Saturday, August 15, 2009

Executive Product Manager, McGraw-Hill Online Learning, MH Learning Solutions, Indianapolis, IN- October 05- present

Long title...I'm also on the books as Sponsoring Editor for Online Courses for McGraw-Hill Higher Education. The courses have won three awards! The gist of it is that I was what my boss called the "lynchpin" in a startup operation that delivered over 125 online courses in 2006-2008 plus over 200 custom deliveries by July 08, and did several million dollars in sales in 2009. Starting from scratch. I was in charge of the instructional design processes the courses, including participating in developing the processes in a senior role.

Most recently I have been working with the Learning Solutions group in designing new curricula, presenting at Educational Technology related conferences, researching, and creating a portal for curriculum development ventures. For references, contact me directly...

Senior Instructional Designer, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri from 10/96 to 10/05

From 1996-2005 I was the Senior Instructional Designer for the St. Louis Community College District, a large operation that serves 75,000 students. I played a key leadership role with the Center for Teaching and Learning in moving SLCC into the forefront of online education as a designer, developer, trainer and mentor for faculty.

I was Senior ID on the team that designed an award winning (2007) Professional Development program...

Here are my references from SLCC. I never burn bridges.

Adjunct Faculty, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri from 8/98 to 12/04

I taught several courses as Instructor of Multimedia Production, Multimedia Applications, Computers in Education, and Internet Literacy for SLCC in the college's Multimedia certificate program and for the Teacher certification program. Details are on the long version.

Instructor, Center for Business, Industry and Labor (CBIL), St. Louis, Missouri 06/02 to 12/04

I taught Multimedia Applications for CBIL's Learning Together Program... Taught four training courses for CBIL per semester including Photoshop: Beginning and Intermediate and Dreamweaver: Beginning and Advanced. Students were employees of Boeing. Part of CBIL workforce development and training initiative in partnership with Boeing.

Exhibition Designer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas from 11/89 - 09/96

This one's hard to capture in a blurb. I designed big, detailed exhibitions. That means I researched and built and prepared 6-10 exhibitions yearly. I supervised the overall exhibition program and production assistants, including production planning, didactic materials, and implementation of museum educational goals. That includes art direction, photography, graphic design. And oh yes, I was LAN administrator, and provided Macintosh training and support to staff. I was also an art courier and on-site staff representative for travelling exhibitions.

Other responsibilities: Maintain internationally known permanent collection of Spanish Masterworks and sculpture garden. Interacted frequently with world class institutions, which was great fun: (The Prado, MOMA, Met, Library of Congress, Marlborough and so on). Frequent consultant to other departments on design and computing matters.

Freelance Designer/Artist- self employed from 12/87- 11/89

I designed exhibits and audiovisual presentations for trade and government exhibitions. Built museum, architectural, mechanical and topographic models. I could never be a professional model, so I became a professional model makerthen there was graphic design, illustration, photography of models, facsimiles and prototypes. Designed visual media for law firms for use in court cases. You can see a list of clients here.

Art Direction and Design, Memphis Museums Incorporated, Memphis, TN from 1983-1988

My first work as a professional artist and designer. Oversaw a departmental in-house art production studio for Memphis Museums Foundation. Produced large scale programmed multimedia presentations for educational and entertainment purposes.

Thirteen of these were marketed worldwide to over 300 colleges, universities, schools, and museums while I was there. I had full charge of the art department, photographic facilities, development and maintenance of slide archives. Responsible for print media and marketing materials design, show sales production. This endeavor was so successful it had to be incorporated into a private foundation as it endangered the umbrella department's non-profit status.

Art Instructor, Caruthersville MO School District 18 from 1982-83

After college graduation, I took on a 10 month stint teaching art to seventh graders.