CARLOTTA EATON
Christiansburg, VA 24073
Office: (540) 674-3600 x4250 ceaton@nr.edu; www.nr.edu/eaton
OBJECTIVE
To obtain the position of Dean at XX Community College
SUMMARY
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Graduate coursework in Community College Leadership from ODU and Computer Science from UNC at Chapel
Hill. Master’s degree in Statistics from Virginia Tech.
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Over 4 years management experience as Project Director NRCC Games Studio including supervision, payroll, revenue, budgeting, royalty payments, and grant management.
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14 years curriculum experience as CSC/IT Department Head at New River Community College including strategic planning, IT and CSC programs management, budgeting, and curriculum development and VCCS curriculum processes.
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Experience with program review and assessment at the community college level as well as the secondary level.
Served on curriculum review committee for the Virginia Department of Education for computer science and programming courses.
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5 years business planning experience at IBM including project management, budgeting, and vendor contracts.
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Over 20 years conflict resolution experience involving students, faculty and staff at NRCC and Radford University.
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10 years grant experience as Co-PI for 2 federal NSF ATE grants, and 2 years experience for federal EETT grant including application process, implementation, management and administration.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Director, NRCC Games Studio and iLearn Grant 2010 - present
New River Community College, Christiansburg and Dublin, VA Concurrent
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Manage NRCC Games team of up to 6 students and 3 faculty as part-time employees, including hiring, staffing, payroll, creating, managing and implementing budgets, and directing content of educational iPhone games.
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NRCC Games has 13 educational games currently for sale on Apple iPhone App Store. Search for “NRCC Games” on iTunes . Earned revenue of over $21,123 since July 2012.
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Created business model to fund NRCC Games Studio program from revenues from the Apple App Store .
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Gained approval for first ever IP Agreement with Virginia Department of Education to retain intellectual property for games created under EITT federal grant.
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Solely managed $320,000 EETT grant budget including personnel, hardware and software orders, scheduling, work tasks for NRCC portion of EETT federal grant over 18 month period.
Professor of Information Technology 1997 - present
Department Chair, Information Technology and Computer Science
New River Community College, Christiansburg and Dublin, VA
2 promotions: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (1999) to Professor (2003)
1999 - present
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Department Chair duties include strategic planning, budgeting, equipment and software evaluation and procurement, recruiting and interviewing full-time faculty and adjuncts, creating class schedules, staffing classes, planning, evaluating and revising curricula. Department over the years includes 3-5 full-time faculty and 11-22 adjunct faculty each semester.
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In addition to department chair duties, currently teach a minimum of 15 credit hours in mobile apps, web apps and web design, game design, computer science, digital media, IT careers and cyber-ethics.
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Served on VCCS state level Innovation Task Force of 24 members, and brand-new Innovation Committee at NRCC
(2011-2012)
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Teach at least one online course each semester. Taught the first totally online course in 1997.
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Consistently use innovative technology in teaching in distance learning and in the classroom. Recent examples include using Lego Robotics for teaching programming, iPads and iPods for web design and mobile applications, multimedia programming using Python, and MyGraphicsLab for online web design courses.
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2 years in statewide VCCS agreements by initiating, creating, processing and implementing CIW certification agreement and Adobe software purchase agreement.
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12 years in creating, implementing and revising transfer agreements for Associate IT AAS degrees from NRCC to
Radford University and Virginia Tech. First IT transfer agreement approved in 2002 with Radford University.
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Partnered with Jeff Levy, CAD instructor, to create and launch the first game design degree specializations in Virginia in
2006 at post-secondary level. Created and implemented transfer agreements with Radford University, created curriculum for Game Technology programs in IT and CAD.
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Experience with program review and assessment at the community college level as well as the secondary level.
Served on curriculum review committee for the Virginia Department of Education for computer science and programming courses.
Part-Time Instructor of Game Design 8/2012 - present
Virtual Virginia Online, Virginia DOE, Richmond & Charlotte Co, VA Concurrent
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Developed Computer Science game curriculum for high school students across the state.
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Teach one section of 6640 Game Design & Development course with 12-36 students each semester
Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science
Adjunct Instructor, Math and Statistics
8/1994 - 5/1997
8/1992 - 5/1994
Radford University, Radford, VA
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Taught 13-15 credit hours of Computer Science courses each semester. Made great contacts for future transfer agreements from NRCC to RU.
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Taught 6-15 hours of Math or Statistics courses each semester. Experience useful for creating future developmental math iPhone games.
Advisory Business Planner
IBM, Research Triangle Park and Cary, NC
1981 - 1991
4 promotions: Staff Technical Planner, Staff Programmer, Senior Associate Programmer, Programmer
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Project Manager: Managed entire budgets of several projects of over $241M with personnel in Cary, NC and Menlo
Park, CA
 Wrote technical white papers and earned #1 award for “Leased Lines vs. Switched Lines for Telecommunications” white paper
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Earned several awards for project management and working with other departments in locations in US, Europe, and
Americas.
9/1979 – 5/1981 Graduate Teacher
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
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Taught 6 hours per quarter Algebra or Trigonometry classes for Math Department.
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Statistical consultant for Statistics Department.
Work Study Student
Radford University, Radford, VA
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Worked my way through college with jobs, grants and educational loans.
EDUCATION
Virginia Tech: Geospatial Technology (3 credits)
Old Dominion University: Community College Leadership (6 credits)
Radford University: Information Technology Education (4 credits)
Capella University: Teaching and Training Online (4 credits)
9/1975 – 6/1979
2011
2003-2004
2003, 2005
2001
1984-1985 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
18.5 semester graduate hours in Computer Science
M.S. Degree Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
B.S. Degree with Honors, Radford University, Radford, Virginia
2 Majors: Mathematics Education, Statistics; 2 Minors: Computer Science, Interior Design
Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA
3 quarter hours in Computer Science, COBOL course
1980
1979
1978
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SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
NRCC Co-PI, Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) Federal Grant , iLearn Project included NRCC,
Radford University, Virginia Department of Education, Apple Inc., Radford City School System, and Pulaski
County School System (2010-2011)
Who’s Who in Educators , Strathmore’s Who’s Who (2009-2011)
Advisory Board Member, NSF iTest Grant “ Studio STEM Project” by Virginia Tech (2011-2012)
Advisory Board Member, NSF Grant “Appalachian Information Technology Extension Services (AITES) by Virginia
Tech. Project spans five states. (2009-2013)
Instructor of the Year , College Faculty for Career and Technical Education, Virginia Department of Education (2008)
Outstanding Faculty Award Finalist, Virginia State Council of Higher Education (2007)
Co-PI, NSF ATE Grant “Creating Pathway for New IT Professionals”, NSF Award Number 0202482 to VCCS (2001-
2006)
Member, NSF ATE Grant “Advancing Careers in Information Science and Technology”, NSF Award Number 0202276 with Radford University (2002-2004)
SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“NRCC Games for Language Arts and Math” for New Horizons Conference 04/2013
“Certifications for IT Students” with Dave Filer, VCCS IT Peer Group Meeting 10/2012
“ Game Technology and STEM Careers ” From Vision to Practice STEM Conference by Virginia Tech and Department of
Education, Williamsburg, VA 07/2012
“Community College pathway to Entrepreneurs with MoGo Mobile” Chairman’s Entrepreneur Education Summit,
Richmond, VA 06/2012
“ Tools for Teaching Mobile Game Courses ” East Coast Game Conference, Raleigh, NC 04/2012
TEXTBOOKS AUTHORED
“Exploring Visual Basic .NET Brief Edition”, Carlotta Eaton, ISBN 0131434993, Prentice Hall 2004
“Exploring Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0”, Carlotta Eaton, 0136575943 Prentice Hall 1999
“Essentials of Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0”, Carlotta Eaton, ISBN 0135957605 Prentice 1998
PERSONAL SKILLS
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Passionate about the innovative use of technology and the impact on college education and student success by integrating technology into teaching and learning processes.
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Innovative, creative with excellent communication and presentation skills with students, staff, faculty, deans, and administrators.
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Self-starter; very strong analytical, problem solving skills; highly motivated and organized; work well collaborating with a team or independently.
PERSONAL STRENGTHS
I utilize Clifton StrengthsQuest in ITE 105 class to help student determine their personal strengths.
My personal Clifton StrengthsQuest strengths include:
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Strategic: Naturally sort clutter and find the best path, see patterns where others see complexity.
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Ideation: Fascinated by ideas. Find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. Creative, original, and smart.
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Achiever: Hard worker with high energy, stamina and a need for achievement and challenges.
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Input: Inquisitive, find many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. Read a great deal to add information to archives. Crave to know and understand more.
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Relator: Enjoy relationships; find deep satisfaction in working with co-workers and friends to achieve goals.
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