Doug Lauffer is an author, minister, educator and entrepreneur. He is a Professor at Community College Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He teaches Introduction to Information Technology with an emphasis on contemporary modernity while retaining a classical historical and technological perspective. He has taught thousands of students in his teaching career that spans decades. Mr. Lauffer was ordained in 1976 and Doug has served churches in Western Pennsylvania, Sénégal North West Africa and Uganda Africa. He has Master of Arts from the Saint John of Damascus school of Theology, University of Balamand, Lebanon. His master of science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is in Telecommunications. He has bachelor of science in business administration and a bachelor of arts with a major in the French language. He also obtained and associate degree in applied science for business at Westmoreland County Community College, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lauffer was born in 1954, Douglas Kenneth Lauffer. Doug graduated from Norwin High School, Irwin, Pennsylvania in 1972. There he was a nominal scholar but a standout athlete lettering in football, basketball and track. [1]
Instead of accepting any number of scholarship offers to study and play athletics, Mr. Lauffer chose to go into a specialized training program with the New Tribes Mission headquartered in Sanford, Florida. http://usa.ntm.org/about
Doug spent many years of specialized training in Biblical studies, cultural anthropology, applied linguistics and translation methodologies. His wife, Vicki Lynne Reynolds Lauffer trained with him. Mr. Lauffer was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in 1976. [2]
Vicki and Doug Lauffer went to Sénégal, North West Africa in 1977 where they served in two (2) villages for two (2) years. As a language specialist, Mr. Lauffer quickly learned the Manjako language, the people whom he and his linguist wife served. The Manjako people are a race predominantly located in northwest Africa. [3]
Their third child was born in Simbandi Balant, Sénégal, Africa on December 19, 1978. He was christened Brent Jacques FM Lauffer (FM representing Formosa Marina). Brent graduated from Thomas Edison University, Trenton, New Jersey. After working at Federal Express, Brent is now an artist. Some of Brent Jacques FM Lauffer's work can be seen at the following link. Brent Lauffer, with congenital hepatic fibrosis, seeking a living donor for his liver transplant is followed by The Cleveland Clinic Transplant Center, Cleveland, Ohio. [4]
The Lauffers returned from Africa to the states in 1979. In the United States of America, Mr. Lauffer was called to be a part of the clergy team at Calvary Baptist Church, Irwin, Pennsylvania.
As a multidisciplinary professional, Mr. Lauffer has many contemporaneous roles.
A Chronology:
° 1984 - Accepts call to The Sewickley Baptist Church, Sewickley, Pennsylvania 15143.
The church grows and has an international outreach, Lauffer teaches the local church can extend to countries abroad by prayer, promotion and support.
Lauffer develops and presents his paper "Towards and Updated Pedagogy for Biblical Languages" at The Reformed Theological Society of Western Pennsylvania. Faculty of The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Pittsburgh, theologians and pastors of various Christian traditions and denominations were members."
° 1990 - Lauffer resigns his position to begin his company; it became Total Access Corporation. A company focused on hardware integration and software development for mobile data in the Law Enforcement market.
° 1994 - Lauffer becomes and Assistant Professor at Community College Beaver County, Monaca, Pennsylvania 15061.
° 1997 - Doug becomes the pastor of Ambridge First Baptist Church, Ambridge, Pennsylvania 15003.
° 1998 - Promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems and Telecommunications and he also teaches philosophy.
° 1999 - Total Access closes the last day of 1999 due to an underfunded law enforcement market for on-board mobile data systems with Total Access' automated speech recognition systems.
Doug accepts a call to be the Administrative Pastor of Christ Church at Grove Farm. http://www.ccgf.org He serves there until 2004.
° 2005 - Lauffer is chrismated at the Saint John The Baptist Church, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is ordained in the Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Nicholas+ of The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ordained Douglas Kenneth Lauffer a subdeacon, proclaiming, "Axios!"
The website for the diocese is found at the following URL. http://www.acrod.org/
° 2013 - Doug develops an Internet virility algorithm, LaVAii™. LaVAii, Lauffer's Virility Algorithm version two,
is a process and mathematical methodology for people to promote their "art" over The Internet for free. The algorithm uses Lambda Calculus and MANCOVA statistical methods to compute a way to increase and sustain one's popularity on the Internet.
Doug conceived this algorithm in 1992 and in 2013 started sharing it practically with his students at Community College Beaver County, CCBC, Pennsylvania. www.ccbc.edu
Mr. Lauffer's goal was to provide students with something whereby they can share their work with world, while not having a "budget" to do this using traditional paid methods to accomplish this. LaVAii is a way for all students to popularize their art and work over the Internet.
° 2014 - Doug is invited to present at the World Universities Forum in Lisbon, Portugal on the topic of "Toward and Updated Pedagogy for The Classics" Lauffer shared openly and freely his PPPFD, Practical Pedagogical Process Flowchart Diagram™, a method for incorporating the classics in contemporary modernity as a solution for educational continuous improvement.
° 2015 - Doug Lauffer is promoted to professor at Community College Beaver County, Pennsylvania, CCBC and Lauffer becomes a part of a writing team that published a successful book, The Unofficial Guide to Fatherhood. http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00WJ1Z79W He also opens an art gallery at 435 Broad Street, Sewickley, Pennsylvania 15143.
Gallery 435 a humanitarian and is not for profit gallery, designed to be a place to show existing and emerging artists. Also, it is venue for people with special needs to be able to share their artwork with the public.