Education:
9/95: The Mentor Series for Forensic Vocational Expert Certificates for Beginning Workshop and Intermediate Workshop. Workshop emphasizes forensic vocational assessment, forming and defending vocational opinion, the expert's role in testimony, methodology, research, terminology, loss of earning capacity, etc.

9/72 to 6/74: San Jose State University; San Jose, California
Masters Degree in Social Work; Master's thesis in research. Special emphasis included research projects, and proposal writing. Also, extensive analysis of data with charts, surveys, statistics, etc. Graduation requirement included "Certification of Bilingual Spanish/English" on a conversational level.

9/65 to 6/67: University of California; Davis, California
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology.

9/63 to 6/65: Foothill Junior College; Los Altos Hills, California
Associate of Arts Degree.

Employment Experience:
9/95 to present: Perez and Associates;
Forensic Vocational Expert
Expanded services to include forensic vocational evaluation and testimony.

11/91 to Present: Perez and Associates;
Bilingual Vocational Counselor
Established private business to provide vocational services to injured workers as a Qualified Rehabilitation Representative.

11/89 to 11/91: McCall, Nill, and Associates, Inc.; San Jose, California
Bilingual Vocational Counselor
Responsibilities included extensive interviewing, analysis of vocational testing, analysis of labor market conditions, basic formulation of opinion regarding client's feasibility to participate in vocational services. Specialized in Spanish speaking populations. Joined California Association of Rehabilitation and Re-employment

1/77 to 9/78: South County Alternatives; Gilroy, California
Social Worker
Small community-oriented agency. Duties included short term counseling emphasizing vocational skills and drug awareness, administration of grants, interface with various media and businesses to promote social programs, and grant proposals.

1975: Human Resources Corporation; San Francisco, California
Field Group Leader
Administered research projects involving social services in Santa Clara County. Duties included public speaking and community services surveys.

1967 to 1971: San Mateo County Department of Public Health and Welfare; San Mateo, Ca.
Social Worker
Administered all of San Mateo County Programs including Food Stamps, Medi-Cal, etc. Several public speaking engagements on the Food Stamp program for clients and formulation of economic formulas for professionals. Other responsibilities included: counseling toward achievement of financial independence, extensive paperwork, interface with other community resources, and translation for intake unit on all Spanish speaking cases. Also established conversational Spanish classes for entire staff.