I have just received the Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG) Award from Toastmasters International!
Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG)
- Achieved Advanced Communicator Silver award (or achieved Able Toastmaster Bronze award or Advanced Toastmaster Silver award)
- Completed two additional advanced communication manuals (10 speeches)
- Conducted a presentation from the Success/Leadership Series, Success/Communication Series or a Youth Leadership (I conducted an interactive workshop on How to Conduct Productive Meetings.)
- Coached a new member with the first three speech projects
- By the time you earn the Advanced Communicator Gold award, you will have completed six of the available Advanced Communication Series manuals and will have learned many valuable speaking skills. (total of 30 speeches)
About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).