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June 27, 2003
Tlingit
Haida Technology Industries Projects Update
Central Council is
pleased to announce that Bill Martin, T&H 1st Vice-President, has
agreed to help us implement two very important technology projects in
the very near future. We will have one with the Department of Defense
and the other with the Department of the Interior. Bill has agreed to
join our management team beginning immediately. Bill is counting on his
wife, Lorraine, joining him up here sometime in the relatively near future.
His children are grown and will remain in California.
Bill was recruited
to head up these projects because of his extensive work experience in
the technology industry. He has been employed at IBM since 1965. His career
with IBM has included field work as a Hardware Engineer repairing computer
equipment in customer locations. He has also worked with the administrative
group involving accounting for and billing of leases and maintenance.
Since 1986 he has worked with the Software Support Group in San Jose where
he is responsible for diagnosing and repairing system control programs
for IBM software products.
Bill was raised in Kake and graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School
in 1961. He has a fairly large extended family throughout our Southeastern
Alaska region. Although he has lived these many years in California, he
is familiar with the lifestyle of the people in the Southeast Region.
This familiarity of the area and his work in the computer industry will
provide the tools necessary to administer the projects we are currently
involved with and other opportunities that we will be pursuing.
Bill is no stranger to our tribal government. He has been a delegate to
Central Council Tlingit & Haida General Assembly since 1990 and has
served ever since. He has been both Vice President and President of the
San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council. He has represented
our tribe on the Intertribal Trust Fund Monitoring Association since 1997.
In the DOD project
we will be subcontracting with the Intertribal Information Technology
Corporation to help convert existing architectural drawings into digitized
images in the computer. We are part of a national program to stimulate
employment under these contracts for economically depressed, rural areas.
We will be doing everything possible to have a pilot project in one of
our communities in a couple of months.
We are excited that
these projects will not only help us provide jobs in our region but it
will also assist us in making the transition from a "paper world"
to an "electronic world" in project management.
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For Information Contact:
Bill Martin, Program Manager
Tlingit Haida Technology Industries
Toll Free: (800) 344-1432 ext. 7303
Local: (907) 463-7303
E-mail:mgardner@ccthita.org
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