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Paul J. Richardson: Educational and Information Technology Engineer

Paul J. Richardson

Paul J. Richardson describes himself as an Educational and Information Technology Engineer, although he has a strong slant toward research and design problems. To support his education, Paul has engaged employment for over 20 years in the IT/ICT industry, including: college instructor, cryptographic software engineer, network security consultant, webmaster, and digital signage administrator. These experiences have given him exposure to critical areas of instruction that many students struggle with in these domains, and thus Paul is able to serve has his own SME (Subject Matter Expert) in many cases, when preparing instructional software presentations on this content, in creating the user-interfaces (UI/UX), and writing instructional strategies compatible with software and hardware platforms for information delivery technologies, SCORM-based enterprise LMS, and popular standards based traditional internet services.

Paul has also been able to experimentally operationalize his own theories of learning when teaching graduate and undergrad accredited college courses in MIS/CS/ICT University courses (over 10 years, approx. 10 unique courses, at 4 unique colleges). In all but a few courses, Paul had exclusive design freedom, as well as delivery responsibilities (F2F, Hybrid, and Online). While most people who know Paul well describe him as gentle, deeply analytical, and honest to a fault, he is passionate and strongly committed to high values related to comprehensible organized communications in public, private, and government information delivery systems. Every experience is an experiment in learning!

Paul's Quick Stats

Stat Paul
Birthdate Feb. 4th, 1970
Hometown Raleigh
Political Views Liberal Democrat
Religious Views Open-minded
Family Wife & 5 Kids

Introduction and Welcome Message

Finally, you have NOW MET (online) someone who spends far more time on some other website than Facebook (me!). I really do LOVE Wikipedia, and I use it every single day of my life. And although I am not a very active editor of wiki articles, I do think that if you find something on here and you are 100% confident that it is blatantly wrong (as a verifiable fact, rather than interpretation or perception), then you have an obligation to correct it.

If you search the "WayBackMachine" (Internet Archive) you may find I've a large internet footprint, going 'way back' (haha) to the mid-1990's, including numerous blogs (eg., PJRichardson.com) an independent consulting 'S-Corp' I ran around 2003-2005, and my years as a graduate student at TTU. If you would like more information than that, below I have copied in a personal bio from an old resume website (which I took down, after I began using LinkedIn).

As soon as I have time to read the Help Files (yeah, like, I have TONS of extra time on my hands), OR if I'm one day really really bored or obsessed with figuring out how to use this service, THEN I'll 'pretty' this page up a bit. For now I know the basics at least, of how to edit a page.

Short Personal Biography

Note: This is very old, and needs to be updated.

Paul J. Richardson II (b. 1970) grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina the son of a theologian. In his youth, Paul played intramural soccer, competed in gymnastics, and learned to play 7 musical instruments, participating in his church band, as well as middle school, junior, and later senior high school bands (both symphonic wind ensemble and marching band). During Jr. high school, Paul was exposed to PC’s, including a TSR-80, and wrote his first BASIC program. In high school, Paul studied architecture, learned AutoCAD on a workstation computer, won state drafting competitions, began to lift weights seriously, played football, and began working with Mac computers (using Lisa). In 1988, he graduated from W.G. Enloe Sr. High School (GT Magnet Program) in Raleigh, NC, and two weeks later, he was in Orlando, Fl. beginning his training to become a US Naval nuclear engineer.


Paul graduated from a series of engineering schools which overall at the time had a 75% attrition rate and ranked second only to MIT’s engineering program according to the US News & World Report that year. Paul completed accredited coursework evaluated at just a few classes short of a BS in Nuclear Engineering Technology, and would eventually specialize in electronics. He spent his last year of military service as an electrical work station manager, electrical safety program coordinator supervising 26 divisional representatives, over 550 crewmembers, and ship wide preventative electrical maintenance trainer.


In April 1993 Paul was honorably discharged from the Navy, and 4 months later began a double major in Premedical Biology and Psychology at the University of NC at Pembroke where he made Deans List or Chancellor's list every semester. While at UNC Paul gained professional computer accounting and audit experience working FT for a national hotel chain. This income, combined with multiple scholarships, enabled Paul to purchase a laptop with Windows 3.11 and WordPerfect on it, at which time he also began using dial-up ISPs, including Prodigy, CompuServe, as well as tools like Archie and Gopher. With a GPA of 3.8, having just been accepted into the NC Chancellors Scholar's Program, Paul moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1995, where he decided to pursue separate bachelor degrees simultaneously at the University of North Florida.


While at UNF, Paul switched to UNIX, and began using Pico for email and following listserv and BBS’s. At this time, he also began working full time as a licensed security officer, and served as supervisor at various contracts. At high security sites, Paul was introduced to the use of profile databases, smart badge access, and other digital controls. Also while attending UNF, Paul worked a second job (simultaneous with his first FT job) at the PGA Tour national headquarters data center as the website technician for www.pgatour.com, from 1997 to 1999.


In the Fall of 2000 Paul completed his undergraduate studies with a BS Biology, a BA Psychology, and overall UNF GPA of 3.5. One month later, Paul was back in his home town of Raleigh, troubleshooting the world's largest Windows NT network as a Tier 2 Helpdesk Analyst with IBM. Shortly thereafter, Paul began an assignment to a special project supporting several new cryptographic and PKI applications for Federal clients transporting sensitive government data over the internet.


Paul completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Information Technology Management in the Fall of 2004. The following Spring of 2005, he began doctoral studies at Texas Tech University, and continues to study and work there now. Paul has been a simultaneous full-time employee and full-time student almost without interruption, since he graduated high school in 1988.


Mr. Richardson is a published poet, scholar of classical and some modern philosophy, and enjoys debate on epistemology, ethics, and other metaphysical topics. Paul has been lifting weights regularly for 20 years, and has written on the ethnography and sociology of weightlifting. Currently, Paul lives with his wife Belinda Richardson, BA., MA., MS., Ed.D., and 5 children in Lubbock, Texas.



Category:Philosophy of education Category:Education theory Category:Instructional design Category:Educational technologists Category:Learning management systems Category:Open-access train operating companies Category:Open-source cloud applications Category:Open-source intelligence Category:Open-access archives Category:Open access activists

Wikipedia Books Created by Paul

Synopsis of eBook

For a few years now (since the first beta version of the english Wikipedia book creator), I have been curating collections of Wikipedia articles that seem to cluster around topics I am interested in. These have made excellent references for doing comprehensive reviews, or just to serve as an offline learning tool and supplement to more central curriculum. I have used some of these in accredited college courses I have taught, but mostly they are merely for my own learning benefit.

I am collecting the links to some of them here, for quick/easy locatability moving forward, but also ensuring they are more public, in case anyone else I am working with may find one of these useful. Some of these books wound up with over 900 pages, before I trimmed them down~!

Educational and Instructional Technology Focus

  1. Title: Open Non-Profit Edu Startups and Funding:
  2. Title: Educational Technology Enabling Adaptive Hypermedia
    • Description: Reference material pointing to near-future educational technologies (eduTECH). New approaches in UI/UX tech will enable Adaptive eLearning (HyperMedia) which is artificially intelligent, adapts quickly to move learners near their proximal zone of development and keep them their by varying difficulty, pace, feedback, and motivational reward mechanisms in the interface.
    • URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paul.j.richardson/Books/eduTECH

Subject/Content Domain Curriculum (Academic)

  1. Title: Economics
  2. Title: EMR-and-SIGINT
  3. Title: Source Code Control Technologies
  4. Title: Web Development and Hosting
  5. Title: USB and other Hardware Standards
  6. Title: Cloud/Hybrid SIP and other VoIP Technologies
  7. Title: IP & DNS
  8. Title: ASP.NET-WIF
  9. Title: SoC-EmbeddedLinux-HW
  10. Title: Broadband Access for Consumers
  11. Title: HomoErectus and the Noble Savage
  12. Title: Spinal Anatomy, Injury, and Medicine

A dozen or so others can be found here: Wikipedia eBooks Directory for Paul Richardson

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