Ron Edwards

Current

CEO at Ambient Performance

Past

Head of eLearning at Unilever

Education

University of East London
Loyola University
University of Washington

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Ron Edwards’s Summary

I'm passionate about the application of private, enterprise grade virtual worlds to solve real world training and collaboration needs.

I apply my 17 years of experience implementing emerging technologies for corporate training, collaboration and communication applications to help organizations with their strategy and implementation from the enterprise to project level.

As an experienced and effective speaker and writer, I am open to opportunities to contribute.

I blog at http://www.ambientperformance.com/connection

Ron Edwards’s Specialties:

Learning architecture, enterprise virtual worlds, mobile learning and performance support, enterprise 2.0. Accelerating projects while increasing innovation and impact. Creative event design incorporating mobile games and highly experiential learning. Virtual World and other Serious Games application development. Location Based Services applications and technologies. 3D visualization on mobiles.

Ron Edwards’s Experience

CEO

Ambient Performance

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

Founder and Leader of a fast growing entreprenurial consulting firm specializing in mobile, collaborative web 2.0 and virtual world technology applications. Developing strategic technology partnerships which enable us to provide leading edge solutions to clients across the security, emergency response, corporate and government sectors.
www.ambientperformance.com
Head of eLearning

Unilever

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UN; Consumer Goods industry)

August 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Ron Edwards’s Education

University of East London

PhD , Collaboration in Virtual Worlds , 2008 — 2011 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

Practice Based PhD @ SMARTlab Digital Media Institute researching collaboration in mixed reality virtual worlds and impact on enterprise innovation utilising the Forterra Systems OLIVE platform.
Loyola University

MS , Training & Development , September 1994 — June 1997
University of Washington

BA , Political Science, Speech Communication , September 1984 — June 1990

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Ron Edwards’s Groups:

Global Learning executives
European Virtual World Strategists
EUROSIS - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology
AISB10
ASPEL UK