edUi 2011 » Speakers http://eduiconf.org A conference for Web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and beyond Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:40:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Frank La Vigne http://eduiconf.org/speakers/frank-la-vigne/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/frank-la-vigne/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:24:37 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=999 Continue reading »]]> Frank is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist based in Washington DC. He has been hooked on software development since he was twelve, when he got his own Commodore 64 computer.  Since then, he’s worked as developer for financial firms on Wall Street and in Europe. He has worked on various Tablet PC solutions and built advanced user experiences in Silverlight and WPF. His Silverlight 4 book came out in April 2010 and was the first Silverlight 4 book on the market. He founded the CapArea.NET User Group Silverlight Special Interest Group and has spoken at TechEd, MEDC, DevConnections, and Code Camps along the East Coast. He blogs regularly at FranksWorld.com.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/frank-la-vigne/feed/ 0 Matt Ventre http://eduiconf.org/speakers/matt-ventre/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/matt-ventre/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:33:41 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=806 Continue reading »]]> Matt is a designer at Messagefirst with a background in user-centered design and web development. As a youngster, Matt created websites in his spare time, learning the building blocks of the budding web. In college, he discovered the value of iterative techniques and the power of web standards while honing his coding chops and research skills. He’s spent his days since designing and prototyping with modern web toolsets like HTML5 and CSS3. Prior to joining messagefirst, Matt led experience design efforts at Raymour & Flanigan and Cornell University’s ILR School on a variety of web-based products and mission-critical applications.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/matt-ventre/feed/ 0 Joyce Hostyn http://eduiconf.org/speakers/joyce-hostyn/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/joyce-hostyn/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:56:36 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=705 Continue reading »]]> Joyce is a boundary spanner, exploring what it means to design holistic customer experiences. She’s a storyteller, gardener, and change agent who applies design thinking to the sticky challenges of research, design, and delivery of cross channel product, content, and service experiences. Joyce is the Director of Customer Experience at OpenText and Facilitator of the Accelerating Adoption Community.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/joyce-hostyn/feed/ 0 David Miller http://eduiconf.org/speakers/david-miller/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/david-miller/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:30:12 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=683 Continue reading »]]> David is Chief Operations Officer of TERMINALFOUR, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the company, including product and project delivery and alliances. An Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin, David has over 28 years’ experience in the global IT industry, having been responsible for operations, product development delivery, and business development in a number of international companies, and having worked within the venture capital industry. Previous companies included eSpatial (COO), CedarOpenAccounts (Program Manager and M&A support), Sepro Telecom (COO), IONA Technologies (SVP Worldside Engineering), ICL/Fujitsu, and Logica BVJBoye (Philadelphia).

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/david-miller/feed/ 0 Curtiss Grymala http://eduiconf.org/speakers/curtiss-grymala/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/curtiss-grymala/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:03:01 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=550 Continue reading »]]> Curtiss is the Webmaster at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Before that, he worked as the Webmaster at Lord Fairfax Community College, where he acted as the main developer and consultant for all web-related projects. While at LFCC, he developed a completely custom, enterprise-level CMS for the institution. He is formally trained in PHP and MySQL, with expert-level experience in HTML and CSS. He spends much of his free time doing the same things he does at work: developing and customizing websites.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/curtiss-grymala/feed/ 0 Doug Chestnut http://eduiconf.org/speakers/doug-chestnut/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/doug-chestnut/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:20:03 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=528 Doug Chestnut is a Programmer at the University of Virginia Library.

Previously, Doug has worked on the Apache Lenya project as a committer, and notably constructed the Library’s massive web content management system using Subversion, Perl, WebDAV, and XSLT under unique technical constraints.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/doug-chestnut/feed/ 0 Starrie Williamson http://eduiconf.org/speakers/starrie-williamson/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/starrie-williamson/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:50:57 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=523 Continue reading »]]> Starrie is with the Communications department at the University of Virginia Library. She has been a multimedia and web developer since 1998, with plenty of experience adapting technologies to applications in the Higher Ed and online learning environment. Over the past decade she has worked on design and development for the Rosetta Stone language learning library, University of Virginia, CoStar Group, RHED Pixel, and Boxer Learning.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/starrie-williamson/feed/ 0 Cory Lown http://eduiconf.org/speakers/cory-lown/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/cory-lown/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:47:02 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=511 Continue reading »]]> Cory is Digital Technologies Development Librarian in the Digital Library Initiatives Department at NCSU Libraries where he works on a variety for projects that use technology to advance end-user resource discovery and access to services. He has experience with mobile web development, mobile application interface design, and data visualization. He received his BA in English from Hamilton College and his MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/cory-lown/feed/ 0 Anson Parker http://eduiconf.org/speakers/anson-parker/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/anson-parker/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:45:01 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=507 Anson is a Senior Developer at the UVA Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. He’s an open source developer, first because he was broke, now for the efficient tools. He started off building sites in notepad and doesn’t miss it a bit.

]]> http://eduiconf.org/speakers/anson-parker/feed/ 0 David Moody http://eduiconf.org/speakers/david-moody/ http://eduiconf.org/speakers/david-moody/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:44:37 +0000 VFHwebdev http://eduiconf.org/?post_type=speakers&p=505 A nuclear engineer working in a library? Go figure. David is a web technology evangelist, responsible for establishing technology communities that include beTech, Adobe UGs, Mobile Technology UG, and others at UVA. He brings over ten years of CMS building and implementation experience to his presentation.

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