Software trainer, marketing consultant and professional writer.
B.A. Industrial Psychology
MBA with specialization in Business Economics
Special training and symposia in marketing research, advertising practice, database merging, Internet and mainstream marketing in-country and internationally.
Originally an end-user of custom COBOL tabulations ran on IBM big iron. Playthings included 1000x1000 matrices.
Was in the thick of things when computing moved to users' desktops. There was Xerox word-processing running off Burroughs mini-computers, helping businesses understand the power of Apple II's and Mac's, and training office workers to do number-crunching on the first generation of IBM PC's. All in real time.
Since then, have followed avidly the proliferation in desktop computing.
And yes, Virginia, natural-language-processing was already a reality in the DOS world in the mid-1980's.