Jim Rivard's resume

Work Experience:

Appraisal.com , February 2003 - April 2006.
TeleSpectrum Worldwide Inc., November 2001 - February 2003.
Client Logic Co., August 1998 - June 2001.
A&F Service Co., October 1996 - June 1998.
Sole Proprietor, Law Practice, May 1993 - Dec. 1997, formerly licensed in the State of Washington
(inactive as of February, 1998).
Office in Moscow, Russia, business and immigration law foci.
Visiting Professor, Moscow University Touro, Nov. 1993 - April 1994,
Business Law I & II, Legal Research and Writing.
Intensive courses on black letter U.S. and C.I.S.G. commercial law.
Addressed, in Russian, live audiences, and radio audiences.
Representative, Seattle trade firm, May 1992 - May 1993, living in Moscow and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Responsibilities included Customs clearance, banking and auditing of accounts, office rental and office management, contacting government officials, evaluating local partners.
Lectured at Tashkent Law School and various English language courses.
Crew Member, AKC Corp., Sept. 1990 - Feb. 1991, 215 foot fishing vessel, Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Here are some links to newspaper articles about the "mutiny" and the problems of the company, from seizure of the ships under Admiralty Laws, to bankruptcy, to sale of the vessels. A fun time was had by all...
Real Mutiny in the Aleutians?
Unhappy Crew Delays Unloading Trawler's Cargo
Trawler Captain Relieved of His Duties
Two Seattle Seamen Held in Trawler Brawl
Nest Egg Never Hatched (This is a good summary article.)
Pay Delay Protested
Alaska Trawler Ordered Seized
Scheduled Sale of Trawlers Raises Hopes
Law Clerk, US District Court, W.D.N.Y., Hon. John T. Curtin, June - July, 1988.
Authored drafts of decisions, memoranda, provided research on state taxation of cigarette sales on native American lands, outlined current trend in 2nd. Circuit "treating physician rule", made preliminary selection of items in compelling discovery by party in large commercial litigation.
Data Analyst, Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber, Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. - Aug. 1987, dioxin litigation.
Steelworker, Republic Steel, Buffalo, N.Y. 1971-1982. 6 years in a finishing dept, burner, grinder, chipper, crane operator. Last 5 years on the 8 inch bar mill as a catcher (or strander), catching red-hot bars with a pair of tongs (about 20 inches long), as the bar came out of a rolling pass, then spinning 180 degrees with the bar, and putting the bar into the next rolling pass, to be caught by the next catcher, etc. The bars were moving at about 6 to 8 feet per second. Here are some YouTube links to view the process, (but without any catchers).

Boskay metal
Night rolling
Roughing mill production
Bascotecnia Steel - Rolling Mills
Ferriera Tre Valle part 1
Ferriera Tre Valle part 2
Steal(sic) Rolling Mill
Egypt plant part 1
Egypt plant part 2
Steelmaking Rolling
Hot steel descaling and rolling
Rolling ASCO
Ivaco Rolling Mills
Mangala Ispat
Ligne Vd1 Asco

Education:

Juris Doctor, 1990, University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York (SUNY).
Order of Barristers.
Jessup International Law Moot Court Board.
Vice-Magister, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Vice-President, International Law Society, helped organize international law conference.
Author, independent study, The Soviet Political and Economic Basis of US-USSR Joint Ventures.
Authored a paper on the development of dioxin regulation at the state and federal levels,
focusing on the Love Canal health emergency in Niagara Falls, New York.
B.A., Geology, 1986, SUNY at Buffalo; Dean's List, 1984.
McGill University, Montreal, exchange student, 1986.

Skills:

Computer programming, Pascal, LISP, including artificial intelligence, using mainframes.
Radiation science, including neutron activation, using campus reactor.
Chemistry of dioxin.
Trilingual, English, Russian, French.

Personal history:

Enjoy camping, fishing, and bicycling.
Former volunteer, Seattle Aquarium.

References available upon request.

James E. Rivard