Currently available for hire
Phone: 425-949-9369
Email: click here
Website: www.sunstar-solutions.com
SKILLS
AND ABILITIES
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Applied Anthropologist/Social Scientist with experience in Project Management, social
mapping, PRA/RRA, and sustainable development
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7+ years experience in office management/administration, with additional experience in
office related work
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3+ years experience in business settings, plus experience in retail/sales/marketing,
customer service, merchandising, and cashier (eBay sales included)
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Proficient on computer, database, data entry, proofreading/editing, with experience in
webmastering
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Intermediate experience in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, FrontPage, WSFTP, and
PSPro; type 65 wpm
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, public speaking, writing
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Self starter and can do attitude, is fair-minded and flexible, responsible and reliable
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Well-organized, quick learner, resourceful, conscientious, and detail oriented, able to
multi-task
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Works well independently and in groups, with experience in training/teaching others
SUMMARY
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Nov
2011 - Jan 2012
Insurance Sales Representative, Bankers Life and Casualty Company
Licensed agent/insurance producer in WA state (Life/Health lines)
Mar 2011 - June 2011
Program Specialist, Lockheed Martin (IS&GS) Energy & Environmental Services
Data entry/customer service in the energy-environment (Information Systems and Global
Solutions) industry processing conservation and energy efficiency incentives for
residential applications (contract ended).
Nov
2008 - June 2011
Self-employed, Editing Contract Work, KBS
Computer data entry, editing for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, proper
spacing and format. Utilize coded corrections, handwritten draft and electronic data
insertions, type 65wpm, 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. Projects completed June 2011.
Ordained
Interfaith Minister
with ULC (Universal Life Church Seminary - ordained March 30, 2010), ULC Seminary, 4714
Careyback Ave., Elk Grove, CA 95758. Personal statement: Each person's experience of
the divine is true, regardless of creed, faith, or lack thereof (even if one's belief is
only humanism or similar). Respect for sociocultural, and religious beliefs, ethnic
differences, and the like is of the highest priority; therefore, proselytizing is not
something I engage in. I officiated my first wedding on April 30, 2011.
May
2008 - May 2010
Social Justice Committee Chair, UUCEP
UUCEP (Unitarian Universalist Community of El Paso): http://www.uuelpaso.org/socialjustice.html.
Projects included electrification efforts for rural colonia residents, electrification
updates for low-income residents, community survey design and needs assessment.
(volunteer)
May
2008 - Jan 2009
Organizing Assistant and Grant Writer, Border Interfaith
Assisted BI Organizer 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...
Volunteer
with BI (Aug 2007-May 2008) worked on various Committees.
Internship with BI (June-August 2007) worked to bring clean water to the Canutillo, Texas
colonia. Administered community Surveys, taught social mapping techniques to community
leaders, combined RRA (Rapid Rural Appraisal) and PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) and
Focus Group techniques at community meetings as part of community needs assessment.
Jan
2002 - April 2008
Office Manager, KBS
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.
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.
Jan
2000 - March 2002
Project Manager, El Paso Solar Energy Association
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).
Jan
2001-Present
Owner/Manager of SunStar Solutions
All jobs above were done on a contract basis over the years, under the auspices of my
business, here at www.sunstar-solutions.com
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 65wpm,
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/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
Homesteading
Project:
Sustainable Living, Composting Toilet Design, Organic Gardening, Raising Small Livestock,
and Strawbale House Construction, Sharon Eby-Martin, Dwight, NE 1995-1998
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
Project
Management in solar water distillation installation/implementation projects,
under Program Manager Robert Foster - NMSU, via BorderPACT/CONAHEC mini-grant projects for
Juarez, Mexico Colonias, and EPA challenge grants in TX & NM 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
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 - 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
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, 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 Conservancy (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, and my Blog
(note
previous last names “Eby" or "Eby-Martin” on some publications below)
Cornet,
Sharon personal Blog: Online publications at http://sunstarangel.blogspot.com
(2009-Present)
Cornet,
S., 2011. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Make a Solar Oven,
PDF version available for sale/download at www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/
Cornet,
S., 2010. 2nd Edition, A “How-To” e-booklet: How to Design a Passive Solar
House, PDF version available for sale/download at www.lulu.com/sunstarangel/
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 http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/solar.htm)
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
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