Benjamin Robert "Bob God" Taylor

• Objective:

My immediate short-term goal is to participate, from the comfort of my own home, in an intellectually challenging, part-time position where my knowledge and experience in parks and recreation management, theological and linguistic education, health care, health science education, desktop production, website design and middle-to-top-level management may all be utilized synergisticly. I am eager to devote my time and skills to the success of meritorious and worthwhile projects. E-mail me at bobgod@bobgod.com with details of your business' or charitable endeavor's goals and expectations.

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• Professional Experience:

Highplains Artworks (FFL)
Pistolsmith, Firearm Designer - 2001 through Present through Present

In concert with my wife Artist Karin Wolf, I design and build custom pistols for concealed carry, competition, collecting and combat. The pistols we craft have no sharp edges or pointy protrusions; they are smooth to the touch and draw smoothly from holster or pocket while offering a firm, secure grip.

I do not employ the use of any machinery or mechanical devices in my pistolsmithing; all work is done by hand with the simplest of hand tools. Needle files, scrapers and extra-fine India stones assure the most precise fit possible. Personalization and decorative embellishments are likewise hand engraved by Artist Karin.

We cannot mass-produce these individual works of art. Some take a year or more to complete. If you've always desired a very special personal or gift weapon, though, Artist Karin's museum grade engraving and precision inlays of copper, brass, fine silver or white, yellow, green or rose 24 karat gold - together with my own tediously hand fitted bushing, barrel, hammer, sear, safety, spring and trigger components - are well worth the wait!



Desert Dolphin Designs/Angelfire Productions
HTML Author, Website Designer and WebMaster - 1994 through Present *

As an independent contractor, I have built and maintained hundreds of large and small commercial and personal internet websites for Internet Service Providers, small businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals.

Northwest Medical Center, Education Dept. / Baptist Nursing College - Springdale, AR.
B.L.S. & First Aid Instructor , B.L.S. Instructor Trainer - June 1995 through June 1997

For two years I taught Basic Life Support and Emergency Cardiac Care to students in Nursing and Respiratory Therapist curriculum, recertified hospital personnel in C.P.R, trained B.L.S. and E.C.C. Instructors and Instructor Trainers, and taught Community First Aid and Safety classes throughout Washington County.

Miami-Dade Community College, Kendal Campus, English & Health Science Depts.
English Writing &Word Processing Tutor - Summer 1992 through Winter 1994
Assistant First Aid & C.P.R. Instructor - Fall 1994

For six semesters I tutored English as a Second Language, taught remedial writing skills and word processing (i.e. WordPerfect for Windows and D.O.S, WordPerfect and MS Word for Mac) at M.D.C.C's English Writing Center. I also assisted in teaching a combined one semester National Safety Council First Aid and American Heart Association C.P.R. class that surpassed national First Responder requirements.

Smart Software Solutions - North Miami Beach, FL
Office Manager, General Secretary, Computer Consultant / Technician - 1988 through 1992

In addition to performing the duties of office manager and secretary to the owners of the business, I designed, assembled, installed and maintained I.B.M. 'clones' and Novell networks for various clients, including the Miami Herald and the Linda Ray Center for Abused and Abandoned Infants.

Stuart Bloom & Associates, A.V. Specialists - Miami, FL
General Manager, Audio & Lighting Technician, Videographer - 1988 through 1990

I was under contract for two years as the in-house photographer for the Fashion dept. at the Miami International Merchandising Mart and provided convention services to Sheraton Bal Harbour.


Campers Paradise / Everglades Safari Park - Homestead, FL
Store Manager, Tour Guide in Fl. Everglades - 1984 through 1987

I operated a backpacking outfitter's shop near the main entrance to Everglades National Park, chartered airboat tours on State of Florida lands bordering the park and gave lectures on backpacking, canoeing, low impact camping, the local ecosystem and indigenous flora and fauna. On contract, I have outfitted several international expeditions; most notably James Erwin and Robert Ruff's expedition to search for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey and for the Miami Metro-Zoo's wild bird capture team's expedition to Sarawak, Borneo.

Summerland Key Marina / Mangrove Safaris - Summerland Key, FL
General Manager, Staff Photographer, Tour Guide in lower Fl. Keys - 1978 through 1984

For more than six years I supervised a full service marina and commercial fishing operation while also leading seasonal open canoe tours of mangrove forests in and around the National Key Deer Sanctuary and the National Great White Heron Refuge.

B. Kenny Taylor Construction and Realty - Shreveport, LA
Laborer, Carpenter's Helper, Carpenter's Apprentice, Carpenter, Roofer, Foreman, Draftsman, Surveyor's Assistant, Interior Decorator, Real Estate Salesman, Realtor - 1965 through 1978

Beginning when I was ten years old, the summer after sixth grade, I worked in my father's construction company every summer until I completed high school in 1972. After graduating from high school, I continued working with my father for another six years. Beginning with the basics - picking up and burning trash from jobsites - I successively worked through every phase of home construction until I had mastered them all except plumbing and electricity, which we were forced by political circumstances to subcontract to members of those unions.

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• Related Talents and Skills:

Throughout junior and senior high school and on into college, I kept busy even when I wasn't working, I canvassed entire neighborhoods and helped people register to vote, tutored inner city youth in English and math and took groups of young underprivileged kids on outings as a volunteer for Sister Margaret McAffee's Community Action Program. In an unrelated volunteer position, at Holy Angels nursing home, I helped train people with developmental difficulties to perform menial tasks in assembly lines and also helped the nuns with dirty work eschewed by other volunteers.

Before finishing high school, I qualifiedd for certification as a SCUBA diver. I participated in a series of more than a dozen three and four day seminars between 1968 and 1970 to complete the Ecumenical Institute of St. Louis' community leadership program and later workeed as youth director at Saint Mary of the Pines and again working with Sister Margaret, where I developed, coordinated and implemented an archdiocese wide program of collecting, repairing or refurbishing, sorting, wrapping, labeling and delivering Christmas packages of foods and presents for hundreds of needy families as part of a Vatican II scolarship to Centenary College.

I also earned an AA degree in architecture from the Shreveport-Bossier Vo-Tech Center, completed 90 hours of Real Estate Law at L.S.U. and another 36 hour course at Adam's Institute of Marketing to qualify for my Realtor's license.

I have lectured Scouts from Brownies to Explorer Scouts in a number of states, have worked both as a volunteer as well as professionally in the fields of wildlife conservation and health science education, and have taught First Aid, C.P.R. and English as a second language to students from around the world.

I worked together with George and Lori Bahadu, O.D. and R.N, respectively, and with the aid of Caroline and Marsha in setting up the first field hospital after Hurricane Andrew devastated my neighborhood in 1992; three days before the National Guard came in and a full week before FEMA arrived. Our work, along with that of two nurses named Barbara and Ellie from Dade County Emergency Services and Sergeants Shelly Jones and Clarice Smiley from the 82nd Aairborne's 53rd Battalion C-Med Division, earned us all a Presidential Humanitarian Service Award.

I am adept at setting up, operating and maintening a wide range of both Mac and I.B.M. computers & periphials as well as a variety of (film) photographic, (digital and analogue) audio and (digital) video equipment. In the olden days, before Tivo, I have even been known to have successfully programed VCRs.

I possess proven interpersonal and managerial skills, a superlative vocabulary and a sense of humor that is always "on." I have a socially chameleonic personality, a dulcet baritone speaking voice, performance experience on stage, radio and both before and behind cameras.

I am a P.A.D.I. Certified S.C.U.B.A. Diver, hold current C.P.R. and First Aid Instructor's ratings with both the National Safety Council and the American Red Cross, an Instructor Trainer's rating with the American Heart Association and Non-Violent Crisis Prevention Intervention certification with the National Crisis Prevention Institute.

I taught Community First Aid and Safety classes as a volunteer at the Prescott Arizona Red Cross and was a member of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Posse until I discovered that the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office is being run as a criminal organization (and is presently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice).

I have been a member of Mensa and the National Honor Society and maintained a 3.8 G.P.A. on the Dean's List in college.

I have served as a member of the Boards of Directors for the Aquarian Academy and the Northwest Arkansas Youth Ranch, worked as Youth Director for Saint Mary of the Pines Catholic Church and as a volunteer firefighter and first responder for the Ponca, Arkansas V.F.D.

Over the years I have sold display and classified advertising and have written advertising copy and feature articles for a number of publications, including Miami's Community Newspapers and The Miami Herald in Miami, FL and The Ozark Gazette in Fayetteville, AR.

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To negotiate terms of recompense for the engagement of my talents in your enterprise, please:


(A.) E-mail me at bobgod@bobgod.com

(B.) snail-mail me @ Benjamin Taylor, POB 2986, Chino Valley, AZ, 86323

or

(C.) telephone (928) 636-2666 between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m. on weekdays only.