The Prescott Computer Society will conduct its annual election via Email during the month of April 2026.
The PCS Board of Directors is composed of nine officers whose terms are for two years. About half of these seats are up for
election each year - four in one year and five in the next. There are four two-year positions open at this election.
Photos and statements of qualification of the candidates are posted below in alphabetical order.
Joan has been in computers since the 1970's. She started as an elementary school teacher, then worked for the State of Illinois as a Computer Programmer III,
a Systems Analyst for Wang Labs and later as a software trainer for Texas Instruments and other companies. She settled in Prescott in 2007 and has worked for
various companies in the area while also operating her own Computer Training / Consulting business and teaching credited computer classes for Yavapai College
as an Adjunct Professor and later for their Community Education Department. "I appreciate all the hard work the PCS Board Members do, giving their time and
energy to keep us all abreast of current technology."
Been involved with computers since the mid-eighties and then mainly on the hardware side. Since then, been using the software side and latest technologies
daily in my academic and industrial project management career, until my retirement in 2017. Have always been affiliated with my professional associations and
membership with various identities I had interests in. I've recently been elected to the Board and sincerely hope to be an asset to this Society, as I believe its
existence is most important in a community like ours.
John Carter's industry experience includes computer hardware engineering, software engineering, customer support, technical instructor, and technical
writer. His hobbies and interests are astronomy, metaphysics, physics, and the study of consciousness. John keeps busy in retirement taking photos of the
night sky and preparing and giving computer related presentations to the Prescott Macintosh Users Group.
I have been hooked on computing since 1966 when I learned to program in Basic via teletype using a time-shared GE computer owned by Pillsbury in Atlanta.
My first personal computer was a HeathKit H8 which I assembled in 1977. All the power of a 500 kHz/16 kB computer with audio cassette storage was intoxicating.
Since then, I have continually modified my existing computers and built new ones about every three years. Sadly, most of them eventually had to be sent to a farm
upstate, but still, I miss them. My day job was as a physician in medical oncology, which did divert some of my attention from computers.
