branch, and the Training Technology Branch. We teach, manage and life cycle about 350 courses of instruction at the training facility.

I love the outdoors in this part of the country. I enjoy puttering in my garage, fishing, crabbing, shrimping, hiking, gardening, golf, and photography. Well,...... I used to do all of that to keep me busy. This program has taken the place of all of that for now!

My degree is in Education with an emphasis on Workforce Education, Training and Development through Southern Illinois University. The University of Phoenix MAED program has interested me because the technology in education is changing at the speed of light and I was clueless. I needed a good foundation in distance education because my organization will be offering 20% of our training online in the very near future. To date, this program has provided me with some very relevant information to help me reach my professional goals. I am very interested in this course and look forward to learning everything I can in media application and Web design.

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