Experience

Director of Online Learning (4/07 – present)

Supporting faculty in the development of online courses, web-enhanced courses, and virtual learning environments.
Working collaboratively with faculty, provide leadership and direction for the online delivery of D2L based courses.
Assisting faculty in developing effective online student learning assessment strategies
Providing technical expertise and training necessary for the development of pedagogically sound, engaging, and effective electronic instructional materials.
Providing the technical expertise for college's online technology plan, manage the technology and software resources for online learning, and administer the D2L site for faculty.
Developing and managing an annual budget for online learning/virtual learning environments covering the technologies, software, material and personnel needed to support online courses.
Assisting in developing policies and procedures needed to support high-quality online courses and programs.
Staying current with trends in technology, software, materials, and methodologies affecting virtual learning environments.

Teaching Principles and Practices of Management as web-enhanced (Spring 2006) and online (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
Designing materials for and delivering training to faculty for online and web-enhanced course development
Creating software tools and templates for efficient development of course materials that meet 508 accessibility standards
Providing faculty and student support in resolving end-user issues, including documenting bugs and workarounds
Supervising and training graduate assistants working for the Center for Online Learning
Developing guidelines, standards, and processes for workflow
Researching trends and tools related to online and web-enhanced course development
Consulting with faculty and staff in evaluating technologies and strategies for online and distance based education
Forging positive work relationships with information technology staff and providing assistance and consultations

Teaching photography and computer courses through Continuing Education (as overload)
Training faculty, staff, and students in the use of computer hardware, software, and instructional technology equipment
Managing and supporting all Distance Education courses (compressed video, audio-graphics, CBT, and online)
Supervising the LTE and student staff for Instructional Technology / Distance Education
Assisting instructors in the design, implementation, and support of online enhanced and online asynchronous courses, using the tools such as Blackboard, Desire2Learn (D2L), Academic.com, MS Office Pro Suite, Adobe Photoshop, and LIFT
Serving as campus webmaster and administrator; share content authorship with University Relations Director
Creating custom Microsoft Access and Excel applications for student services, foundation, and other campus departments
Serving as the backup support for the campus network administrator; assisted in installation of network hardware
Serving as an executive committee member on the statewide Campus Web Council of Wisconsin

Teaching computer programming and computer applications (MIS) courses (.20 FTE expanding to .80FTE)
Serving as Outreach webmaster, including designing and managing all primary pages for the department
Serving as co-administrator for the Blackboard course management system
Assisting instructors in the design, implementation, and support of online enhanced and online asynchronous courses, using the tools of Blackboard and WebCT
Providing specialized computer support to the Outreach and Graduate Studies departments, including writing custom “turnkey” database and spreadsheet applications using MS Access and MS Excel
Managing the Decision Support Center lab and supporting the GroupSystems management software

Creating professional photography for wedding commercial, portrait, and entertainment clients
Performing all business activities (financial, accounting, marketing, advertising, etc.)
Completing time-critical work in highly stressful situations, managing the activities of large groups
Designing internet websites and designing custom computer programs, and databases
Providing workshops and mentoring to artists, photographers, and models
Serving as a member / director of local arts agencies
Utilizing digital, video, medium format and large format film cameras, black & white and color darkroom, and high-contrast/litho equipment and techniques in the development of customer images

Creating Windows-based commercial flight-planning software using BASIC, C, and C++
Designing and source-coding data management and data translation routines
Converting and compressing data sourced from the Federal Aviation Administration
Creating an interactive GUI map with click and drag routines

Performing electronic and optical testing of multi-layer laminates and circuit boards for supercomputers
Creating computer programs to provide automated database lookups for dead circuits

Writing code for the GPS-Global Positioning System project utilizing JOVIAL and IBM 370 JCL
Participating in department design reviews and regressive testing procedures
Installing software productivity tools and training department programmers in their use

4 years of newspaper reporting, photography, darkroom and pre-press work for a twice-weekly regional paper
5 years of on-air announcer and radio production experience
6 years computer consulting (installing and customizing software, training clients, designing data conversion routines)