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The Webmaster Certificate Program at Austin Community
College has assembled an outstanding group of instructors and advisors
for the program. Currently they include:
Judy Cannon earned her B.S. in Computer Science from Southwest
Texas State University. She owns and operates AnsurWeb Services,
a Website Design, Hosting and CGI Programming company. Judy
is an experienced programmer and software trainer, and has
programmed in Perl, CGI, HTML, Javascript, C-Language, Fortran,
Embedded Postscript and OSF/MOTIF.
Rhodes believes that good design and accessibility can co-exist. After several years in the web design and development field, Rhodes became involved in accessibility - from that point on, the goal was to implement accessibility in as many projects as possible and spread the word that accessibility was an important component. Rhodes has been a participant in a number of AIR Austin events, AIR Interactive and has served as an Advisory Board member and trainer at Knowbility, an Austin based non-profit focusing on web accessibility. Rhodes has also had the opportunity to teach and train web accessibility techniques across the country in conferences and training courses. He is a Creative Director & Co-founder of Go9Media.com
Seán Gilkey has a BA in Linguistics from the University
of Washington in Seattle where he specialized in Computational
Linguistics and Syntax. He left graduate work at the University
of Texas in Austin to begin a career in applications and systems
programming. Currently a freelance web and desktop developer
using Java, Perl, C and C#, Seán is also a contract instructor
with the State of Texas. Seán runs four operating systems
on an old PowerPC Macintosh and keeps a pet iMac for company.
You can reach Seán at sgilkey@austincc.edu.
Greg Hervey is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS and a Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer. Greg Hervey's design studio, Mercury
Graphics, has provided creative print and web design since
1989 to clients including 3M, Compaq, Motorola, and Vignette
Corporation. Greg brings over a decade of real-world design
experience to his Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, QuarkXPress
and Web Usability courses. He remembers what it was like to
dive into unfamiliar software, and smooths the learning curve
with fun, relevant exercises and plenty of twisted humor.
If the Frappuccinos haven't killed him yet, Greg can be reached
at ghervey@austincc.edu.
Nathan has over five years of industry experience in system and
network administration, programming and project management . He has
provided crucial system administration and security services for nearly
ten years on several variants of the UNIX operating system, including
HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Digital UNIX, IRIX, FreeBSD and Linux. Nathan also
has years of experience with firewalls, intrusion detection systems and
security analysis. Computing interests include networking, security,
artificial intelligence, kernel design, cryptography and UNIX systems.
In his spare time, he contributes to several open source projects.
Nathan has been teaching the ACC Linux classes for three years now, and
is currently employed full time as a programmer for Texas.Net. You can
reach him at linuxclass@mrroot.net
Alysia finds the best of both worlds of creative expression and technical challenge blend well in web design and development. She started a virtual office in the mid 1980's, progressed to designing small web sites for friends in the arts and non-profits and created a web site for a high school music department's trip to the U.K. as their traveling webmaster. She owns three commercial sites serving different industries, and helps her daughter with her two fan sites for U.S. Olympians plus her own business site as a young professional sports photographer. Alysia did her degree work in International Relations at the University of Southern California and American University at Beirut and is a graduate of ACC's Webmaster Certification Program (Jan 2000). She was a Community Leader and Moderator with iVillage.com for several years before joining Tivoli Software Group, ibm.com as a Web Developer and Editor. She's a member of the HTML Writers Guild, the WWW Artists Consortium and an online facilitation SIG. You may email her at akorelc@austincc.edu.
Abraham J. Nasser is the Webmaster for the Continuing Education (CE) at Austin Community College. He consults regularly with CE directors to help create the highly successful and award winning website which is currently in use for students and staff alike. Prior to his current position, he ran a successful web development company in Chicago, IL as well as being a full time student at Columbia College, majoring in film. He has been honored with a write up in Variety (Hollywood Trade Publication) for his work on The Official Anthony Hopkins website. In addition, he has been written up in a number of trade papers and websites for his inventive programming skills for the Apple and Microsoft platforms.
Cindy Roberts has over 10 years of experience in industry as a web
designer. Her interests in web design lie mainly in web programming
languages, such as JavaScript, ASP-VBScript and JSP. She has earned a
double Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math from the
University of Houston. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree
from University of Texas to complete her goals at becoming a full time
college professor. Her outside interests include programming robots
using the Java Programming language. You can reach her at crobert3@austincc.edu.
Ashley holds a BSEE and an MSE from the University of Texas
at Austin and is a certified Software Project Manager by the
Software Quality Institute. In 1997 she opened her first e-business,
an on-line children's retail store, which she developed and
operated for two years before selling to another entrepreneur.
In 1998 she founded enScript, a freelance programming company
specializing in CGI installation, programming, and customization
for small- and medium-sized e-businesses. Prior to her internet
ventures, Ashley was an engineer at IBM Austin in workstation
and chip development.
Diane Thorpe is a Certified Technical Trainer, a Microsoft
Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer,
with over six years experience in training, developing and
implementing custom software solutions. Diane's expertise
is web-based application design. A Bachelor's Degree in
Social Sciences with graduate work in Cultural Anthropology,
provide her with a varied background from which to draw examples
that relate to technical concepts, facilitating student comprehension
and retention. Her devotion to the student, sensitivity to
student needs, and excellent organization and presentation
skills have contributed to her success in the classroom. You can contact Diane at dianethorpe@1scom.net
Karen Williams earned her A.A.S in Computer Information Systems/Microcomputer Application Support, as well as Web Developer Specialist Certification, both from Austin Community College. Karen has more than 5 years experience teaching various levels of Microsoft Office and Corel Suite courses and is recognized as a Microsoft Office User Specialist at both Proficient and Expert levels. Karen provides extensive one-on-one training to adults in various business settings on many technical topics. She began teaching Web design in 2000 with the HTML 4.0 version to the most current version of XHTML 1.0. She also developed XHTML curricula for Austin Community College and taught classes using FrontPage, HTML and the current version of XHTML. You can contact Karen at willkswill@gmail.com.
Do you need a mentor for your Capstone
Portfolio? Ask any of these instructors:
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