
Information Technology Director at Yale School of Drama
Greater New York City Area

Information Technology Director at Yale School of Drama
Greater New York City Area
Twenty years of teaching, design and management expertise with technology applications in higher-educational and arts institutions.
Goal: Strategic application of technology solutions to build better experiences for customers and greater efficiency for staff resources.
Instructional technology planning, web-based and database application development, social media strategy, systems analysis, Microsoft SQL server, PHP programming, WordPress, OpenSolaris
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
2000 — Present (9 years )
Current Projects
• Financial System – Project manager, programmer; MS SQL server database with MS Access client front-ends; develop and implement table design; assess existing business requirements and processes; designed data structure; implemented project management and incident tracking system; manage user base of 50+ staff, faculty, and students.
• On-line Course Evaluation System — Project manager, programmer; A school-wide course evaluation system for the Yale School of Drama; In Fall 2006 overall course response rate of 86% — estimated savings of 200 hours annually in administrative staff time — timely distribution of final evaluations to faculty and department chairs.
• On-line Audio Archive — Developer, project manager; Site utilizing Drupal open-source content management system; Archive is used by faculty in school’s dialect coaching program to provide students with a library of dialect audio examples to support class work and professional acting assignments.
ME , Instructional Design , 2007
MS , Business Management, IT communications , 2002
BA , Music , 1979 — 1983
new technology, ruby on rails, PHP, WordPress, OpenSolaris, Symfony PHP framework
NorthEast Regoinal Computing Program (NERCOMP), Educause, Tessitura Arts Software Network