I have been many things to WVUM over the years.  I am currently the alumni coordinator and engineer emeritus.  The former title gives me responsibility for moderating an e-mail list for the alumni and also planning the annual reunion party that occurs around November.  The latter title has no direct responsibilities, but the student staff calls on me for advice (usually by e-mail) when they need help with an engineering problem, and I am happy to help.  Occasionally I will go back and give talks or attend meetings to help when there are problems that need my expertise.

While I was a student, and for a few years thereafter, as detailled in my resume, I held various titles:  I was the network engineer (called the network streams guru when I started and retitled at my request when I expanded the position's duties to include all aspects of network administration) which title encompased all network administration both hardware and software.  I was the sports engineer, which position (along with a staff of assistants that ranged from 0 to 3 over the years) attended every home baseball and football game and set up and took down the equipment; as well as attending playoff games both home and away.  My main position was station engineer, which made me responsible for all equipment at the radio station from the phones to the control board, from the CD players to the computerized Instant Replay machines, from the remote broadcast equipment to the microphones, and so on.  And I was a DJ the entire time I was a student, or 5.5 years.

I am working on finding some pictures of the station.  I didn't own a digital camera until my last year at UM and I never took any pictures of myself at WVUM, but I did take some pictures of the station later on and I want to put those up.  A digital camera would have been great when I was there because I would have documented all the equipment and wiring for future engineers to see, but c'est la vie!

As the alumni coordinator, I assigned myself the task of running the station's engineering website.  I am going to use the domain WVUM.net, which I registered years ago and used as my resume page during the time that I was at WVUM.  I removed my old resume when I started this page and that domain will now become a tribute to WVUM's proud engineering history.  That site is not up yet.  Also, I assigned Ray Vaughan the task of running the station's alumni website (he had been running an unofficial alumni website for years so he is well qualified for the task), that site is at WVUM.com.