Nuclear Medicine

At Miami Valley Hospital I was responsibile for several aspects of quality control, creating staff workflows, creating and altering programs, improving patient flow, and personnel training. I even did research to back up our facility's decision to stop performing combined gastric emptying studies.

Here are a series of uncompiled Aladdin™ scripts to work with the Xeleris Molecular Imaging System™ and other files for a nuclear medicine clinic.

Non-Fiction Work

•  Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Ideas?: Making Speculative Fiction Speculative - Feb 2014 from Tarcher/Penguin Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers.
•  Securing Your Online Life - SFWA Bulletin Issue #205, Summer 2013.
•  Digital Publishing Overview - SFWA Bulletin Issue #195, Fall 2011.
•  So You Want to Make an eBook?.
•  Breathe, on BridgettWalther.com, 18 June 2010
•  Standing Out, Fitting In, in Mock Turtle, #1, May 2010
•  First Novel Survey Results, a further analysis of Jim C. Hines' author survey data. 31 March 2010
•  Ignoring The Chair,writing as Uriel Wheeler in Life To Life Magazine, July 2009
•  Picture Credit for "The Out-of-Towners", an essay by Elisha Cooper in The Morning News
•  Determination of Crossover Counts From Tc99m in an In111 Window, unpublished.
•  I'll Pencil You In:  Perceptions and Class Schedules for the Older Student in Teaching/Learning Matters, 37:1, Summer 2008 (PDF link)
•  RTA's proposed fare increase discourages riders even more: A Convenient RTA, a guest editorial in the Dayton Daily News 12/26/07
•  Keeping it Real: Customer Service as Interactive Advertising in Adotas.com, 6 November 2007
•  Camelot is Only A Model: Scientific Literacy in the 21st Century in Seed Magazine, September/October 2007
•  Honoring the Dead: Memorial Day, a guest editorial in the Dayton Daily News, 15 June 2005

• Coyote, Spider, Bat, published February 2012 in Westward Weird and in Diverse Weird Western Project, Vol 2 from Wolfsinger Publications
• Covenant of Wolves and Swine, to be published TBA in NameL3ss magazine.
• The Wild Charge They Made, published 10/2014 in the anthology The Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls from Graveside Tales.
• Until It Fits, published 1/2014 in Crossed Genres Magazine.
• Bindings, published 6/2013 in the anthology Heroes!.
• Something for Everyone, published 4/2013 in Bards and Sages Quarterly.
• Memories of Light and Sound, published 3/10 in the anthology Timeshares, and produced in audio 10/23/2012 by the Tales of Old podcast.
• Room Service, published 7/22/12 at The WiFiles.
• In the Time of Dragons, published June 2012 in Time Traveled Tales
• Rust, published 4/10/12 Daily Science Fiction.
• The Burning Servant, published 8/17/10 as part of The Chain Story and published in audio 2/17/12 on Pseudopod.
• Broken, published Spring 2011 in OnSpec #84 and in audio 12/5/11 by The Drabblecast
• Hard Lesson, published in the September 2011 issue of Three Lobed Burning Eye
• Woman, Monster, Mother, published in the January 2011 issue of The Edge of Propiniquity.
• Herald Rising, published 12/18/10 in Mages & Magic, a Blue Kingdoms anthology.
• Kicking the Habit , published 10/29/09 in the Ravenous Romance e-anthology Hungry for Your Love, published 9/28/10 in the print anthology Hungry For Your Love from St. Martin's Griffin.
• Tis the Season to Be..., published 12/2009 as part of The Spec The Halls Contest
• Last Dance, published 7/22/08 at the Dayton Daily News, republished 5/15/09 by Mock Turtle Press in Collage, Chasing the Wild Hare from Walkabout Publishing.

Flash Fiction

• Eyes, published 2/14/13 at The Drabblecast.
• Taste of Moonlight, published 4/21/12 at Title Goes Here.
• Freedom of Movement, published 10/1/11 Resident Aliens.
• Hero, Everyday, published 3/22/11 Daikaijuzine.
• Surprise Party, published 12/8/10 in Daily Science Fiction.
• Turning To Stone, published 11/8/10 in The Drabblecast.
• ...and I Felt Fine, published 8/10/10 in Everyday Wierdness
• Precipitation, published 7/30/10 in EveryDay Fiction
• Pencils Made This Scar, a chapbook collection of flash fiction published 6/10.
• Five Very Short Storiespublished in #VSS Anthology Vol. 1
• Happily , published 3/13/10 in Moon Drenched Fables
• Just Business, published 12/11/09 in the ezine Yellow Mama
• Third Person, published 8/4/09 at 365 Tomorrows
• One Small Leap, published 8/1/09 at Quantum Muse
• Conscious Illusion, published 7/6/09 at Everyday Wierdness, republished in the Feb. 2010 issue of the Shine Journal
• Gestation, published 7/2/09 at Quantum Muse
• Domestically Disabled, published 2/23/08 at 365tomorrows.com
• Dinner Date, published 2/17/08 at 365tomorrows.com

Poetry

• Steak, published 12/09 in issue 42 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Atropos won an Honorable Mention on 16 Nov 2008 at the Dayton Metro Library Poetry Contest

Academic Work

•  No More Afterschool Specials - Reducing prejudice in the classroom environment.; Presented at the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Conference, 2012.
•  Evaluating Oblique Interventions In Reducing Anti-GLBT Prejudice.; Presented at the Wright State University CoLA Dean's Graduate Colloquium, 2011.
•  Evaluating Oblique Interventions In Reducing Anti-GLBT Prejudice.; Presented at the 2011 NCSA conference.
•  Enough to Fit Everyone: Student Difficulties, Needs, and Desires with the Class Schedule; Presented at the 2009 NCSA conference.
•  Learning While Wearing Work Clothes: Scheduling Difficulties and the Older Non-Traditional Student; Presented at the 2008 NCSA conference and the 2008 Quest for Community Conference.
•  What's Socialism Got To Do With It?: Cooperatives as an Alternative in Economic Development; Presented at the 2007 Bowling Green State University Undergraduate Economics Paper Contest and Conference.
•  Driving a Dangerous Course:How we're screwing up Iraq - and could be doing it right.; Presented at the 2006 AURCO conference.

Teaching/Speaking

Instructional Experience

•  Wright State University, Spring 2012 - Application of Research Methods, 6 Students
•  Wright State University, Winter 2012 - Application of Research Methods, 24 Students
•  Wright State University, Fall 2011 - Application of Research Methods, 23 Students
•  Wright State University, Spring 2011 - Application of Research Methods, 9 Students
•  Wright State University, Spring 2010 - Introduction to Research Methods, TA, 28 Students
•  Wright State University, Winter 2010 - Application of Research Methods, TA, 39 Students

Selected Conference panels

• September 2013 - ConText: Anthologies Help How?
• June 2013 - Origins: Stealing History; Reading Your Work Aloud; ePublishing Your Work; The Art of the Short Story
• March 2013 - MARCon: The Now and Future Lovecraft; Religion & SF
• March 2013 - Millennicon: Art and Science of Editing; Writing By Committee
• September 2012 - ConText: How Does Science Work?; The Next Step - What Happens AFTER Breaking Into Print?; Plotting Based on a Single Object
• September 2012 - ConText: How Does Science Work?; The Next Step - What Happens AFTER Breaking Into Print?; Plotting Based on a Single Object
• August 2012 - GenCon: Big on Small Press; Digital Publishing; Part Time Writer, Full Time Life
• June 2012 - FandomFest: The Process of Creating an eBook; Scams Authors Encounter in Today's Publishing World; The eBook Marketplace
• May 2012 - Origins: The Digital Landscape; Fantasy on the Fringe; Self-Publishing and Small Presses
• March 2012 - Millennicon: Cutting the Cable Cord
• August 2011 - ConText: E-Books: Good News and Challenges; The Rules of Writing - and When to Break Them
• August 2011 - GenCon: Read&Critique; Digital Resources
• July 2011 - FandomFest: Everything You Wanted to Know about eBooks
• June 2011 - Origins: Writing Right - Dialog and Language
• May 2011 - MARcon: Damsels(?) in Chainmail - Portrayal of Gender in Genre Fiction
• March 2011 - Millennicon: Professional Writing, 15 attendees; Theology and Science
• August 2010 - ConText: Genre Conventions; eBooks!
• August 2010 - GenCon: Read&Critique; Men Writing Women
• May 2010 - MARcon: Religion in SF; Paper vs. E-books vs. Audio Books
• March 2010 - Millennicon: Sex & Death; Economics & Writers; Science & Politics

Coding

My experience is varied and largely self-taught, starting with modding BBSes in C in 1995 and continuing through to the work I put out today. This experience means that I usually don't know it's impossible to do something until after I've already figured out a way to do it.

Some of the projects I'm happiest with are:

• ufw-iptables-archer - Bash script to simplify and semi-automate UFW and iptables while allowing fine-grained control.
• mpdcontrol.sh - Featured on One Thing Well - CLI interface to MPD with autocompletion for playlist, album, artist, or genre.
• ddwrt-who-is-connected - A script to output who all is actively connected to your DD-WRT router. It is designed to get current active connections as well as static DHCP leases and return what devices are connected.
• networkcontrol-wicd-networkmanager - A program to automagically call (and shut down) network utilities like Dropbox and traffic shaping programs. Written to work with both WICD and Network-Manager on Linux
• Global Dark Style: Wombat Style - A Stylish style to convert the web to dark, smooth colors.