Rudy Limeback
Instructor:
SQL for data base driven websites

Rudy Limeback is an independent consultant with over 15 years of SQL experience using DB2, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, and MySQL. Rudy is also a Web developer, Technical Editor at Digital Web, one of the original evolt.org admins, with his own Web site since 1996. More information at r937.com. Rudy lives in Toronto, Canada, which is like New York, only with Canadians instead of New Yorkers.

Sharon Merritt
Instructor:
Intro to Flash;
Flash, Intermediate;
Flash, Advanced;
FlashMX, Intro;
FlashMX, Intermediate;
Intro to Swish

Sharon Merritt has a B.S. in Aerospace engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and currently has her own web design office located in Southern California. She is also a part time instructor in Flash 5 for Saddleback College in Mission Viejo California.

Debbie Miller
Instructor:
FrontPage 2002/2000
Creating FrontPage Themes;
Ebooks for Fun & Profit

Debbie has been designing graphics, web sites and FrontPage elements for over four years. She first started out updating a personal site. Seeing all the unique designs on the internet inspired many ideas. So, Debbie started playing with HTML and graphics which led to a second domain where she could offer her designs to others as a Free Lance Web Site Designer and offer custom design elements for FrontPage® in the form of themes, web templates and starter webs.

Where does Debbie get her inspiration? "Well to tell you the truth I never know when I will be inspired. I can be driving and see a bill board advertisement, be working at my other part time job as a cashier and see a t-shirt, looking through a magazine, out walking my dog(s), browsing the internet or just talking to a friend about design talents in general. When I get an inspiration it just all of a sudden goes off like a light bulb. I then either to a quick drawing on a piece of paper or even on a sales slip if an idea pops into my head. Sometimes just playing in my graphics program with different filters gives me incentive to make a theme or web template".

Besides enjoying creating graphics and designing web sites, Debbie likes reading romance novels or computer books, cooking, gardening, garage sales, antiques, going for walks and country music. Her other love is animals. She currently owns 3 German Shepherds and several cats. Her dream is to get an older farm house and restore it. "I would also like to have a place where I can help stray cats that are left homeless or abandon by their careless owners. It breaks my heart to see these intelligent and loving creatures on the street to fend for themselves".

Shawn Peters-Miller
Instructor:
Polymer Clay

Shawn learned to rely on her creativity for entertainment at an early age. She grew up an only child on a dairy farm in rural Michigan.

In recent years, Shawn spent her time as a decorative painter and mosaicist. After a back injury that left her unable to sit for long periods of time painting, she rediscovered polymer clay. Shawn found she could stand at the counter to sculpt. A number clocks, bottles, jars and boxes were created. One day, happening across an oriental import store, she purchased several beautiful pots. Wondering what to do with them, the idea for polymer clay bonsai was born.

Shawn is now working again in her other arts and crafts, but the polymer clay medium continues to draw her back and inspire.

She resides in Royal Oak, Michigan, with her husband, cat, and 4 ferrets.

Sharon & Roy Montero
Instructor:
SEO - The Write Way

Sharon and Roy Montero specialize in search engine optimization and consult with small business clients, with a focus primarily on women owned businesses. They help clients achieve a high search engine ranking for their Web pages resulting in more traffic and ultimately more sales.

The Montero's have been consulting since 1996 and have done extensive research and testing on all of the popular SEO techniques that are in existence today. They provide clients with an ethical approach to properly optimizing their Websites without any "tricks" or Spam techniques that search engines are known to penalize and ban sites for.

Jennifer Pasquale
Instructor:
Digital Scrapbooking, Intro

I am a sahm with 2 children and expecting my third this May. I have been scrapbooking for 4 years and have just switched to digital scrapbooking over the past year. My quest to find the right program and learn it led me to Eclectic Academy. I have taken PhotoShop Elements I and II courses here at Eclectic Academy. From there I have explored the software on my own and started making digital scrapbook pages. I’ve come back to Eclectic Academy as an instructor to share my knowledge of digital scrapbooking with others.

Richard Pope
Instructor:
Painter 7 - Creating Power Nozzles

I became involved in computer graphics accidentally. While working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska in 1992, I broke both of my shoulders during a Halibut fishery accident. It took 3 surgeries and 18 months of physical rehabilitation before I was anywhere near my old self again. During this period my brother sent me a computer with instructions to learn as much as I could because I would never be a fisherman again.

After purchasing Painter 2 I have not had any regrets. I began creating concept art for the Alaska Wilderness magazine, which led to more concept cover illustrations for books and a few cd s. Eventually I decided to specialize in custom image sprays as a full time occupation. I create nozzles for Painter, image lists for Photo-Paint, tubes for Paint Shop Pro and object/stamps for Photo Impact.

If you are interested you can check out some of my work at my web site: http://www.rapartz.com/

Ray Robillard
Instructor:
Pen Tool / Bezier Curves, Intro;
 Crafting with Photoshop Elements -(co-author )

I’m a computer analyst-programmer and I work full time as an analyst. I design solutions to fix software problems, automate work and establish standards. I also participate in software design, and I do some programming, when duty requires it. My duties also includes being in charge of an internal website for the company I work in, both on the interface side and on the administrative side.

I’ve always liked computer graphics. My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer with 16Kb of RAM. 2 hours later, it had 64Kb of RAM because I had discovered that to create graphics intensive programs, the computer required more memory… Since then, I’ve always like computer generated graphics, in all forms. I’m also an amateur photographer. Mostly casual shooting of landscape and people (in parties and ceremonies).

My teaching activities began almost 20 years ago when I taught the LOGO computer language to children and teenagers. Later, I taught private lessons of word processors and Windows operating system to adults. And during my various daytime jobs, I’ve often been the designated trainer for different hardware and software (IBM cash registers, OS/2 operating system, Microsoft Office suite, etc.). Just recently, I’ve co-authored the “Crafting with Elements” classroom with Sara Froehlich, offered here at Eclectic Academy.

Charlene Russ
Instructor:
3D Studio Max, Intro;
Creating 3D textures;
Creative Animation;
Introduction to JavaScript

Charlene is a professional designer skilled in Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator 7-10, 3D Max, Lightwave 3D, Flash MX, Actionscript, JavaScript,CGI, Dreamweaver MX, FrontPage, Adobe PageMaker, Quark, HTML, MS Office and Corel Draw

Traditional media techniques Charlene uses include Pen and ink, pencil sketches, manual drafting, watercolor illustration and painting. Charlene has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Central Florida with a minor in Computer Science. She is responsible for the creation of web pages at www.harcourtschool.com for the Book Buddies Learning Site during the period of 1999-2000. Charlene was a graphic designer and developer for DINFOS, the Defense Information School and developed visual materials for courseware in the subject areas of Digital Imaging, Camera Lighting Theory, VTR Repair and Broadcasting. Currently, she is working as a freelance artist for private clients.

Hobbies include Technical Writing, poetry, watercolor painting, sketches of animals and people mainly, parrots, and Native American Art and Culture.

Kristi Schueler
Instructor:
Techniques in Altered Books;
Beginning Bookmaking;
6 Creative Gifts;
Creative Gift Packaging;
Intermediate Book-binding;
Bodacious Backgrounds for Books;
Introduction to Collage

Although scientifically trained, with a BS degree in Meteorological
Studies, Kristi is an artist at heart and recently took up art full-time.
Kristi resides along the Colorado Front Range with her husband, Drew, but she grew up on a dairy farm in the upper mid west. It was here that she first took up the art of rubberstamping over 14 years ago. Since then Kristi has taken on many media, from watercolor and acrylics to colored pencils and oil pastels and basically anything she can get her hands on.

Kristi is most known for her collage/mixed media and soft-block carving work. Kristi and Drew are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the pitter patter of paws around their new home."

Ray Seeger
Instructor:
Basic computer Maintenance

Ray Seeger (aka. GuitarMan) has been involved in the wonderful world of computing since 1982 (back in the days when we used punch cards to tell the computer what to do for us). Since then, he has intensely studied personal computing machines (both software and hardware) running PC-DOS as well as every version of Microsoft's operating systems. After spending several years providing individual computer help to his online friends, he eventually started a free tech help desk email forum called PCTechTalk at Yahoogroups.com. The incredible success of that group is proof of the need for the inexpensive learning that Eclectic Academy provides.

Donna Sellinger
Instructor:
Designing Websites using HTML

Donna Sellinger received her bachelor’s degree in education from of the University of Miami and her master’s degree in education from Indiana University. She taught in the Dade County, Florida public schools for ten years prior to going on active duty in the Army Reserve. When she retired from the military, she attended George Washington University where she received a Certificate in Web Development and currently owns her own web design business and teaches web design in local area continuing education programs

Tammy Strahan
Instructor:
One Stroke Painting;
One Stroke Painting 2;
One Stroke Painting with and O.S.C.I.;
One Stroke Painting with an O.S.C.I., part. 2

Hello, my name is Tammy Strahan. I live in a small town called Kosciusko, MS. I am the mother of two wonderful teenagers. My daughter who is 18 and in the picture with me also teaches painting, she is my backup. I have a 14 year old son also, he is more of an outside person. As for me, my thing is painting. My husband, Timmy and I have been married for 19 years. I am a work-at-home mother and love spending all of my time painting and with my kids. I have worked for three years as office manager and human resource manager at a manufacturing company and I left this job to start teaching people to paint. I have also worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant at nursing homes and the hospital.

I have been painting intermittently for eight years. I am a self taught painter. I have been teaching for six months now and love it. In this technique of decorative painting you will get great results from your first lesson even if you have never painted before. It is an attractive, less structured style that lends itself to freehand painting. It is equally usable on metal, plastic, glass, wood, fabric and ceramic surfaces. You will be excited when you find out for yourself how easy it is.

My famous quotes are: If it doesn't move PAINT IT!!!!!!!

Ramona White
Instructor:
Journal: A Book with a View

Ramona White is an Oregon-based web designer and writer. She sometimes runs errands wearing a trenchcoat to cover her nightgown, but she is never without a notebook and pen. "The Strange California Journey of Ramona White", her account of a family trip down the Southern California Coast, was named a Blog of Note. Her fiction and nonfiction stories explore the many facets of modern relationships and have appeared in local and national publications. She hopes to share her love of writing and to encourage others to preserve their lives and dreams through journalkeeping. She cannot be bribed with chocolate.

Cheryl Wise
Instructor:
Accessibility for the Web

Cheryl D. Wise, Microsoft MVP - FrontPage is a founding partner is WiserWays a web development and custom software firm founded in 1998. Prior to that she was corporate counsel for In-Home Medical Equipment, Inc. and has been a licensed attorney since 1985. She has been developing websites first as a hobby since 1994 and professionally since 1998. She’s been the leader of HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) Web Technologies SIG & Web Design SIGs. She has certifications a Master's Level Certification in Dreamweaver MX, FrontPage 2000, and HTML from Brainbench.

Ed Wiser
Instructor:
Image Ready;
Painter,  Watercolor Palette;
Painter, Pastel Palette

I have been working in computer graphic's since first getting a Amiga and Deluxe Paint many years ago. I work in multimedia information systems and professional presentations. I have been using Painter since version 4. I have for the past year been running a tutorial list on Painter at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Painter101 with and additional website at: http://painter101.manilasites.com/ . I enjoy working with computer graphics because it frees my creative ideas to accomplish anything. With Painter an artist is given the ability to bring natural paint into the digital world.

Sande Woodring-Saimond
Instructor:
Advanced Scrapbooking Techniques;
Trompe l' oeil Scrapbooking
 

Sande took her first craft class, Tole Painting, alone with her Dad when she was 11 and fell in love with crafts. Since then she's dabbled in all forms of Decorative Painting, Quilting, Counted Cross Stitch, Rubber Stamping & rug making. She started creating with rubber stamps 15 years ago and discovered scrapbooking 9 years ago. Sande has worked as a computer consultant for 20 years and discovered eBay 5 years ago and immediately started buying like crazy. She decided to start selling later on and has enjoyed her eBay experiences through all of the volatile changes in the auction world since then. Sande currently teaches classes at a local Community College, local craft & scrapbooking stores in two states & weekend retreats and day crops in multiple states. She is the owner of Sassy Scrappers Studio that specializes in scrapbooking & rubber stamping embellishments. When Sande's not working as a computer consultant or doing things eBay or crafty, she likes to go for moonlight Miata drives, read scifi/fantasy books or relax by the water garden that she & her husband Tony created in their back yard.