Work Experience

July 1995 - Present
Technology and Society, Incorporated, Portland, OR
President

Curt is the President of Technology and Society, Incorporated, an Oregon "C" corporation encompassing his work as a writer, speaker, and Excel consultant.

June 1996 - Present
ComedySportz, Portland, OR
Player, Referee, Sound, and Fight Choreographer

Curt has appeared in over 900 shows with ComedySportz Portland, including many shows and teambuilding workshops for clients including Intel, IBM, Tektronix, and NIke. In addition to those shows, he has appeared in numerous improvised musical comedies, long-form improvised shows, and four 50-minute improvised Shakespeare plays promoting the Burgerville restaurant chain's milkshakes. Curt also choreographed the sword fighting sequences for the Burgerville shows.

April 1994 - June 1995
Digital Gateway Systems, Inc., Vienna, VA
Director of Sales and Marketing

Curt maintained Digital Gateway Systems' ties with domestic clients, including various government agencies and government-related trade organizations. Curt also provided customer and sales support as required.

July 1990 - April 1994
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Member of the Technical Staff

During his time with MITRE, Curt moved from an administrative position to a technical staff position. While with the Economic Analysis Center, Curt was part of an in-house team developing defense trade analysis methodologies to determine the economic impact of military technology transfers. Prior to his tenure with the Economic Analysis Center, Curt served as a Technical Associate in the Workstation Systems Engineering Center (WSEC). His responsibilities with the WSEC included object-oriented database design and work for the Open Source Processing Research Initiative, an internally-funded project to enhance information retrieval by applying natural language processing techniques.

May 1989 - August 1989
U.S. Consulate, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Economics Intern

In the summer between his junior and senior years of college, Curt served as an economics intern at the Calgary consulate. During his term, he wrote seven reports on topics ranging from potential energy exports to the effects of acid rain.

Education

Curt received his B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Syracuse University in May 1990. He went on to complete 33 hours of coursework in information systems, computer science, operations research, and international business at George Mason University from 1991-1994.