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Mark J. Norton21 Reeves RoadBedford MA 01730 (781) 275-4070 markjnorton@earthlink.net |
Background:
Management SkillsDepartment, program, and project management. Experience in budgeting, staffing, business development, planning and coaching. Good presentation and customer relationship abilities.
Technical SkillsSoftware development (various languages, primarily Java), operating systems (all major ones), SOA archtiecture, web application development, database systems, eLearning Systems, and video production. Strong capability with presentation tools, spreadsheets, project management tools, Jira/Confluence, etc.
Work History:
Sakai Project Feb. 2004 to present.Chairman, Requirements Working Group
Currently (since June 2006) serving on Sakai staff to manage the collection of requirements, ideas, and feature requests and packaging them to promote development of new Sakai features and contribute to the continue improvement and performance of Sakai as an enterprise class collaboration learning environment.Liaison, Sakai Educational Partner Program
Nolaria Consulting Jun. 2003 to present
Served as liaison and coordinator between the Sakai Educational Partner Program and the Sakai Project. Included participation in Sakai architecture and framework development and communicating emerging concepts and software to SEPP members. Requirements, comments, and feedback gathered from SEPP members were returned to the Sakai project. SEPP folded into Sakai in Fall of 2006.Consultant, Sakai Project
Designed and developed the Sakai Course Management API with Craig Counterman. Some independent Sakai tool development. Technical aspects include JSR-168 portlets, JSR-170 repositories, container managed persistence, web services, XML document processing, JavaServer Faces, Tomcat servlets, JavaServer Pages, Maven, and others.Independent contributor and technical guidance provided to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology towards integrating the Sakai CLE into MIT's Stellar course management system. Initial technology demonstration in Aug. 2005, led to full implementation in the spring of 2006, rolled out in production fall of 2006.
Consultant, Unicon
Sales support at conferences such as Educause, technical contributions on RFI and RFP documents, customer needs analysis, gap analysis. Architect and technical lead on Gengage (formerly Thomson Learning) Learning Edge project. Technical training in Sakai tool and service development. Consulting expert on Sakai architecture.Consultant, Open Knowledge Initiative
IMS Global Learning Consortium Mar. 2001 to Jun. 2003
Independent technical review of the Open Knowledge Initiative. This included a detailed assessment of existing Open Source Interface Definitions (OSID). Developed implementations of the shared, filing, authentication, and authorization OKI OSIDs in Java for a concept map application at Tufts University (VUE-1). Work included J2EE and Swing development. Other independent OSID implementations include hierarchy, dictionary, and digital repository. Work for VUE phase 2 (2007) included development of web services that revealed Sakai content management as a digital repository.Director, Specification Development
TechOnLine, Inc. Nov. 1997 to Mar. 2001
IMS Global Learning creates standards for distance learning and eLearning systems. Responsible for the entire specification development process from inception to completion. Seven major specifications developed and approved in 2002. Managed six active working groups with 10 to 15 people in each. Duties included project management, motivation of volunteers, some training, document preparation, process management, fund raising support, and quarterly progress presentations. Served as co-chairman of the Accessibility Working Group. Contributed to the development of the IMS Abstract Framework (eLearning architecture). Contributed to the common Cartridge specification development effort in 2007.Vice President, Technical Operations, Director of Engineering
Omega Performance (MicroMentor) Jan. 1995 to Nov. 1997
Responsible for the design and development of web-based services and products including eLearning (TechOnLine University and Private Campus), webcasting (TOL Seminars), website delivery and management (TechOnLine.com), and E-Recruitment (Experts Guild). Hired and managed a staff of eight engineers and four system administrators. Managed a $1 million development budget. Contributed to the strategic direction of the company. Products developed increased revenues from $500,000 in 1998 to $6 million in 2000, which included a $0.5 million contract to develop the Motorola Private Campus E-Learning environment.Manager, Internet Products
Avid Technology, Inc. Dec. 1989 to Jan. 1995
Architect and Project Manager of OPEN, an interactive, web-based eLearning system designed to deliver training over networks with support for user customization, centralized administration, and diverse access speeds. The OPEN learning server, along with its underlying scripting engine (OPUS) was the basis for four large contracts worth close to $2 million. This work contributed to the acquisition of MicroMentor by Omega Performance in 1997.Founder, Group Leader, Architect, Manager
General Electric, Aerospace Division May 1987 to Dec. 1989.
Software Architect for CamCutter, a disk based ENG camera system. Duties included requirements, high level design, interface specification, documentation, and software development using VxWorks. Group Leader and Architect for Media Suite Pro, a video editing system. Media Suite Pro generated over $10 million in revenue in its introductory year. Duties included design, development, scheduling, supervision of four person team and close integration with Product Marketing. Group Leader for List Management, EDL translators and standalone application. Technical contributor for Media Composer, a video editing system. All design and development was object-oriented with an emphasis on real time performance.Staff Scientist, Advanced Technology Laboratories
GenRad, Inc. April 1984 to May 1987
Assisted program management in the development of Submarine Commander's Associate, an advanced combat management system. Performed experimental work in neural networks and parallel programming on a Connection Machine. Performed technology transfer of a large AI Assistant Program from a Symbolics Lisp machine to VAX/VMS environment. Served as Knowledge Engineer to develop a knowledge-based system to aid maintenance of an optical character recognition system used by the US Postal Service. Served as Principal Investigator of Neural Network technology. GE Technology Receptor for MCC Software Engineering program.Manager, Data Management Development Group
Managed a team of six people working on sevEducation:
MSCS, Boston University, 1998.
BSEE, Western New England College, 1977.
Ontological Coaching, Full Certification, Newfield Group, 1997.
Professional Societies:
Association for Computational Machinery
Awards:
1993 MacUser's Editor's Choice Award for Media Suite Pro.
1992 Academy of Television Producers, Technical Achievement Award (Emmy).
Three US Patents for aspects of video editing and related technology.
Yondan (fourth degree black belt) in Aikido, Shidoin teaching certificate.