Sam, a 5-year veteran of the Fayette County Office of Technology, was born and raised right here in Lexington, Kentucky, graduating from Lafayette High School in 1988. Before FCPS, he was the Microcomputer Support Specialist (the computer guy) in the department of Design Engineering at Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company. He holds an Associate in Applied Science in Computer Information Systems from Lexington Community College. Sam has a reputation at FCPS as a can-do computer guy, and hence finds himself frequently being tapped as a trainer and technology leader.

When he is not up to his ears in computers, Sam enjoys fishing, camping, and ". . . general outdoor mayhem." He dabbles in woodworking, serving as a volunteer moderator for Ryobi's Power Tool Forum on-line. Sam, wife Adele, two sons David (5) and Chase (3), and their new 9 week old Chocolate Lab Chaka, live on the outskirts of Midway, KY. 

[Look for Sam's Windows2000 Tips in video format in the next issue of TIPS - JJ]

Mrs. Keith is a relative newcomer to Lexington, having moved here in 1999. Her husband, BJ, found the advertisement for her present position on the Internet, and she interviewed for the job through a conference call to her office at Washington State University - an appropriate beginning for her new Technology Resource Teacher job!

Jenni was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. She has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as Seattle and Pullman, Washington. She holds a BA in Elementary Education from Washington State University, and an MA in Curriculum & Instruction with Emphasis on Educational Technology from Lesley College - a degree she earned in part through distance learning (on-line classes). In Washington she was an elementary teacher before coming to Lexington.

Jenni and BJ are the proud parents of 3 1/2 year old Cameron, and have settled comfortably into life in central Kentucky. Making the trip from Washington was a yellow lab, Dylan. Hawkeye, a ". . . good 'ol KY hound dog," joined the family in Kentucky. ". . . Moving across the country was quite challenging, but we've made good friends here, and Lexington has become home for us."

Jenni serves Picadome Elementary, Garden Springs Elementary, Julia R. Ewan Elementary, and Clays Mill Elementary, and her Fayette County web home can be found at /trt3/.