## BIO
<font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Vita</span></font>
# <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Eduardo J. Farias</span></font>
<span style= 'font-family:"Arial Black";'>Career Goal</span>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Design and develop instructional systems that effectively meet the needs of a wide range of learners, instructors, and communities.</span>
<span style= 'font-family:"Arial Black";'>Education</span>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>1997-2000 UT-Pan American B.A. in Mass Communications
2000-2003 UT-Brownsville M.Ed. in Educational Technology</span>
<span style= 'font-family:"Arial Black";'>Employment</span>
| <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>2002-Present</span>**</font> | <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Instructional Designer (Distance Education Department)**<span style= 'font-weight:normal;'>
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>UTB</span> <span style= 'font-family: Arial'>School</span> <span style= 'font-family: Arial'>of Education
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Brownsville, Texas</span></font>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Coordinate the design and production of online courses as well as conducting research and development initiatives in order to implement new technologies in the university’s efforts to increase student population and faculty professional development.
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| <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>2003-Present</span>**</font> | <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="ES-MX" xml:lang= "ES-MX">**Digital Video and <span class= "SpellE">Animation</span> Instructor**</span> **<span lang="ES-MX" style='font-weight: normal;' xml:lang= "ES-MX">(Mexico <span class= "SpellE">College</span>)</span>**<span lang="ES-MX" style= 'font-weight: normal;' xml:lang="ES-MX">
</span> <span lang= "ES-MX" style='font-family:Arial;' xml:lang="ES-MX">Colegio Mexico
</span> <span class= "SpellE"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Matamoros</span></span><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>, Tam</span></font>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Train faculty in the implementation and development of digital video productions. The Faculty will be trained on Adobe Premier 6.5, Adobe After Effects 5.5, and Adobe Photoshop 7. The final product will be 10 hours of educational TV content.
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| <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>1999-2002</span>**</font> | <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**PT3 Program Coordinator (Department of Education) Total funds $ 1,050,000**<span style= 'font-weight:normal'>
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>UTB</span> <span style= 'font-family: Arial'>School</span> <span style= 'font-family: Arial'>of Education
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Brownsville, Texas</span></font>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Coordinate the funding, organization, and implementation of PT3 program initiatives and goals; to act as a liaison between the PT3 Grant and UTB faculty and local educational agencies; to provide administrative support. Design and develop instructional materials for technology training. Train UTB faculty and staff on technology applications including web development, streaming audio and video, and interactive multimedia.
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| <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**September 2001**</font> | <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Project Coordinator (consultant)
</span>** Round Rock Independent School District
Austin, Texas</font>
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Design and develop online repository of Web Quests developed by teachers and students.
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| <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>2000-2001</span>**</font> | <font size="3" face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Instructor**
Rivera <span style= 'font-family: Arial'>High School
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Brownsville, Texas</span></font>
## <font size= "3">Area of Expertise</font>
# <font face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span s= "">Eduardo J. Farias</span></font>
<font size= "3"><span style= 'font-family:"Arial Black";'>Skills</span></font>
* <font face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Faculty training in technology skills acquisition and integration of technology into instruction</span></font>
* <font face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Advanced technological skills set</span></font>
* <font face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Program development and evaluation</span></font>
* <font face= "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing in English and Spanish</span></font>
<font size= "3">**Specific software tools:**</font>
<font size= "3">Adobe Photoshop 7
Adobe Illustrator 10
Adobe Acrobat 5
Adobe Premier 6.5
Adobe <span class= "GramE">After Effects 5.5
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Final Cut 3
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>DVD Pro 1
</span> <span class= "SpellE">NewTek</span> Light Wave 7
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Fireworks MX
Macromedia Freehand MX
Macromedia Director MX
Macromedia Authorware MX
<span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Microsoft Office XP
</span> <span style= 'font-family:Arial'>Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
</span> Streaming Media
Prometheus (Learning Management System)
Black Board (Learning Management System)</font>
**Areas of Interest:**
* Design and develop innovative animation and stop motion features for cultural as well as commercial porpuses.
* Continue writing, producing, and directing small independent film projects (third short film in the works)
* Learning new technology applications for uses in instructional systems.
* Applying and evaluating innovative, “hybrid†instructional systems
* Currently I am researching on the design and development of virtual schools. This includes 3D worlds with avatars (students and instructors) that interact with other avatars or intelligent agents (instructors on “automatic pilotâ€) Also, I am working to exploit the interactive capabilities of Flash Action Script and XML combined for the design and development of massive databases connected to web sites, and automatic update of content. |
