| Biography | | "I am currently an instructional Technologist here at Albion Colege. I have the pleasure of working across all the disciplines, assisting faculty in using technology without damaging their courses. I specify and supervise construction of electronically enhanced classrooms, then maintain them for faculty, staff and student use. With 39 installations, it is a job - and they have to be kept running as faculty and students use them heavily and often depend on them. We are going to expand the science complex in the next three years and will double the number of enhanced rooms by then.
I hold a MS degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University and a BS in Industrial Arts Education from the University of Tampa. I have often entertained the notion of proceeding with a doctoral program in Library Information Systems, but as I am almost 60 now, I may have to pass on that one. My resume is out on my campus web site. http://people.albion.edu/rhoughto/ - in the Resources section there are a number of sub-sites I am working on. One is a site for Cheroklee poetry and one for one of our music emeriti faculty members - Tony Taffs. He is making his life's work in compositions freely available via the web.
I have traveled all over the world and have a keen interest in world affairs, history, and a variety of topics. I thoroughly enjoy working with this faculty."
Ralph H. Houghton
6935 Munroe Road
Springport, MI
49284
February 12, 1999
(517) 629-0795 office voice
(517) 629-0597 office fax
(517) 857-3686 home w/answering machine
OBJECTIVE: Teacher/educational support staff or training management and development position related to
computer operations. Design, construct, and maintain instructional web sites.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
• MS in Computer Information Systems. BS in Industrial Arts Education.
• Instructional Technologist, faculty, staff, and student support - liberal arts college setting
• Revised and maintained F-15A pilot training lessons (paper based and CBT).
• 7 years direct and indirect service to current USAF unit at Tyndall AFB FL.
• Highest USAF enlisted skill level - Education and Training Superintendent T75199.
• Well organized, efficient, and a quick learner.
• Strong sense of responsibility and commitment as a team worker.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST - Assist faculty, staff, and students in the use of equipment and software in the
Media Production room. Provide instruction on various technologies as requested. Provide project management
services for specification, installation, and use of enhanced electronic classrooms. Coordinate installation activities for enhanced electronic classrooms with college agencies and outside contractors. Teach basic Web Page construction and maintenance. Troubleshoot web page errors and teach corrective action. Write courseware for instruction on Academic Computing supported software and hardware. Write and deliver course modules for faculty use in the liberal arts curriculum. Self train on all software and hardware used within the college for academic purposes.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT - Lead and prepared six person courseware development team for overseas deployment. Team consisted of an educational technologist, two programmers, two graphics artists, and one desktop publisher. Performed task analysis research, objectives hierarchy construction, revision and review of 155 F-15 pilot training lessons for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). Revises all portions of existing F-15A and F-15S courseware to include aircraft enhancements and to improve the instructional soundness and professional quality of the materials. Review/revise objectives to ensure they are correctly written and fit the hierarchy. Modify test items as necessary to ensure they measure the objectives and are in standard format. Reformat materials for logical flow and make subject matter expert (SME) directed corrections to workbook, instructor guide, visuals, and computer based training. Use CBT authoring and graphics software to develop storyboards for CBT revisions. Confirm that all objectives are covered and make necessary adjustments. Request/monitor graphics creation. Report lesson status. Monitor student
critiques to determine instructional shortcomings for future updates. Previous to RSAF assignment, performed the same functions
for U.S. Air Force F-15A and F-15E programs.
INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS - Applied spreadsheet analysis techniques to hand calculated system and adopted
alternative research techniques to the summative course evaluation analysis process. Analyzed 6 weapons controller, 6 T-33 pilot,
and 5 Academic Instructor courses. Developed visual aids and reports. Developed award winning program of formative and
summative course evaluations. Held USAF instructor "T" prefix, teaching microcomputer usage and instructional systems
development (ISD) step five evaluation procedure courses.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING MANAGEMENT - Staff level supervision of personnel and training programs for aircraft
maintenance functions. Direct supervision of 4 to 7 training and admin support personnel; indirect supervision of 560 to 1250
maintenance officers and enlisted personnel spanning four different aircraft at two different wings. Programs managed included
on-the-job training (OJT), formal schools, computer based training, and management of the maintenance training data base
subsystem. Also provided consultation in training matters to other installation commanding officers as senior ranking training
manager.
MICROCOMPUTER - Extensive background applying microcomputers in the field of education and training management dating
from August 1978. Developed and taught community college PC software courses. Long history of informal consulting in hardware
and software trouble shooting, both in military service and after retirement. Skills in word processing, spreadsheets, database usage,
data communication (modem and FAX), vector and bitmap graphics, and many others. Recent training in UNIX and NOVEL.
Listing attached.
COMMUNITY SERVICE - Served as executive secretary for the Arizona Aviation Education Council, Inc. in Phoenix AZ.
Agency was a focal point for aviation related activities in support of elementary through high school teachers. Provided resources
and speakers. Performed Civil Air Patrol (CAP) duties relating to Aerospace Education programs for teachers. Administered and
coordinated the high school cooperative work program within aircraft maintenance at Zweibruecken AB Germany for over seven
years.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Degree
Specialty and School - Course Lists
MSCIS
Computer Information Systems, BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Overseas), Heidelberg FRG
(1986)
BS
Industrial Arts Education, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA, Tampa FL (1973)
AA
Education and Training Management, COMMUNITY COLLEGE of the AIR FORCE
(1987)
None
PC Education Courses, GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE(1990-93)
- ADDITIONAL TRAINING -
Dates
Training
1991-92
Gulf Coast Community College, Novell Computer Network, UNIX, AUTOCAD, and
other microcomputer courses, Panama City, FL. This schooling was preparatory for a
Florida special teacher certification program for prior military personnel with degrees.
This program was cancelled due to funding just as I was finishing the last required
course.
1991
Grant Writing Seminar, Advanced Training Inc., Tallahassee, FL
1988
QUEST (CAI) Authoring System Courses, Allen Communication, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
1986-88
Criterion Referenced Instruction, Instructional Module Development, Interactive
Classroom Instructor courses, and The ISD Workshop by Performance Engineering
Network, Inc. at Tyndall AFB, FL.
1981
INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Europe.
- Other Military Training -
Aircraft Corrosion Control (Residence), Sheppard AFB, TX. Machinist Course (Correspondence), AF Extension Course
Institute (ECI). Computer Programmer Course (ECI), AF Command NCO Academy (ECI), TAC NCO Academy East
(Residence), Tyndall AFB, FL. AF Command Sr. NCO Academy (ECI), Academic Instructor Course (Residence), Tyndall
AFB, FL. Air Police Specialist (Residence), Lackland AFB, TX, Private Pilot Ground School and Flight Training, Tyndall
AFB, FL
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dates
Experience
1998 to
date
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST, Academic Computing, Albion College MI
1995-98
LEAD INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPER (F-15 Fighter Pilot Training) RSAF, Khamis
Mushayt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1988-95
CURRICULUM DEVELOPER (F-15 Fighter Pilot Training) Luke AFB AZ, Tyndall AFB
FL
1986-88
Sr. INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS ANALYST Tyndall AFB FL
1977-86
Sr Mgr AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TRAINING MGMT Korea, Germany
1974-77
TRAINING SPECIALIST (ISD Shop - Maintenance) MacDill AFB FL
1969-74
AIRCRAFT CORROSION CONTROL TECH Homestead & MacDill AFB
1966-69
SECURITY POLICE SPECIALIST McCoy AFB FL, Korat Thailand, & Homestead AFB
FL
1962-66
INDUSTRIAL TOOL AND DIE ENGRAVER/MUSICIAN Boca Raton FL
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE -
Dates
Experience
1988-99
STAFF SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR (assist faculty),
1987-88
ADJUNCT FACULTY, Course Developer - Microcomputers Gulf Coast CC, Panama
City FL
1983-85
ADJUNCT FACULTY, Engineering Graphics Embry-Riddle Univ FRG
1983-84
RED CROSS CPR/Basic First Aid Instructor Zweibruecken AB FRG
1976
BASIC ENGRAVING SKILLS Course (Dev & taught) Brown's Trophies, Tampa FL
1973
High School DRAFTING, WOODWORKING Classes University of Tampa, Special
Methods
1962
8th Grade Biology and Phys Ed Classes (Boca Raton HS) Seachrest HS, Future Teachers
- Affiliations -
Air Force Association, National Society for Performance Improvement (NSPI), Epsilon Pi Tau Industrial Arts
Honor Society (inactive), Florida Industrial Arts Association (inactive),
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and
Civil Air Patrol
- Expanded vita and extended reference list available on request -
MICROCOMPUTER SKILLS
GENERAL - developed and maintained computer skills in eight basic productivity software types since 1976. Currently own a
Pentium 133 MHz home built machine equipped with 230 MB magneto-optical drive, ZIP, and JAZ drives, and an HP 6100 color
scanner. Additionally, I use a Toshiba 486 laptop in a portable office with portable printer, telephone and assorted cards for
telecommunications. Legacy equipment includes a Kaypro KC3 386-33 system configured with 80 and 340Mb (in docking bay)
hard drives, hand scanner, mouse, multimedia sound card, Kodak capable CD ROM, label printer, and FAX modem and six other
machines dating from an early TRS-80 Model I. Printers include HP LaserJet 4M 600DPI Postscript and Epson L-1000 &
MX-80. Software I have used or own includes:
Word Processing:
Corel Word Perfect 7 & 8, MS Word, Word Perfect 5.0/5.1(DOS), WP for
Windows 5.2, WordStar, Super SCRIPSIT, PC Outline
Database Management:
dBase II, dBase III Plus 2.0, dBase IV 1.1, dBase IV 2.0, Microsoft
ACCESS
Graphics:
Thumbs Plus, GIF Construction Set, Mapthis, PhotoShop 5.0/4.0/3.0,
Photofinish, AUTOCAD 11.0, Micrografx Designer 2.0/3.02/3.1, PC
Paintbrush IV Plus, PC Paintbrush Plus, Graphics Workshop 6.1 (graphics
converter), VPIC (graphics presenter), Harvard Graphics 2.3, Fontasy 1.0,
EASYFLOW 1.0, SCANKIT (scanning software), Autodesk ANIMATOR,
Corel Draw 3.0
Spreadsheets:
Lotus 123 2.3, Lotus 4.0 for Windows, Supercalc 5, VisiCalc, Quattro Pro
3.0
Project Management:
Timeline 4.0, Easy Project, MS Project
Communications:
TELEX 3.15, MIRROR II, Quick Comm, Procomm Plus for Windows,
RBBS 17.3B, Wildcat BBS, SEADOG Front End Mailer, FAXIT for
Windows, RapidFAX for Windows
Desktop Publishing:
Pagemaker 6.5, PFS: 1st Publisher, PFS: Publisher for Windows,
Pagemaker 4.0, Ventura 4.0
Integrated Software:
Corel Office, MS Office 97, Lotus Suite, ENABLE 2.0, PFS: 1st Choice
OTHER SOFTWARE:
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CAI Authoring:
QUEST 2.4, 3.0, 3.02, 4.0, PILOT
High Level Languages:
BASIC, PILOT, COBOL, FORTRAN, Visual Basic 3.0
Network Operations:
Novell Netware 2.15 (under 3COM) and 3.11, constructed network cabling,
installed and tested add-on network stations. UNIX admin and shell
programming coursework
Operating Systems:
MSDOS 5.0, DRDOS 2.3, CP/M, utilities for each, Windows 3.1, UNIX
Other:
MICROSTA (Statistics), Quicken 3.0 for Windows, Stacker 3.0, Central
Point Anti-Virus
Own 85% of the above software - others used at work or school. Competency levels vary from conversant to highly skilled. Skills
include installing, using, teaching, and troubleshooting the software and hardware. Possess primary skills in hardware setup and
operating system usage for a variety of both CP/M and MS-DOS machines. Can install and setup hard drives, network hardware,
printers, FAX/modems, sound cards, scanners, install software patches, configure both software and hardware, and others except
for board level electronic diagnostics and repair. Built a fully functional Zenith H-14 dot matrix printer from a kit.
Possess library of over 500 technical manuals and books covering the above software and hardware, dating from 1976. In addition,
I maintain a collection of Byte Magazines from vol. 1, issue 2 to the present with a few issues missing at various points.
Date Created: February 12, 19991 |
| Note | | Houghton Pond:
From: "Ralph Houghton"
To: "Allen (DCR) Houghton ...snip... Maggi.Brown@state.ma.us>
Cc: ,
...snip... "Tom (DCR) Bender" Subject: RE: Houghton Family inquiryAllen,
Pleased to meet you. If I am successful in making the trip to Boston next summer, I would like to stop by and visit with you briefly. The conference I attend is at the Weston in South Boston a short walk from the piers. Sounds like you are a very busy person. Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I work with 75 electronically enhanced classrooms and 42 portable media presentation carts here and the work gets a bit intensive just before break.
The main reason I worked on an electronic version of the 1912 Houghton Genealogy is to provide a means for correcting mistakes through footnotes and additional chapters with more current information including internet URLs for members of the family who have their own family websites. Also, the MS Word PDF creator does a very good job hyperlinking the table of contents and any indexes. It is located as a download link on the home page of my campus website ( http://people.albion.edu/rhoughto/ ). The original work was an OCR scan from the Higginson paper copy and still contains errors from the conversion process (1s become ls etc), but it is now in MS Word format with easy conversion to the PDF format. At some point, I really will retire and I propose to go through it page by page to remove those errors. The index numbering system is also flawed because of the attempt to link the Colony Houghtons with the Preston Houghtons.
With your permission and collaboration, I would like to introduce your comments below as footnotes to the 1912 version and perhaps include an image of the farm plan Maggi has along with it. I have also included the email address for Dr. Charles Vella who has conducted major purification research on the Houghton family which corrects many of the 1912 errors. Years ago, I met Agnes (Hurlburt) Bell who worked as one of the editorial assistants for that publication. She was familiar with many in the family who wanted to lay claim to estates in the UK as was common then not just with our family. But there are so many more of us who would just like to know where we came from and make the record for subsequent generations a little clearer. There is something to be said for being grounded in family history when so many in our society are rudderless and traveling aimlessly through life. Enough of the soap box.
Maggi mentioned that there were Houghton reunions around the country. Do you have some specific information about these and where they are located? My maternal Hakes line had several large reunions (Buffalo NY) near the turn of the 20th century. That family is equally as large as the Houghtons and as difficult to trace lines. Interestingly, that line seemed to start in Stonington CT close to the time Ralph and Jane settled permanently in Milton. Very close together for that period. Where Ralph Houghton and Solomon Hakes came from is as much a mystery now as it was then. As more of the ships which sailed the seas in those times are documented, both of them may turn up. There is Puritan history suggesting that a large number of those early immigrants set sail from the Continent after the Great Migration. We can always hope that something will turn up.
Thanks,
Ralph
>>> "Houghton, Allen (DCR)" 2/26/2009 8:32 AM >>>
Hello, all: Regarding the burial place of Ralph and Jane (Stowe) Houghton: Part of the problem is that Houghton's Pond was in Braintree at the time Ralph died, c.1705. Theoretically, the local church, and therefor, the burial place should be what is now Quincy. What is now Braintree was the Second Parish, dating only to 1715. Remember, also, that Ralph had lived in Milton (not at the Pond) c. 1679 -1684 or '85. He was a Selectman four of those years, So Milton is also a possibility Quincy has two cemetaries dating to the 17th century, but many of those older headstones are illegible: The cemetary department has no records anywhere near that old. The old Milton burial ground has a couple family crypts with no names on them Houghton's Pond was annexed to Milton c.1760s (Actually about 600 acres in Ralphs time, split between two sons later) Maggi has a plan of the farm dating to the time of the split. several features; house, barn, orchard, etc are shown. No burial plot is shown. That 1912 genealogy is defective in many respects: This in one of them. My Grandfather, Ralph Oliver Houghton, was the last to be born in the Homestead, 1889.
Allan N. Houghton
Master, Fisheries Research Vessel
Boston Harbor Islands State Park
781 740-1605 X-203
From: Brown, Maggi (DCR)
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:07 PM
To: 'Ralph Houghton'
Cc: Fisher, Sean (DCR); Mahlstedt, Thomas (DCR); 'Mackenzie, Robert (DCR)'; Powers, Sean (DCR); Church, Peter (DCR); Bender, Tom (DCR); McKinnon, Raymond (DCR); 'Norman Smith'
Subject: Houghton Family inquiry
Thanks for the info. Please let us know if a July visit looks likely. It would be great to meet you!
Are you in touch with Allen Houghton from MA? I believe he may live in Marshfield and he works for the DCR in our Harbor Region.
We’ve had a few other Houghton family pass through the site as well. I believe the family hosts a big reunion each year across the country.
(I believe Al has mentioned that.) Have you attended?
Maggi Brown
Supervisory Ranger
DCR South Region
Urban Parks
Work Schedule: Tuesday-Saturday
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Houghton [mailto:rhoughton@albion.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:58 PM
To: Maggi (DCR) Brown
Subject: Re: FW: Blue Hills Trailside Museum - Web Inquiry
Hi Maggi - as a matter of fact I have a huge amount of information and I have worked on an electronic copy of the Dr. John Houghton Genealogy which was published in 1912. My current research centers on the English origins of Ralph and John Houghton's family lines. Have built a lot of background papers from internet articles, but those times are as muddy now as they were then. The John Houghton listed on the Abigail in 1633 is a different person that the John Houghton of Lancaster MA. I have been in contact with the Houghton family in England and there are a number of members who are interested in tracing their missing lines - the ones they lost track of during the English Civil War.
The Genealogy above may be downloaded from my campus website right on the initial page. It and the one for my mother's genealogy are the two most downloaded files on our campus web server. Feel free to download a copy if you have broadband. If not, I can send you one on CD. I have gathered a lot of E-Books relating to Winthrop and the Puritans of that era as well as some relating to the Hakes family of Stonington CT. Every once in a while I get photos in the message traffic. You are welcome to them. I am highly interested in any information you all may have regarding Ralph and Jane (Stowe) Houghton who originally owned the farm there. The biggest thing we want to do is locate their burial site. So far, according to John Schumacher-Hardy of Lancaster, nobody has been able to locate them. They were not listed among the family members in the Old Indian Burial ground in Lancaster. They have to be there somewhere.
Many thanks for your interest and I would look forward to visiting there next July - if economics favors the venture.
Cheers,
Ralph
>>> "Brown, Maggi (DCR)" 2/25/2009 12:23 PM >>>
Dear Mr. Houghton,
I have forwarded yur request to Sean Fisher the DCR Archivist and Tom
Mahlstedt our Cultural Resource person. As I'm sure you know the
Houghton family had a homestead at the pond for many generations.
I am the Supervisoty Ranger in the Blue Hills. I am not aware of any
grave sites but I will forward your inquiry for further review.
Thanks for your interest.
PS If you have any family info to share, we are always intersted in
buildingour Houghton Family history files
Maggi Brown
Supervisory Ranger
DCR South Region
Urban Parks
Work Schedule: Tuesday-Saturday
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Smith [mailto:nsmith@massaudubon.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:48 AM
To: Brown, Maggi (DCR)
Subject: FW: Blue Hills Trailside Museum - Web Inquiry
Maggi,
See below. Do you know of any burial sites near Houghton's pond? Does
DCR still have a Historian?
Have a great day,
Norman
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Liptak-Labriola On Behalf Of Blue Hills
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:38 AM
To: Norman Smith
Subject: FW: Blue Hills Trailside Museum - Web Inquiry
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Houghton [mailto:rhoughton@albion.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:06 PM
To: Blue Hills
Subject: Blue Hills Trailside Museum - Web Inquiry
Greetings,
I visited Houghton's Pond last summer not knowing it was part of the
estate owned my great grandfather 11 generations ago. Ralph and Jane
(Stowe) Houghton were the owners of about 340 acres which included
Houghton's Pond. Nobody seems to know where they were burried when they
passed away, but I think there may be a family burial site located
somewhere on the farm. Is there anyone well versed on the property
lines which were transferred to the Massachusetts Park and Recreation
department? I hope to visit again next July and would like to document
this site for our family genealogy.
Thanks,
Ralph
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Ralph H. Houghton
4691 Kellogg Center
611 E.Porter
Albion, MI 49224
Albion College
Department of Instructional Technology
(517) 629-0982 Voice, Office
(517) 629-2714 Voice, Home
(517) 740-5439 Office Cell
(517) 629-0584 Fax
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