Staff

Ken Tothero

Ken Tothero is the coordinator of Special Projects for the Learning Technology Center.

Ken's background includes eleven years as a secondary level physics teacher followed by five years in Austin's dynamic educational multimedia industry. During that time he authored the Holt Physics Interactive Tutor, developed for Holt, Rinehart and Winston and winner of a NewMedia Magazine InVision Award as the best education product of the year.

Ken came to the LTC in 2001. His areas of interest lie in online learning environments, online collaboration, and one-to-one technology environments in K-12 and higher education.

David Kim

David Kim is the Vision Studio's s/w developer, providing expertise in C/C++, Java/JSP, C#/VB/Silverlight, Flex/Flash/Actionscript, Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL as well as in other areas. David holds a Master of Science in Information Studies degree and his areas of interest are in Information Retrieval and Information Architecture.

David completed Ph.D coursework and holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics and developed several Natural Language Processing applications. David joined the the Learning Technology Center in 2005. Since then his work has included back-end programming, front-end design, and database engineering.

Mukund Kumar

Mukund Kumar is a graduate research assistant in the Vision Awards program. He works as a software developer specializing in delivering web applications developed using PHP, Javascript and using MySQL database. Mukund is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin and specializes in Computer Aided Design.

Daniel Veliz

Daniel Veliz is the Visual/Audio Specialist for the Vision Studio. He provides insight to video and multimedia applications and has expertise in Final Cut Pro, Flash, and Audio/Visual for producing/editing various projects within the program.

Daniel holds a BS (Bachelor of Science) degree from the Radio-Television-Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Vision Studio in 2007.