Eric Jansson Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx

See http://www.ed-fi.org

Austin, Texas Area

Leading education software products at SMART, including desktop and cloud / SAAS solutions.

Austin, Texas Area

Product management and roadmap development for all education software development kits. Product management for identity infrastructure for SAAS products.

Austin, Texas Area

Managed marketing and relationship programs focused on leading national school districts and state departments of education. Acted as a principal company contact to policy-focused national advocacy organizations.

The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) was a nonprofit sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to drive increased application of digital technologies within liberal arts colleges and universities.Led multi-institution Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) technology services within a network of universities. Owned all aspects of these efforts, including budgeting, implementation, marketing, market problems and client needs. Principal efforts included: - Developed services for high-definition video and other "telepresence" technologies for inter-campus teaching - Developed virtual computing services to provide on-demand high-performance computing resources to 15 independent universities.

Led multi-institution Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) technology services within a network of universities. Owned all aspects of these efforts, including budgeting, implementation,marketing, market problems and client needs. Principal efforts included: - A digital library services subscribed to by 30+ institutions. - A network-wide videoconference and collaboration service based with 80+ subscribers in the first year (based on Marratech and later Elluminate). - Learning management system services (based on both Sakai and Moodle).

Responsible for software development projects and all consortia information technology operations. - Designed and led implementation of synchronous and asynchronous online learning platform (based on LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP & PERL) for inter-institutional courses. Worked closely with faculty and others to define the requirements and write functional specifications. Managed teams of up to 12+ developers. - Led consortia task forces in the areas of disaster recovery and security to produce consortia recommendation and best practices documents. - Managed operations of servers based on Unix/Linux.

Designed and implemented a commercially successful online learning platform (http://www.explorelearning.com) for delivery of math and science curriculum on a SaaS model. The platform has been used by millions of students since its launch. - Designed overall multi-tier architecture for the ExploreLearning platform on a very limited budget and led its implementation. - Connected platform to SalesForce for lead and CRM management and to district SIS systems for identity management.

Led development of web-based platform for online delivery of interactive science and humanities curriculum for secondary school system. (ActiveInk was part of the Austin Technology Incubator.) - Led design and development of platform version 3.0 (Java 2EE, SQL, Javascript, HTML. Flash/AS) with a team of 6+ developers and testers. Product was used by thousands of students in its initial years. - Provided input on product strategy in the emerging K12 online learning marketplace.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed web sites and web applications to meet customer needs (ASP, SQL, Javascript, HTML, Flash/ActionScript).

Master Of Public Affairs, Technology, Education, Innovation

M.A.

B.A.