Bios of buyupside.com Contributors

I, Richard A. Howard, write the content for buyupside.com.

I am a retired college professor and technical writer. I taught computer programming and statistics at Clark University in Worcester, MA and then worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a technical writer. I have degrees from Iowa State University (B.S.), University of California at Berkeley (M.S.) and University of Massachusetts at Amherst (PhD). My primary areas of study were wood technology and forest management. I learned Fortran while at Berkeley and have been writing programs and scripts ever since.

My wife, Karen Brockney, designed the site and handles all problems associated with third-party applications required by the site. She is a retired technical writer and avid photographer. She holds an undergraduate degree in French from Hartwick College and an M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School.

I began stock investing in 1978 and was an active trader from 1993 through 1999, when I earned my living trading stocks. Now I manage my stock portfolio (mostly dividend-paying stocks) and trade stocks occasionally.

buyupside.com features many calculators, all of which I write using php and JavaScript.

My purpose is to include tools and data about stocks and investing so readers can make their own decisions. Think of buyupside.com as an educational resource. I do not make any specific buy, sell or hold recommendations on the site.

I do not make investing or stock recommendations for individual investors.

Thank you for using buyupside.com.

Contact me at buyupsidehoward@gmail.com.