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www.davidappell.com

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DAVID APPELL

SEEKING

PROFILE

Work as a project manager in a fast-paced environment.

Excellent critical thinking skills, organizational skills, communications skills. Highly competent with mathematical and analytical abilities. Learn very fast. Pick-up vital information with little prompting—excellent listening and observational skills. Thoroughly professional. Project manager at AT&T on projects to control calling card fraud, and at MCI to build a US-Canadian cross-border 800 service. Published over 400 articles in many major popular science magazines (over 30 articles for Scientific American.) Project Director at a telecom startup in Boulder, CO. Designed and coded a voice mail system for a hospital in Arkansas. Previously systems engineer at AT&T Bell Labs. The most well-rounded and all-around competent applicant you’re likely to find.

EXPERIENCE

INDEPENDENT SCIENCE WRITER AND JOURNALIST

1998-Present

Have written over 400 articles about popular science for a large number of publications: Scientific American, Physics World, Yale Climate Connections, Wired, Popular Science, Science, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. Full list of publications.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR, LASER FOCUS WORLD MAGAZINE

1997-98

PENNWELL PUBLISHING, Nashua, New Hampshire

Wrote technical articles about the laser industry. Edited articles written by others. Wrote product announcements.

FREELANCE WRITER AND STUDENT OF CREATIVE WRITING

1994-97

Supported myself as a freelance science and technology writer while a graduate student in the Creative Writing department at Arizona State University.

Publications of fiction short stories in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Seattle Review, Hawaii Review. Essays and nonfiction articles in Appalachian Trailway News, Internet World, Poets & Writers magazine, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, and more.

Reporter for the Williston Whistle, Williston, Vermont, covering local issues, town meetings and photography.

SENIOR ENGINEER, MCI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

1993-1994

Systems engineer for a new cross-border US-Canada 800 service.

DIRECTOR OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT, GOLD SYSTEMS

1991-1992

Co-founder of a startup in Boulder, CO building digital-voice interactive applications. Coded a voice mail system for an Arkansas hospital.

Project manager and Systems Engineer.

PROJECT MANAGER, AT&T HEADQUARTERS, and SYSTEMS ENGINEER, BELL LABS

1988-1991

Managed and reduced fraud on a calling service that was often losing up to $1 million/week due to hackers.

Systems Engineer on AT&T’s leading corporate offering, Software Defined Network

EDUCATION

MA 1983

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK

Physics.

BS 1982

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

Mathematics and physics (double major)

SKILLS & INTERESTS

Microsoft Office. Microsoft Excel. Basic HTML. Basic LaTeX. Some Python. Fiction and essay writer • Climate science data collection and analysis (hobby) • Reading • Hiking• Ice hockey

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