Our Team

Gordon F. Snyder, Jr.
Executive Director / Principal Investigator

c/o STCC
One Armory Square
Springfield, MA 01102
Phone: (413) 755-6552
Fax: (413) 755-6325
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Gordon F. Snyder, Jr. is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for ICT Center at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), where he also manages curriculum development for networking. At STCC he helped develop the Verizon Next Step program and now serves as the New England telecommunications curriculum coordinator for the program. He is the author of four engineering and engineering technology textbooks and has over 14 years of consulting experience in the field of communications and LAN/WAN design. He has served on several local and national boards including the Microsoft Community & Technical College Advisory Council, the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Voluntary Partnership representing the telecommunications, computer, and information industry sector. He currently chairs the Institute for Telecommunications Technologies Board at Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, California, the NSF National Center for Optics and Photonics Education Board in Waco, TX and the Convergence Technology Center Board in the Dallas Fort Worth. TX metroplex. Closer to home he chairs the Technology Enterprise Council (TEC), a regional, industry-led organization working hand-in-hand with academic institutions and other non-profit organizations to advance the growth and success of companies driven by information and communications technologies in Southern Vermont, Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. In this region he also sits on the Regional Technology Coucil (RTC) Board of Directors and the RTC Executive Committee. He also writes a bi-monthly technology column for the Spanish newspaper La Prensa. In 2001 he was selected as one of the top fifteen technology faculty in the United States by Microsoft Corporation and the American Association of Community Colleges and in 2004 was selected as the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council Workforce Development Leader of the year. His popular weekly blogs and podcasts, done in collaboration with Mike Qaissaunee are read and listened to by thousands.

Michael Qaissaunee
Co-Principal Investigator, Open Content

c/o Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ 07738
(732) 224-2070
Fax: (732) 224-1854
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Mr. Michael T. Qaissaunee is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey, Mr. Qaissaunee is founding Director of the Mid-Atlantic Institute for Telecommunications Technologies (MAITT), established through funding from the National Science Foundation to develop cutting-edge technician education programs in wireless communications. As Principle Investigator (PI) of this project, Mr. Qaissaunee has led the development and implementation of nine (9) new courses related to wireless communications technologies and has presented at over thirty (30) conferences and seminars. Mr. Qaissaunee is also Co-Principle Investigator (Co-PI) for the National Center for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT Center) located in Springfield, Massachusetts, serving as a subject matter expert in wireless communications and leading ICT Center's national dissemination efforts.

For his demonstrated leadership in wireless education, documented collaboration with the wireless industry, support and mentoring of students in wireless projects, their own innovative research and educational initiatives, and their efforts in preparing students for employment in wireless and wireless-related industries Mr. Qaissaunee has been selected as recipient of the 2007 Global Wireless Education Consortium (GWEC) Wireless Educator of the Year Award.

Mr. Qaissaunee is also working with Hofstra University's Center for Technological Literacy to develop contemporary, high-interest materials for high school technology students and teachers that address standards-driven technological concepts and skills and promote promising STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career choices. Mr. Qaissaunee has been active at his own campus and around the country in promoting the adoption of new technologies in and approaches to teaching and learning, including: blogs, audio and video podcasts, wikis, mobile computing, and educational gaming and simulation.

Michael Qaissaunee received his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE).

Mohammad Shanehsaz
Co-Principal Investigator, Subject Matter Expertise

c/o Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ 07738
(732) 224-2827
Fax: (732) 224-1854
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Helen Wetmore
Staff Support - Receptionist

c/o STCC
One Armory Square
Springfield, MA 01102
Phone (413) 755-6550
Fax: (413) 755-6325
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John Reynolds
New Media Designer

c/o STCC
One Armory Square
Springfield, MA 01102
Phone (413) 755-6124
Fax: (413) 755-6325
Email