Name

Jerald D. Cole (Jerry)

Employment

Professor and Chair of Instructional Technology in the School of Education at the University of Bridgeport.

Faculty President, Member IT Governance, Member President's Advisory Council

Research interests

Networks, Distributed Learning Systems, Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Consulting

Enterprise-level technologist with 32 years of experience specializing in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, pHp) applications development and UNIX Cluster administration. Short list of clients includes Warner Brothers, Praxar, Perkin Elmer, Schlumberger-Doll, viaMax, Yale University and the City of New York Board of Education.

Recent Projects

Ported Blogsum podCasting servlet from Mac OS-X to Linux for an internal corporate video training application.

Web 2.0 form-filling application for NYC summer teaching applications.

OpenTok open source application for ad hoc multipoint video conferencing.

Grants

Microsoft, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, EPIE Institute, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, SBC,  Hearst Foundation.

Hobbies

Water Sports--SCUBA and kayaking. (Built an 18' 2" kevlar touring boat.)