Christopher Stein

Christopher Stein

(he/his)

Professor and Chair New York, NY

cstein@bmcc.cuny.edu openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/christopher-stein-portfolio/

About Me

I am a teacher, department chair, front-end web developer and UX designer with over 20 years of experience teaching and creating interactive multimedia experiences.

Education

  1. MPS in Interactive Telecommunications

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    New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program New York, NY

  2. BA in Psychology

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    Yale University New Haven, CT

Appointments

  1. Doctoral Faculty

    – Present

    Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program The Graduate Center, CUNY

  2. Associate Professor

    – Present

    Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY

  3. Assistant Professor

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    Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY

  4. Assistant Professor, Substitution Line

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    Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY

  5. Adjunct Assistant Professor

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    Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY

  6. SEED Program Coordinator

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    Walla Walla Community College

Teaching Experience

  1. Faculty, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program

    – Present

    The Graduate Center, CUNY

    Taught the Core II class in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program which leads graduate students through the process of conceiving and developing an interactive educational technology project for use in teaching.

  2. Adjunct, Assistant and Associate Professor

    – Present

    BMCC

    As an adjunct and then full-time faculty member in the Computer Information Systems Department (Fall 2002–Spring 2008) taught multimedia programming, multimedia networking, multimedia project development, the Internet, database applications, and computer applications. After becoming one of the initial members of the newly formed Media Arts & Technology Department (Fall 2009¬–present) continued to teach multimedia courses including developing new courses in web development and multimedia programming.

    • CIS 100 Introduction to Computer Applications
    • CIS 120 Introduction to Data Base Applications
    • CIS 180 Introduction to the Internet
    • MMP 100 Introduction to Multimedia
    • MMP 210 Multimedia Programming I
    • MMP 220 Programming for Multimedia
    • MMP 240 Web Design
    • MMP 310 Multimedia Programming II
    • MMP 320 Multimedia Networks
    • MMP 350 Advanced Web Design
    • MMP 420 Distributed Multimedia Applications
    • MMP 460 Multimedia Project Lab

  3. Instructor

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    Walla Walla Commmunity College

    Taught two levels of intensive algebra to under-performing students (SEED Program participants).

Awards and Honors

  1. Sloan-C 2012 Effective Practice Award for the CUNY Academic Commons

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    Awarded to George Otte, Matthew Gold, Boone Gorges, Michael Smith, Christopher Stein 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning

    Click here to view the post about the award on the Online Learning Consortium web site.

Grants and Fellowships

  1. Digital Pathways Project

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    PI:
    Erwin Wong; Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Directors:
    Mete Kok, Christopher Stein; Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Agency:
    U.S. Department of Education
    Type:
    Hispanic Serving Institutions–STEM; Title III, Part F
    Duration:
    Fall 2015–Fall 2021
    Award:
    $6,000,000

    The grant was designed to improve the number of Hispanic Students who graduate from BMCC in a STEM program and transfer to a senior college in a STEM program. A wide array of activities were conducted at BMCC, from hiring student support staff to curriculum development and from creating labs to conference and travel. In collaboration with two senior college partners, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and New York City College of Technology, articulation agreements and transfer programs and activities were developed. As Activity Directors, Professor Kok and I were responsible for overseeing all of the day-to-day activities of the project at BMCC, conducting some of the activities, as well as coordinating with the senior college partners.

  2. CUNYCodes at BMCC

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    PI:
    Christopher Stein
    Agency:
    CUNY Continuing Education and Workforce Programs with funding from NYS Department of Labor
    Type:
    CUNYCodes
    Duration:
    Fall 2016–Spring 2017
    Award:
    $21,653

    #CUNYCodes is an experiential learning program run through CUNY Continuing Education and Workforce Programs (CEWP). The program provides students the opportunity to grow their applied software development skills. Under the guidance of an experienced industry mentor, students spend 12 weeks working in teams to design and develop their own deployable applications, while learning to incorporating industry concepts and practices such as project management, user case analysis, SCRUM, and agile in development into their workflow. BMCC was the first community college partner in the program. Both senior college and BMCC students participated in the program at BMCC in spring 2017. I worked with CEWP staff, BMCC Office of Internships and Experiential Learning and faculty from the Media Arts and Technology Department and the Computer Information Systems Department to help organize the space, program, OTPS materials and recruit students and a faculty coordinator.

  3. Use of Interactive Data Visualization Modeling in Determining the Optimal Conditions for the Production of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in E. coli

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    PI:
    Mete Kok, Nanette Van Loon, Christopher Stein; all of Borough of Manhattan Community College
    Agency:
    City University of New York
    Type:
    CUNY Community College Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program
    Duration:
    2006
    Award:
    $34,000

    Physical experiments with GFP and E. coli were conducted by Dr. Van Loon. Dr. Kok and I then analyzed these data to try to make a virtual model of their growing conditions and fluorescence results. We also worked to visualize the data. Other responsibilities included administrative tasks related to purchasing equipment for the grant.

  4. Improving Student Learning through the Use of 3D Simulation Activities and Case Studies in Multimedia Programming

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    PI:
    Jody Culkin, MPS; Christopher Stein, MPS; both of Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Agency:
    National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education
    Type:
    Course Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Adaptation and Implementation (A&I)
    Duration:
    August 2005–July 2007
    Award:
    $107,586

    This project adapted and implemented exemplary materials and strategies from the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at SUNY Buffalo (developing case studies for real-world multimedia projects), St. Joseph’s University (PA) (adapting the Alice programming system for multimedia topics), Wake Forest University (for networked multimedia studies), and Lehman College (CUNY) (as a source for upper-division studies) to develop three gateway courses in the BMCC Multimedia Program. The project was aimed to ensure that the graduates from this program are prepared for their studies when they transfer to four-year colleges. The project is also established a Multimedia Student Access Computer Lab that will serves no fewer than 290 Multimedia Programming majors annually. A comprehensive faculty development program was implemented to ensure integration of the proposed courseware in the curriculum.

  5. Collaborative Curriculum

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    PI:
    Mahatapa Palit, Christopher Stein; both of Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Agency:
    BMCC
    Type:
    Faculty Development Grant
    Duration:
    August 2005–July 2007
    Award:
    $6,000

    As career fields become increasingly interdisciplinary business students need to have a deep understanding of technology and students of technology need to understand business-speak. In this scenario, the need for college instruction that can go through the tight silos of a Business curriculum or a Multimedia curriculum becomes imperative. With the hope of addressing this need this grant was used to develop a course curriculum that fostered collaboration between Business students and Multimedia students and used a project-based approach that provided opportunities for active learning. The curriculum spanned two courses, one Business and one Multimedia and was designed so that students collaborated in groups in their own class and with groups in the other class on a single ‘real world’ project. The curriculum innovation called for collaboration at two levels – a within group collaboration and a between group collaboration. Students in both the Business class and the Multimedia class were divided into groups with the Business students creating the ideas and content and acting as the clients to the Multimedia students who created Web sites for the content.

Presentations

  1. Open Infrastructure for Open Learning: Commons In A Box OpenLab

    Event:
    OER Conference 2022
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    Charlie Edwards and Jody Rosen (both of New York City College of Technology), jean amaral and Chris Stein (both of Borough of Manhattan Community College)
    Link:
    view presentation on event site

    Ten years ago, faculty members and technologists at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), part of the 25-campus City University of New York (CUNY) system, created the OpenLab at City Tech (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/), an open platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration that everyone at the college can use (Edwards et al.). The OpenLab is a vital hub of activity for the City Tech community, serving more than 39,000 members to date – students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Recently we partnered with The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Commons In A Box project (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/) to build Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/), free and open source software that enables anyone to launch a commons for open learning. Since then, several institutions have launched their own OpenLabs, including Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/), also at CUNY.

    CBOX OpenLab’s mission is to create powerful and flexible open infrastructure that provides an alternative to “black-boxed technologies that amass and commercialize data on students, often without their knowledge” (Noble and Roberts 2017). In contrast with closed, proprietary systems designed by external vendors and driven by market concerns, CBOX OpenLab is built by and with the communities it serves, and in alignment with the needs and values of open education. It provides an open online space where community members work together beyond the classroom and across institutional boundaries, sharing ideas with one another and the world. Combining the open source publishing platform WordPress with BuddyPress for social networking, it is specifically designed to support open pedagogies and open educational resources, fostering interdisciplinary approaches and sharing of best practices. Communities can make their work more visible and accessible, and students can create and customize their own learning spaces, actively participating in the construction of their knowledge (Rosen and Smale 2015).

    Our presentation introduces the platform, sharing example uses from the City Tech and BMCC OpenLabs, including some of the creative ways members have used key features in response to the pandemic. We recognize that, while platforms shape behavior, in Stommel’s words, they can’t “magically change our teaching practices” and we “must continually poke and prod at their intentions, the assumptions we’ve baked into them” (2017). So we will also reflect on both the benefits and challenges of using, building, and supporting open infrastructure for open learning. Finally, we will discuss lessons learned, share recommendations for those who are interested in adopting the platform or pursuing similar initiatives, and connect participants with a growing community of practitioners.

    References

    Edwards et al. (May 27, 2014). “Building a Place for Community: City Tech’s OpenLab.” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Available at: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/building-a-place-for-community/ (Accessed: 15 March 2022)

    Noble, S. and Roberts, S. (March 13, 2017). “Out of the Black Box.” EDUCAUSE Review. Available at: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/3/out-of-the-black-box (Accessed: 15 March 2022)
    Rosen, Jody R., and Maura A. Smale. (January 6, 2015). “Open Digital Pedagogy = Critical Pedagogy.” Hybrid Pedagogy. Available at: https://hybridpedagogy.org/open-digital-pedagogy-critical-pedagogy/ (Accessed: 15 March 2022)
    Stommel, Jesse. (June 5, 2017). “If bell hooks Made an LMS: Grades, Radical Openness, and Domain of One’s Own.” Available at: https://www.jessestommel.com/if-bell-hooks-made-an-lms-grades-radical-openness-and-domain-of-ones-own/ (Accessed: 15 March 2022)

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  2. Supporting Open Learning with Commons in a Box Openlab

    Event:
    NYCDH Week 2022
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director, Commons In A Box OpenLab Co-Project Director, OpenLab, New York City College of Technology. Jody Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director & Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology. jean amaral, Associate Professor and Open Knowledge Librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College. Chris Stein, Chairperson, Media Arts & Technology, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    Link:
    view presentation on event site
    Link:
    view presentation slides

    Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.

    The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers NYCDH (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/), and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to closed, proprietary systems, and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.

    We will showcase CBOX OpenLab’s features and functionality, using examples from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s installation of the software (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/), then discuss how CBOX OpenLab can support open learning in your community.

  3. CUNY IT Conference Presentations

    Event:
    CUNY IT Conference
    Type:
    conference

    I have presented at a number of CUNY IT Conferences. Presentations are listed below (mostly complete).

    • Commons In A Box OpenLab: An Open Platform for the Future CUNY (Track: Access, Accessibility and Equity) December 2021, presenters: Christopher Stein, Chair and Director, Department of Media Arts and Tech and BMCC OpenLab, BMCC; Charlie Edwards, Co-Director, OpenLab and Opening Gateways Project, New York City College of Technology; Jody Rosen, Associate Professor, Co-Director, Department of English and City Tech OpenLab, New York City College of Technology; jean amaral, Associate Professor and Open Knowledge Librarian, Library, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Jenna Spevack, Professor and Co-Director, Department of Communication Design and City Tech OpenLab, New York City College of Technology
    • CUNY Academic Commons Turns 10, December 2019, presenters: Matt Gold, CUNY Graduate Center, George Otte, CUNY SPS; Michael Smith, York College; Luke Waltzer, CUNY Graduate Center; Scott Voth; Laurie Hurson, CUNY Graduate Center; Christopher Stein, BMCC. view related news article
    • Building Open Pedagogical Communities with Commons In A Box OpenLab, December 2019, presenters: Gina Cherry, BMCC; jean amaral, BMCC; Tom Harbison, BMCC; Christopher Stein, BMCC; Charlie Edwards, City Tech; Jenna Spevack, City Tech; Bree Zuckerman, City Tech
    • CUNY Support for Safe and Effective Use of Cloud Services, November 2018, presenters: Phil Pecorino, Queensborough Community College; Brian Cohen, University CIO, CUNY; Ronald Bergmann, CIO, Lehman College; Robert Berlinger, CUNY CIS; Heather Leifer, CUNY Legal; Dan McCloskey, CUNY Research; Greet Van Belle, York College; Joseph Awadjie, CUNY Student Affairs; Christopher Stein, BMCC
    • New Connections and Possibilities with the CUNY Academic Commons, December 2016, presenters: Matthew K. Gold, Director, CUNY Academic Commons; Stephen Real, Project Manager, CUNY Academic Commons; Lisa Rhody, Director of Research Projects, CUNY Academic Commons; Luke Waltzer, Director of Community Projects, CUNY Academic Commons; Michael B. Smith, Director of Special Projects, CUNY Academic Commons; Chris Stein, Director of User Experience, CUNY Academic Commons; Megan Wacha, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Office of Library Services
    • The CUNY Hybrid Initiative Site: An Open Resource for Hybrid Teaching and Learning, November 2012, presenters: Laura Broughton, Bronx Community College; Karen Lundstrem, New York City College of Technology; George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology, CUNY; Maria Pagano, New York City College of Technology; Chris Stein, BMCC; Greet Van Belle, CUNY Graduate Center; Alyson Vogel, Lehman College
    • Open Ecosystems: Community-focused Development and the CUNY Academic Commons, November 2012, presenters: Brian Foote, CUNY Academic Commons; Dominic Giglio, CUNY Academic Commons, BMCC; Matthew K. Gold, CUNY Academic Commons, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Center; Boone Gorges, CUNY Academic Commons; Sarah Morgano, School of Professional Studies; Michael Smith, York College; Chris Stein, BMCC; Scott Voth, CUNY Academic Commons
    • Preparing for the Future: Creating a CUNY-wide approach towards Digital Media Programs, December 2011, presenters: James Richardson, Michael Smith, Richard Dragan, Stephen Brier, Chris Stein
    • Connection, Collaboration, Community: Using the CUNY Academic Commons, December 2011, presenters: Brian Foote, Boone Gorges, Sarah Morgano, Michael Smith, Matthew Gold, Scott Voth, Chris Stein
    • Skunkworks: Past, Present and Future, December 2011, presenters: Helen Keier, Philip Pecorino, Adam Wandt, Chris Stein
    • Introducing the CUNY Academic Commons, December 2009, presenters: Matt Gold, Boone Gorges, George Otte, Chris Stein
    • Using 3D Environments to Teach Multimedia Programming, December 2006, presenters: Jody Culkin, BMCC; Chris Stein, BMCC. view presentation slides

  4. Commons In A Box OpenLab: an open platform for open learning

    Event:
    WPCampus Online 2021
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    Charlie Edwards, Jody Rosen (both of New York City College of Technology), Boone Gorges (Hard G LLC), Chris Stein (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
    Link:
    view presentation on event site

    Ten years ago, a team of faculty and technologists at New York City College of Technology, part of the 25-campus City University of New York (CUNY) system, created the OpenLab at City Tech, a WordPress and BuddyPress-based open platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration that everyone at the college can use. Since then, the OpenLab has become a vital hub of activity for the City Tech community, serving more than 36,000 members to date. We recently partnered with The Graduate Center, CUNY, to build Commons In A Box OpenLab, free and open source software that anyone can use to launch a commons for open learning. Unlike closed, proprietary systems, Commons In A Box OpenLab is designed to help students, faculty, and staff work together beyond the classroom and across institutional boundaries, sharing ideas with one another and the world.

    In our presentation, we will introduce the platform, sharing example uses from City Tech’s OpenLab and the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s installation of the software, including some of the creative ways members used its features in response to the pandemic. We will also discuss the benefits and challenges of using, building, and supporting an open platform for open learning, and the lessons we have learned along the way.

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  5. Learning in the Open with Commons In A Box OpenLab

    Event:
    2021 Virtual Bronx EdTech Showcase
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director, Commons In A Box OpenLab Co-Project Director, OpenLab, New York City College of Technology Gina Cherry, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Scholarship, Borough of Manhattan Community College. Tom Harbison, Acting Director, E-Learning Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College Jody Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director & Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology Ryan Seslow, CBOX OpenLab Open Educational Technology & Pedagogy Fellow, Borough of Manhattan Community College Chris Stein, Chairperson, Media Arts & Technology, Borough of Manhattan Community College

    Commons In A Box OpenLab is free, open source software that enables anyone to launch a commons for open learning. It was created here at CUNY through a partnership between two successful projects: the Graduate Center’s Commons In A Box (CBOX) community-building software , and City Tech’s OpenLab, an open platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration that has served more than 36,000 members to date. The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX modeled on the OpenLab’s features and functionality that is being adopted at CUNY and beyond. BMCC is one of the first institutions to implement CBOX OpenLab, with a fully-functional site at https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu. Unlike closed, proprietary systems, CBOX OpenLab is designed to help students, faculty, and staff work together beyond the classroom and across institutional boundaries, sharing ideas with one another and the world. Built on the widely-used open source software WordPress and BuddyPress, it places a rich set of flexible tools for publishing and collaboration in the hands of everyone at the college, enabling members to shape their own learning environments using proven and sustainable technologies. Our session will showcase CBOX OpenLab, with examples from the City Tech and BMCC OpenLabs that demonstrate how it can be used for asynchronous community-building and learning activities, and how these improve the student experience in what has become a new normal, with asynchronous digital communication pervasive even in courses with set meeting times. We will highlight innovative features funded by the CUNY OER program that promote wide sharing of best practices and open educational resources. We will also address the people, processes, and technology infrastructure needed to power an OpenLab installation, including lessons learned from BMCC’s experiences of working with the platform. Throughout, we will engage participants in active discussion of the benefits and challenges of learning in the open.

  6. Open Infrastructure in Action at CUNY

    Event:
    OERxDomains21
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    Charlie Edwards, Jody Rosen (both of New York City College of Technology), Chris Stein (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
    Link:
    view presentation on event site

    This session discusses how New York City College of Technology (City Tech) and the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) use customized WordPress Multisite/BuddyPress application known as Commons-in-a-Box OpenLab (https://commonsinabox.org/) to build out a localized, institution-focused social learning network for its students and faculty. Jody Rosen (City Tech), Chris Stein (BMCC), and Charlotte Edwards (City Tech) not only share the history and impressive uptake of this truly unique open source software project, but also share examples at their respective schools that point to a broader moral imperative around providing a technical framework for connecting that is not predatory when it comes to faculty and student data.

    It’s open source. It was dreamed up over a decade ago at CUNY and continues to be maintained there. What’s more, it’s freely available to anyone else who wants to implement it. It’s just another brick in the open educational infrastructure Wall brought to you by the largest, most diverse urban college system in the USA!

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  8. CUNY Academic Commons: Social Network As Hatchery

    Event:
    Sloan-C 5th Annual International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Online Learning
    Type:
    conference
    Presenters:
    **George Otte**, University Director of Academic Technology, CUNY **Matthew K. Gold**, Assistant Professor of English, NYCCT/Graduate Center; Director, CUNY Academic Commons **Boone Gorges**, Director of Research Projects and Lead Developer, CUNY Academic Commons **Michael Branson Smith**, Assistant Professor of Communications Technology at York College **Christopher Stein**, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Technology, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    Link:
    view presentation on event site

    The City University of New York (CUNY), the world’s largest urban public university, serves over half a million students (272,000 degree students and 280,000 continuing ed/certificate students) at twenty-three colleges spread throughout the five boroughs of New York. The CUNY Academic Commons was created to respond to challenges posed by rapid enrollment growth and faculty turnover, but also to promote cohesion and collaboration around academic uses of technology. Released only a little over two years ago but already with several thousand members, the Commons has created a collaborative environment for interaction and mutual support around online and blended learning, open access publication, digital scholarship, and technology-enhanced instruction. Built on open-source software and overseen by a dedicated team of developers and facilitators, it evolves in response to its users and their interests, while helping them discover the extent to which those interests are shared, productive, and worth developing further. Its developers are now, with the support of a Sloan grant, working on the Commons In A Box – a means of replicating the project elsewhere, with maximum ease and minimum expense.

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Service

Department Service

  1. – Present

    Media Arts and Technology Department

    • Personnel and Budget Committee, Fall 2009–Spring 2015 member; Fall 2015-present chair
    • Curriculum Committee, Fall 2009–present
    • Media Arts and Technology Departmental Honors Ceremony, 2018–present, organizer
    • Media Arts and Technology Student Open House, Spring 2017
    • Multimedia Lab Coordinator, Fall 2009–Spring 2015
    • Assessment Committee Liaison, Fall 2006–Spring 2012
    • Academic Program Review
      • Multimedia Programming and Design Program, 2016-2017
      • Video Arts and Technology rogram, 2015-2016
    • Media Arts and Technology Advisory Board, 2015–2016 member, 2019–present chair

College Service

  1. – Present

    Borough of Manhattan Community College

    • BMCC OpenLab, 2017-present, Director
    • BMCC Academic Senate, Fall 2015-present, ex-officio member
    • BMCC Personnel and Budget Committee, Fall 2015-present, ex-officio member
    • Curriculum Committee of the Academic Senate, Fall 2015-present, member
      • 2016-present, Secretary
    • Manhattan Early College School for Advertising Steering Committee, January 2015-present
    • Designing for Success Initiative, Fall 2018–Spring 2020
      • Academic and Career Communities Initiative
    • E-Learning and Digital Education Council, Spring 2016-present
      • E-Learning Task Force, Fall 2017–Spring 2018
    • EAB Navigate Leadership and Engagement Team, Spring 2020–present, Faculty Co-Champion
    • Learning Assistance Council, Fall 2017-Fall 2020, MEA Department Liaison
      • Also attended Learning Assistance Training Coordinators meetings
    • Perkins Federal Funding, Fall 2017-present
      • Planned, wrote and executed funding requests and research reports
      • Perkins Advisory Board Member
    • Connect2Success (Starfish) Committee, Fall 2016–present
    • Technology Fee Committee, Spring 2019-Spring 2012, Spring 2015–present
    • BMCC Technology Advisory Board, Fall 2016-present
    • AES Internal Review Committee, Fall 2016–Summer 2017
    • Center for Workforce Development’s Technology Advisory Group, Fall2016-Spring 2017
    • BMCC Technology Day Planning Committee: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017
    • Search Committees
      • Director of E-Learning (Spring 2017)
      • Director of User Support Services (Fall 2015) (Spring 2016)
      • Dir of Internships and Experiential Learning (Fall 2015)
      • Web Content Manager (Summer 2015)
      • Public Affairs Internal Staff Writer, Spring/Summer 2009
      • Dean for Faculty Development, Summer 2008
      • Public Affairs Web Content Manager, Spring 2008
      • Coordinator of Assessment Search Committee, Fall 2005
    • Sexual Harassment Awareness Training and Intake Committee, Fall 2004 – Spring 2016
    • Teaching Academy Advisory Board, Spring 2014–Spring 2015
    • Faculty Marshal: 2011, 2012
    • Assessment Committee, Fall 2006 – Spring 2012
    • BMCC Institutional Success Strategic Steering Committee, Spring 2011–Fall 2012
    • Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
    • Middle States Institutional Assessment Subcommittee, Spring 2006 - Fall 2007
    • General Education Assessment Committee, Fall 2004 - Spring 2006

University Service

  1. – Present

    City University of New York

    • CUNY Committee on Academic Technology, Fall 2008-present
      • CUNY Academic Commons Subcommittee, Fall 2009-Fall 2020
      • Research and Development Group Subcommittee, Fall 2010–Fall 2012
    • CUNY Academic Commons, 2009-present, Commons Development Team member
      • Served as Director of User Experience 2015-present
    • Media, Arts and Technology Discipline Council, 2015-present
      • Helped to create the Council and served as a Co-Chair for one year
      • This is a Univeristy-wide discipline council that happens to share a similar name to my academic department.
    • CUNY Cloud Policy Working Group, Spring 2019–Summer 2019, Committee Member
    • CUNY Career Success Initiatives, Spring 2018–present, BMCC Team Member
    • #CUNYCodes, Fall 2016–Fall 2018, helped to oversee the program at BMCC
    • Hybrid Initiative Website, 2012,Volunteer Developer

Service to the Field

  1. – Present

    Service to the Field

    • CTE Media Technology & Design Commission, member, Fall 2020-present

    • Commons In A Box, UX Lead, 2012-present

    • Southeast Digital Animation Festival, Juror

      • This was part of ACMSE 2007: the 45th ACM Southeast Conference.

    • AMATYC Beyond Crossroads: Implementing Mathematics Standards in the First Two Years of College, Technology Consultant for Electronic Resources , 2005

Software/Platforms

  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom
  • Adobe XD
  • Premiere
  • Flash
  • Acrobat
  • Screenflow
  • Camtasia
  • Zoom
  • Audacity
  • WordPress

Coding Languages

  • HTML
  • CSS, Sass
  • JavaScript
  • Git
  • Php
  • ActionScript
  • Lingo
  • SQL

Interests

Related and non-related interests

  • Photography
  • Bicycling
  • Soccer
  • Outdoor Activities
  • Woodworking