Meet the Team

Director

Jodi Korich, DVM
Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Korich is the founding director of the Educational Technology Center. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in 1997 and practiced medicine in metropolitan Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2002. Since 2002, she has worked in academia and was the founding director of the Partners in Animal Health program at Cornell University from 2005-2010. In 2010, she became the director of Educational Technologies at Texas A&M University. As the Center's director, Dr. Korich provides strategic program leadership, project management, instructional design, and serves as the principal investigator on the Center's grants and contracts.

Associate Director

Jordan Tayce, DVM

Dr. Tayce joined the Educational Technology Center in 2012 as its associate director and assists in instructional design and project management. Dr. Tayce received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University in 2008 and moved to Las Vegas to practice small animal medicine. He then returned to school to earn a Masters of Arts in Higher & Professional Education from the Institute of Education in London, UK in 2011. Dr. Tayce is particularly interested in distance education, the use of technology in education, internationalization and the improvement of non-clinical skills in veterinary education.

Assistant Director

Tonya Miles

Tonya Miles is the Assistant Director for our program and is responsible for overseeing production logistics for new and current projects, while also providing quality assurance testing for those projects. Tonya has worked in the online learning field for over 12 years. From 2002-2010, she provided a variety of services (quality assurance testing, project management, content architecture) for eCornell at Cornell University. Tonya joined the Educational Technology Center at Texas A&M University as a project manager in 2011 and was promoted to her current position in 2012.

Creative Director

Scott Birch

Scott Birch is the Creative Director for our program, shooting, editing, and creating all of the multimedia files in most of our courses. Scott has worked in multimedia production for over 20 years. From 2007-2010, Scott was the Creative Director for the Partners in Animal Health program at Cornell University. In 2011, Scott became the Creative Director for the Educational Technology Center at Texas A&M University, where he continues to research and develop creative solutions to address veterinary educational challenges.

Project Specialist

Patrick Allen

Patrick Allen graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in Broadcast Communications. Over the next 16 years Patrick worked for four major cruise lines as a Broadcast Manager producing video content for on board broadcasts. In 2009, Patrick worked as a Video Production Specialist in Kuwait as part of the Morale, Welfare and Recreation branch of the Area Support Group on the US Armed Forces Camp Arifjan. In 2010, Patrick joined the University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language as IT Multimedia Specialist providing video production, graphic design and various multimedia support to the ongoing research projects. In January of 2012, Patrick joined Texas A&M as Project Specialist in support of the USDA Pakistan SPS Distance Learning Project.

Multimedia Developer

Dan Shuta

Dan Shuta is the Multimedia Developer for the Educational Technology Center, creating web-based academic authoring systems, building customized user interfaces, and programming interactive learning solutions. Dan's professional experience includes a position as an adjunct Senior-level Flash instructor at Syracuse University (Dan's Alma mater), as an animator for Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, and as a certified support specialist for Apple's professional creative software suite. Dan has also worked for over ten years as an illustrator, animator and developer for clients at Cornell University and eCornell. Dan has shown paintings and audio/visual work at vetted gallery shows and performances in Austin and New York, placed in several festivals for music videos and short animation, and has contributed a unique introduction to physical computing in Douglas Easterly's Best Practice: The Pros on Adobe Flash. He has assisted as artist/animator, writer, post production and crew for multiple short film and animation projects in Austin, as well as lead live videographer for Austin's TXRD roller-derby league. Dan also enjoys experimenting with musical software and gadgetry, DIY electronics, and photography.