Our principals are Anna van Raaphorst and Dick Johnson. We are a collaborative team who work together or individually.
After successful individual careers (Dick as a software engineer, Anna as a high-school teacher, technical writer, and editor) we decided that our combined skills and talents opened up more powerful and interesting professional possibilities than we had previously experienced.
More about Anna
Anna’s key professional roles have been linguist, writer, editor, teacher/trainer, and manager.
Anna has done extensive writing on technical, scientific, historic, and educational topics. She has had broad experience in the high-tech industry and educational organizations as employee, consultant, contractor, and pro-bono volunteer.
Most recently Anna worked as a data specialist for Moveworks, an AI start-up in Mountain View, California.
Anna has a BA in German with a minor in history/political science from UCLA and an MA in linguistics from Stanford University. She has taught in high schools and universities, and to technical professionals.
Anna’s post-graduate education includes data science and analytics; web design and technology; localization; and language study of German, Spanish, Dutch, and English as a second language (ESL).
Anna has a certificate in genealogy from Salt Lake Community College, and has taken coursework in teaching English as a second language at UCLA.
For many years Anna volunteered as a researcher and cataloger at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and at archaeological and paleontological sites in California and the U.S. Mountain States.
In her spare time Anna enjoys active sports, photography, travel, and researching and writing about family history.
More about Dick
Dick’s key professional roles have been software engineer, web developer, writer, and researcher. He has extensive experience in software development, technical writing, and the history of computing.
Dick has a BA and MA in mathematics from UCLA. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Dick’s post-graduate education includes web development and data science with R and Python. He has written custom code to do XML data transformations, data wrangling, and web publishing.
Dick is a history buff and has attended many classes on modern and ancient history at Stanford.
For many years Dick volunteered as a researcher and cataloger at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and at a number of archaeological and paleontological sites in California and the U.S. Mountain States. He has also done worked as a volunteer on the Battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor.
In his spare time, Dick likes to research and compile family history and study Spanish, German, mathematics, and computer languages. He is also an avid hiker and jogger.