Skills and Competencies
Language Competencies:
- Koinê Greek (undergraduate major and graduate study)
- Modern High German (reading and conversation)
- Modern Spanish (reading and conversation)
- Modern French (reading)
- Modern Italian (reading)
- Classical and Late Latin (reading)
- Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (reading)
- Classical Syriac (reading)
- Talmudic Aramaic (reading)
- Sahidic, Akhmimic, and Fayyumic Coptic (reading)
Programming Competencies:
- Perl (including CGI scripts using CGI.pm)
- Javascript
- Java
- C
- SQL and PL/SQL
- Unix shell scripts
- Pascal
- debugging at source code and assembly code levels, program
prototyping, and resource editing on Macintosh
- Ibyx on Ibycus mini-computer and Ibycus SC
Software Competencies:
- client-server software: HTML, CGI, MOO, Gopher, FTP
- web creation (BBEdit, Dreamweaver, CGI scripting, Javascript)
- relational database (Oracle SQL)
- graphics (Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks)
- optical character recognition (OmniPage Pro)
- hypertext authoring software (Director)
- video authoring software (Adobe Premiere)
- sound manipulation (SoundEdit)
- communications
- Internet utilities (e.g., elm)
- multilingual word processing (Microsoft Word, Nisus)
- page layout (Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat)
- font creation (Fontographer)
- word processing (especially, Microsoft Word)
- music sequencing and notation software
Supervisory Training
- Professional Development Program (2000)
- The Penn Supervisor (1997)
- Selection Interviewing (1986)
- Program Management (1985)
- Performance Appraisal (1985)
- The Supervisor and Training (1985)
- Delegation (1985)
- Counseling Skills for Supervisors (1984)
- Meetings Don't Have to Hurt (1984)
Leadership Skills:
- Able to move into totally new situations on his own, to take
initiative in developing relationships
- Excellent at organizing his own time and working without supervision
- Keen perception of things as they could be rather than passively
accepting them as they are
- Deals well with the unexpected or critical
- No fear of taking manageable risks
- Able to lead and motivate individuals and organized groups
Management Skills:
- Planning and development of projects
- Writing grants, budgets, policies and procedures, and reports
- Establishing effective priorities among competing requirements
- Formulating and interpreting policy
- Organizing others in cooperative efforts
- Able to call in other people with expertise as needed
- Delegating
- Supervising others in their work without micro-managing
- Attaining goals
- Trouble-shooting
Communication Skills:
- Can speak extemporaneously
- Communicates effectively and with clarity
- Able to explain difficult or complex concepts, to translate jargon into
meaningful terms
- Skillful and patient teaching
- Helps others express their views and develop their own ideas
- Designs educational events and training programs
- Expert in reasoning persuasively, developing a thought, influencing
the attitudes or ideas of others
- Able to promote intangibles, to sell programs and ideas
- Poise in public appearances, able to think on his feet
in front of a crowd
- Able to use humor to illuminate reality and develop rapport
Human Relations Skills:
- Committed to serving others
- Good at listening and converying awareness
- Empathy, tact, and diplomacy
- Warmly sensitive and responsive to people's feelings and needs in
social or other settings
- Getting diverse groups to work together
- Works well on a team; collaborates with colleagues skillfully; treats
others as equals; ready willingness to share credit with others
- Takes human failings into account; deals patiently with difficult
people; works well in a hostile environment
- Thinks and acts inclusively
Learning and Research Skills:
- Delights in new knowledge; continually seeking to expose himself to
new experiences
- Highly committed to continual personal growth and learning
- Learns quickly
- Recognizes the need for more information before a decision can be
intelligently made
- Researches exhaustively
- Able to review large amounts of material and extract the essence
Problem-Solving Skills:
- Enjoys solving puzzles and problems
- Strongly committed to experimental approaches
- Able to improvise on the spur of the moment
- Sees relationships between apparently unrelated factors
- Sees the theoretical base in a practical situation
- Creative imagining
Artistic Skills:
- Playfulness
- Awareness of the value of symbolism
- Designing audio-visuals
- Photography
- Calligraphy
- Musical knowledge and taste
- Sequencing MIDI music
Jay Treat
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