Jason Craft

Current

• Web Technologies Manager at University of Texas at Austin

Past

• Technical Lead at Terra Incognita Productions
• Director of Technology, Lead Developer at Enspire Learning
• Research Fellow at Digital Media Collaboratory, IC2 Institute, UT Austin

• Consulting Software Developer at ExploreLearning
• Senior Web Developer at Cirrus Logic
• Software Engineer at ActiveInk Corporation

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas at Austin
• Transylvania University

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E-Learning

Jason Craft’s Summary

I build software for learning -- Web applications, simulations, interactive learning resources. I also lead teams of smart people who do this work.

Jason Craft’s Specialties:

- instructional software and simulation development
- technology management
- Web applications development
- interactive narrative and convergent media design

Jason Craft’s Experience

• Web Technologies Manager

  University of Texas at Austin

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  - Lead of the University of Texas at Austin's central Web technologies team.
  - Responsible for strategic technology management of Web Central (http://www.utexas.edu), the UT Direct application hosting environment, and a number of other campus-wide Web infrastructure tools.
  - Business development and project management as a vendor of Web solutions and consultancy to academic and administrative clients throughout the UT community.

• Technical Lead

  Terra Incognita Productions

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)

  - Software development, business development, and project management in close collaboration with a small, talented team and our clients.
  - Flash and Flex development, ActionScript (3 and 2), PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XSLT, Java, Fedora Commons Repository software, SOAP, ColdFusion 8.

• Director of Technology, Lead Developer

  Enspire Learning

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

  October 2004 — September 2007 (3 years )

  - Manager of software development, IT infrastructure, and technology personnel for Enspire.
  - Sales engineer and consultant with clients on design, development, and implementation of learning software: specialist on learning interoperability standards.
  - Technical lead and simulation designer for software and simulation projects in ActionScript and Java, including Brandon Hall award-winning courseware.

• Research Fellow

  Digital Media Collaboratory, IC2 Institute, UT Austin

  (Educational Institution; Computer Games industry)

  January 2004 — September 2004 (9 months)

  - Doctoral research in the fields of convergent media, game studies, and cultural studies.
  - Studies focused on massively multiplayer online games, online community management, and brand management.
  - Presented research to corporate and academic constituents as part of research commercialization laboratory.

• Consulting Software Developer

  ExploreLearning

  (E-Learning industry)

  June 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  - Developed learning management system for cataloguing and serving of Shockwave-based learning content.

• Senior Web Developer

  Cirrus Logic

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  August 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  - Developed internal and public Web applications, including multi-lingual global corporate Web application.

• Software Engineer

  ActiveInk Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

  September 1999 — August 2001 (2 years )

  - Developed interface and backend layers of company Web site and learning management system in Java.
  - Curriculum design and development in language arts and literature.

Jason Craft’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Ph.D. , Digital Literacies and Literatures , 1998 — 2004

  My dissertation in the Ph.D. program dealt with transmedia structures I call "fiction networks" and the deformative effects they have on narrative. Available at http://labs.tdl.org/tdl/handle/2152/1366

• The University of Texas at Austin

  M.A. , English , 1994 — 1996

• Transylvania University

  B.A. , English , 1990 — 1996

Additional Information

Jason Craft’s Groups:

•    UT Austin Alumni Group
•    Geek Austin
•    Transylvania Alumni
•    Motionographer
•    Digital Media Collaboratory Alumni

Jason Craft’s Contact Settings

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