I graduated from Johns Hopkins University’s prestigious Computer Career Institute Master’s Degree level program in 2005 with a focus on the Creative Digital Multimedia technologies after having been accepted into the program based on my technological aptitude and recommendations from past teachers from my background as the Technology Advisor to the Worcester County Maryland Board of Education. The Computer Career Institute or CCI at JHU was a pioneering program put together by Johns Hopkins University as one of the first institutions to offer high level digital multimedia training and education recognizing the future need for these kinds of skill sets.
The program used mostly adjunct Professors that were working Professionals in the highest levels of the digital multimedia fields, and had small class sizes in order to focus and optimize teaching. Our Professors ranged from Print / Layout and Graphic Design Professors that were regularly working with the highest profile magazines in New York, to Web Design, Animation and Video Editing / Special Effects Professors who were regularly working with movie studios in Hollywood, to 3D Modeling Professors who were regularly working with the highest level video game studios. This allowed for a level of instruction that was hands on and coming from some of the best instructors the industry had to offer that had real world experience.
Graduated from Johns Hopkins University – Computer Career Institute Master’s Degree level program in 2005 with Degrees in:
Background:
Having always been an early adopter of the latest in computers and technology I had the dial up internet within the first few months it was available to the general public in the early 1990’s as a pre-teenager.
One of my first computers was an Apple Macintosh Quadra 605 long before Macintosh had created the iPhone and long before Macintosh was adopted or accepted by any large institution or Government agency.
In middle school the teacher for my computer class wanted me to be in charge of teaching lessons to my fellow students and when I was in her class she would leave the classroom for me to teach my peers.
While still in middle school and based on recommendation from my computer teacher I was appointed as Technology Advisor to the Worcester County Maryland Board of Education.
I would regularly get on a bus in the middle of the day and be driven to the Worcester County Maryland Board of Education where I would advise the Worcester County Maryland Board of Education Officials on which hardware and software technologies were the best to buy for the Worcester County Maryland Board of Education, and my peers, as the Board of Education Officials felt that I as a teenager was more knowledgeable on the subject than they were.
In high school I was an early adopter of the laptop computer and at the time I was the only person out of all of my peers who used a laptop and carried it with me to all of my classes.