David moved to Lubbock with his wife Sheila and two of his three daughters Noelle (20) and Marissa (9) in June of 2005. His daughter Crystal (26) and two grandchildren, Robby (9) and Macy (5) are still in California. David has 25 years of business experience with 15 years in the corporate IT arena where he provided a unique blend of business and technical expertise used to coordinate national/regional IT implementation projects for Cingular Wireless, SBC, Pacific Bell as well as smaller companies. He drove complex projects involving over 3500 employees to on-time and under-budget completion. Directed teams in quality control, inventory management and systems implementation to meet corporate goals. David has a Blue-Belt Certification in Project Management.

David began as a volunteer with Christ the King Cathedral School managing Network, PC break fix in 2005. Was asked to take on Network and Compurter Services full time in January 2007. Added Computer Science instruction at the beginning of the 2007 - 2008 school year providing classes that students had previously attended at Monterey High. David added responsibilities as Web Master for Christ the King School web site at the beginning of October 2007

Special Skills: Explaining complex technical strategies to users… Strong problem analysis and resolution skills… Applies leading-edge technologies to expedite problem resolution… Effectively manages change… Builds cross-functional-teams… Brings order out of chaos… Communicates effectively to all levels within an organization

MBA, American Intercontinental University.
BS, California State University, Stanislaus.
Technical Skills: Ethernet, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Unix, Enterprise Server. Oracle PL/SQL, Microsoft NT core technologies

Computer Science Course: Principals of Computation

New course being offered at Christ the King Cathedral School an introduction to computer algorithms. Principles of Computation is an introduction to the principles that form the foundation of computer science for students with no prior background in computing. This course is suitable for students with a non-technical background who wish to study the key principles of computer science rather than just computer programming.

Current Homework Assignments

Week 10_22_20-07

Chapter 10: Parallelism, Concurency, and Alternative Models

Mon: Overview, Parallelism

Tues: Parallelism, Fixed vs. Expanding, Sorting in Parallel, Product Compexity, Time X Size, Odd- Even Sorting Network, Fixed Connection Paralellism, Computing Weighted Averages.

Wed: Parallelism , solving the un-solvable,P class, NP class and Nick Class Algorithms.Two Processor Solutions, Mutual Exclusion Problems.

Thur: Temporal Logic, On going Concurency, Semephores, Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms, Molecular Computing.

Materials

Text Book: Algoritmics

Notebook - Pencil

RAPTOR Application

Assessment

Home work assignment 10 - Chapter Test

Term Paper: The use of Electronic Voting Machines to replace traditional voting machines in past elections.

Requirement: Write a 5 page paper that addresses the various aspects of this topic in a concise, well written and logical manner. Paper will be written in stages

Stage One Due Date - November 12, 2007

Stage One - Outline: Collect 5 different sources of information (articles, books, documents) that can be used for the paper. At least 3 sources should be from print sources such as newspapers, magazines, books,journals, ect..information from sources that are not formally peer-reviewed may not be used (e.g. many Wikapedia articles). Wikapedia and other similar web sites can be used as a starting point to search for information, but you should authenticate any information you read before using it in your own paper.

Write an outline shows the major sections that you think you will write about in your paper. Include an introduction and conclusion as separate sections. After the outline , cite 5 or more sources that you plan to use for your paper. Include as much information as possiblefor each source(title, author(s),publications,date,page numbers, full web address and date accessed).