Who Is Steve Dondley?
I am the owner and founder of Prometheus Labor Communications, a US Navy submarine veteran and former labor organizer for UFCW Local 1459 in Springfield, MA. I've had an early interest in computers and programming since childhood and a fascination with mass communication which I developed during my post secondary education at Grossmont Community College in San Diego and UMass. I combined these passions and began developing websites for labor unions in in the late 90s. I launched my company, Prometheus, in 2005.
I served a two-year term as a city councilor in the city of Westfield, MA from 2016 to 2018. I am currently focused on the development of the UnionConnect mobile app platform my company developed for labor unions among many other projects.
I enjoy computing. I'm like the guy in garage spending all day spending time on his time woodworking projects building chess boards and stools.
My Recommendations
All listing partial and in no particular order
Movies
- Barry Lyndon
- Ghost Dog: Sword of the Samurai
- Cabaret
- Raging Bull
- All That Jazz
- Network
- Hair
- Easy Rider
- Sound of Music
TV
- Succession
- All in the Family
- Six Feet Under
Music
- Weirdly, I've listening to a lot of Sitar music
- Helps me focus while programming/writing
- Old tyme favorites
- Who, Door, Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc
- Techno
- Front 242
- Nitzer Ebb
- Hip Hop
- Wu Tang Clan
- Deltron the Funky Homosapien
- J Dilla
- Composers
- John Barry
- Ivor Stravinsky
- Fran Schubert
- The stuff from Barry Lyndon
Podcasts
Gurus I Like
- Marshall McLuhan
- media expert
- Michael E. Mann
- climate scientist