Gina Rheault
Work
ArkOne.org (2004-now): Technical consultant, teacher & trainer.
2007-2009 - ESL group and individual conversation classes.
2008 - Tree Power Line Conflict Solutions/ 2nd prize ($5K/$30K) with Texas A&M team competing in an Austin Energy design competition. More...
2008 - IT troubleshooter & maintainer for Emily's Amherst Bed & Breakfast and other clients.
2008 - Radio interviewee for Voice of America, Urdu/Pakistan service. In early 2008, I explained why I had worked as a 2007 pre-primary volunteer for Barack Obama in New Hampshire. On Election Day, 2008, I reported live to Pakistan from downtown Amherst polling places.
2008 - Editor for a Brazilian PhD student, living in Rio de Janeiro. Via Skype and email we revised, discussed, and finalized submission of thesis to UMass. PhD awarded in May, 2008.
Spontaneous Celebrations: Organizer.
Music stages, bands, crafts & food vendors, parade permitting, site preparation and management for the the 19th Wake Up The Earth Festival, in Jamaica Plain, MA. Attendance: 3,000. Parade - dual, two miles, through JP and Roxbury.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort: Sales agent.
Wholesale ski packages to travel agents in US/Canada. Responsible for internal production, external relations, and customer service follow-up on arrival of guests.
Bonsai West: Sales rep, sales manager & trainer, IT consultant.
Wholesale, and retail/seasonal level. Managed hiring/training in peak seasonal opening, training, and staffing of kiosk and pushcart sales in malls. Created and linked billing and bar coding systems for major sales to Home Depot.
Analog Devices: Regional business development($10M).
Southeast US. OEM design-in marketing of mixed-signal devices to automotive, telecommunications, computer, and consumer products industries.
Automatic Testing & Networking: National business development ($2M)
Marketing & promotion of noise figure systems used in design, test,and manufacture of microwave components for advanced telecommunicatios satellites and systems.
Hewlett-Packard/Agilent: Field Sales Rep
Seven years, two maximum bonus years, and over quota in six of seven years. Sales: $2M-$6M.
Products: Test and measurement instrumentation, computers and software to OEM partners, and to manufacturing, research organizations.
Education
2004, MA,History of Science & Technology, U.Toronto, Toronto, ON.
I wrote a set of papers on Edison: the historiography of the light bulb, Edison's involvement in medical devices and in early movies. I wrote a paper describing the "Scientific Revolution" as the beginning of technology-science and the end of religion-science.
2001, MA,Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
I specialized in public policy. Thus I did a web-based masters thesis, visual sociology, of parking conflict. My practical internships were: three months in divorce court mediation, and a second in small claims court mediation.
1991, MBA, Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
The ground has shifted under 90's marketing, but classic finance lessons still hold: Banks will lend you anything. Borrow only what you can afford.
1980, BSEE, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
An early computer engineering BSEE with bit-level programming. I was seduced by Lissajous figures, and then by Hewlett-Packard instruments, whose visual test systems I sold for seven years.
Writing & Social Networking
Amherst 01002 (2005-now):photography and commentary in guise of Emily Dickinson.
The Old Commonplace Book (2003-now) a random notebook of my how to's, cooking experiments, problem solving. Gateway to flickr.
No Parking: my photo-thesis on parking conflict in Boston.
Off the Map: A community meeting goes awry as engineering experts facing angry citizens discover toxic cleanup is so much more than fancy technologies and tests results.
On the Map: Facebook,LibraryThing,Bloglines,IMDB,YouTube,flickr,& de.li.cio.us.
Foreign languages
French - advanced, certified by University of Toronto.
Spanish & Italian - intermediate to advanced reading.
Other interests
Town meeting member -- elected to one year term in 2008. Running for re-election to three year term in 2009.
Yoga & fitness training -- just won a January, 2009 gym competition! I lead people on bicycle trail rides around the Pioneer Valley.
Long distance walking --
- Metacoment-Monadnock Trail,CT-MA-NH:(100+ miles),2002-2003.
- Robert Frost Trail,Amherst, MA (40 miles)October,2001.
- Camino de Santiago, Spain (800km, 480 miles) May-June, 2000.
Toastmasters International -- Northampton, MA.
