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Sharon Cornet

16921 Cielito Lindo Dr

El Paso  TX  79938

 

Phone: 915-494-6851 

Email: click here

Website: www.sunstar-solutions.com  

Cultural Beliefs and Experience - Science, Spirituality, & Paranormal Topics Website: www.unifiedworlds.com

D.O.B.: 07/21/1970

 

SUMMARY EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Jan 2001 – Present

Self-Employed Owner/Manager and Researcher/Investigator in numerous fields.  Am to begin part-time grant writing with Border Interfaith in 2008.  Ran an online alternative energy (solar) business, SunStar Solutions, which included sales (business website/eBay store/auctions) and service (consulting, product installations) from 2001-2005, then revamping (presently being worked on as time permits) of website to eliminate most of sales/service (except for e-booklets), and include anthropology, geology, solar energy and indigenous building design, and other informational data, will serve as hub for all facets of topics and interests, research, social justice, cultural studies, etc.  Self-taught Webmaster/Webmistress, Writer/Author of “How-to” alternative energy, practical application instruction booklets, Speaker/Lecturer at public functions/meetings, hosting, coordination, and implementation of public workshops on various topics. 

Specializations:

Solar Water Distillation Projects in Colonias - Occasional contracts received for solar water purification projects (as Project Manager) from the El Paso Solar Energy Association (“EPSEA” a 501 (c)(3) Non-profit Org.) to coordinate, implement, and manage grant projects in Colonias (poor and unincorporated communities lacking infrastructure) in US/Mexico border areas.  Grants received by EPSEA to ensure water quality safety and use by locals with border health issues and water problems (removal of unsafe levels of fluoride, arsenic, bacteria (i.e. coliform, etc.), micro-organisms (i.e. giardia, etc.), chlorine taste, salts, sand, rust, sediments, heavy metals, etc.) through the use of solar water distillers.  Solar water purification (distillers/stills) project covered the public outreach/ meetings/ information & applications/ teaching/ consulting/ installation/ inspection/ follow-ups of stills use including reporting to funders (reports included expense reports, tables/comparisons, still recipient information, etc.).  Expertise includes direct field experience of over 100 stills installed in the colonias and areas of west TX, southern NM, and Juarez, Mexico on these bi-national collaborative efforts.  Occasional training of Assistants in the field.  Sales of solar water distillers (individual size to community-sized units) made available online (since discontinued) to the public through personal business “SunStar Solutions” on business website.

Supernatural/Paranormal Research & Investigations  - Former 7-yr. Researcher/Investigator and "Dream Team" member with Saber Enterprises (out of Houston, TX).  Ufology (study of UFO's - unidentified flying objects) including ULO (unidentified lighted objects), AOP (anomalistic observational phenomena), etc.  Reading, writing, lecturing on the paranormal, alleged alien abductions and contact.  Served as Co-facilitator of MUFON El Paso (Mutual UFO Network - El Paso location) for nearly 2 years (April 2001 - January 2003), as well as co-facilitating an alleged alien abductee support group prior and after that.  Past webmaster/webmistress for CEO Derrel Sims of Saber Enterprises for alienhunter.org and firstevidence.org websites, and presently also for own paranormal-related website unifiedworlds.com connecting science with supernatural occurrences, ufo and alien/entity/presences and inter-dimensional forces, ghosts/spirits, and other high-strangeness phenomena.  Strong emphasis on discovering physical evidence (Med/Sci) for spiritually/paranormally-related phenomena; awakening of cultures and peoples to self-awareness, psychic/spiritual abilities (natural or induced), prayer and energy work, spiritual maturation of people, and cultural and personality differences in spiritual and paranormal events, experiences, and beliefs; thought-forms manifesting via psychic abilities, mirroring of the physical/mental/spiritual realms in types and shadows, connections, manifestations, abilities, physical or mental ailments/consequences; holistic (balanced) approaches vs. extreme/allopathic influence on the human body, cultural and spiritual beliefs, symbolism and esoteric influences, time travel & space-time rips, SHC (spontaneous human combustion), and much more.  Speaking engagements include El Paso Chapter MUFON meetings (2001-2003), the Rachel, NV conference at Area 51 (2004), the Paranormal Chat Club meetings in Las Cruces, NM (Nov. 2004 on "Desert Apes") and (April, 2006 on Paranormal Survey Project Results (see unifiedworlds.com for results article)). Personal Statement

Hominoid Research & Investigations - AARF (American Anthropological Research Foundation) volunteer and researcher (2005-Present), former West Regional Leader with the TBRC (Texas Bigfoot Research Center, 2003-2007) and independent research/investigations, occasional outings with groups/organizations such as the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization), field research, reading, writing, lecturing on "Desert Apes" (term coined by Sharon) of the southwest desert Bigfoot, collection of data, sighting reports in west TX and southern NM - reports listed on TBRC website (texasbigfoot.com) as well as the Unified Worlds site (unifiedworlds.com/desertapes.htm).  Some of the information gleaned, collected, and written on include Bigfoot Vanishing/ Disappearing/ Transparency/ Invisibility/ (also written on as a special article for The Royal Forum website (theroyalforum.com - now defunked)), geological connections with bigfoot sightings including fault line areas, granitic areas (co-researched with colleague Pearl Jo Prihoda), waterways and high-potassium sighting areas, primate behaviors, anthropological aspects of hominid and alleged hominoid research, the "Jane Goodall Approach" (anthropologist/ primatologist's approach for a non-invasive, no-kill status type investigative means), and Native American lore.  Additional topics researched include eye-shine of animals compared to Bigfoot sighting accounts, compilation of sighting reports and articles on the paranormal aspects of Bigfoot, camouflage techniques, hominoids in karst and cave areas, migration patterns (incl. mountainous and aeromagnetic mapping connections), sighting comparison charts, etc.  Speaking engagements on Bigfoot topics include Rachel, NV conference (2004), Paranormal Chat Club Meeting (Las Cruces, NM - 2004), and TBRC Annual Bigfoot Conference (East TX - 2004). Personal Statement

 

Jan 2001 – Present

PART TIME: From 2007 - Volunteer work with IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) affiliate, BI (Border Interfaith).  BI is a non-profit 501(c)3 group of volunteers from different ethnic, class, and religious backgrounds working together for the common goal of helping individuals and families/groups, teaching them, and assisting in issues of social justice. 
From 2008 - Grant Writing, and continued volunteer work in social justice efforts.

PART TIME: Solar energy business (online: www.sunstar-solutions.com ) sales and service (this dept. of SunStar Solutions shut down as of June 2005 to be replaced by research and informational dept. as teaching tool, and sales of solar How-To booklets - revamped.   Some of the new editions available as e-books on www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/ ).  Various cultural studies and articles.

PART TIME distance learning student in post-secondary courses starting Fall 2008, baccalaureate Social Science major with a concentration in Anthropology, Ashford University.  Have earned a Certificate in Applied Anthropology at UTEP... No longer a UTEP student.

AS TIME PERMITS: Volunteer research and investigations with the AARF (American Anthropological Research Foundation - 2005-Present),

AS TIME PERMITS: Self-directed (multiple topics) research and investigation, online and in the field, independent volunteer work (1999 - Present).

 

January 2002 - April 2008

Contract work as full-time Office Manager for Kingdom Bible Studies (Publisher www.kingdombiblestudies.org ).  Duties included management of general office and warehouse requirements, website updates and management, email list coordination/mailings, inventory checking/ordering, processing mail, computer data entry, miscellaneous office work, telephone answering, and packaging/shipping of printed materials.  Contracted work is one dept. of self-employed sole proprietorship SunStar Solutions.

March 2000 – Dec 2001

Contract work for part-time clerical job as Secretary at Kingdom Bible Studies (Publisher) including processing mail, computer data entry, miscellaneous office work, telephone answering, and packaging/shipping of printed materials.

 

Oct 1989 – Dec 2002

Volunteer work on the Board of Directors for the El Paso Solar Energy Association (EPSEA) with annual positions held including Board Member (1989, 1999, 2002), Secretary (1990-1993), Satellite Newsletter Article Author (1993-1995), Vice-President (2000), [first female] President (2001), Project Manager (2000-2002), Newsletter Editor (2000-2001), and Newsletter Mailing List Coordinator (2000-2001).  Attended monthly board meetings, served as Earth Day Planning Committee Member (2001), and assisted/directed in multi-tasking both publicly and within the Association.  Attended educational booths at museums, Earth Day and other public functions, etc. promoting solar and other alternative energies.  Assisted in conducting “Build a solar water distiller” workshops, and demonstrated use of solar ovens, solar water distillers, etc.  

Supporting article on past projects: http://www.txses.org/reflector/reflector-summer-2001.pdf  

BorderPACT/CONAHEC Solar Distiller Project Report with water issues tables, photos, project details: http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/BorderpactFINALreport.htm 

Specializations:

Various R&D of alternative energy, alternative construction techniques, and alternative living styles (independent indigenous communities).  Some of the topics include solar water distiller construction, solar room heaters, trombe walls, solar rock storage heat units, solar ovens, solar food dryers, passive solar house design, straw bale construction, adobe blocks, fibrous cement blocks (papercrete/fibercrete), fidobe, geodesic domes, monolithic dome ceilings, hydroponics/raised-bed/organic gardening, composting, composting toilets/drying toilets, gray-water systems, rain-catching systems, shallow well issues, homesteading, raising small animal livestock, urban-sprawl & poverty, Colonia issues, water purification and health, desalination of sea water, etc. 

Long term, part-time, hands-on construction of passive solar straw bale house shell (load-bearing compression-tension walls) with green-treated lumber/gravel alternative foundation and recycled materials/doors/windows.  Assisted Dave Carter (Instructor at Southeast Community College in Lincoln, NE) teach/host a straw bale construction workshop for hands-on experience by students/attendees (taught through University of Nebraska at Lincoln).  Newspaper article on this work posted in the Banner-Press Newspaper, David City, NE, Oct 16, 1997.  Was a Resource Library/List Committee Member for the Straw Bale Association of Nebraska (SBAN) 1998-1999 and assisted with straw bale workshops/tours.

Hands-on projects including designing and construction of composting toilets (CT’s) with published CT picture/testimony titled “A homemade self-contained composting toilet in Nebraska” in “The Composting Toilet System Book(© 2000, revised version, by David Del Porto & Carol Steinfeld, pg. 134) covering non-urine diversion CT.  CT construction mini-workshop taught with urine-diversion CT constructed & donated by students.  Consulted independently (volunteer) on research for solar CT’s for Jay Graham at the Center for Environmental Research Management (CERM) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with support from the TX Secretary of State’s office in 2001 in the promotion of CT’s (no project funding). 

Supporting gallery page: http://sunstar-solutions.com/gallery.htm

 

Schooling/Courses/Classes/Assisted Learning/Volunteer Experience

(from age 13 - present)

Space Camp - Level I (1 wk), Astronautics, simulations, etc., Huntsville, AL, 1983

Space Camp - Level II (1 wk), Astronautics, simulations, etc., Huntsville, AL, 1984

Archaeological Dig Volunteer with WRAC (Withlacoochie River Archaeology Council - See: "Safety Harbor and Seminole Sites" & "The Ruth Smith Mound" sections (pdf)), with experience on a dig at the Tatham Mound using shovels & screening, as well as brushing & detailed work in the discovery of pottery shards, beads, artifacts, and human skulls on top of the Seminole Indian burial mound, headed by Dr. Brent Weisman - Archaeologist, Inverness, FL, 1984

Photography Class, Whispering Pines Park, Florida, 1984

Environmental Camp (1 wk), and won/elected for Advanced Week Session (1 wk), ecology, nature & animals, woodlands survival, etc., Florida, summer, 1985

Adobe Home Construction Course, by Mike Cormier at UTEP, El Paso, TX 1989

Solar Hot Water Heating Workshop, by Steve Cook at UTEP Energy Center, El Paso, TX 1990

Manual Drafting & Design Courses, Core-curriculum, (AutoCADD unfinished – no degree), 56 Credit Hours earned, GPA 3.66, at El Paso Community College, TX 1990-1992

Energy Analysis and Passive Solar Home Design Class, Passive Solar Industries Council, Las Cruces, NM 1990

Solar Water Distillation and Construction, Sharon Eby-Martin, Lane Fisher, El Paso, TX 1992

Straw Bale Construction Workshop, Matts Myhrman, Out On Bale, (Un) Ltd., and El Paso Solar Energy Association, El Paso, TX May 1993

Owner Built Homes Under $20,000 Course, Dave Carter, SE Comm. College, Lincoln, NE 1994

Straw Bale Construction Workshop, Dave Carter SCC/UNL, & Sharon Eby-Martin, Lincoln, NE 1997

Composting Toilet Design, Sharon Eby-Martin, Lincoln, NE 1998  

Website development (beginning status), for Dr. Phil Duke (separately), and Deborah Rayas & Sharon Eby-Martin, 1998

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) week-long Seminar, Derrel Sims, CMHt, R.H.A., hosted & attended by Sharon Eby-Martin, El Paso, TX November, 1999 

Website development (self-taught) and Graphic design, for Derrel Sims (alienhunter.org, firstevidence.org), 1999-2001

Workshop on Still Construction, Mike Cormier, assisted by Sharon Eby-Martin, Renewable Energy Roundup, Fredericksburg, TX 2000  

Land & Community Development Volunteer work with the NAIIC (Native American Independent Indigenous Community), experience in planning, & getting heavy dozer equipment donated for road-work, as well as adobe blocks donated, learned & taught on indigenous construction techniques, etc., headed by Robert "Wolf" Blackwolf, El Paso, TX, 2000-2001

Hands-on experience in solar water distillation installation/implementation, taught by Robert Foster - NMSU, via BorderPACT/CONAHEC mini-grant projects for Juarez, Mexico Colonias 2000-2002

Soil and Waste Composting Seminar, (exact title unknown) hosted by TX Tech, El Paso, TX 2001

How to Build a Solar Water Distiller, Mike Cormier, Greg Vogel, Billy Amos, and Sharon Eby-Martin, Water Festival Workshop, Columbus, NM 2001

Papercrete Dome Construction Workshop, John Hall of Starship Enterprises, Gerard Blanchard of Native Earthling World, and Sharon Eby-Martin of SunStar Solutions, El Paso, TX Nov 2002

Webmaster/Webmistress (website development) and Graphic Design at unifiedworlds.com, Sharon Eby, & parascience.com, for Larry E. Arnold, 2003-Present

Anthropology/Sociology & Geology Courses, (Continuing Education), GPA 3.81, at El Paso Community College, TX, Honors Program, President's List, 2004-2005 -- AWARDED ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE (9 December 2005)

Anthropology Courses (Undergraduate), GPA 4.0, University of TX at El Paso (UTEP), El Paso, TX (Spring 2006-Present), Honors Society, National Deans List, Phi Kappa Phi, EARNED CERTIFICATE OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY (2007)

Leadership Training Seminar, IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) affiliate Border Interfaith, El Paso, TX Sept 6-8, 2007

Legal Investigation (Center for Legal Studies - online UTEP continuing education course), El Paso, TX Oct 15 - Nov 30, EARNED CERTIFICATE (2007)

Social Science Courses/Major with concentration in Anthropology (Undergraduate - Distance Learning) Ashford University, Clinton, IA (To begin in Fall 2008) - NOTE: Had applied to NMSU and had plans to move to NM, but due to legal matters and colonia issues had to move back to far east of El Paso, too far from UTEP, and especially from NMSU in Las Cruces, NM (considering high fuel prices).  Distance learning the only option.

 

Certificates/Awards/Degrees

Voted Most Likely To Succeed year-end awards, CRCA (Crystal River Christian Academy), 10th Grade, May 1986

Reiki - Levels I, II, and III (certificates for each level) Lincoln, NE, 1995-1997

Certificate of Appreciation awarded by Insights El Paso Science Museum for commitment to the youth of the El Paso area at Scientific Career Day, Nov 9, 2001

Certificate of Appreciation awarded by El Paso Solar Energy Association (EPSEA) for recognition of 2001 BOARD PRESIDENT for work in promoting and leading the El Paso Solar Energy Association, given on the 25th EPSEA Anniversary, April 25, 2003  

Turquoise Star Achievement Award, awarded by eBay for achieving a Feedback Profile of 100 respondents/customers (Positive Feedback rating of 100%), 2005

Associate of Arts Degree, Honors Society, President's List, El Paso Community College, TX, December 9, 2005

The National Dean's List, (certificate) 2005-2006 Edition

Phi Kappa Phi, (membership certificate) University of Texas at El Paso, TX, February 26, 2007

Certificate in Applied Anthropology, (certificate) University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), TX, 2007

Legal Investigation Certificate Course (certificate) Center for Legal Studies - online UTEP continuing education course, El Paso, TX, November, 2007


 

Honor Societies

EPCC Honors Program

UTEP Honors Society

Phi Kappa Phi (top 7% students in U.S.)

 

Memberships & Volunteerism

Withlacoochie River Archaeology Council (WRAC), Volunteer/member, 1984-1985

El Paso Solar Energy Association Member (EPSEA), past President (also past Board Member, Secretary, Vice-President, Newsletter Editor), present general member, 1989-Present

Straw Bale Association of Nebraska Member (SBAN), Library/Committee Member, 1998-1999  

"Dream Team" Member - Saber Enterprises, Researcher/Investigator, Houston, TX, 1999-2006

Native American Independent Indigenous Community (NAIIC), Volunteer/member, El Paso, TX, 2000-2001

Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC), West Regional Leader, 2003-2007

The American Anthropological Research Foundation (AARF), Volunteer/member, Texas, 2005-Present

VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) at the Paso Del Norte Civil Rights Project, Volunteer (PRAXIS) practicum service-learning, El Paso, TX 2007

Unitarian Universalist Church, UU Community member, El Paso, TX 2007

Border Interfaith (affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation), Volunteer practicum service-learning, BI Leader, Grant Writing, El Paso, TX 2007-Present

 

Publications

(note previous last names “Eby" or "Eby-Martin” on some publications)

Cornet, S., 2008. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Make Cooling and Heat Tempering EARTHTUBES, PDF version available (inquire at www.sunstar-solutions.com/contact.htm)

Cornet, S., 2008. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Make a Solar Water Distiller, PDF version available for sale/download at www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/ (temporarily FREE at www.sunstar-solutions.com/solar#ItemsWeSell)

Cornet, S., 2007. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Discover if Solar or Wind Power  is Best for You, PDF version available for sale/download at www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/

Cornet, S., 2007. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Make a Tornado and Hurricane Resistant Home, PDF version available for sale/download at www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/

Foster, R., SWTDI New Mexico State University, Amos, W., SolAqua, Inc. and Eby, S., El Paso Solar Energy Association, 2005. Ten Years of Solar Distillation Application Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Gupta, B., Vogel, G., Amos, W., and Cormier, M., SolAqua, Inc. and Eby-Martin, S., and Foster, R., El Paso Solar Energy Association, 2003. Solar Distillation Applied in Texas

Eby-Martin, S., and Tirres, A., El Paso Solar Energy Association, and Foster, R., SWTDI New Mexico State University, 2002. Solar Water Purification for the Border: EPA Grant for Solar Distillation, PDF version http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/EPA final pres.ppt

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How To Make a Solar Water Distiller

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How to Design a Passive Solar Home

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How to Discover if Solar or Wind Power  is Best for You

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How to Make a Solar Oven

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How to Make Cooling and Heat Tempering Earthtubes

Eby, S., 2002. A “How-To” Booklet: How to Make a Tornado and Hurricane Resistant Home

Eby-Martin, S., El Paso Solar Energy Association, and Foster, R., SWTDI New Mexico State University, 2001. Solar Water Purification for the Border: Solar Distillation, PDF version http://epsea.org/pdf/borderpact.pdf

Eby-Martin, S., El Paso Solar Energy Association, and Foster, R., SWTDI New Mexico State University, March, 2001. Targeting Drinking Water in Border Colonias: A Solar Still Development  Resource url: http://conahec.org/conahec/borderpact/grants/1999/Region%203/Region%203B%20(English).htm

Eby-Martin, S., 1998. GreenBuilding Listserver (online article, republished by SunStar Solutions 2002) Classic Blunders in Solar Layout/Design

Eby-Martin, S., 1998. Straw Bale Association of Nebraska (SBAN) Newsletter Article, Fall Issue, What is a Passive Solar House?

Eby, S., Jan. 1994. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN, SunShine Abroad: Solar Design of Information Technologies Building

Eby, S., Aug. 1994. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN, SunShine Abroad: Owner Built Homes Tour

Eby, S., Sept. 1994. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN, SunShine Abroad: Dancing Leaf Earth Lodge

(Eby), S., 1990-1993. El Paso Solar Energy Association Monthly Newsletter, SEASUN Encore Articles (numerous/various)

(Eby), S., Oct 1991. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN, Warm Thoughts on Woodstoves

(Eby), S., Aug 1991. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN, Oil, Renewable Energies, and the Environment