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Professional Staff

Alicia Russell

Director of Educational Technology

Alicia K. Russell is the founding director of Northeastern University's Educational Technology Center, the university's hub for the exploration, development and implementation of emerging technologies to support teaching, learning and research goals. Her principal interests center on using... Read more...

Seth J. Merriam

Web Services Manager and Multimedia Designer

As the Web Services Manager and Multimedia Designer, Seth J. Merriam has helped design, develop, produce, integrate, and assess a wide variety of digital projects including flash-based games and media-rich websites. He started as a coop student in 1992, and then was hired as a full-time staff... Read more...

Laurie Poklop

Senior Instructional Designer

Laurie has worked as an instructional designer in the EdTech Center since the fall of 2002, helping faculty to integrate technology into their teaching. She is particularly interested in designing hybrid and online courses and is currently working on multiple online course design projects. She has... Read more...

Rachel Chorney

Web Interface Designer and Training Manager

Rachel Chorney started working at the EdTech Center in 2006 as a graphic design co-op student. After graduating from Northeastern in 2007 with a BS in Graphic Design and a minor in Business she joined WorldTeach and went to China's Hunan province for a year to teach English to middle school and... Read more...

Victoria Wallace

Web Based Curriculum Designer

Victoria is an Instructional Designer, MEd and over 13 years experience in the financial, technical, and academic fields. She has been with the Educational Technology Center since February 2009.  Victoria manages faculty outreach initiatives like the "Interactive Course Development... Read more...

Andrew Seaboyer

Internet Systems Developer

Andrew Seaboyer joined the EdTech Center in 2010, as a web developer with a focus on web based applications and end-user experience. He is currently working as a web developer on scalable interactive projects designed to support teaching and research. The websites produced at the EdTech Center... Read more...