IDS Staff Profiles

I've collected brief profiles of most of our staff as a snapshot of our current team:

John Krutsch
Sr. Director, Distance Education
* Oversees the operation of the many varied programs in Distance Education
* Created the PowerTools for WebCT
* Openly shares his technical and academic innovations with the world
* Enjoys birding, camping, and all things sci-fi

Jared M. Stein
Director of Instructional Design Services
* Oversees DE course & technology development
* Created the TETC
* Teaches Web design for MCT
* Likes literature, writing, film, card games, and tea

Janel Mitchell
Instructional Designer
* UVSC Distance Education
* Assists Faculty in designing courses for distance delivery
* Project Manager for DE course production
* Created processes for DE course development
* Likes structure and organization
* Enjoys exercise, gardening and going to lunch with friends

Eric Liu
Web Developer
* Creating Japanese 1010 online course
* Helps manage course developer projects
* Assistant supervisor on WebCT CE to Vista migration
* Maintains a number of DE course web sites
* Likes martial arts, tennis, cooking, food of any kind, drawing, coffee and tea

Clark Nielsen
Web Developer
* Working on LI Registration web site
* Developing Moodle integration of Flash language tools for JPNS 1010
* Created a custom quiz lock for Driver's Ed Moodle course
* Interested in writing, video games, snowboarding, traveling, and animation

Michelle H. Erickson
Specialist / Editor
* Edits courses for delivery via DE mediums
* Involved with closed captioning initiative
* Transcribes courses
* Likes writing, photography, "flipping" houses (joint hobby with hubby)

Natthaphon "Golf" Pipatchotikul
Web Developer
* Maintains online courses
* Researches latest technologies
* Develops online exams
* Likes movies, driving, learning new things, playing basketball, and Thai food.

Yoshihito Endo
Course Developer
*Learning CSS/XHTML/XML
* Working on Web CT CE to VISTA migration
* Helping coordinate the development of the new DE Intranet site.
* Enjoys learning and using new equipment and applications, such as Mimio, for use in IDS.
* Likes to go camping with his family, playing Golf by himself, and messing around with computers (This is a lot of FUN!!).