Greetings!
Some of my relevant passions for this site/blog include: multimedia; discovering and implementing valuable and useful technologies; and helping people integrate technology into various educational and training-related settings. It is my belief that in this day and age, each and every key decision making body within an organization needs to have a visionary on it…especially someone who can help their organization in navigating through the (blazingly-fast) changing technological world that is spinning around us.
Throughout my 15 years in the corporate world and the last 9 years within the world of higher education, a common thread has been the discovery, implementation, and training-related projects involving various technologies that help people communicate — voicemail, email, intranets, digital audio, digital video, etc. I am a huge fan of web-based learning and web-based communication technologies, as I don’t believe that we’ve ever encountered any communication mechanisms as powerful as we have today. The ability to create and integrate text, graphics, audio, video, animation, and more — and have such amazing opportunities to dialog with each other (worldwide) — is truly mind-blowing. The information below fills you in on some of my interests and experience.
Daniel S. Christian
My professional backgrounds include work experiences involving:
- Instructional design
- Project management
- Multimedia
- Training
- Communications
- Web design and production (intranet development; external/independent websites)
- Technical support
- Customer service
- Systems administration (including Blackboard, electronic mail systems, voicemail systems)
- Corporate IT/systems-related projects
- Marketing technologies
- Managing students
My employers include:
- Baxter Healthcare – ’86- ’90
- Kraft Foods – ’90-’97
- SFSU Multimedia Studies Program ’97-’98
- Wells Fargo – ’98-’00
- Old Kent Bank (now Fifth Third Bank) – ’00-’01
- Davenport University Online – ’01-’07
- Calvin College – ’07 to present
My educational background includes:
- Northwestern University: BS in Economics
- Northwestern University’s University College (now called School of Continuing Studies): Certificate in Computer Studies
- San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Studies Program: Certificate in Web Design & Production
- Capella University: Master’s in Instructional Design for Online Learning (in progress; 100% online)
I look forward to our conversations. Here’s to taking our educational systems to the next level!
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