Cultural Streams International

ROBERT LUNABURG

Bob began his career by studying electronics back before the transistor was invented. He went to work for IBM, and spent most of his work life in their service training and development department. He Reached their top professional position of Senior Education Specialist where he developed entry and advanced training systems, authored courses, and  trained authors, instructors, and other senior staff.

In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s Bob became involved at Northwestern University’s clinic of speech and hearing disorders where he invented equipment to aid young deaf children develop speech. He carried his work with the disabled into IBM where in 1984 he coauthored the service division’s Disabled Employee Training Guidelines and Procedures.

After retiring in 1993, Bob led a team of programmers in developing a DOS based Skills Management system for industry. The system took three years to develop, and was a success in meeting its design parameters, but because of the advent of the Windows operating system, it was deemed obsolete and found no market.

After his programming venture, Bob decided to return to his first love teaching. He volunteered as an instructor in Cobb County Georgia’s Senior Services program of Computers For Seniors, which at the time was sponsored by Senior Net out of San Francisco Calif. Shortly after Bob came on board, the County decided to take on total responsibility for the program’s curriculum, equipment and staff. They asked Bob to head the effort. He accepted and was given the honorary title of Volunteer Coordinator and is currently responsible for over fifty volunteers who provided computer instruction for senior citizens covering twelve courses at five Multipurpose Senior Centers around Cobb County. Bob has assisted other programs within Georgia and Florida set up their senior citizen computer training programs. The Cobb County program has won several local and national awards for its work.

Bob is also a Cultural Streams International advisor, and is currently volunteering as their webmaster.

In his spare time, Bob enjoys the hobby of writing fact based fiction stories for the many young people he knows within his neighborhood and family.