User:Paul.j.richardson
[edit] Greetings and Welcome
[edit] This is the user page, for Paul J. Richardson
| Stat | Paul |
|---|---|
| Birthdate | Feb. 4th, 1970 |
| Hometown | Raleigh |
| Political Views | Liberal Democrat |
| Religious Views | Open-minded |
| Family | Wife & 5 Kids |
I really do LOVE Wikipedia, and I use it every single day of my life. And although I am not a very active editor of wiki articles, I do think that if you find something on here and you are 100% confident that it is blatantly wrong (as a verifiable fact, rather than interpretation or perception), then you have an obligation to correct it.
I have a blog at PJRichardson.com and I am currently a doctoral student at TTU. If you would like more information than that, below I have copied in a personal bio from my resume website.
As soon as I have time to read the Help Files (yeah, like, I have TONS of extra time on my hands), OR if I'm one day really really bored or obsessed with figuring out how to use this service, THEN I'll 'pretty' this page up a bit. For now I know the basics at least, of how to edit a page.
[edit] Short Personal Biography
Paul J. Richardson II (b. 1970) grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina the son of a theologian. In his youth, Paul played intramural soccer, competed in gymnastics, and learned to play 7 musical instruments, participating in his church band, as well as middle school, junior, and later senior high school bands (both symphonic wind ensemble and marching band). During Jr. high school, Paul was exposed to PC’s, including a TSR-80, and wrote his first BASIC program. In high school, Paul studied architecture, learned AutoCAD on a workstation computer, won state drafting competitions, began to lift weights seriously, played football, and began working with Mac computers (using Lisa). In 1988, he graduated from W.G. Enloe Sr. High School (GT Magnet Program) in Raleigh, NC, and two weeks later, he was in Orlando, Fl. beginning his training to become a US Naval nuclear engineer.
Paul graduated from a series of engineering schools which overall at the time had a 75% attrition rate and ranked second only to MIT’s engineering program according to the US News & World Report that year. Paul completed accredited coursework evaluated at just a few classes short of a BS in Nuclear Engineering Technology, and would eventually specialize in electronics. He spent his last year of military service as an electrical work station manager, electrical safety program coordinator supervising 26 divisional representatives, over 550 crewmembers, and ship wide preventative electrical maintenance trainer.
In April 1993 Paul was honorably discharged from the Navy, and 4 months later began a double major in Premedical Biology and Psychology at the University of NC at Pembroke where he made Deans List or Chancellor's list every semester. While at UNC Paul gained professional computer accounting and audit experience working FT for a national hotel chain. This income, combined with multiple scholarships, enabled Paul to purchase a laptop with Windows 3.11 and WordPerfect on it, at which time he also began using dial-up ISPs, including Prodigy, CompuServe, as well as tools like Archie and Gopher. With a GPA of 3.8, having just been accepted into the NC Chancellors Scholar's Program, Paul moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1995, where he decided to pursue separate bachelor degrees simultaneously at the University of North Florida.
While at UNF, Paul switched to UNIX, and began using Pico for email and following listserv and BBS’s. At this time, he also began working full time as a licensed security officer, and served as supervisor at various contracts. At high security sites, Paul was introduced to the use of profile databases, smart badge access, and other digital controls. Also while attending UNF, Paul worked a second job (simultaneous with his first FT job) at the PGA Tour national headquarters data center as the website technician for www.pgatour.com, from 1997 to 1999.
In the Fall of 2000 Paul completed his undergraduate studies with a BS Biology, a BA Psychology, and overall UNF GPA of 3.5. One month later, Paul was back in his home town of Raleigh, troubleshooting the world's largest Windows NT network as a Tier 2 Helpdesk Analyst with IBM. Shortly thereafter, Paul began an assignment to a special project supporting several new cryptographic and PKI applications for Federal clients transporting sensitive government data over the internet.
Paul completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Information Technology Management in the Fall of 2004. The following Spring of 2005, he began doctoral studies at Texas Tech University, and continues to study and work there now. Paul has been a simultaneous full-time employee and full-time student almost without interruption, since he graduated high school in 1988.
Mr. Richardson is a published poet, scholar of classical and some modern philosophy, and enjoys debate on epistemology, ethics, and other metaphysical topics. Paul has been lifting weights regularly for 20 years, and has written on the ethnography and sociology of weightlifting. Currently, Paul lives with his wife Belinda Richardson, BA., MA., MS., Ed.D., and 5 children in Lubbock, Texas.
--Paul.j.richardson (talk) 21:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
