Resumé

Rick Eckel

1977 Colestin Road
Hornbrook, CA 96044
(541) 482-4883

Education

B.S. in Chemistry with honors, minors in Math, Botany, U. of Iowa, 1967
M.Div. San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1971

Employment

Expert Enterprises

Role: Sole Proprietor, Web and education development and training (1/2/1995—present)
Duties: Web and course development, production, and assessment.
Accomplishments: CCPVideos, Western Regional Sun Grant, Salsa Guides, Colestin Valley, The Ashland Meadow House, Bad Taste BnB, Peter Gibb Art, The Seven Book, Living Legacies of AIDS, Colestin Valley , Ashland Meadow House, Bad Taste BnB, Mold Project

Extended Campus, Oregon State University

Role: Associate Director, Director of Project Development and Training (9/25/2000—12/31/2004)
Duties: Supervise course development, production, and assessment. Plan/supervise faculty training in course design for distance delivery. Increase participation of colleges and departments. Supervise classified and profession staff and student workers. Design, implement and manage core Ecampus data services. Evaluate programs. Increase participation of Academic Departments and Administration.
Accomplishments: Increased course production by 30% per year; 262 courses were developed for online delivery in 3 years. Designed and implemented data system with Banner integration to create automated workflows, notification systems and tools for future growth. Expanded reporting, and accountability. Organized faculty and department training. Collaborated with Registrar, CWS, Central Computing, and Departments, accessibility task force, communications trainings, and other cross-campus groups.

Extension & Experiment Station Communications, Oregon State University

Role: Web Educational Designer (6/1/1997 – 9/25/2000)
Duties: Plan and create, manage and improve the online presence of the Oregon Extension Service and it's programs. Support county offices and Experiment Stations to utilize the Internet. Design online courses, training, and information resource systems for Extension professionals and their audiences. Create blue print and infrastructure for the future of Extension online.
Accomplishments: Created new coordinated Web presence for Oregon Extension Service and its 26 county offices and 18 education programs through training programs with tutoring, classes, workshops and Web-based resources. Made presentations at national conferences, and collaborated on a research paper on Master Gardener Botany course published in the Journal of Extension. Created Web sites for Northwest Gardening TV, Oregon Berries, Fruits and Nuts, Alfalfa, Cherries, 4-H projects and many more.

Whole Earth University, Ashland, OR

Roles: Business Manager (1994-1996)
Duties: Manage donations, pay bills, provide reports. An offshoot project was a publication, "Abundant Living." My role with the publication was marketing and distribution, and manage the finances, including the merchant services account.

Electronic University Network (EUN), San Francisco, CA.

Roles: Clerical Temp, Shipping, Desktop Publishing, Tech Support, IT Manager, Faculty Relations Manager, Bookkeeper, General Manager (1987-1998)
Duties: Oversee relations with faculty and colleges, keep meticulous financial records, report to auditors, sell services to colleges, enroll students in college courses, provide pre-enrollment advising, develop product tracking systems, set up and supervise desk top publishing for syllabi, ship products, maintain technical infrastructure to track data from prospect's calls through financial reports on sales, and payments to client universities, and create and maintain online virtual campuses for participating Universities and Colleges. (See the nineteen institutions served.)
Accomplishments: EUN, the first and early leader in computer mediated Distance Education from 1985 to 1997, brokered online course delivery for 12 major universities and colleges. Mastered Apple, Mac, PC, Commodore systems and operated interface with Dialog.com. Made EUN the primary education provider on America Online. Moved operations to Ashland Oregon, trained neighbors, and developed and maintained virtual campuses for participating colleges; instituted quality assurance systems, customer satisfaction for students and faculty at the client universities; redesigned the MIS to enable data reports to be imported directly by each university, to meet format and data content needs, and finally, turned the start-up into a profitable business that was sold to a larger dot-com company.

Tandy Belew Design, San Francisco, CA.

Title: Business Manager (1983-1990)
Duties: Expand innovative graphic arts business. Belew Design, a prominent San Francisco graphic design company, specialized in corporate logos, and packaging for corporations, and community groups.
Accomplishments: Created business systems for payroll, tracking expenses, billing, accounting, and taxes. Assisted with outreach and marketing to recruit clients, including Office of the Mayor (DianeFeinstein), political and non-profit community organizations, minority, independent living, AIDS support services, GLBT and women's groups. Conducted “City Image” study for the City of Mountain View. Submitted products that were accepted for archives by the Smithsonian Institute and maintain archives of products created.

Youth News, Oakland, CA.

Title: Executive Director (1982-1985)
Duties: Support and direct minority youth training program in radio. Expand distribution of "Youth on the Air – the only radio program by and about teenagers." Obtain and manage grants, staff, community board of directors, and links to other programs. Create business infrastructure, and core information network systems.
Accomplishments: Established network of youth operated news organizations to create a national Youth News Service. Raised the annual budget of $130,000 from foundations, state training funds for sex education, and Humanities grants for cross-cultural programming. Worked with Doug Tompkins at Esprit to create a corporate fundraising event to bring private sector support from other corporations and to stabilize funding for the program. Youth Radio reports continue to be heard on NPR stations.

Berkeley Youth Alternatives, Berkeley, CA.

Title: Associate Director (1972-1982)
Duties: Obtain, manage, and report on Foundation and Government grants, accountable to County and Federal and foundations and to diverse community board of directors. Obtain seed funding for new projects including facility upgrades, family services, residential services, and represent BYA at City, County, State and national coalitions.
Accomplishments: Worked with church, business and civic leaders in Berkeley to get the Berkeley Runaway Center started. Expanded BYA to include temporary foster care. Obtained Runaway Youth Act and Alameda County Criminal Justice funds. Expanded to West Berkeley to provide comprehensive youth and family services center for minorities. Raised the funds and managed creation of innovative youth-run business enterprises – community printing press, computer recycling. Managed board and funding source relations. Led coalitions of service agencies, and served as an officer at community, County, State, and National levels.

Skills and Competencies

Twenty-five years experience in operations management, sales and sales management, education delivery, educational design, training, and resource management in a broad range of private and public organizations.
Implemented MIS and infrastructure support for a broad range of learning delivery systems.
Obtained $4.5M from private and public sources for non-profits in California and Oregon.
Effectively managed faculty, administrators, donors, technical staff and students over 20 years.
Provided dynamic, empowering and compassionate supervision of staff, boards and volunteers.
Managed dynamics of boards of directors in business, education, government and non-profit cultures.
Provided leadership for coalitions, community groups, business associations, and institutions.
Facilitated leadership development training for community boards of directors and elected officials.
Generated and elicited vision and commitment to create new services, methods, and social structures.
Judged entries in national distance education and design awards program for ACE for two years.
Publications: "Integrated Data Management for Extended Campus", 2003, and "Basic Botany On-Line: A Training Tool for the Master Gardener Program," October, 2002, Journal of Extension.
Consulted successful internet marketing projects and related affiliate programs.

References

Ken Kingsley, (737-3311)
Past Director, Extension and Experiment Station Communication
422 Kerr Administration Building
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
http://extension.oregonstate.edu

Kim Bechtold
NeuroMark Genomics, Inc.
2739 Highway 50, Suite 202
Grand Junction, CO 81503
970 241-1189, Fax 970 241-1186
http://www.neuromark.com

Vincent Lasnik
Lead Instructional Designer at Oregon State Ecampus (2000-2001)
Knowledge by Design Studios
33 Middlesex Circle Apt. #23
Waltham, MA 02452

Sarah Haviland Blackmun
Vice President and CEO of the Electronic University Network, 1985-1998.
290 North Fairview Avenue
Goleta, CA 93117
http://www.pangaeanetwork.com

Vicky Phillips
CEO, GetEducated.com, LLC
4 Carmichael Street, #2160
Essex Junction, VT 05452
http://www.geteducated.com
Electronic University Network, Student Enrollment Advisor
Author: Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools: Earning Your Degree Without Leaving Home (Princeton Review); Never Too Late to Learn: The Adult Student's Guide to College (Princeton Review); Inside the Internet Knowledge Industry (Wiley)

Catherine Council
Production Manager, Electronic University Network (1991-1998)
Extended Campus, Youth Programs (current)
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR 97520
http://www.sou.edu/ecp/youth/