Faculty
The following instructors teach Web Design courses in the Media
Arts department.
Suzanne Ama
Suzanne (Suzie) is the Web Design Program Coordinator and Faculty Chair
for the Media Arts Department. She has taught at Cerro Coso Community College since 1998 and has been teaching media arts courses online since 2001. She has 22 years of experience in the field of graphic design, including ownership of a small design firm for 8 years. In addition to producing print design products such as business cards, stationery, brochures, and product packaging, she has designed web sites for companies across the country, including businesses in Washington, D.C.; Petersburg, VA; Spokane, WA; Orange County; Ventura County; and Ridgecrest, California. Suzanne has a Bachelors of Fine Arts from American InterContinental University and a Masters of Science in Education from California State Univeristy East Bay. You can contact her by e-mail at: sama@cerrocoso.edu
Lisa Darty
Biography coming soon.
Fred Hartson
Biography coming soon.
Ray Hocker
Ray is currently completing a Masters of Fine Art in Digital Cinema Production from National University. He has recently produced high definition video programming on several cable channels and teaches Video Technology at Burroughs High School in Ridgecrest. He was also a portrait photographer for many years. Ray is excited about offering digital video courses in Mammoth because of the opportunities that local scenery and community events provide as subject matter for student projects. You can contact Ray at: rhocker@verizon.net
Jim Kiggens
Jim teaches several electives in the Web Design
program. He also teaches the Digital
Animation Academy at the Indian Wells Valley campus, which
is an exclusive year-long program that equips students with
professional skills in pre-production, story-telling, modeling,
rigging, texture art, lighting, character animation, special
effects, motion graphics, animation programming/technical direction,
render management, web animation and production management.
Some of the Digital Animation courses are also offered online.
Jim can be contacted at: jkiggens@cerrocoso.edu
or you can visit his homepage at: http://www.coyote3d.com/
Kathleen O'Brien
Kathleen teaches computer science and web
scripting classes at various California colleges and universities.
She teaches both online and face-to-face classes. She joined
Cerro Coso as adjunct faculty in fall 2004 to teach online. Her
twin passions are technology and education. You can contact her
at kathleen@laughton.com.
Cori Ratliff
Cori
has worked in web design for over eight years now. She
has served as the institutional Instructional Design Specialist
(webmaster for Cerro Coso) since 1997 with a one year hiatus
spent working exclusively with the Media Arts and Child
Development programs on their instructional design needs.
She then returned to her position as the institutional
webmaster and continues to teach web design courses as
adjunct faculty. Cori is also involved with freelance web
design and digital animation outside of teaching and working
for the college. She enjoys the field of web design and
finds it very fulfilling to share her knowledge with others.
You can reach her by e-mail at: cratliff@cerrocoso.edu,
visit her homepage at: http://home.cerrocoso.edu/ratliff/,
or view her blog at http://digitalcaptive.blogspot.com/.
Elaine Rudis-Jackson
Biography coming soon.
Sharron Swan
Biography coming soon.
Christine Swiridoff
Christine has taught English at Cerro Coso
since 1998 and enjoys crossing disciplines to teach MA 125, Writing
for Media Arts, online. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in English
from CSU, Fresno and her Ph.D. in English from Temple University.
You may reach her by e-mail at cswirido@cerrocoso.edu or you
can visit her home page at http://home.cerrocoso.edu/swiridoff/.
Vickie Taton
Vickie has a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting from the University of Nevada Reno. She also teaches digital imaging and design at Big Pine High School. She loves digital media and enjoys helping students develop their creative skills. You can reach Vickie at vtaton@gmail.com
Kiana Wyatt
Kiana has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
and a B.A. in Computer, Imaging and Video. She previously worked
as a Hydro Electric Engineer in the mountain community of Big
Creek, near Fresno, CA. As her interest in computer graphics
grew, she made a career change to computer animation. After obtaining
her second degree, she and her husband relocated to Bishop, CA,
where she started a small animation/web/drafting company. Most
recently, she was hired by Cerro Coso Community College as an
Instructional Design Specialist for Cerro Coso Online. You can
reach her by e-mail at: kiwyatt@cerrocoso.edu
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