Daniel McCoy is an applications developer and software designer with expertise in education, advertising, and e-commerce. He has developed enterprise-level learning management systems for the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Florida. Mr. McCoy has also worked as the Director of Content for StyleClick, Inc. and MVP.com in Chicago; and as the Senior Programmer for Media Circus Interactive Advertising in New York. He has graduate training in Anthropology and Educational Psychology. Mr. McCoy seeks to design products that enhance productivity by seamlessly integrating into existing social, cultural and institutional contexts. He believes that in order for software to be an effective tool, it must make intuitive sense to it's users.
Mark brings 15 years of enterprise management and internet development experience to the ZScore team.
In addition to his work with ZScore, Mark is an IT Operations Manager at the University of Florida College of Medicine. At UF, Mark designed the CoM multi-server cooperative application environment that is the underlying technology for the CORES project and it's affiliated applications.
Before UF, Mark was a founding partner of Thinkwell Incorporated which produces video and animation-based online textbooks for high school and college courses. Mark worked to create Thinkwell's business plan and raised $23M in venture funding over 4 years. At Thinkwell, Mark served as Chief Technology Officer with an annual budget of $1.1M and a staff of 9 developers. This team built Thinkwell's Foundry system to assemble, manage, and deliver several terabytes of course content to Thinkwell's subscribers.
Christopher D. Sessums is currently working as a Post Doctoral Associate in Educational Technology in the University of Florida's College of Education. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 with a specific focus on new digital media and online teacher professional development. Since 2000, Christopher has worked as a director of distance learning in the Office of Distance, Continuing, and Executive Education and the College of Education at the University of Florida. He received his Master of Education in English Secondary Education from the University of Florida in 1997 and his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Florida as well.
Christopher's teaching experience ranges across graduate and undergraduate courses in the College of Education to grades 7-12 at the university' developmental research school, P.K. Yonge. Christopher has been an invited lecturer nationally and internationally and in 2006 received the Best Individual Blog award from his peers in the international edublogging community. His research interests include social media/new digital media affordances for teaching and learning, online teacher professional development, activity theory, participatory media, communities of practice, personal and professional learning networks and environments.
Christopher is currently researching the use of social media to support teacher professional development and e-learning models in support of professional practice in higher education settings.