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Designed, programmed and implemented (in response to request
from Faculty Chair, Foreign Language) a unique Student Aural Response
System, the GRAPEVINE, which allows Foreign Language students
in distance-based classes at Rio Salado to submit "aural" ("listen-able")
assignments by voice mail from any telephone. Students submit aural assignments;
instructor has option to "cut & paste" specific annotations
on each original message and/or return original message back to each student.
A "Kiosk" (bulletin board) mailbox is provided for each class
section so instructor can update general information to students as often
as needed. To my knowledge, this is the first time a generic, PC-based
voice mail system has ever been conformed to this kind of an application. |
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Designed and implemented a unique Student Fax System
to allow all Rio Salado distance learning students to submit written assignments
via fax. PC-based fax system received fax transmissions (up to 30 pages
per each submission), 24 hours per day, holding unprinted faxes on disk
until batch printed on laser printer by authorized office technician, thereby
guaranteeing student-faculty confidentiality via secure transmissions. |
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Conceived, developed and refined a six site PC-based distributed
audiographics multimedia system known as IMAGE Net (Interactive Multisite
Animated Graphics Environment). Basically an electronic slide show
presentation program that allowed the instructor (from any of six sites)
to control the audiographics display at all other sites, simultaneously,
via a second telephone line at each site which allowed all six PC keyboards
to be interconnected via a secondary bridge conference. Originally providing
4-color graphics, animation and annotation to 256 gray level slow scan
via a proprietary DTMF encoder/decoder, this system was upgraded and eventually
replaced the slow scan (VIDEOLINK) system, altogether, with full 640 x
480, 256 color still frame video, graphics and animation controlled via
bridge-connected in-line keyboard modems. |
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Proposed, fabricated and implemented a six site PC-based
Computer Graphics and Video Frame Store System for the VIDEOLINK
slow scan video television network at Rio Salado Community College. |
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Participated in the conceptual development and implementation
of Rio Salado's Homebound Project, the Nation's first audio teleconferencing
program for homebound / home-based college students. Participated as team
member in general development of the project and more specifically provided
the identification and adaptation of particular telephone equipment, procedures
and program design elements needed to meet the special needs of partially
and fully immobile students and students with various other restricting
disabilities. |
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Designed and wrote program code for a comprehensive SUNDIAL
Network Daily Schedule, for reserving and tracking use of Rio Salado's
6 teleconference bridges (30 lines) and studio conference room. Also designed,
coded and maintained a program for outfaxing formal Teleconference Confirmation
Notices, as well as several other automated forms generation programs for
expediting equipment distribution, tracking inventory and other related
activities. |
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Conceived, designed and fabricated a unique Satellite
Delay Arrangement for interfacing the SUNDIAL Network's analog teleconference
bridge to a KU-band uplink at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, via a local
audio link from KAET, Channel 8 at Arizona State University in Tempe. By
using the "naturally delayed" downlinked audio, rebroadcast via
the SUNDIAL Bridge, fully interactive two-way audio was available in real-time,
at all participating downlink sites, nationwide, and in-sync with the satellite
video. |
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Engineered and built "from scratch" a digitally-controlled
4-port (expandable to 8 port) 2-wire to 4-wire Audio Teleconference
Bridge for the state-wide, 27-site, 4-wire dedicated Washington Educational
Teleconference Network (WETNET). |
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Have installed, organized and outfitted 3 first class
professional teleconference studios and control rooms for WETNET
and the SUNDIAL Network, and have developed operating policies and procedures
for each. |
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Have provided expert technical consultation (both gratis
and for personal compensation) to several local organizations, corporations
and educational institutions, including:
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Navajo Community College, the Navajo Nation, Tsaile, AZ
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, St. Louis, MO
The Darome Connection, New York, NY and Dallas, TX
Manitoba Telephone Company, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada
The Knowledge Network, Vancouver, BC, Canada
AT&T Communications Services, Phoenix, AZ |
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Was the only one of 57 contributers to the 1986 edition
(Volume 5) of Teleconferencing and Electronic Communications (University
of Wisconsin-Extension) to have two papers accepted for publication in
the same volume. One, an overview and developmental case study of the VIDEOLINK
graphics system at Rio Salado was titled "Linking the Microcomputer
to Teleconferencing," the other was "A Technical Primer for the
Teleconferencing Technician." |
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