Management

• Assessing and meeting faculty needs
• Forming numerous, effective working teams

Communication

• Writing articles on subjects ranging from administration to popular culture.
• Teaching courses ranging from Japanese Management to American Literature.
• Speaking publicly in sermons, lectures and informal focus groups.

Flexibility

• Mastering new fields quickly.
• Orchestrating multiple projects simultaneously.
• Juggling priorities and political imperatives dexterously.
  

practical experience

recent teaching experience

• Manager of Instructional Technology. ITC, UVA, (8/95- present)
• Assistant Dean for Administration. School of Architecture, UVA (8/92-8/95)
• Research Development Officer for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Faculty of A&S, UVA (8/90-8/92)
• Research Administrator. Physics Dept., UVA (8/85-8/90)
• Research Assistant. Tayloe Murphy Inst., UVA (9/80-8/85)
• Lecturer. PVCC (1/84-1/85)
• Instructor. Auburn University (9/76-8/80)
• MUSI207. Underground Hip Hop and Outsider Hip Hop. Jterm, 2009.
• SLFK204. Story and Healing. UVa (since 1999). Co-taught with Rachel Mann.
• SLFK494. Independent Study. (since 2002)
• COMM 215. Essentials of College Writing. U of Phoenix Online. (since 2002)

• M.A. in English, U.T.,Knoxville (6/75 3.76 GPA)
• B.S. in History, U.T., Knoxville (6/73 "High Honors")
• Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Honors History (one of three)
• Earned all expenses

• "Toward an Understanding of Scalability, Innovation and Academic Culture". International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. Vol. 4, No. 3, 2008.
• Underground Hip Hop. Jointly authored with Joe Berhan. Under review for publication.
• Toward an Understanding of On-line Teaching and Learning; the Doughnut and the Hole. (word doc) MS.
• News from Virginia. A presentation for the Shock of the Old 4 conference. Oxford, England, 4/04.
• "Meditation: A Pause that Re-flexes. with Chris Jackson and Rachel Saury. Teaching Resource Center's January Teaching Workshop. 1/04.
• "Story & Healing in Action: New Methods for Fostering Heart to Heart Dialogue about Race." Rachel Saury and John Alexander. Multicultural Education, Winter 2003.
• “Raising Awareness” A presentation for Herding Tigers conference. Oxford, England, 4/02.
• "Hands across the Waters; the Illusions and Illucidations of Metaphor. A presentation for the Shock of the Old 2 conference. Oxford, England, 4/02.
• “Prototype Tools.” A presentation for UVa’s CIO and ITC’s Directors. 3/02.
• "Five American Indian Stories." A live storytelling performance, Walker Middle School, 10/05& prior yrs.
• "Flights of Time, Arrows, Fancy and Other Vaulting
  Ambitions: Instructional Technology Improves
  Teaching." virginia.edu, Vol. II, No. 2, fall 1998.
• A Rune of One’s Own" Best Practices Session, National Learning Infrastructure Initiative(NLII). 1/99.
• "Stephen Bishop; Freedom’s Darker Face" Back Home. 2/92
• "Unexpected Blessing." Sermon. TJMC, UU, 10/90.
• "Down to Earth." Sermon, TJMC,UU, 11/85.
• Jointly Authored:
• with Jude Reagan and Janet Sakell. Revealing Possibilitiies.[Won first place in SIGUUCS national competition.]9/98
• with Rick Provine, Rachel Saury, and Ralph Schultz. "Delivering technology through collaboration at the University of Virginia.". College and Univeristy Media Review. Spring 1999, pp. 49-67.