Instructor

Contact information

Office hours in 2938: MW 2:00-4:00pm or by appointment. Located on the third floor of Maggini Hall.

Office phone number: 527-4216. Unanswered and busy calls are forwarded to the campus voice mail system so that you can leave me a message, but I check them only when I am on campus.

Open lab hours in 2920: MW 4:00-5:50pm and T 12:00-1:50pm. Located on the third floor of Maggini Hall. Get personal help from me while you work!

Email address: bpurcell@santarosa.edu (checked daily unless I am out of town). It is important that you include your section number in the subject line of the email.

Course materials: www.santarosa.edu/~bpurcell

Computer Studies department website: www.santarosa.edu/cis

Computer Studies department phone: 527-4778

Biography

I grew up in Caldwell, NJ. I have lived in upstate New York, Isla Vista, Kauai, Tallahassee, Charleston, south Florida, and since 1981, Santa Rosa, my favorite. I have traveled to 48 states, 10 Canadian provinces, 13 countries in Central and South America, 10 countries in Europe, and 5 more countries in the Caribbean. I have hitchhiked over 30,000 miles, hopped several freights, crewed a sailboat 900 miles, jumped solo from an airplane, backpacked in the wilderness over 150 nights, and ride a motorcycle. My jobs have included being a NYC messenger, postal carrier, forest fire fighter, mosquito control biologist, computer programmer, and high school teacher. I have taught full-time at SRJC since 1985 including COBOL, BASIC, dBASE, Pascal and C++ programming, computer literacy, database management, Excel, management information systems, expert systems, operating systems, and Photoshop. I am an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop CS4. I am a follower of Jesus Christ; my relationship with Him is more important to me than anything else. I met my wife while watching the sunset on the beach in Florida. We have been married since 1980 and have a son who is attending Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Education

B.S. in Environmental Science, UC Santa Barbara, 1973

M.S. in Biological Oceanography, Florida State University, 1977

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things." (Philippians 4:8)