After graduation, I worked for Dartmouth College’s Computing Services and began teaching “Minicourses” — classes for faculty, staff, and students in using computing resources — and soon began creating my own classes. My most popular class was a sweeping overview of the Internet. The Internet was exploding onto the scene all over the country and my class helped faculty and staff understand what it was and what impact it would have on their teaching, administrating, and communicating. The teaching bug had bitten me. During this time, I also began guest lecturing in Education classes at Dartmouth and help create and acted as a teaching assistant for Engineering Sciences 4: The Technology of Cyberspace at the Thayer School of Engineering with professors George Cybenko and Doctor Joseph Henderson. I also was invited to give talks on the Internet at a number of Dartmouth Alumni Clubs in New England. It was also around this time that I founded a virtual community, The Friends Zone. This close-knit group of friends who met via this community and are from all over the world, is responsible for quite a few weddings and subsequent children.
My career shifted into project management and I brought my experience with accessibility to Devis working on Disability.gov (then DisabilityDirect.gov) to make a graphcially rich website that was also an exemplar of accessibility. I wrote a white paper on the subject and presented at a number of events in the DC area. In 2003, I was contacted by Janina Sajka, then at the American Foundation for the Blind, to collaborate on a tool that would allow blind people to navigate content over a telephone using the DAISY standard for navigating hierarchical content. This lead to a speaking engagement at the DAISY Conference in Amsterdam, NL in May 2003.
I also began researching the use of Podcasting as a tool in Education returning to Harvard to discuss this at an alumni-student get together. I wrote a book on podcasting and an article for MacWorld during this time. I was also invited to present at the 2008 New Media Expo in Las Vegas on basic podcasting with Garageband on the Mac.
Since 2005, I have worked for various companies as a Project Manager, moving from contract to contract as work began and ended but always kept up my involvement with technology in education. Most recently, I have researched, written, and spoken about teens and social media and started a blog to explore that subject in depth, NavigatingTheWaters.com. My writings on this subject have been published on TidBITS.com and resulted in my inclusion in an article on NPR.org by Linton Weeks and a speaking invitation to the #140 Conference in Kingston, NY in 2012.
I have been an adult leader in both the Cub Scouts (Den Leader for every year as well as Assistant Cubmaster) and Boy Scouts (Assistant Scoutmaster and Merit Badge Counselor) and am currently an adult leader with a Venture Crew. I am the Assistant Creative Director in charge of the Education program at Swamp Meadow Community Theatre. In this role, I coordinate education programs for the members of the theater as well as for the general public. I also teach the 7th grade class at First Unitarian Universalist of Providence, RI on Sundays. Finally, I am a volunteer admissions interviewer for Dartmouth College, interviewing prospective high school seniors in Rhode Island.