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David Charles Bergstone - - 1423 North Main Street Salisbury, North Carolina 28144 (704) 639 -1303 Education M.A., Historic Preservation Planning, January 1992, Cornell University. • Thesis title: An Examination of Cultural Resource Databases: Guidelines for Computerizing Local Inventories • Preservation courses: Documentation for Preservation, Economics and Financing of Neighborhood Conservation and Preservation, Historic Preservation Planning Workshop, Perspectives on Preservation, Problems in Contemporary Preservation Practice, Building Materials Conservation and Laboratory, American Architecture I & II, Historic Preservation Law A.B., Art History, December 1985, University of Southern California. National Merit Scholar Areas of emphasis: 44 units in art history 55 units in architecture 20 units in programming and data processing Work Experience 1989 to 1991 Database Manager/Analyst Tompkins County Planning Department, Ithaca, NY From September 1989 to February 19911 worked part-time as a graduate intern, designing a Geographic Information System to study effects of watershed runoff on aquatic weed growth in Cayuga Lake. My primary duty was creating a database of land use information, which included writing a manual for the program. The data were pulled from a variety of sources, such as tax assessment, U.S. Census, and lake sampling sources. I became involved with other activities by trouble- shooting problems and administering the computer network's central file server. In February, I was hired full-time to manage all of the computerization efforts in the department. This was a new position. Examples of -my efforts were: computerizing the department's financial records; writing computer programs for cataloging the department's library and map files; lecturing and producing handouts for application programs; and computerizing the department's 1992 budget proposal showing different levels of budget growth. I was responsible for preparing the budget and justification for all computer hardware, software, maintenance contracts, and related expenses. One of my major activities outside the department was working with the Reapportionment Committee of the County Legislature. I presented information on the existing district sizes and proposals for reapportionment based on the new census of 94,000. This required using block level data and electronic maps from the 1990 U.S. Census. 1988 to 1990 Graduate Assistant City and Regional Planning Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY The first year I was chosen to work for the Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning. I did several types of research, such as using the University archives to locate historical information for New York City's Landmarks Commission, writing a State Register nomination for a historic homestead, and producing slides and photo enlargements of documentary materials for presentations. During the spring semester, I organized a one -day conference on masonry cleaning in cooperation with RESTORE, Inc. My activities included designing a flyer, printing materials, doing a mass mailing, maintaining a record of registrants, arranging for the site, locating lodging for the instructors, and obtaining materials for the lectures. Close to 40 people took part, and the workshop made its budget!