We Are
An international team with extensive experience in virtual team building and group interaction, knowledge management and e-learning, online tools and environments, technology development and support, and management and organizational process. As a distributed team ourselves, we rely on the tools and techniques we’ve developed for online cooperation in our day-to-day tasks, so we’re continually testing and tuning online tools and methods for our own use well before we share them with you.
Benay Dara-Abrams, Ph.D., CEO
Benay has been supporting and encouraging online cooperation for 35 years on a wide variety of technology platforms ranging from the early days of file sharing via the ARPA Net (Internet predecessor) and network switching and data reformatting via Tymnet (a public packet-switched data network) to shared code development through Internet-based version control systems, distributed development and support for a community network, international conference organization with internally-developed Web-based planning tools, distributed technical support using Internet-based chat facilities, cooperative development of training and education programs through Web-enabled tools, and international action research and workshop development via client/server and peer-to-peer technologies. Benay has been creating and managing virtual and distributed teams for more than 25 years and has coached and trained others in building high-performance distributed work groups in the U.S, Canada, and Germany. She serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco in Information Systems and received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Educational Psychology, her M.S. and B.S. in Computer and Communication Sciences, and her M.A. in Counseling.
Malte Dreyer, CIO
Developing and supporting online experiences in large scale e-learning development, Malte has developed a keen awareness of the technical and process-oriented issues involved in creating and supporting productive and effective online user experiences. Through his management and involvement in the creation of approximately 15,000 learning hours of online instruction, Malte has gained valuable experience in mining and capturing specialized knowledge and expertise. Malte has extensive hands-on technical experience in designing, developing, setting up, configuring, administering, managing, and supporting online environments, groupware, e-learning environments, websites, e-commerce sites, and online cooperative services, setting up a middle-scale Internet Service Provider, founding and directing a Web agency, and architecting the IT infrastructure for international e-learning initiatives. With his background in educational engineering and large-scale international e-learning development, Malte has spearheaded and facilitated the process of knowledge capture and dissemination. Malte completed the Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in Communication Engineering with a focus in Technical Informatics and pursued additional studies at the University of Lund, Sweden.
