The following DACS members have been nominated for the Board of Directors for 2015-2016. Please show your support by voting at the annual meeting, December 1st, or by volunteering to serve on our Board.
Bert Goff (incumbent) — has been the DACS Treasurer and a Board member for the past 2 years; and a member for over twelve years. He is retired from IBM and some independent software development contracting. Computers remain one of his interests and hobbies. With IBM, he was involved in all phases of software development, primarily in operating systems. His PC experience goes back to 1982 with the first IBM PCs (64K, 2 diskette drives, and DOS 1.0). He is also an active volunteer with the Red Cross, doing disaster work and blood drives. He and his wife, Vivian, ran the New Milford Wheels Program, which provides rides to medical appointments for those who cannot drive themselves, from 2011 through 2013. Many years ago, he was Treasurer of his church for 2 years. He has a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and lots of education from IBM, including in management and leadership. He is a US Navy veteran, having run the Data Processing Department at the Navy Supply Depot on Guam. He and his wife moved to Connecticut (Bethel) in 2000 and now live in New Milford.
David Green — After serving in the U.S. Army for 3 years (1955 – 1958) in the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point, NY, Dave taught instrumental music for 6 years. In 1964 he became a computer programmer trainee at Security National Bank in Battle Creek. After working as a computer operator for 4 months in 1966 at the Defense Logistics Service Center in Battle Creek, he entered their programmer training class, which led to a position as Systems Programmer, a position he held until taking a job with General Foods in 1978. That involved a move to work in their headquarters in White Plains, NY. In 1985 Dave became a consultant, working as a systems programmer until 1994, when he became a Systems Analyst for the Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET). After 6 months they outsourced their systems programming staff to Computer Sciences Corporation, for whom he worked until his retirement in 2001. He got his first PC in 1983, teaching himself since then.
Tom Zarecki (incumbent) — has spent many decades working in broadcast radio, marketing and media. A radio DJ at age 13, Tom worked at radio stations throughout his teens. He was one of the co-founders of the campus station WXCI-FM at Western CT State University, and a few years later was one of the founding members of radio station I-95 (WRKI-FM) and was that station’s very first morning DJ and program director.
As marketing director for Radio Computing Services, Inc. (RCS), a worldwide radio software company in New York, Tom created and wrote materials for web pages, product brochures and animated demos, and was the lead spokesperson and head writer for RCS for 14 years.
Currently, besides serving on the board of directors for DACS (Danbury Area Computer Society), Tom now hosts “The Weekend Wakeup Show” at WJMJ-FM radio in Hartford, CT, co-hosts “Business Backstory” a weekly radio program at WestConn station WXCI-FM where he also serves as faculty advisor, and teaches in both the marketing department and the communication & media arts department at Western CT State University.