Consultant, Distant and Virtual Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
Consultant, Distant and Virtual Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
NEW private company; Website under construction. Consultant specializing in Web content and distant & virtual technologies.
Very interested and involved in Second Life; interested in educational, training and library/museum uses. Avatar name Dale Irata is Owner of the Gold Country Library in SL -- Location: Cybrary_Square/132/174/23 .
(Government Administration industry)
January 2001 — September 2008 (7 years 9 months)
Managed County Website, and 5 other internal/external sites, along with doing staff training, graphics design/production, live video production and system design, information architecture and document management administration.
M.A. , Instructional Development & Technology , 1974 — 1976
B.A. , Speech Communication & Theatre; Education , 1969 — 1973
Sailing, hiking, Second Life, international travel
County of Nevada Team of the Year Winner 2006
County of Nevada Employee of the Year Nominee 2006
Best of the Web (Center for Digital Government) 2006 Finalist
Innovation Awards (California Counties Information Systems Directors Association (several awards in 2003 and 2007)
ComputerWorld Heroes Honors Program 2003 Laureate