Election Slate for December 2013 Candidates The following DACS members have been nominated for the Board of Directors for 2013-2015. Please show your support by voting at the annual meeting, December 3, or by volunteering to serve on our Board.
In addition to running for election to the Board of Directors, Bert Goff has agreed to run for Treasurer. He had been a DACS member for a little over ten years and is retired from IBM and some independent software development contracting. Computers remain one of his interests and hobbies. With IBM, he was involved in all phases of software development, primarily in operating systems. His PC experience goes back to 1982 with the first IBM PCs (64K, 2 diskette drives, and DOS 1.0). He is an active volunteer with Red Cross doing disaster work. He and his wife ran the New Milford Wheels Program, which provides rides to medical appointments for those who can not drive themselves, from August 2011 through July 2013. Many years ago, he was Treasurer of his church for 2 years. He has a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and lots of education from IBM, including in management and leadership. He is a US Navy veteran, having run the Data Processing Department at the Navy Supply Depot on Guam. He and his wife moved to Connecticut (Bethel) in 2000 and now live in New Milford.
Lisa Leifels has been a DACS member since 1999 and served as the secretary of DACS from 2005 to 2008. She has enjoyed attending both the general meetings and the Microsoft Access Special Interest Group meetings over the years and is always interested in learning how to do more on her iPhone and iPad. Lisa is retired after spending many years doing database consulting and later running a software company that served the financial industry. She is currently spending a lot of time learning how to cook gluten-free after finding out that her husband and daughter both have Celiac disease.
Bruce Preston's computer experience started in 1966, using mainframes and punch cards. Since then he's grown with the industry using mini-computers and microcomputers. He was on a team that introduced micro-computers to a Fortune 100 company, and was in at the start of international data communications over private networks. He has been a DACS member for about 20 years, moderated the Ask DACS sessions for about 8 years, the Microsoft Access SIG for about 10 years, and has been a director for several terms and the Secretary for two terms. He has presented at general meetings on a wide variety of topics, such as networking, audio recording and enhancement, e-book readers, desktop publishing and, most recently, virtual machines. Although now retired, he still enjoys dabbling in new technologies.
Jim Scheef has retired as the “Mad Scientist” of Telemark Systems LLC, and is now simply a nerd who enjoys playing with both modern and vintage computers – particularly the joys and challenges of networking. In addition to his duties with DACS, Jim serves as webmaster for the CT Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club and is helping organize a 51st Homecoming Reunion for his high school class. Outdoors he enjoys skiing, hiking and bicycling. Within DACS, Jim has served on the board for many years, runs the Drupal SIG, and co-leads the Mobile Devices SIG.
These members have volunteered for local organizations and community service, but so far think their background is not up to the level of those gurus on the board. Perhaps these persons think that computer clubs are different from other non profit community groups that serve beginners as well as advanced users. If you know anyone fitting this description, or see them when you get up in the morning, say that DACS needs them to serve on the board. And, to think about it - how about YOU? |
Lisa Leifels — Newtown (incumbent)
Bruce Preston — Ridgefield (incumbent)
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