Adult training and instructional design
Software: Microsoft Office suite, Captivate, Articulate
Northern gardening
Road racing event planning and execution, flag marshaling, race control
Understanding the demands of my overlord felines
Calming small children and angry customers.
Pretty much everything mechanical or computational. In the last week I’ve created a radius authenticated enterprise wifi solution, fixed a residential HVAC, replaced the laser and drive motor in a Wii, I’ll be doing a brake job on the Vette this weekend.
Medical laboratory science, more specifically hospital labs and blood banking.
I have a decent knowledge of human physiology as well but I can’t hold a candle to the many brilliant medical professionals on the board.
As far as having the insider’s view on a topic, I can get in on discussions of cats, depression and CBT, being Canadian, and meeting someone from another country on the internet, moving here and marrying him and fighting with immigration paperwork all the way.
That’s about it for “expertise” but I’m often surprised about how much I find I know about random things. I seem to have a trivia sponge for a brain. Also, my Google-fu is strong.
Software product management. Specifically with internet and SaaS applications. Specialty is with security of billing and finance related products, Fraud mgmt and identity security.
I’m also pretty good at billiards and the patrick obrian historical fiction series (read all 21 books 8 times)
I’m not truly an expert in anything, but I reckon I know more than the average bear about:
Japanese language and culture, Christian theology and history, and loooove. OK, that last one is not true…yet.
Depending entirely upon your definition of “expert”:
Trivia
Firearms knowledge
Radio and Television Master Control (a large part of my job in the Air Force)
Restaurant Management (after 15 years I better be good at it)
One thing that I am unquestionably an expert at is making cheesesteaks. That’s not exactly what I hoped to be able to say at this point in my life, but there it is. It’s right up there with being Captain of the Titanic for auspiciousness.
I have powers beyond the ken of mortal man.
Graphic Design (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, many others . . . and their analog precursors).
Photography.
Painting with little sticks.
Musical Theatre and “The Great American Songbook.”
Pop culture of the 50s and 60s.
Gay urban sex in the 70s and 80s.
Objectivism (though I’m mercifully forgetting a lot).
Sarcastic humor.
True, as I hear one night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.
I have a 9th degree black belt in wise-ass-ery.
Botany, some biology/ wild critters, and psychology.
All things Dutch.
I’m a generalist pain in the ass.
Simultaneous interpretation of medical device presentations, between English and Japanese
simultaneous and consecutive interpretation
karaoke machine operation, optimization of
small children, entertainment of
spending waaaaaaaaaay too much $$ on shoes, justification of
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Drinking beer.
Climate change policy.
Facilitating drum circles.
I like to think of myself a the resident expert on the Grateful Dead, but there are others here. Jam bands in general, and I could probably get certified in Funk.
And one of my favorite posters, my dear.
Me?
Saudi Arabia I suppose, certainly the expatriate community.
Military affairs.
The English language
Photographing wading birds from a kayak (and processing those images in Photoshop), editing technical documents (which I hope to never have to do again), not getting lost in places I have never been, napping.
Sedimentary depositional systems.