LOOKING FOR A JOB IN THE SEATTLE AREA (am moving there by June 15th, 2010)
Phone: 915-494-4628
Email: click here
Website: www.sunstar-solutions.com
D.O.B.: 07/21/1970
Nov 2008 - Present
Self-employed, Editing Contract Work, KBS
Supvr: J Preston Eby Tel: 915-855-6551
Annual Salary: 10400, Weekly Hrs Worked: 20
Computer data entry, editing for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, proper
spacing and format. Utilize coded corrections, handwritten draft and electronic data
insertions, type 60-70wpm, retrieve and update documents, utilize Word software and other
programs for website development, delete and update unnecessary information, and print
clean final copies for submission. Store and create backup files and maintain records,
plus send email notices to main office on updates.
Kingdom Bible
Studies, PO Box 371240, El Paso, Texas 79937
Phones: (915) 855-6551 / (915) 373-7128
Owner/Publisher/Supervisor: J Preston Eby (May contact)
May 2008-Present
Social Justice Committee Chair, UUCEP
Volunteer, Monthly Hrs Worked: 5+hrs/mo.
UUCEP (Unitarian Universalist Community of El Paso): http://www.uuelpaso.org/socialjustice.html.
Recent projects include electrification efforts for rural colonia residents,
electrification updates for low-income residents, community survey design and needs
assessment.
UUCEP, 4425 Byron Street, El Paso, TX 79930-4905
Email: uucep@uuelpaso.org, Phone: (915) 562-4001
UUCEP President: Janet Kincaid (915) 539-8851 (cell) (May contact)
Ordained
Interfaith Minister with ULC
(Universal Life Church Seminary - a separate church than UU) (ordained March 30, 2010),
ULC Seminary, 4714 Careyback Ave., Elk Grove, CA 95758, (916) 690-1682.
May 2008 - Jan 2009
Organizing Assistant and Grant Writer, Border Interfaith
Supvr: Kevin Courtney Tel: 915-276-2165
Annual Salary: 10400, Weekly Hrs Worked: 20
Assisted BI Organizer, Kevin Courtney, now Organizer for EPISO (sister organization of
BI), in organizing Steering Committee meetings for interfaith religious organizations,
churches, and temples, including meetings with Public Officials, organizing and speaking
at Public Life Institute events and Non-Partisan Forums. Also worked on Canutillo Water
Project Committee, which included attending meetings combining political influences of
city, county, state, and federal employees along with local El Paso Water Utilities
employees for collaborative efforts on bringing clean water to rural Canutillo,
Texas. Focus was on the people and water issues
so I attended and helped run community meetings toward obtaining clean (city) water to
this poverty-stricken area with contaminated wells (average 100’ deep). Problems included leaky septic tanks/cesspools,
chemical runoff, and other problems. For my
project I implemented techniques I had learned from applied anthropology, including
ethnographic methods in residential interviews, neighborhood surveys, RRA/PRA training,
social mapping, collaborative meetings with political figures (city, county, and state
officials/employees), and more. My report
(with graphs) follows here: http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/Canutillowaterproject.htm Geographic, and geology/hydrology information follows...
Geologic background of Canutillo, TX: This geographic area is located in the
valley by the Rio Grande river, northwest of and just outside the city limits of El Paso. Farms (with high irrigation use), owner-built
houses, mom-and-pop businesses, and old adobe and cinderblock homes dot the area. Geologically, the unincorporated town of Canutillo
lies in the valley west of the fault-block Franklin Mountains. Although located within the Cenozoic Rio Grande
rift, earthquakes above a 2.0 are very rare (most are felt at the epicenter capital of
Socorro, NM 178 miles north). Due to the
active rift, and earlier deformation from the Laramide orogeny, the fault lines in the
area have a north-south trend. Canutillo lies
over the Mesilla bolson (basin) where the groundwater is recharged by faults (and the Rio
Grande is a losing stream), and is one of two aquifers that serve El Paso. Salinity is an increasing problem in the region,
and rainfall averages 8 inches/year. Summer
monsoons and overflowing arroyos brought a devastating flood to Canutillo and surrounding
areas in 2006.
Jan 2002 - April 2008
Office Manager, KBS
Supvr: J Preston Eby Tel: 915-855-6551
Annual Salary: 31200, Weekly Hrs Worked: 40
Duties included similar tasks as the Editing job listed above, plus management of general
office and warehouse requirements, typing many letters (form letters and personalized
letters), website updates and management, email list coordination and mailings, inventory
checking, ordering, and purchasing, paying bills and other expenses, processing mail,
computer data entry and database management, miscellaneous office work, telephone
answering, postage meter operation and maintenance, keeping up with postal regulations,
and packaging and shipping of printed materials from envelopes to boxes, including
domestic and international mail. Estimate that I personally handled over one million
dollars over the years I worked there and accounted for every penny.
See contact information provided above for KBS.
March 2000-Dec 2001
Secretary, KBS
Had similar duties as Office Manager position above, however it was less management of the
office and more mail processing, from letter writing and typing, editing, filling orders
and shipping materials, stocking and purchasing.
See contact information provided above for KBS.
Jan 2000 - March 2002
Project Manager, El Paso Solar Energy Association
Supvr: Robert Foster Tel: 915-867-8173
Annual Salary: 18720, Weekly Hrs Worked: 20
Worked with local community leaders to identify needy families, 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 (collaborated with Chemist/Hydrologist) and use by locals with border
health issues and water problems (removal of unsafe levels of toxins), micro-organisms,
bacteria, chlorine, sediments, heavy metals, etc., through the use of solar water
distillers. Solar water purification project covered the public outreach, organizing
meetings, database and document creations, information and applications, teaching,
consulting, installation, inspection, follow-ups of stills use including reporting to
funders (reports included expense reports, tables, comparisons, still recipient
information, and so on). 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. Training and supervising of Assistants in and out of
the field, and worked with Treasurer on payroll and maintenance of bank account.
Additional volunteer positions include Board Member (1989, 1999, 2002), Secretary
(1990-1993), Satellite Newsletter Article Author (1993-1995), Vice-President (2000), President
(2001, first female President), Newsletter Mailing List Coordinator (2000-2001),
Newsletter Editor (2000-2001), and Project Manager (2000-2002).
El Paso Solar Energy Association,
P.O. Box 1314, El Paso, Texas 79947
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Applied Anthropology and Freelance Social Science Research - qualified to do qualitative
and quantitative methodologies, including ethnographies; PRA/RRA; social mapping; surveys;
unstructured, semi-structured, or structured interviewing; evaluation; needs assessment;
impact assessment / social impact assessment; collaborative research; social marketing;
cultural brokerage; action research / participatory action research; public anthropology
research; advocacy; social justice; focus groups; administration/management, and so on. I
have special interest in environmental, sustainable, and sociocultural issues.
Office Management - writing/editing, transcription, database entry/management, type 60wpm,
letter writing, organization, word processing, maintaining records, mail processing, phone
answering, shipping, inventory, purchasing, research, website updates. Commonly use Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Frontpage, WSFTP, and PSPro. Experience in research, logistics,
organizing/teaching workshops, and public speaking.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST / EXPERIENCE:
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
Other Interests/Hobbies/Experience: Personal Statement...
Schooling/Courses/Classes/Assisted
Learning
(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: "
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"
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) using Frontpage and WSFTP, and Graphic Design using PSPro at sunstar-solutions.com (for self), kingdombiblestudies.org (for Preston Eby), & parascience.com (for Larry Arnold), 2003-Present
Anthropology/Sociology & Geology Courses, (Continuing Education), GPA 3.81/4.0, 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 4.0/4.0, 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)
Leadership 3-Day Training Seminar, IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) via affiliate Border Interfaith, Phoenix, AZ July 24-26, 2008
Social Science Courses/Major with concentration in Anthropology, GPA 3.7/4.0, Ashford University, Clinton, IA (Aug 2008-March 2010), Honors with Distinction, Deans List, AWARDED BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (2010) - SEE TRANSCRIPT (PDF file)
Certificates/Awards/Achievements/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
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 - Note: Certificate earned, and letter received from the Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Dept. at UTEP stating such (certificates are given at time of graduation with BA degree).
Legal Investigation Certificate Course (certificate) Center for Legal Studies - online UTEP continuing education course, El Paso, TX, November, 2007
Deans List, Fall 2008, Summer 2009, Ashford University
Honor Societies
UTEP Honors Society
Phi Kappa Phi (top 7% students in U.S.)
Memberships
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, on and off from 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 (included fundraising), El Paso, TX 2007
Unitarian Universalist Church, UU Community member, & Social Justice Committee Chair, El Paso, TX 2007-Present
Border Interfaith (affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation), Volunteer practicum service-learning, BI Leader, Grant Writing, El Paso, TX 2007-2009
Publications
Please also see "Articles" Page
(note previous last names
“Eby" or "Eby-Martin” on some publications below)
Cornet, S., 2008. 2nd Edition, A
“How-To” e-booklet: How to Make Cooling and Heat Tempering EARTHTUBES
Cornet, S., 2008. 2nd Edition, A
“How-To” e-booklet: How to Make a Solar Water Distiller
Cornet, S., 2007. 2nd Edition, A
“How-To” e-booklet: How to Discover if Solar or Wind Power is Best for You
Cornet, S., 2007. 2nd Edition, A
“How-To” e-booklet: How to Make a Tornado and Hurricane Resistant Home
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,
(Eby), S.,
Aug 1991. El Paso Solar Energy Association, SEASUN,