Bob MacDonald - Resume

#3 906 St Charles Street

Victoria, BC

V8S 3P6

Phone 250 477 3870, 250 995 3071

Fax 250 995 3074

E-mail bobmacdonald @ gx.ca

Objective	To write. My area of special study since 1994 has been the first century CE in the Eastern Roman Empire. I have written stories from this period to bring into a new context my experience of the 20^th and 21^st century and to express the Gospel. See http://bobmacdonald.gx.ca/apokaluyiv.htm
Education	Courses, Conferences, and Colloquia 2006 The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, University of St Andrews, Richard Hays, Duke; Morna Hooker, Cambridge; John Webster, Aberdeen; Harold Attridge, Mark Nanos, and many others 2006 Proverbs- Recent Trends in Interpretation and Exegesis, Knut Heim 2006 The Samaritans; Ingrid Hjelm 2005 The Resurrection, Gerd Ludeman 2004-2005 Victoria School of Writing 2004 The Beginnings of Christianity, Justin Taylor 2003 The Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Worship: Sacrifice, George Bebawi, Jacob and Jo Milgrom, Stephan Rief, Gregory Wolfendon, Callistos Ware & others 2003 Jesus and Hell; Jesus and Apocalyptic: Jesus and his audience. Dale Allison 2002 Paul and Politics: Richard Horsley 2001 Jesus in Oral Memory: The Initial Stages of the Jesus Tradition, J. G. Dunn 2000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America, History of the Second Temple Period  (Persian through Hasmonean periods) 2000 Historical Jesus Materials and Methodology, J. D. Crossan 1963 – 1967 McGill University, Montreal, B.Sc. Mathematics
Languages:	Spoken & written English & French, Sung German, Italian, & Latin Phrasebook German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Read with dictionary Biblical Greek, Latin, and Hebrew
Courses Taught	1996-present Lectures on problem definition, object design techniques, and heuristics in systems development and corporate management. 1980-86 Structured Analysis, Design, and Information Modelling, five day hands-on workshops on building computer information systems. 1973-82 Communications Skills, a three day 18-20 hour workshop in presentations, listening, and management skills. 1980-82 Project Management, a five day workshop based on the work of Peter Drucker. 1970-76 Technical courses on programming, database, and operating systems.
Employment	1982 – present Self Employed, Yourdon Corporation (trainer), Anthony Macauley Associates (Principal since 1985), Computers, system design, object oriented & client/server programming, Government Financial Management and Program Deliveryand Performance Management. 1980 – 1981 BC Systems Corporation (Victoria) Trainer (System Development, Project Management, Communications Skills) Publications: Intuition to Implementation Prentice Hall 1987.
	1967 – 1980 IBM Canada Ltd Systems Engineer, Montreal (1 year) , Ottawa (6 years), Toronto (3 years), Calgary (3 years)
Family	Married 38+ years, 4 children. Please see brief biography at homepage. Knowledge and expertise in raising a child with foetal alcohol syndrome. http://bobmacdonald.gx.ca/biograph.htm
Current Research	Authors read in some detail include CS Lewis & Inklings, Jaques Ellul, Hans Küng, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Crossan et al. I am a low volume participant in scholarly Internet conversations, Luke/Acts, Corpus Paulinum, John-Lit., b-Hebrew See also Bibliography
Travel	I have traveled in Canada, the US and Mexico, with the natives of Canada by war canoe to Wolf Island, and in Europe including England, Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
Religions	I am Anglican by training, but am familiar with many other varieties of Christian belief as well as Judaism and Islam.
Music	I am an experienced bass and tenor and have sung extensively with many choirs and as a soloist including the role of the Evangelist in the Bach St John Passion. I am very experienced as a cantor.
Publications	Pele'yah, A donkey's Midrash on Psalm 42, a story for children, Trafford, 2003. Intuition to Implementation, Prentice Hall 1987, an attempt to understand the language of systems and structure.