Between January 1992 and July 1995 served as Director of the Center for Teaching and Technology and Assistant Director for Training Services, Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University. The mission of the Center is to promote the use of instructional technology in the classroom.

Prior to Georgetown University, recruited in 1983 to Michigan State University in a highly competitive national competition for a fellowship program with the Institute for Research on Teaching.

Prior to MSU held a variety of positions, ranging from Warehouse Group Leader to Vice President, in both large and small business organizations. This background has allowed accomplishments in the areas of instructional technology, instructional design, distance education, computers in training/education, marketing, sales, accounting, and general management.

Education includes BS (1977), with highest honors in Photo management/Business Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology; attended University of Michigan Graduate School of Business in MBA program, Earned Ph.D. in Educational Systems Development, Michigan State University (1988). Majoring in computers in training and education; with minors in business, learning and cognition, and statistical methods.

Co-editor of eight books: Computer-mediated Communication and the Online Classroom Volumes 1-3; Wired Together: Computer-mediated communication in K-12, Volumes 1-4, and a new title, Distance Training (Jossey-Bass) released in late 1998.