Mark Notess

Current

• Principal Consultant at Very There Consulting
• Development Manager / Usability Specialist at Indiana University

Past

• Director of User Experience at Unext.com
• Learning Portal Program Manager at Agilent Technologies
• Productivity/Quality Manager, Senior Engineer, Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

• Instructional Designer at Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
• Programmer at Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
• Instructor, English Language Institute at University of Alabama

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• On Twitter

Mark Notess’s Summary

IT consultant specializing in field research, user experience design and evaluation of online learning tools and environments. Emphasis is on adult learning in higher education, corporate, and life-long contexts. Ph.D. in educational technology, masters degrees in both education and computer science.

Mark Notess’s Specialties:

Human-computer interaction, workplace ethnography, contextual design, usability, e-learning, technology support for learning in the humanities/higher education, course management systems, digital libraries, older adults, collaboration tools, portals, and ethics of system design.

Mark Notess’s Experience

• Principal Consultant

  Very There Consulting

  (E-Learning industry)

  2002 — Present (7 years )

  I help clients improve online learning, user experiences, and user experience design capability through expert consulting, evaluation, and user research. I focus on adult learning and higher education. If you have a grant from IMLS, NSF, NEH, or NEA and need some user research or usability evaluation, contact me!

• Development Manager / Usability Specialist

  Indiana University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

• Director of User Experience

  Unext.com

  (Higher Education industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• Learning Portal Program Manager

  Agilent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; A; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

• Productivity/Quality Manager, Senior Engineer, Software Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

  1988 — 1999 (11 years )

• Instructional Designer

  Virginia Cooperative Extension Service

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1987 — 1987 (less than a year)

  Full-time instructional designer on an interactive videodisc project grant.

• Programmer

  Virginia Cooperative Extension Service

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1985 — 1987 (2 years )

  Programmed a variety of educational software, including a multimedia authoring system.

• Instructor, English Language Institute

  University of Alabama

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1982 — 1985 (3 years )

  Taught English to international students and supervised development of computer-based learning software.

Mark Notess’s Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Ph.D , Instructional Systems Technology , 2001 — 2008

  Dissertation Title: An Assessment of Contextual Design and Its Applicability to the Design of Educational Technologies. Degree completed May 2008.

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  M.S. , Computer Science , 1985 — 1988

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  M.A.Ed. , Curriculum and Instruction , 1979 — 1981

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  B.A. , English , 1976 — 1979

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information

Mark Notess’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• On Twitter

Mark Notess’s Interests:

online learning technologies, contextual design, workplace ethnography, user experience research

Mark Notess’s Groups:

ACM SIGCHI, Sakai Foundation, EDUCAUSE

•    HP Alumni
•    Sakai Community
•    ACM SIGCHI
•    Indiana University Alumni Network
•    ACM Members
•    (E-)learning network
•    PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY Official
•    Virginia Tech Alumni Group
•    User Experience
•    Linking Indiana
•    EDUCAUSE
•    IST@IUB
•    UNext Alumni

Mark Notess’s Honors:

HP/UDL “Drive the Future” award, once in 1990 and again in 1994
Tuition Grant Scholarships, Va. Tech Dept. of Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Depts. of Computer Science and English
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
U.S. Patent for “Object-Action User Interface Management System” granted on August, 1995 (Co-inventor with three others).

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