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David
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Dartmouth College 37 Dewey Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 646-1065 david.w.ricker@dartmouth.edu |
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David W. Ricker is currently the Associate Director of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Prior to this he served as a Senior Programmer/Analyst, creating custom strategic financial applications, for Dartmouth's Endowment and Investment Office. Prior to coming to Dartmouth, Mr. Ricker was a Senior Programmer/Analyst at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he held a Department of Energy security clearance. There, as part of a PeopleSoft ERP implementation, he built a custom Pension Management application for the Labs. For this work, he has been cited in a popular textbook. While living in Albuquerque, he was also a member of the Cibola Search and Rescue team where for five years he participated in dozens of mountain rescue and recovery efforts for the State of New Mexico for everything from lost hikers to fallen climbers to downed aircraft.
Mr. Ricker has worked in the Information Technology field for over 25 years in industries as diverse as manufacturing, global trade, publishing, public utilities, telecommunications, and education. By the time he had graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1986 with a B.S. in Computer Science, he already had three years of IT experience in a marketing firm and a technology startup. Upon graduation, he began his formal career with consulting wing of Arthur Andersen and Co. (which later became Accenture), with clients in Cleveland, Manhattan and Chicago. After leaving Andersen, he became an independent consultant and during that period obtained a Masters Degree in English from John Carroll University in Cleveland.
During a short sabbatical from his IT career, he lived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana and worked at Glacier National Park. It is here he met his wife of 15 years, and the mother of his four children, one of whom has a very rare and severe chromosomal disorder called Trisomy 13, or Patau Syndrome. His experiences in the raising of this child and the interactions with the medical establishment formed the basis for his role in helping create the curriculum for the "From the Other Side of the Stethoscope (FOSS)" program of the Dartmouth Medical School, a requirement for all 3rd year medical students at the completion of their 6-week pediatric clerkship. In 1994, during another sabbatical from his IT career, Mr. Ricker was given a private commission to write a book later entitled A Bit Part in History: Bernie Hawks of Bar Harbor, Maine. His poetry has been published in the Northern New England Review and The Bloodroot Literary Magazine.
Mr. Ricker has been part of Information Technology Council of Western Governors University (WGU) since its inception in 1998 as an advisor and senior faculty member on curricular matters, including curriculum and assessment development, course auditing, and a short stint as a mentor to the mentors. He currently helps oversee seven IT programs with over 3500 students. When not working, Mr. Ricker enjoys the simple pleasures of reading, writing, playing with his children, as well as helping them learn the violin, and generally rattling around amidst the fields, forests and stone walls of his 13 acre hillside sheep farm in Orford, New Hampshire.