Arlen D.H. Johnson

Arlen Johnson

Senior Web Producer
Communications & Middleware Technologies
Division of the Chief Information Officer
Email:
Phone: 518-276-3045
Fax: 518-276-6590
Office: VCC 304

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York - M.F.A. Integrated Electronic Arts (1999)
  Thesis: "Epiphanies", three short animations, computer animation, mixed media, choral composition
• Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine - A.B. (1991)
  magna cum laude, Music major, Biology minor
• University of Maine at Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine (Fall 1993 - Spring 1995)
  Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics (30 hours)
• Beaver College Program, Vienna, Austria (Fall, 1989)
  Art, music, politics of Central and Eastern Europe, German

Experience

• Senior Web Producer

  (Fall 2001 - Present)
  Communications & Middleware Technologies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

  Develop and support enterprise web applications to serve the needs of the Rensselaer community; manage projects working with teams of experienced programmers; provide web design, graphic design, site architecture, usability and navigation; support and socialize web applications and systems to the campus community; oversee hardware acquisition and maintenance.

• Graphic/Multi-Media Designer

  (Fall 2000 - Fall 2001)
  Academic Support & Media Services, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

  Graphic design, web development, music composition for video projects, animation, video editing, voiceovers, live field production

• Production Coordinator for Media Development

  (Fall 1997 - Fall 2000)
  Rensselaer Education for Working Professionals (RSVP), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

  Responsible for all aspects of distance education course production, including: instructional design, media development, and directing of live sessions. Hired, trained, supervised, and assigned media development students. Managed projects with developers, faculty, and students. Set development guidelines for presenting media on the internet, video conferencing, videotape, and satellite broadcast. Researched new media solutions for distance education.

• Sole Proprietor

  (Summer1996 - Present)
  Dōgen Media, Troy, New York

  Web design, development, and hosting; Content management; Portals and social networking; Search engine optimization; Email & mailing lists; Multimedia, graphic design, and presentations.

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Faculty

  
  School of Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

  Co-taught Introduction to Information Technology. (Fall 2010 - Fall 2011)

• Adjunct Faculty

  
  Arts Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

  Conductor, Rensselaer Concert Choir: Directed forty-member chorus. (Spring 2007-Spring 2008)
  Instructor, Computer Art: Covered design theory, history, and hands-on training. (Fall 1999)

• Lecturer I

  (Fall 1994 - Spring 1995)
  University of Maine at Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine

  Taught mathematics, computer skills and programming.

• Instructor of Music and Basic Skills

  (Fall 1991 - Summer 1994)
  University of Maine at Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine

  Taught mathematics, computer skills, programming, beginning piano. Provided software support for campus offices. Led the UMFK jazz combo and UMFK Chamber Singers

Papers & Presentations

• Customizing Bedework Calendar: Installation, Architecture, Theming, and More. Half-day seminar. Arlen Johnson. JA-SIG Spring Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2010
• Bedework 3.6 Lightning Talk (393k PDF). Arlen Johnson. JA-SIG Fall Unconference, Urbana Champaign, IL, September 2009
• The Bedework EnterpriseCalendar System (1MB PDF). Arlen Johnson and Gary Schwartz. 2-3-98 Conference, Delhi, NY, August, 2009
• Introduction to Photoshop CS3 (203k PDF). Arlen Johnson. New York State Library Assistants' Association Conference, Troy, NY, June, 2009
• Mastering Powerpoint. Arlen Johnson. New York State Library Assistants' Association Conference, Troy, NY, June, 2009
• Bedework & Large Venue Ticketing (1MB PDF) Gary Schwartz and Arlen Johnson, October, 2008. Bedework was used as the central component in a ticketing system for Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, exploiting the calendar as an application platform.
• The Bedework Enterprise Calendar Project (631k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. JA-SIG Spring Conference, St. Paul, MN, April 2008
• Bedework 3.3.2: open source calendaring for the enterprise (631k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. Portal 2007 Conference, Gettysburg, PA, June, 2007
• Bedework 3.0: an institute-wide open source Java calendar system (707k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. 2006 Educause NERCOMP (Northeast Regional Computing Program) Annual Conference. Worcester, MA, March, 2006
• BedeWork: An Institute-Wide Open Source Java Calendar System (579k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. JA-SIG Winter Conference. Austin, Texas, December 2005.
• Bedework 3.0: an institute-wide open-source Java events calendar (273k PDF). Arlen Johnson. HighEdWebDev2005. Rochester, New York, November 2005.
• UWCalendar2.3+: an institute-wide open-source Java events calendar (714k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. Community Source Week 2005, JA-SIG uPortal Conference. Baltimore, MD, June 2005.
• Rensselaer and UWCalendar 2: an institute-wide open-source Java events calendar (753k PDF). Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass. Summer uPortal Conference. Denver, Colorado, June 2004.
• The Luwak: How Content, Design and the Backend Come Together by Keeping Them Apart (2.5M PPT). Kevin Bishop and Arlen Johnson. 4th Annual HighEdWeb Conference. Rochester, NY, 2003.
• From dated to dynamic: a campus newsletter unfolds as a web service. Kevin Bishop, Arlen Johnson and Deb Wentorf. Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services. Providence, Rhode Island, 2002.
• The RSVP Unibrowser: Bringing Humanness and Interactivity to e-Learning. Cupp,E.L., Danchak,M.M., Foster,K.J, Johnson,A.D., Kim,C.K., Sarlin,D. International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Madison, Wisconsin, 2001.
• Teaching and Learning in a Technological World: The Rensselaer 80/20 Model for the Working Professional. Michael M. Danchak, William C. Jennings, Arlen D. Johnson and Kim A. Scalzo. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999.

Professional Associations

• Bedework Steering Committee, developer, Jasig Consortium (January 2010 - Present)

Awards & Honors

• Bedework Receives Mellon Foundation MATC Award, Washington, DC (December, 2006)

Other Experience

• Professional Chorister, Soloist, Instrumentalist

  (Fall 1987-Present)
  Perform / sing professionally with numerous ensembles