Who we are ... (It's just me):

 

Steven H. Comstock

 

Current work

Working as the owner of the Global Travel Factory, as well as the chair of the Denver Takayama Sister City Committee since April, 2013, I have been involved, and currently am involved, in many projects, including:

• Developing tools for use in constructing Trip Sites, to simplify and speed up the process
• Creating and maintaining this informational / marketing website
• Planning, organizing, and sometimes leading, trips to Japan
• Creating Trip Sites to support our trips to Japan
• Developing course materials to teach how to create web sites

 

Prior background and experience

1975-2013: Denver, Colorado

As a self-employed course developer and technical trainer, I was involved in many projects, including:

• Writing course materials to be used by other instructors in the business, including materials purchased by Toppan Moore-Learning Co. of Tokyo, Japan which were translated into Japanese and used to teach classes in Tokyo and Osaka
• Providing training to both technical and marketing personnel from companies in the IS industry, such as Storage Technology Corp., Pansophic Systems, and IBM
• Helping companies like PS Technologies in Colorado, and Principal Financial in Iowa train entry-level programmers
• Making presentations at training and technical conferences, such as SHARE
• Teaching classes for companies such as US West Communications (now CenturyLink) in Bellevue, WA and Denver, CO, Sears in Hoffman Estates, IL, ING in Amsterdam, Holland, and government organizations such as the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation, and UCLA

 

1974-1975: Denver, Colorado

IBM Educational Development Representative. Created and taught training programs on the IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS) around the U.S. and in Europe.

 

1971-1973: Denver, Colorado

IBM Instructor. Taught customer classes in DOS, OS, OS/VS, COBOL, Assembler, and PL/I.

 

1968-1971: Albuquerque, New Mexico

IBM Systems Engineer. Served clients in banking, inventory, accounting and government.

 

1966-1968: Duluth, Minnesota

Mathematics Instructor, University of Minnesota (Duluth campus). Taught classes in calculus, group theory and complex variables.

 

Education

M.S. Mathematics, 1967, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

B.A. Mathematics, 1965, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois