Speakers
Randy Tritz, CTS-D, Managing Partner, Shen Milsom & Wilke
Randy S. Tritz, CTS-D is the Managing Partner of SM&W’s Chicago office. His responsibilities as the Managing Partner include the coordination and management of all the professional disciplines involved on each of his office’s projects, and as the firm’s liaison with the client, he ensures that all consulting services are accomplished by professional team members within the established budget and project schedule. Randy also leads the audiovisual design process by performing the audiovisual programming and preliminary audiovisual budgeting for projects.
Mr. Tritz’s experience encompasses over 35 years of field and senior level management experience in the design, engineering, and installation of audio, video, command and control, teleconferencing, and multimedia systems. A number of Randy’s projects have achieved national recognition by the presentations industry as some of the best designed and installed systems in the business. Mr. Tritz has been recognized in Who’s Who in Business for his international work in Korea, Belgium, France, and Japan. Developed technology concept that lead to construction of Chicago’s Millennium Park Video Fountains using LED video wall technology in a true waterfall environment. This project was awarded first place honors by Archi-Tech Magazine in 2005 for its design excellence.
Randy S. Tritz, CTS-D is the Managing Partner of SM&W’s Chicago office. His responsibilities as the Managing Partner include the coordination and management of all the professional disciplines involved on each of his office’s projects, and as the firm’s liaison with the client, he ensures that all consulting services are accomplished by professional team members within the established budget and project schedule. Randy also leads the audiovisual design process by performing the audiovisual programming and preliminary audiovisual budgeting for projects.
Mr. Tritz’s experience encompasses over 35 years of field and senior level management experience in the design, engineering, and installation of audio, video, command and control, teleconferencing, and multimedia systems. A number of Randy’s projects have achieved national recognition by the presentations industry as some of the best designed and installed systems in the business. Mr. Tritz has been recognized in Who’s Who in Business for his international work in Korea, Belgium, France, and Japan. Developed technology concept that lead to construction of Chicago’s Millennium Park Video Fountains using LED video wall technology in a true waterfall environment. This project was awarded first place honors by Archi-Tech Magazine in 2005 for its design excellence.
D. Christopher Brooks, Ph.D., Research Associate, Educational Technology Services, University of Minnesota
D. Christopher Brooks serves as a Research Associate in Information Technology at the University of Minnesota where he conducts research on the impact of educational technologies on teaching practices and learning outcomes. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University in 2002 and taught in the discipline at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota – Morris before joining the Information Technology research and evaluation team in 2008. His research on Active Learning Classrooms appears in several peer-reviewed publications including theBritish Journal of Educational Technology, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, theJournal of Learning Spaces, the Journal of College Science Teaching, and a forthcoming issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning.
D. Christopher Brooks serves as a Research Associate in Information Technology at the University of Minnesota where he conducts research on the impact of educational technologies on teaching practices and learning outcomes. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University in 2002 and taught in the discipline at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota – Morris before joining the Information Technology research and evaluation team in 2008. His research on Active Learning Classrooms appears in several peer-reviewed publications including theBritish Journal of Educational Technology, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, theJournal of Learning Spaces, the Journal of College Science Teaching, and a forthcoming issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning.
J.D. Walker, Ph.D., Research Associate, Academic Technology Support Services, University of Minnesota
J.D. Walker is part of the research and evaluation team in Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. The mission of the team is to investigate the ways in which digital technologies are affecting the teaching and learning environment in higher education. Current projects include a longitudinal study of 21st century students and faculty members, ongoing research into the efficacy of new, technology-enhanced learning spaces, and an exploratory investigation of the effectiveness of flipped classrooms and MOOCs. His background is in philosophy, in which he earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, and which he taught as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, The University of Pennsylvania, and Franklin and Marshall College. He earned a Master’s degree in Quantitative Methods in Education from the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2010.
J.D. Walker is part of the research and evaluation team in Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. The mission of the team is to investigate the ways in which digital technologies are affecting the teaching and learning environment in higher education. Current projects include a longitudinal study of 21st century students and faculty members, ongoing research into the efficacy of new, technology-enhanced learning spaces, and an exploratory investigation of the effectiveness of flipped classrooms and MOOCs. His background is in philosophy, in which he earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, and which he taught as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, The University of Pennsylvania, and Franklin and Marshall College. He earned a Master’s degree in Quantitative Methods in Education from the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2010.