Monte LeTourneau

Current

National Committee at Green Party US
Design Engineer at Allness Unlimited

Past

Webmaster at Himalayan Linguistics Journal
Instructor Assistant at UWM School Of Information Studies
Bartender at Shanahan's Irish Pub

Waste Water Flotation Treatment at ITU
Mold Setter at Generation 2 Plastics
Carnival Ride Operator and Maintenance, Structural Maintenance at Fun Festivals / Ray Letourneau

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Education

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Monte LeTourneau’s Summary

I love being part of a team helping people. I like to learn. I want to learn more about animation, Drupal, PHP, LINUX, and all sciences and sustainable technologies. I am very skilled at online research and am familiar with a wide range of computer user habits at all skill levels. I want to help make the information economy more accessible, friendly, knowledgeable, and diverse. Anything you do, can be done meta. Whatever you need done, I can learn about it, and how to research it, and find a way to make it easier to learn or do.

I am particularly interested in organizations, goods, and services that benefit the common good, particularly those marginalized by historical structures of institutions and culture. I like people, and I like working with, and serving, others.

I am always interested to know more about the overarching conceptual structure of knowledge, the development of new theories and methods for seeking better tools and paradigms to organize our understandings and our efforts. The development of theory, spirit, and paradigm, are of great interest to me, as is the development of new toolage and method, how we each use these, and how they could be better understood, organized, or made available to create ease of use, productivity, and consensus.

I enjoy learning new information, concepts, and skills, particularly using these to improve methods of learning and creating for everyone.

I hope to start a new career in enabling social, environmental, and/or knowledge systems work. I love art and design, and am working on a 'Libertyware' project CD/site for freeware and self help for Windows XP users. I love creating tutorials for rudimentary and intermediate users, and have experience with home tech support.

The information I find most interesting is inevitably that which I am using the most. The career I seek is one of helping empower and bring together people with information.

Monte LeTourneau’s Specialties:

My specialty is generalization.
No one way of knowing is wisdom, none are all wrong. We are nature & nurture, art & life imitate each other, truth is not subject nor object. Reality is consensual. Shared reality is human meaning.
Too many ways of seeking, communicating, or knowing, means understanding can't be shared.
Wise inquiry is collation of disparate answers. We now have tools to create consensus on what, and how, we know, so we can agree wisely to deal with each other consensually.

Monte LeTourneau’s Experience

National Committee

Green Party US

(Political Organization industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Representing WI in the decision making body of the GPUS, and on the Platform and Fund Raising Committees. Also a member of the Coordinating Council of the Wisconsin Green Party since fall of 2004, and various committees at the local and WI level since 2001, including Platform, Media, LGBT Caucus, Online, Outreach, and Elections Committees.

My favorite part of this work is attending public events for tabling, talking about the party, handing out literature, and getting signatures for petitions to get candidates on the ballot. While I enjoy spending hours a day reading and writing emails as a member of these deliberative bodies while online promoting candidates and the party and keeping informed on issues, I prefer talking to fellow citizens face to face.
Design Engineer

Allness Unlimited

(Internet industry)

November 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)

Design, creation, and sales, of paintings, sculpture, written content, woodworking, architectual painting, beaded jewelry, primitive tools, photography, websites, and desktop computers.
Webmaster

Himalayan Linguistics Journal

(Research industry)

April 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 6 months)

I modified, maintained, and updated the website with articles during a period of several major migrations on it's host server at UWM, until it was decided that someone closer to Santa Barbara was needed to confer in person on redesign issues during a migration to UCSB's servers. The new site is at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/HimalayanLinguistics/

After the migration I created and posted a redirect at the old address, http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/HimalayanLinguistics/
Instructor Assistant

UWM School Of Information Studies

(Higher Education industry)

January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)

I worked as assistant to Wooseob Jeong, Assistant Professor, and one of my instructors in the previous and following semesters, doing online and library research, grading papers, and other simple tasks.
Bartender

Shanahan's Irish Pub

(Wine and Spirits industry)

March 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 11 months)

This was a job i was very happy with, hanging out with people but without spending money or getting drunk. I rediscovered my enjoyment of in person service and my desire for an education. Talking to a lot of people daily about everything underscored all the things that I did not yet know. This job ended abruptly when the owner died in a traffic accident in Jamaica, which was unfortunate but for the fact that I was soon thereafter able to return to school.
Waste Water Flotation Treatment

ITU

(Textiles industry)

June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)

The science of this art showed me to aim for continuous flow in chemical processing, and that it must eventually become somewhat a batch process when it ends. An industrial laundry has effluent containing varying levels of different solvents, detergents, and unknown contaminants. Success was daily a question of repeatedly finding a new steady state between heavy fluctuations in contaminant constitution and concentration with no time to test input before it changed again. Our daily schedule included a total shut down near dawn. Shifts rotated weekly so I was alternatly responsible for start up, homogeneity, or wind down.

When output was much cleaner than required, I knew I had just more than made up for every drop I ever wasted. By the time my car got totaled during a heavy storm, I'd become responsible for more clean water than I will consume in my lifetime. No job has ever had that much of a rewarding feeling or immediacy, the only time my commute was an ever environmental gain.
Mold Setter

Generation 2 Plastics

(Plastics industry)

September 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Setting molds: some fabrication and maintenance, supervising second shift production, production reports, creating process S.O.P. checklists.
W-2 client training in mold operation and inspection. Audits. Recycled polypropylene material extrusion. Melt flow tests. Densification. Forklift. Materials blending and sorting.
Carnival Ride Operator and Maintenance, Structural Maintenance

Fun Festivals / Ray Letourneau

(Fund-Raising industry)

1978 — 1997 (19 years)

Building, apartment, carnival ride, electrical, and small engine, repair, maintenance, remodeling, and painting.

Storage, loading, driving, set up, and operation, of carnival rides.

Billing, inventory, and cashiering.

Monte LeTourneau’s Education

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1985 — 2006

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Monte LeTourneau’s Websites:

Monte LeTourneau’s Interests:

Knowledge management, distributed collaboration, archives creation, use, and management, networking social networking web ware, website design and management, Allness Being. We must be ready to love and act with great courage and clarity to out evolve human consequences.

Monte LeTourneau’s Groups:

WI Green Party, GPUS, Necedah Harvest, Wisconsin Action Alliance & PJEP, Peace Action WI, WI Network for Peace and Justice, United for Peace and Justice, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Students of Information Resources, Amnesty International