David P. Gillespie
Nan Shastry is the CEO of Brainy Betty, Inc. and the founder of the websites www.brainybetty.com and www.intellipodcast.com. Brainy Betty is # 2 on Google of approximately 1.5 million sites under the search term "free PowerPoint templates". It is # 7 on Yahoo! and MSN and rates consistently among the most popular services at Microsoft Office Marketplace. Brainy Betty has millions of page views a month from an international audience and thousands of unique hits a day.
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She worked for Honeywell International as a corporate trainer/technical specialist developing e-learning courses, narrating, adding sound, flash, and media[md]and created hundreds of courses over 7 years.
She has spoken at the American Society for Performance Improvement seminar in 2005 and at NetG (Thompson) Events in early 2003.
She is a published author, speaker, multiple award winning writer, lyricist, new media programmer, collagist, and poet.
She is involved with changing young women's lives: In 2004, she awarded a grant by the Kentucky Foundation of Women to hold 3 seminars for young women regarding Building Self-Esteem, Technology Careers for Women, and a Creative Writing Workshop.
She graduated cum laude from Marshall University in Huntington, WV and majored in Public Administration with minors in Literature, Sociology, and Economics. She received the Marshall Women's Scholar and was nominated and accepted into Who's Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities.
She is an expert at: Macromedia Breeze and Captivate, Articulate, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal and WSS Site Technology, FrontPage, PowerPoint, SwishMax, Publisher 97 and above, FlashPaper 2, Mind Jet Mind Manager, Paint Shop Pro 9, Podcasting, Visio 2000, Digital Imaging Pro 9, KeeBoo Creator, Audacity, Qarbon ViewletBuilder, RSS Readers, Saba LMS (administration), Visual Basic Programming, iTunes, Live Meeting, vodcasting, blogging, and social networking. She lives with her 3 sons, her husband of 24 years, and her black lab on the banks of the Ohio River in rural Worthington, Kentucky.
David Gillespie has worked at Honeywell International for the last 15 years, where he leads the HPS Global Learning Team. There, he works with engineering and project management subject matter experts to develop an extensive library of eLearning modules. He also supports the HPS Global Engineering knowledge sharing network by training and building a network of community of practice leaders. One of David’s missions is to eliminate the barriers between everyday knowledge sharing and formal training, and his current work “hobby” is producing high quality recorded learning modules in-house (including learning to mix music). He is currently managing a global study of knowledge sharing behaviors and attitudes among Honeywell engineers. He has delivered numerous papers, courses, and podcasts on the topics of knowledge sharing, information retrieval, and the involvement of experts in learning.
Prior to Honeywell, David worked at BP, where he helped build an early global engineering lessons learned network. He also taught public policy and organization behavior at Michigan State University. David is a sociologist, specializing in organization theory. He holds a PhD and MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
David and Martha, his wife of 35 years, reside in Ashland, Kentucky, a few miles upriver from Nan Shastry. Their four children are involved in Public Television, Public Radio, Social Work, and mountain guiding.