Joel Raupe
504 Ellis Cove, Belhaven, NC 27810
(252) 964-2472
joelraupe@gmail.com

Principal Investigator, Lunar Pioneer, LLP, Washington, North Carolina; Joint Meeting LEAG-ICEUM-SRR (2008), Abstract #4063; Lunar Pioneer  (Online: 2006 – present) Writer, Consultant, Investigator; April 2008 – Present: Investigative Journalist, Capitol Monitor, oversight of accountability and Government process transparency, Contact : Perri Morgan, (919) 803-1808

January 2007 – November 2008: Administrative Assistant, North Carolina House of Representatives; Minority Leader Paul Stam, North Carolina General Assembly, Raleigh, NC (919) 733-2962

July 2005 – November 2006: Nominee for North Carolina House, District 6; Independent Subcontractor (Dynamic Virtual Interiors): Home Servers, Broadband Video, Smart Home, Security & Convergence Tech., Belhaven, NC.

April – June 2005: Chief Legislative Analyst, John William Pope Civitas Institute, Raleigh, NC

January 1999 – April 2005: Administrative Assistant, North Carolina Senate; Minority Leaders Sens. Patrick J. Ballantine (1999-2004), James Forrester (2004) & Phil Berger (2004-2005), North Carolina General Assembly, Raleigh, NC

August 1997 – December 1998: Network Contractor/Network Designer & Technician, Spence Design and Consulting, Inc.; Installed First Home & Business DSL Broadband commercial connections in Raleigh-Durham NC.

January - July 1997: Legislative Aide, Judiciary I Committee Clerk, NC House of Representatives, North Carolina General Assembly, Raleigh, NC

August 1991 – December 1996: Full-time Father; Manager, Showstopper Video, Belhaven, NC; Antiquarian Bookseller, Owner/Operator, Winter Tomato Cooperative, Belhaven, NC (Experimental Winter Greenhouse Design, hydrogen fuel production & storage, Remote monitor windmill construction & maintenance. Freelance Writer.

January 1985 - July 1991: Owner/Operator Comanche Peak Airporter Limousine Service, multi-vehicle shuttle between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Comanche Peak nuclear power station, Squaw Creek, TX.

August 1984 – January 1985: Editor The Meridian Tribune weekly newspaper, Meridian, TX, copywriting, production, layout, photography, distribution, fulfillment, etc.

July 1982 – August 1984: Corporate VP, Adkins-Raupe, Inc., Granbury, TX. Properties mgmt., Lodge of Granbury Hotel and Convention Center, design, customer and municipal relations; Publisher/Editor The Granbury Tablet weekly newspaper, (circ. 10,515, 7/83).

May 1979 - July 1982: Asst. for Special Projects, Office of Majority Leader. U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC: Design, operation of first computer network for 100 Member’s constituent correspondence.

Born: Wash. DC, March 24, 1957 – Father: B. Craig Raupe (Congressional aide, Airline executive, USAID, Lobbyist); Mother: Joyce (Adkins) Raupe: Homemaker and Congressional Committee Chief of Staff). Resided: Washington, DC, Saigon, Djakarta, Miami, Granbury, Texas and Belhaven and Raleigh, NC.

U.S. Capitol Page School, Library of Congress, Wash. DC, 1975; USF, Tampa, FL, 1979; (Ancient and Near East History). Married: Teresa Myers, Dec. 1981; Daughter, (one) Valerie Joyce Raupe, b. Granbury TX, March 1986 (Soph., East Carolina U.); (Beaufort) county commission, 1996; Astronomer, Amateur Radio Operator, Historian.

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