Tonia Dousay, TEEX
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Ms. Tonia Dousay is the eLearning Manager for the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), a part of The Texas A&M University System. Ms. Dousay came to TEEX in 2001 as an instructional designer and has spent the last seven years working to advance the agency’s educational initiatives, to include increasing capacities to offer online training. Additionally, her experience in curriculum development and emerging technologies has helped guide the creation of eLearning in the agency. Ms. Dousay has been an active member of the American Society of Training and Development, Texas Distance Learning Association, and eLearning Guild for the past four years. |
William Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy, BMC Software
| William Hurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. Also known as “whurley”, he is responsible for creating BMC’s open source agenda and overseeing the company’s participation in various free and open source software communities to advance the adoption and integration of BSM solutions. A technology visionary and holder of 11 important patents, whurley brings 16 years of experience in developing groundbreaking technology. He is the Chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management. Named an IBM Master Inventor, whurley has received numerous awards including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and Apple Computer Design Award. |
Joanne Gallager, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
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Joanne Gallagher is a Senior Manager in the Deloitte Consulting Public Sector practice. She specializes in the training strategy and people issues on technology adoption projects. Joanne has been a speaker for a series of national conferences, including the National Child Enforcement Association (NCSEA), American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) and American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) relating to training and business transformation, change management and reform in government. She has led several of strategic initiatives for social service clients in both Canada and the US and her experience with large training initiatives includes the Provinces of Ontario and Alberta , the States of Texas, Florida, Colorado, Michigan Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Joanne has an Honors Degree in Law and a Bachelors of Arts (Criminology/Psychology) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. |
John Gillis, First Order Consulting
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John Gillis, Jr. provides clients with consulting and implementation expertise in Leadership, Learning & Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development, Performance Management, Succession Planning, and Career Development. With a focus on change management and strategic business value, Mr. Gillis builds collaborative business relationships with his client and internal consulting team to successfully deliver implementations impacting human capital. Mr. Gillis was the Performance Consultant Practice Leader at Element K, a Human Performance Management Consultant for Accenture, a Certified Management Consultant for IBM’s Strategic Change and Business Transformation solution groups, a Performance Consultant for Convergys, and a Partner with First Order Consulting. He is based out of Austin, Texas. Mr. Gillis is also the founder and president of CampLIFE!, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity, with a mission to provide for the families of deceased soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
Christopher Justice, CEO, Sparksight
| Combining wisdom and humor with common sense, Chris is a featured speaker and is a master at building better businesses through a combination of face-to-face and online marketing techniques. Chris has developed local, national and international marketing programs and events that capture the imagination and generate an undeniable sense of opportunity from attendees, customers, partners and employees. Chris successfully pioneered the concept of ‘High Attendance™’ into what has become a standard for delivering more successful conferences, conventions and trade shows. Chris previously held key management positions in the areas of customer-relationship management, sales and marketing technology and process improvement in leading companies and organizations like Computer Associates, IBM, Vignette, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
Dr. Claudia McDonald
Associate Vice President for Special Projects
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
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Dr. Claudia L. McDonald, a seasoned higher-education innovator, believes looming changes in medical education and practice demand creative technological responses grounded in sound research. McDonald, Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, oversees the university’s Center for Virtual Medical Education, a leader in utilizing cutting-edge virtual-world technology. In 2004, McDonald conceived Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab. She currently serves on the Critical Issues Taskforce of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board advisory committee for distance and doctoral education. McDonald completed doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. |
Jim Moshinskie, Baylor University
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Jim Moshinskie, PhD, better known as Dr. Mo, is a professor at Baylor University and Chief Learning Officer for Simply Interactive here in Austin. He is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) through the International Society of Performance Improvement, and has won all the major national awards in instructional design. He is interested in technology-based training including e-learning and has produced over 300 courses for major corporations. He has been teaching technology at Baylor University for over 15 years. |
Debby Kalk, Cortex Interactive
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Debby Kalk is an instructional designer, project manager, and e-learning consultant with two decades of experience producing interactive, video, and classroom-based learning programs. She has developed training and customer education programs for companies such as USAA Insurance, Dell Computer, and Verizon Wireless. As co-founder and CEO of Cortex Interactive, she built a nationally-recognized, pioneering multimedia company that developed award-winning educational products for publishers such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Harcourt. She is co-author of the textbook, Real World Instructional Design, published in 2005 by Wadsworth College Publishers, a unit of Thomson Learning. She has a BA in History, a BS in Radio-Television-Film, an MA in Instructional Technology, and is currently working on a PhD, all from the University of Texas at Austin. |
Hiram Kuykendall, CTO, MicroAssist, Inc.
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Hiram Kuykendall is a technical leader with over fifteen years of solid real world experience in application, infrastructure design, and E-Learning development. His specialties include software development management, database administration and system engineering. Mr. Kuykendall manages the development teams for numerous E-Learning sites both for the State of Texas and the private sector. Mr. Kuykendall has extensive experience dealing with accessibility issues from managerial and practical levels. Prior to joining MicroAssist in 1995, he accumulated extensive experience working for various Texas state agencies as well as the private sector. Mr. Kuykendall received his Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Microsoft Certified Professional. |
Jacob Williams, Lead Developer, MicroAssist
| Jacob Williams is a senior web developer at MicroAssist with over ten years’ experience implementing scalable open source solutions for online learning, content management and e-commerce. Mr. Williams specializes in integrating open source web applications and frameworks such as Drupal and Moodle to create e-learning systems that are media rich and can be developed rapidly, meeting all web accessibility and internationalization requirements. |