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NROC (www.nroc.org) is a non-profit (501(c)3) whose mission is to improve access to quality education for everyone. Its serves academic institutions nationwide with a range of learning products, including EdReady (www.edready.org), college math and English readiness system for students and institutions, and HippoCampus (www.hippocampus.org), an open educational resource for students and teacher. NROC is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation.

Produced the television special, Voyage to Kure, the inaugural episode of the PBS series, Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures. The documentary film was cited by President George W. Bush as his inspiration for the establishment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument (Los Angeles Time, June 15, 2006, http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/15/nation/na-hawaii15). At the time it was the largest protected marine area in the world. The National Monument was renamed in 2007 to the traditional Hawaiian name, Papahanaumokuakea (http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov), and in 2010 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

NETg was a pioneer in providing e-Learning solutions to many of the largest corporations in the world, including Shell, IBM, AT&T, Honeywell and Motorola. NETg developed a library of more than 1,200 multimedia-based IT courses, grew to more than 800 employees, and had offices in 30 countries. NETg was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 2001.

Archipelago developed award-winning analog and digital products for the education market and produced documentary programming for television. Archipelago created hundreds of films, videodiscs, software programs, and book series for many of the largest educational publishers in the United States, including Harper Collins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saunders, and Prentice Hall. Archipelago also produced nationally-broadcast television programming for PBS and The Cousteau Society. Archipelago was acquired by Harcourt Brace in 1993.

Ph.D. Marine Biology

Bs, Zoology