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+# Introduction
+
+This document contains the information that does not traditionally appear in a resume. Resume's are too focused and do not allow consideration of adjacent opportunities.
+
+# Academic
+
+Was the 1990 Epley Award winner for outstanding work on my senior thesis in Sociology. 
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+While in the Army:
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+- I enrolled in graduate computer science courses with Boston Univeristy at the Heidelburg campus in Germany.
+- I enrolled in undergraduate computer science courses with University of Maryland also in Heidelberg.
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+As a graduate student of Sociology:
+
+- I was the student representative for the Midwest Sociological Society
+- I presented a qualitative study of social interactions on CompuServer and AOL
+- I taught undergraduate Intro to Sociology, Formal Organizations, and Marriage and Family at ISU and Heartland Community College.
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+I attended the Harrington College of Design in Chicago.
+
+# Hobbies
+
+## TTRPG and Fantasy lifestyle
+Took up Dungeons and Dragons in Junior High
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+- Played many other TTRPGs starting in the 1980s
+- Call of Cthulhu, Car Wars, Shadowrun, MTG
+- Collected and painted miniatures
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+Joined the Society for Creative Anachronism while in college. 
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+- Learned fighting and procured a set of armor
+- Learned calligraphy and illumination
+- Produced award scrolls for many events using these skills
+
+## Artistic
+I learned to draw in the early 2000s after reading the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain". I continued to draw for a long time.
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+Learned Photoshop and digital artwork shortly after.
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+Learned to create digital art with softare like Poser, Bryce, Vue, and DAZ Studio.
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+Began making 3D art in Modo and ZBrush.
+
+## Video Games
+Where other people watch TV, I play video games.
+
+I have played video games consistently since the 80s.
+
+Impactful games:
+- Infocom games like Zork
+- SSI gold box D&D games
+- Darklands
+- Lands of Lore series
+- Monkey Island
+- Roller Coaster Tycoon
+- Day of the Tentacle
+- The Elder Scrolls series
+- Fallout series
+- Baldur's Gate
+- Neverwinter Nights
+- Dragon Age
+- Warcraft
+- Age of Empires
+
+These are just a handful of my gaming stats.
+| Game         | Hours played | 
+| ------------ | ------------ | 
+| ESO          | 4,800        | 
+| Skyrim       | 3,672        | 
+| Fallout 4    | 3,662        | 
+| No Mans Sky  | 2,998        | 
+| Conan Exiles | 1,305        | 
+| Fallout 76   | 794          | 
+| Oblivion     | 773          |
+| Kingdom Come | 239          |
+| Cyberpunk    | 360          | 
+
+# Business Endeavors
+
+## Pyramid the role playing game
+
+- At 15, I wrote, copyrighted, self published, and distributed a table top role playing game.
+- It sold a few copies at local hobby game stores.
+- I attended game conventions in 1984 to promote the game.
+
+## Cyberbound 
+
+- In the early 90s I founded a web development and hosting company
+- I ran it for a few years before it closed
+
+## Shareware
+
+- I developed early bibliography shareware that I sold on CompuServe
+
+## Hobby game store
+
+- In the early 2000s I established an online hobby game store
+- The plan was to setup a brick and mortar location
+
+## Harmony Health Medical
+
+- Founded a medical private practice for my wife
+- It ran successfully for 5 years
+- I chose to close it while it was in a successful state
+
+# Psychological Profile
+
+INTP