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Riley Quarles
707.826.3644
rq1@humboldt.edu

Professional Experience
Interim Manager, Instructional Media Services (IMS)

Humboldt State University Arcata, CA, 12/04 – present

  • Provide operational leadership for two distinct operations
    • Courseware Development Center
      • Internet based instructional materials for faculty (web design and production, image scanning)
      • The campus learning management system (Moodle).
    • Media Production
      • Oversee facilities including television studio, satellite downlinks, video conferencing facilities
  • Recruit, develop, motivate and retain six highly technical staff members by modeling teamwork and mutual respect
  • Promote and establish fully accessible (e.g., Section 508) online instructional materials (Outstanding Staff Award, 2002, Accessible Technology Initiative)
  • Manage $400,000 annual budget supplemented with special project funds, and optimizing limited resources to serve the instructional media needs of faculty
  • Participate in consultative, collaborative and responsive campus policy development (e.g. Distance Education, Learning Management Systems)
  • Provide leadership and hands-on direction for advancing the innovative and effective application of technology by representing IMS in numerous committees, and facilitating individual and group workshops for university faculty and staff in the Faculty Technology Solution Center
  • HSU administrator and workshop facilitator for anti-plagiarism software Turnitin

Coordinator, Courseware Development Center
Humboldt State University Arcata, CA, 8/99 - 12/04

  • Needs assessment, design and implementation guidance in the systematic development of technology-based learning/instructional materials
  • Assist university faculty in the redesign of their curriculum using appropriate technologies that offer effective learning activities and assessment methodologies.
  • Recruit, train and lead a staff of fifteen professional staff, graduate and student assistant designers and programmers in an academic multimedia production environment.
  • Teach individual and group workshops for university faculty and staff.

Lecturer, Multimedia, Art Department
Humboldt State University Arcata, CA, 9/97 - 6/99

Designed curricula, taught classes and provided individual tutoring in

  • Digital Expression - Electronic Pre-Press (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker)
  • Special Topics in Graphic Design - Multimedia Production (Macromedia Director, Sound Forge, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop)

Graphics Specialist, University Graphics
Humboldt State University Arcata, CA, 6/87 - 8/99

  • Electronic Pre-Press - High-end drum scanning, color correction, output device calibration, student assistant supervision, quality control.
  • Digital imaging and desktop publishing training for university faculty and staff.


Associate Faculty, Digital Media Department
College of the Redwoods Eureka, CA, 9/95 - 6/98

Designed curricula, taught classes and provided individual tutoring in

  1. Multimedia Literacy (PowerPoint)
  2. Multimedia Design (Photoshop)
  3. Multi media Presentations (Premiere, Sound Forge, Persuasion)
  4. Multimedia Lab Instructor (Macromedia and Adobe Suites)
  5. Desktop Publishing (PageMaker, Photoshop)

Animated Computer Graphics Artist
7th Direction Studios Arcata, CA 9/92 – 8/99

  • Video production and animated computer graphics for a variety of agencies:
    • Joshua Tree National Park
    • Redwood Community Action Agency
    • Humboldt State University - Schatz Solar Hydrogen Project
    • Karuk Tribe
    • Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services
    • Humboldt County Environmental Health Department
    • Humboldt/Del Norte Head Start Program

Television Station Manager
City of Arcata, CA, 4/89 - 9/92

  • Public Access Channel 31
  • Program Producer
  • Video Production Instructor

Military Experience
Correctional Specialist
U.S. Army - 54th Military Police Company 
Confinement Facility, Fort Ord, CA

Education
M.A., Educational Technology Leadership, 2004
George Washington University, Washington D.C.
Technology policy leadership, instructional design principles and pedagogical strategies to enhance learning

B.A., Art, Printmaking, 1985
     Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

A.A. Photography emphasis, 1979
     College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA

HSU Committees

  • Distance Learning Committee
  • Library Learning Commons Committee
  • ad hoc ITS Advisory Committee
    • Learning Management Systems Steering Committee
  • Accessible Technology Initiative Team
    • Web Accessibility Task Force
    • Instructional Materials Task Force
  • DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) -  monitor copyright violations
  • Strategic Enrollment Effort (SEE) Web and Publications Action Team
  • Information Technology Council – Chair (3 terms)
  • Web Accessibility Group (Chair)

CSU Committees
I am the HSU Liaison to the following CSU technology committees:

  • DAT – Directors of Academic Technologies – Face-to-face and online meetings with peers from all CSU campuses addressing topical issues (e.g. LMS, system-wide software purchases, etc.)
  • CATS Liaison – Professional development opportunities for CSU academic technologists to increase their knowledge, productivity, and personal effectiveness in service of the system's academic mission and their campus's educational technology goals.
  • EnAct Grant - Provide faculty within the CSU system the skills, support and training necessary to ensure that students with disabilities are provided a high quality postsecondary education
  • ePortfolios - Support campus, academic programs, and individual faculty decision making on ePortfolios
  • DET/CHE – Directors of Educational Technologies and California Higher Education (Face-to-face and online meetings with peers from CSU, University of California, Community Colleges, Private Universities)
  • CSU LMS Summits - Chancellors Office sponsored 3 summits during Fall 05. CSU campus visits by CO reps. HSU visited twice which provided valuable jumpstart to HSU’s LMS evaluation process

Awards and Recognition

HSU President’s Staff Recognition Award 2004

  • Extraordinary contributions to the University


Outstanding Staff Recognition Award 2002

  • HSU’s Disability Resource Center (DRC)
    • For supporting the DRC's mission to provide students with disabilities opportunities to discover, develop, and demonstrate knowledge and abilities

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