Department
Academic Technology

Program
Web Programming and Video Systems Support

Office Location
Merrill Learning Center (MLC)  B205

PRESENTATIONS/INTERVIEWS:

2009

• "CAPTIONING: What You Need to Know." Interview in University Business, October 2009, page 46.
• So you have a DAM solution, now what: How to extend and integrate your existing DAM system.  Real world case studies panel. Henry Stewart Events Digital Asset Management, New York, NY
• Using Lecture Capture to Support Students at Gallaudet University. Echo360 Community Conference, Virginia

2008

• Managing Digital Assets in Increasingly Complex Higher Education Environments, webinar, November 2008
• DAM-ing the Digital Flood, interview, Campus Technology, September 2008.
  
• CFConversations 11, Roundtable 5, August 2008
• How to Manage Video Content in Higher Education, interview, StreamingMedia 2008 Source Book, February 2008

• Producing RSS/XML Feeds of Published Content from Telescope, Telescope Users Group (TUG), Toronto, 2007

• Flash Video: Making an Embedded SWF, Gallaudet University 2006
• How to make a catalog in the Gallaudet Video Library, Gallaudet University 2006
• Adding Captions to Online Video, Gallaudet University, 2006
• Adding Closed Captioning To Web Video (How To), Streaming Media West, San José, 2006
• Showing Captions by Adding SMIL File URL to VL_Proxies Table in Telescope's Database, Telescope Users Group (TUG), Toronto, 2006

PROJECTS:

SLCC Digital Signs (Exhibio)
A way finding application on large LCD touch screens.

MyMedia
A community video utility written in Cold Fusion that let's the Gallaudet community to upload video and captions pairs and generate HTML code to paste on webpages, blogs, and Blackboard.

Gallaudet VideoCatalog
A Cold Fusion API written to extend the Northplains Systems Telescope platform to produce RSS feeds of video assets, gives each published (administrator approved) asset a unique URL, and produces the HTML code to embed the video to an external webpage.

QTtext to SAMI Converter Utility
A python script to used to convert QuickTime caption text files into a SAMI format and RealText to either SAMI or QText.

Gallaudet Flash Captions Player
A embedded flash player that accepts video and caption URLs through flashvars. Based designed by David Klein's team at the University of Iowa Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center, it imports the QTtext caption file format and creates cue points based on the time codes specified in that file. The player is deployed as part of MyMedia and used for such projects as Bob's Vlog, the president's campus community address.

• Languages: ColdFusion/CFML, XML/XSLT, ActionScript, Python, Perl, SQL, CSS, Visual Basic, EMCA Scripts (JavaScript, JScript) and libraries (jQuery), PowerShell Script
• Servers: IIS, SQL Server, ColdFusion, Railo, Open Blue Dragon, Flash Media Server, Windows Media Server, QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server;
• Enterprise: Ingeniux CMS, Northplains Telescope DAM, Echo360/Apreso, Crestron, Vaddio, Freedom Scientific Jaws; Exhibio Digital Signage
• Design: Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Gimp