Poor Ol' Norward J. Brooks

Norward J. Brooks, Ph.D - Executive Dean

Too proud to ask competent computer people either on the Seattle Vocational Institute campus or the Main Seattle Central Campus. He knows/knew nothing about computers but still hired two scam artists to start and manage their own programs. The first mistake was hiring Michael Baker to teach a Computer Tech course. This guy was total bullshit but at least he had a few students and the program lasted a few years.

The real character misjudgment he made was with Steve Mulligan who accomplished absolutely nothing but a paycheck for himself. At least his big fat failure only lasted a year. A grand plan for an IT educational department my ass.

Then you have people like Portia Carter who ran her little fiefdom of special needs kids and financial aid. Great program but Portia was a bitch who operated mostly at the top of her lungs. She was second in seniority to Norward so he could not have gotten rid of her but could have tried to tone her down ... like when she made a public accusation I was deleting her files. The problem was trying to get people to save their files on the server instead of "who knows where" on their PC. Norward did not like to rock the boat and I had the feeling that is how he got the job. The way Norward handled a few other personnel issues that came up I can't help think there was some racism involved. Very ineffective as Dean of a Campus

Oh well ... I've been gone for 10 years and the four I mentioned are all gone as well. The new website does not list employees or teachers so I don't know who is there now. There were a lot of good people and some are still there I'm sure.

Steve Mulligan - Bull-shit artist

This sad sack of BS came to the College Campus I was the IT manager of in 2002-2003.   He bull shitted his way in with some grand plan for an IT educational department.  Problem is our campus had NO tech savvy and was starving for programs that could bring students in.

I challenged his bullshit ideas at one point and he threatened me with physical harm if I exposed him.   Gladly someone figured something out because he was only there for a little over a year and he accomplished nothing except a paycheck for himself.

Steve's BS BIO - A salesman and nothing more

He was also aided by a misfit named Michael Baker who scammed his way into teaching a computer tech class ... and Mike was only interested in his job.   I'll get back to Michael Baker on a later post.   I just hope these two have found used car salesman jobs somewhere because they don't seem to be able to do anything else.

The long time President of our small technical campus has now retired and I sure hope there is someone that knows something technical ... and/or the Seattle Community College District is overseeing our/my campus

Michael Baker