Many organizations are making the decision to move to e-Learning as part of their strategies to become more lean. Central to any e-Learning effort is the need to manage learners, activities, resources, assessments, performance, reporting and communications in a centralized way through a Learning Management System (LMS).While e-Learning shows clear ROI, making the transition is often difficult and complex.

As your guide through the maze of applications and choices, I bring over a decade of direct experience as a content developer, usability designer and LMS administrator for both large and small companies.

Implementation of a new content management system, whether it is for a web site, print marketing materials, user documentation or e-Learning, usually costs 2 to 3 times the total hardware and software purchases. Implementation success depends on careful design of information architecture, workflow design, change management, localization strategy, systems integration, access permissions and supporting toolsets. In fact, these design issues are often overlooked when researching and pricing content management systems.

I specialize in guiding large and mid-sized global companies through the difficult work of designing their content management implementations for web and e-Learning to save time and money, ease migration, and leverage the reusability of information across the business.

I've done many aspects of Project Management for many years, though I've never had a PM title. In 1993 I worked for a company building NexTels first cell network in California. My job there was reporting out of the MS Project database and analysis of dependencies and critical path to meet deadlines. The project entailed over 100 subprojects with a total of over 10,000 individual tasks to track.

I'm familiar with MS Project, developing Gantt and PERT charts, resource leveling, critical path and most other basic PM concepts. 

As owner of a small interactive media company I was both the developer, sales guy, contract admin and project manager wrapped up in one. I frequently managed 3 or more projects at a time, along with all the other day-to-day tasks of running a business. This is one of the strengths I've brought to work at Kodak, where I can consistently deliver individually, as well as in a team environment.

I've worked on the web for the last 10 years, and have done all kinds of CGI, content and application development. More recently I've done more database-driven work including XML, SQL Server and VB / ASP front ends. Since 2000 I greatly prefer working in OOP paradigms.

I work in fhe following languages:

• Python
• Perl
• XML / XSLT / XSD
  
• Visual Basic / JScript
• SQL Server
  
• JavaScript
  
• Flash / ActionScript
• Director / Lingo
  
• PHP
• MySQL

I've worked for a wide variety of small and large companies and organizations in a variety of capacities.

• Eastman Kodak Company
• Global Crossing
• Element K
• The Nature Conservancy
• CharBroil
• Neo/SCI
• Advantage Hiring
• Corning
• ICE
• Dockside
• Oakwood Woodworks
• Walck Sales
• Safe Passage
• The Gain Company