Timothy Dees:  

Life After high school, attended San Jose State University and graduated with a BA in biology, but didn't do well enough for medical school. Worked as a dispatcher for the campus police department my last year, and got interested in law enforcement. Moved to Reno, Nevada and worked for the Reno Police Department from 1979-1991. I then transferred to the Reno Municipal Court as a bailiff, and left the city altogether in 1993. I earned a master's in criminal justice while at Reno PD, and got my first full-time teaching job at the now-defunct Mount Senario College in Ladysmith, WI in 1994. I taught at colleges in West (by God) Virginia, Georgia, and Oregon, worked for the Oregon Dept. of Public Safety Standards and Training for a year and a half. In 2005, I became the editor-in-chief of Officer.com, a law enforcement web site. I moved to Maryland to take the job, but as soon as I was able moved back to Kennewick, WA, where I had lived for five years before Maryland. In late 2007 I was recruited by Elsevier to head up a new law enforcement web site, LawOfficer.com. I took the job effective January 2008, and we went live with the site on May 4, 2008. The working conditions were the same as before - in fact the job was pretty much the same as before, except that I like the employer and the pay better. I worked from my home when I wasn't traveling to some conference or trade show. All that ended when my job was eliminated in July 2009. Now I'm lookin...Expand for more