PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CEO (1978-present) & Managing Partner (2001-present).
The Longsight Group, Danville, Ohio.

Longsight supports carefully selected open source software for education. We help our clients select the best application to meet their needs, provide comprehensive support for the selected software, train staff and users, host the application at one of our modern data centers, develop new features and provide on-going assessment and support.

Affiliated Scholar (2007-present).
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

Assistant Provost and Director of Instructional Technology, 1999-2007.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Studies.
Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

Lead efforts to integrate technology into the curriculum, supervising instructional technology staff, reorganizing a new unit (Media Technology Services), supervise and support faculty development efforts, training, developed Faculty Uses of Technology directory and Instructional Technology newsletters. Provide leadership for campus-wide project to enhance all learning spaces. Pioneering work on support for open source applications (Sakai, Portfolio) in higher education. Lead faculty-administrative committee in revising acceptable use policies for networked services. Teach in environmental studies and Honors Program.

Principal author and director for four-year $735,000 program to enhance learning through collaborative uses of technology among five, top liberal arts colleges in Ohio. Visit http://enhanced-learning.org to review goals and accomplishments including remote collaboration classrooms (videoconferencing), digital asset management, faculty projects, workshops and colloquia.

Responsible for strategic planning and management of web information systems, faculty innovation with technology, videoconferencing systems, divisional budget planning and client training. Assisting with development of new program activities for Five Colleges of Ohio. Served on senior staff as interim chief technology officer, managing staff of 28; secured funding and supervised network expansion, Windows NT migration,"just-in-time" client support services, brought telephone management in house, secured funding for new administrative systems. Established a campus-wide advisory committee and led a three-year strategic planning effort. Created a professional development program to improve staff recruitment and retention; conducted nine searches for technical/management positions. Established one of the earliest small college helpdesks, a student liaison program for academic departments, successful computer store, an incentives program for faculty innovation, and organized a client training program sponsored jointly by the library and IT organization. Program director for nationally-recognized faculty development program, a collaborative effort of librarians and computing staff.

Teach marine science and environmental studies courses with a strong emphasis on collaboration and critical evaluation of information resources. Comprehensive web publications are final products of each course; see http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects

Led faculty planning for instructional computing, including development of competitive resource allocation programs. Managed networked computing laboratories. Secured $1 million in research grants in coastal resources and data visualization; taught graduate courses in natural resource management; sponsored and advised ten masters and doctoral students; developed microanalytical methods to measure respiration in individual mollusc larvae; developed models of larval dispersion in coastal bays.

Led a research team that developed first practical hatchery for the queen conch, an important fishery resource of the Caribbean; work led to several commercial ventures. Applied response surface analysis to create an early example of four-dimensional data visualization. Secured $500,000 in research grants.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1980. Biological oceanography, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Florida.

A.B., with Honors in Biology and Geology, 1972. Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland, Ohio.

• EDUCAUSE
Member, Board of Directors (2007-2010)
CEO Search Committee member (2007-2008)
Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning, 2004-2007
2005 Program Committee (2004-2005)
Leader of CIO Constituency Group (2002-2006)
Information Resources Committee, 1999-2002; Chair 2001-2002
Consumer Guide Advisory Group (1999-present)
Research Task Force (oversight for Core Data Service, member, 2001-2005)
NLII Planning Group on Learning Spaces (2004)
IT Funding Task Force (member, 2002)
1998 Program Committee (1997-98)
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (1998-2002)
• Consultant to many colleges anduniversities on technology management, curricular programs
• Small college representative to the Chandler Project and the Open Knowledge Initiative (2001-2006)
• Member of OCLC E-Learning Task Force (2003)
• Ohio Learning Network Task Force on Course Management Systems(2003)
• Member, Managing Board of the Realia Project (2002-2005)
• Great Lakes Information Technologists in Education and Research (meeting convener)
• Midwest Instructional Technology Center (member of Planning Task Force and Advisory Board, 2002-2006)
• Founder and trustee of KnoxNet, community freenet in central Ohio (1995-1998)
• Creator and webmaster of several web sites:

  shellfish.org
  enhanced-learning.org
  sesiddall.com
  longsight.com

  Including course web projects:

  2001-02 “U.S. Shellfisheries: a tragedy of the coastal commons"
  2000-01 “Land & Community: Environmental Assessment”
  1999-00 “Can the Earth Afford to Feed You?”
  1998-99 “Large Dams in the Western US"

• Author and recipient of $2.2 million in federal, state, private and corporate grants (1981-2002)
• Recipient of several awards for excellence in teaching
• Former President and Executive officer, National Shellfisheries Association (1980-92)

Author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles, chapters, book reviews and popular articles, and more than eighty conference presentations.