Kirk Hine:  

College Undergrad overseas at Univ of Maryland, European Division (was in Navy, in Spain, for most of it)...finished by using non-traditional credit from military training...did grad work at Chapman University, in Monterey, CA, Monterey Institute of Intl Studies (M.A. Teacher of Foreign Langs), and now at Regis University in Denver, working on M.Ed. Workplace After I retired from a 20-yr Navy career (see Military bio), I embarked on my second career as a teacher/trainer...it is a gift I discovered in the Navy, and I enjoy it, and believed I could make a career out of it...and I have thusfar...worked for a wonderful company when I first came to Colorado for 3.5 yrs, till they were bought out and laid off a bunch of folks, me included...I was a multimedia training specialist/consultant with them, and a better company I couldn't have asked for...great people, great work...felt more like family...couldn't believe I got paid to do what I did... After the layoff, was consulting for about 10 months before finding a position as a senior training specialist in the local hospital, teaching classroom patient registration and medical insurances to new clerks and registrars...a job I absolutely loved, outside of the pay...but then, the work helping to improve clinic operations more than compensated for that...left there after 3.5 years, then consulted for a bit before my next full-time job, with RWD...lots of travel, so when I had the chance to join my old boss at Regis Learning, I jumped on it...did course development for graduate and undergraduate college for Regis University, before they bought a local talent company, and stopped contract work...finally, have been working full-time now for 2 years for a large electronics manufacturing company, performng supply-chain management training (received experience with this at two previous companies)... Military After leaving BAHS, attended the Air Force Academy briefly...ask me about the reasons sometime...then bummed around Montana before joining the World's Finest Nuclear Navy, as a language and intelligence specialist...I was sent to Monterey, Ca to the military's foreign language training school (twice) where I learned Bulgarian and Russian, and where, as a Chief Petty Officer later in my career, I served on the staff... I served ...Expand for more