Bruce Mortland
Brief Overview
Work Experience
Columbus Downtown High School, Columbus City Schools (2009-2013) - I currently teach computer programming to high school students at the Columbus Downtown High School. This course has evolved to become totally focused on Java, which is the result of changing focus by students, parents and school administration. I have sought and been awarded grants. I have served on my school’s ASIP team, the ABC, served on CEA’s Elections Committee. I have trained multiple student teachers during my time at the Columbus Downtown High School including Nina Dearing, Brad Henry. Motivated by my students,, I took on two additional tasks: 1) I created a speech club (Gavaliers, a student version of Toastmasters) that meets weekly and 2) During the 2012-2013 school year, I managed 46 students and their efforts to pass their physical education course.
I have spent significant amounts of time establishing job shadows and internships. My students have served in many downtown organizations enhancing their educational experience. These organizations include Franklin County Auditor’s Office, Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Nationwide Insurance, Columbus City Schools, Childrens Hospital, Chase Bank, Ohio Department of Education, WOW Communications and others.
Consulting for CET Learning (2013-2015) - CET Learning is an online learning community serving over 250 high schools in Ohio and the Midwest. My function was to create online curriculum using the Moodlerooms environment.
Briggs High School, Columbus City Schools (2006-2012) - I have a state of Ohio coaching certificate and I coached girl’s tennis at Briggs High School.
Consulting for Credability (2011-2012) – I built a commercial-grade learning management system for an Atlanta-based company. Credability maintains offices in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee and one of its functions is to provide consumer financial education. This LMS was created to expand the reach of Credability’s services to other states, as well as serve their five core states. The LMS created contained multiple courses, each with a series of modules. Modules each contained a quiz and curriculum was presented through video and written text. The LMS was created using MoodleRooms technologies.
Northeast Career Center, Columbus City Schools (2000-2009) – I taught the Software Development and Systems Technology courses. Software Development was a Java course, teaching coding, analysis and design skills. The Systems Technology course was designed to be a survey of information technology. In this course, I taught the basics of networking, building web pages, and software development. I served as union representative in this building and attended the High Schools That Work conference (2003) and was invited to the National Educational Computing Conference (2003) by Cisco Systems to demonstrate the Cisco Java online curriculum. During my time here, I became a certified Java Programmer and also a Cisco-certified Java instructor, one of two in the country.
Novatec Automation (1997-2000) – I was a programmer available on a contract basis through Novatec Automation. Since joining Novatec Automation, I had been placed continuously in the same position with Chemical Abstracts Service. During my service at CAS, I was responsible for their software management subsystem, consisting of 150,000 lines of source code. This software tracks code changes and manages the code’s return to production. Although most of the programs run on a UNIX platform, this software communicates with an IBM mainframe and controls compile, link and Pan Valet management jobs. I was initially hired to port this code from a VAX system to Solaris. Afterwards, I was responsible for making this code Y2K compliant. This involved extensive testing and changes where applicable. My final project was to remove JCL (IBM’s Job Control Language) from this code and place the functionality on the IBM mainframe in the form of procedures or UNIX system calls where applicable.
Online Computer Library Center (1985-1997) - I was a systems analyst in the database quality section. I was responsible for analysis, design, coding, documentation, installation and ongoing support of software products. I received ISO 9000 training and my projects required such documentation. From 1985 to 1988, I worked in the Office of Research, writing user interface software. I researched how interfaces could enhance the searches performed by users. I wrote software that created windows, controlled mouse devices, loaded graphic images and presented text in the original book format. To perform this task, an interface development language, known internally as ‘D’ coauthored by Anthony Repka and I. This work was performed with a proprietary search engine and interface software and resulted in a paper being presented at the National Online Meeting conference (1988, New York). From 1988 to 1997, I worked in software development. These projects allowed me to work with such prestigious institutions as the Library of Congress, Harvard and Yale. I created software that performs corrections to subject headings, including typographic, style and obsolete corrections. For a brief time, I worked in the database support section, a group responsible for maintaining batch processes and search engines for OCLC's online databases, including the world's largest bibliographic database. I developed software for the IBM PC, Sun workstation, IBM 3090 and Tandem computers. Although most of my work was in the C language, I programmed and supported code in TAL, IBM assembler, CLIST, COBOL and PL/1.
Olympia Resort and Conference Center (1995) – This was an opportunity to work at a large resort hotel and conference center in Wisconsin. I worked as coordinator with hotel staff to prepare the lodgings and conference space for two large groups, each of which would fill the hotel. During this one week period of time, I adapted the facilities to the needs of each group and, in general, assisted with the needs and requests of visitors and staff taking whatever actions necessary. Because of this work I received a letter of commendation from one of the groups as a result of my direct contact with the meeting's organizers during their stay.
Loving Real Estate (1990-1993) – I worked part-time as a real estate agent for Charles Loving. Much of my time was spent working in residential real estate, assisting buyers and sellers with their needs.
Warren Electric (1983-1984) - I was employed to sell personal computer hardware and supplies to legal and medical offices in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
Loral Services (1981-1983) - I was a partner in a company that provided computer services for business. I was responsible for all customer software development. During my time here, we worked with cutting-edge PC technologies to produce working applications for mostly the Intel/MS-DOS platform. Additionally, from time to time, we produced software for the Apple II, III and other platforms as well. We worked with customers to define the contract and lead the analysis and design process. I performed design and development using mostly Dbase II software, as well as managing three programmers who reported directly to me.
K-Mart (1976-1982) - This was a part-time position that averaged 25 hours per week. When school permitted, I would work 40 hours when possible. This job initially started as a stock person. I retrieved cases of merchandise from the storeroom, stocked and fronted shelves. Additionally, as needed, I would operate the cash registers, empty trash, clean restrooms, load cars, stay overnight in the building to clean the store and gather carts. As my experience grew, I was assigned sales positions in jewelry and appliances. I also managed the garden center where I learned (and held a license) to drive a forklift. Additionally, I worked the stock room unloading trucks, compacting trash, processing the bill of lading and ensuring that all stock was organized for efficient retrieval for the floor staff.
Other Experience
The Fifth Avenue Civic Association (2011-current) - for legal reasons, it became necessary for the area commission to form a non-profit organization. The Fifth Avenue Civic Association was formed as a non-profit 501(c). Because of my experience with Local Effort Global Effect, I was appointed president of this group. We serve the 5xNW area, attracting grants and funding projects in the area. We are responsible for creating a more pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, primarily focusing on providing and advocating for shade, sidewalks and storm drainage for pedestrian walkways.
Rental Properties (1990-current) - I own and manage two doubles.
The Fifth by Northwest Area Commission (2006-2013) – I served as an unpaid elected official for the city of Columbus. I assist citizens obtaining access to city services, promote city programs and events, review zoning proposals and define community standards for an area generally bounded by Ohio State University, Upper Arlington, Grandview and Marblecliff. I served as treasurer, secretary and vice-chair for the commission and as chair of the communications committee. During my tenure, I was involved in the development of the urban-commercial overlay. I created, promoted and managed the 5xNW Pizza Crawl, an annual event that promotes the many pizza restaurants in our area as well as the Italian heritage of the Grandview area. I was responsible for promoting the commission at many public events in our community, including the monthly Grandview Art Hop and the seasonal weekly Grandview Avenue Farmers Market.
Barack Obama Presidential Re-Election Campaign (2012) - I served as Neighborhood Team Leader and was responsible for recruiting hundreds of volunteers, organizing weekly phone banks and weekly canvasses of neighborhoods. Most of the campaign season, March-October was spent in the Victorian Village, Italian Village and Columbus 33 areas of Columbus. The last four weeks of the campaign, I was transferred to the Grandview, Marble Cliff, and Columbus Ward 10. During this time, I organized a team without leadership and built a team that conducted walking canvasses, phone banks and in the last four days of the campaign, my team of more than 120 volunteers knocked on thousands of doors. Although most of our volunteers were from the areas we canvassed, we also had volunteers from California, New York, Indiana, Belgium and Great Britain.
Grandview Avenue Farmers Market (2010-2011) – For two years, I acted as part of a team of three market managers that created a vibrant market that generated enthusiasm in the community. We were responsible for attracting musical entertainment, providing childrens activities, managing community business supporters and seeking out non-agricultural vendors. I personally was responsible for attracting, managing and motivating market volunteers.
Local Effort Global Effect (2008-2010) – I was involved in the start-up of a non-profit organization in the Grandview area to empower people through volunteerism for the good of the neighborhoods generally described as Grandview, Arlington and Victorian Village. Through this organization, I have taught computer classes to special-needs adult clients of Goodwill Industries. With the president of the organization, we created the ‘Light the Night’ event, a community event that, in one evening, surveyed the every street and intersection and reported to the City of Columbus all non-working intersection signals, pedestrian signals and street lights.
EasyGreen BioFuels (2005-2010) – I was one of four partners in an organization that produced bio-diesel fuel from waste oil. We retrieved oil from retail restaurant locations and transported the oil to a production site. I have been involved with all aspects of fuel production, from testing incoming samples to analyzing the final product. We presented our production process and experiences at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association annual conference. My vehicle (Volkswagen Jetta) used bio-diesel that we produced.
Barack Obama Presidential Election Campaign (2008) – I was responsible for recruiting over 200 volunteers, organizing phone banks and canvassing neighborhoods. Although these volunteers spent most of their time in Precincts 33F,G and H (Grandview, Marble Cliff, Victorian Village) During the final days of the election, I served as Blue Captain, responsible for all volunteers. I sent volunteers all over the city and into suburban communities, cut turf and organized logistics (ie. food, rain gear, campaign materials, etc) for volunteers, placed volunteers to monitor voting locations for voter turnout, assisted with voter problems and directed legal resources to polls with discrepancies.
The Glen Neighborhood Association (1998-2003) – I served on the board for my neighborhood association. Our work includes social events, informing members of the association of current problems and consulting with developers and zoning officials.
Columbus Landmarks Foundation (1989-1997) - The Columbus Landmarks Foundation is an advocacy organization for historic structures in Central Ohio. I served on a board of directors for 2 years whose responsibility it was to determine the goals and vision of the organization. I chaired the human resources committee, whose responsibilities were the annual review of the executive director, soliciting replacement board members and recruiting volunteers. I was also responsible for providing a monthly written committee report and, annually, a budget and goals for the upcoming year. As a member of the education committee, I served as classroom education coordinator, my primary responsibility being to find instructors to teach historic preservation topics of interest to the community. I served for many years on the education committee, acting as a tour guide, teaching classes, seeking out corporate support for our programs and helping the committee to set the goals and tasks of the committee.
The Board for Friends of the Grandview Heights Public Library (1991) – I served as a board member and treasurer for the organization. I assisted with events and our organization provided needed funds for the Grandview Heights Public Library.
Education
Ashland University – In May, 2015, I received a Masters degree in Education for Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. My overall grade point average at Ashland is 3.89.
Ohio State University – I have taken my teaching licensure courses at The Ohio State University. My overall grade point average at OSU is 3.87.
I have passed my Praxis II and III exams.
Youngstown State University - I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Technology in 1984.