David Brown 2335A 3^rd Avenue NW • Calgary AB • T2N 0K9 Phone: 1-403-283-7357 davidkerbybrown@shaw.ca members.shaw.ca/davebrownjournal
Work experience
September 2002	English Teacher, OGI Newtech Calgary, Alberta Qi Zhang, Manager 403-237-8845 OGI is contracted to China’s Bureau of Geophysical Production to provide English instruction to five of its executives, who want to improve their presentation skills. Although I am enjoying the class, it provides only ten to twenty teaching hours a week. I accepted this with the understanding that I would continue to look for other employment.
2000 – 2001	English Teacher, Geos Language System 2^ndfloor Duo Baie, Takaoka-shi, Toyama-ken Brian Legotte, Area Leader, 076-232-6665 (Bilingual) I was responsible for planning and teaching 20 to 30 classes a week. Most of my students were adults, but I also had children’s classes every day with students as young as 3. In addition, I interviewed visitors and collaborated with managers in sales. In November, I finished the company’s “A-module” training.
1997-1999	Reporter-Editor, The Canadian Press 36 King St. East • Toronto, Ontario • M5C 2L9 • Canada www.cp.org Tim Clark, Online Manager, 1-416-507-2191 (Ontario time is GMT –6:00.) The Canadian Press is a news agency with over 100 member newspapers in Canada. Stories appear regularly in Japan newspapers under the Associated Press byline. In the summer of 1999, I wrote and edited news stories in CP’s Ontario Bureau. Before that, I was an editorial assistant in the Internet service, selecting stories and photos for our clients’ Web sites.
Summer 1997	Reporter, The Convergence Ste. 1011 • 1 Yonge St. • Toronto, Ontario • M5E 1E5 • Canada Chancellor Crawford, Chief Technology Officer, 1-416-361-3522 ext. 227 The Convergence was a daily online technology magazine founded by the Web site design firm Competitor Communications (www.competitor.net). I wrote news, features, profiles, and reviews, and contributed to editorial meetings. The magazine closed in 1997.
Summer 1995	Reporter, The Edmonton Journal 10006 101 St. • Edmonton, Alberta • T5J 0S1 • Canada www.edmontonjournal.com Roy Wood, Executive Editor, 1-780-429-5100 (Alberta is 14 hours behind Japan time.) This was a summer job after my second year of university. I wrote news, entertainment, features, and crime.
Summer 1994	Reporter-Photographer, The Claresholm Local Press Box 520 • Claresholm, AB • T0L 0T0 Roxanne Thompson, Advertising Manager, 403-625-4474 This was another summer job during university. I was the paper’s only reporter for part of the summer, writing news, sports, politics, court coverage, features, editorials and columns. I also shot and processed photographs.
1991 – 1993	Trooper, The King’s Own Calgary Regiment Mewata Armoury • Calgary Alberta • Canada 1-403-974-2954 • www.kingsown.org I was a soldier in this reserve Armoured Corps regiment. I learned to drive and maintain armoured vehicles. I also had training in weapons, radio communications, and infantry tactics.

Education
1993 – 1997	Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. • Toronto, ON • M5B 2K3 • Canada 1-416-979-5000 • www.ryerson.ca I wrote, edited, and took photographs for both campus newspapers. I also served on the journalism course union and residence council, 1995-1997.
1990 – 1991	General Studies, The University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. • Calgary AB • T2N 1N4 • Canada 1-403-220-5110 • www.ucalgary.ca I competed in hurdles and sprints for the Dinosaurs track team. My studies included biology, English, history, archaeology, political science, and philosophy.

Awards and Qualifications
December 2001	Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 4 Passed with 71 per cent. I continue to study, and will take Level 3 this year.
October 1997	Canada NewsWire Award For interest and advancement in reporting at The Ryersonian newspaper.
October 1997	Dick Lunn Memorial Award For excellence in journalism at The Ryersonian newspaper.
October 1994	Thomson Newspapers Award Most promising first-year journalism student, Ryerson Polytechnic University.
July 1991	Top Candidate For earning the highest standing in armoured corps basic training at Canadian Forces Base Calgary.

	Interests
		In Japan and in three months of travel on the way home, I spent a lot of time writing my travel journal. I’ve played guitar since 1993 and I’m a member of the U of C guitar club. I’m still studying Japanese, although it’s much more difficult to do in Canada. I am always halfway through at least one book, and many of my my favourites are popular science, especially those by Carl Sagan. In the winter, I spend every weekend snowboarding. In the summer I often go mountain biking, and occasionally enter races.
References
Mizuno Hitoe hitomate@hotmail.com (Hitoe is in Japan, with a cell phone only, so email is the most efficient way to reach her.)			Hitoe was the other teacher at Takaoka Geos until December. She now lives in Calgary, Canada. We worked together for nine months – longer than any one manager has spent at the school – so she knows better than anyone what I’m like to work with.
Brian Legotte anthrofreak@hotmail.com (785) 841-1730			Brian was a Geos teacher in Kanazawa, the area leader for teachers in Hokuriku. Part of his job was to help me improve as a teacher, so he has spent a lot of time helping me plan lessons and pursue business goals. He is now studying anthropology in Kansas.

Published Writing
Features	Tales from the Crypt: Phil Zimmerman and the fight to keep your secrets secret I am proud of this story, because it’s a complex subject that I didn’t know anything about before the assignment, made into an accurate, readable, and entertaining feature. Read it.
	Life and Hockey in Silicon Valley I wrote this story in the heyday of the technology boom, about the brain drain of Canadian hockey and programming talent to the United States. Ironically, many of the sources in the story have now moved back to Canada, or are unemployed in the U.S. The NHL is more lopsided than ever, though. Read it..
News	Canadian Press Ontario Desk Though the majority of my writing career has been spent in news, I have only these three stories in electronic format. I have perhaps hundreds more on paper, so please let me know if you would like to see more examples. Read them.
Product Reviews	Tamagotchi and Interstate ‘76 At The Convergence we were aware that we could never compete with bigger sites as a source for reviews. Therefore we concentrated on reviewing things that we knew we could make entertaining, such as an interesting video game and a ridiculous trendy toy.
Book Reviews	Canadian Press Entertainment Desk CP receives many more books than it can ever read, so it has a bookshelf from which any CP employee can pick up a free book in exchange for writing a few paragraphs about it upon conclusion. Here are two I had published, Other Worlds and Guilty by Reason of Insanity.

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