Services and Skills
Technical advisor, consultant and presenter on corporate elearning and elearning specifications/standards. Specializing in integration of AICC (CMI/LMS and PENS) and ADL SCORM (run-time content communication) specifications. Proficient with Adobe products including: Authorware, Breeze, Captivate, Dreamweaver and Flash.
Background
Tom King has a master's degree in Instructional Design and 15 years experience developing and managing elearning materials. Tom is actively involved with many elearning technology specification groups, including ADL SCORM, AICC, IEEE LTSC, and others. He serves as AICC Communications Chairman and workgroup leader for the PENS specification. Tom was instrumental in early implementations of LMS specifications for LAN and web-based systems as an early AICC advocate and founder of Solis, maker of Pathware (acquired by Macromedia and later transferred to IBM as LearningSpace 4). Tom continues to collaborate with colleagues from a variety of companies offering enterprise-class elearning solutions.
As manager of eLearning Integration at Macromedia, Tom supported elearning initiatives across the range of Macromedia products. Tom initiated SCORM compatibility efforts for Authorware, Dreamweaver, and Flash, including authoring some of the initial product extensions such as, Flash fs SCORM, Dreamweaver SCORM Runtime Wrapper and Dreamweaver Manifest Maker (now maintained by Leo Lucas).
More recently, Tom hosted created and hosted a popular series of Macromedia Elearning Webinars with guest speakers including Josh Bersin, Bryan Chapman of Brandon-Hall.com, Jay Cross, Lance Dublin, Karl Kapp, Nader Najani, Elliott Masie, David Metcalf, Mark Oehlert and others.
Prior to his most recent work at Macromedia, Tom held positions with Authorware Inc., Andersen Consulting, Lotus/IBM Learning Services, and Solis. As a consultant he has contributed to the development of pilot and maintainer elearning for the Boeing 777 commercial jetliner and the F/A-22 jet fighter. Other clients included major telecommunications providers, airlines, heavy equipment manufacturers, textbook publishers, financial services firms, government agencies and others.
Tom is now Chief Consultant at Mobilemind, providing consulting services to corporate clients and elearning vendors. He continues to participate in the evolution of elearning standards and actively presents at leading industry conference and events on a variety of topics.
