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Meet Our Visioneers: Randy Carter

by Annie McQuaid

We continue the introduction of our Visioneers with our Application Visioneer, Randy Carter. WebAssign’s Visioneer Team is comprised of experts in the field of chemistry, physics, math, and user experience and design who will work to direct the focus of our product so our customers get the best experience possible.

Randy is responsible for application product strategy and user research to ensure WebAssign is creating the greatest user experience.  Prior to joining WebAssign, Carter was Director of User Experience at Lulu Press where he provided strategic direction and UX team management for a rapidly growing web content company. Lulu.com supports a community of book, audio, video, and software creators with distribution through Amazon and other channels, and just-in-time publishing of their works.


In his spare time, Randy enjoys designing and building vacuum-tube amplifiers, turntables, and horn speakers as well as building furniture and home renovation.  Additionally, he loves traveling, reading, drinking coffee, and watching bad movies.  His projects have won multiple national design awards and Randy has been interviewed in BusinessWeek and other publications.  His long list of accomplishments speak for themselves.

Honors & Awards

2009: Information Week Startup 50 for BlueStripe.com | eWeek Products to Watch | NetworkWorld.com 10 Startups to Watch

2008: PCmag.com Editors Choice for Lulu.com | SEOMoz 2008 Web 2.0 Award

2007: SEOMoz Web 2.0 Award for Lulu.com

2006: Wachovia Retirement RIA Calculator named ‘Best Practice’ for financial calculators by Change Sciences Group

2004: Celent Communications names S1 Business Banking ‘Best of Breed.’

1998:  Three of top five banks use S1 interfaces in Gomez satisfaction ratings

1997: Speaker at “Third Generation Web Sites” conference in San Francisco, January

1995: PC Computing “A” List, PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, Windows Magazine Top 100 Award, Home Office Computing Editor’s Pick for Peachtree Accounting for Windows 3.0

1994-1997: Founding Board Member and Secretary of Allied Design Council; a multidisciplinary design coordination group including IDSA, AIA, AIGA, IIDA, SEGD, ASLA, ASID

1994-1995: IDSA Atlanta Chapter Vice Chair

1994: Codies Award, PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, Home Office Computing Editor’s Pick Award for Peachtree Accounting for Windows 2.0.

1992: IDSA/BusinessWeek Gold IDEA Award for Medtronic ‘Fit’ Interface

1983: IDSA Merit Award, Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honorary

1980: Best Design Award, Auburn ID Spring Cardboard Boat Races

Meet our Visioneers: Matt Kohlmyer

by Annie McQuaid

As part of WebAssign’s increased focus on becoming more customer-centric, we have created an outstanding team of Visioneers.  This group is comprised of experts in the field of chemistry, physics, math, and user experience and design who will work to direct the focus of our product so our customers get the best experience possible.  We are very excited to have them as part of the WebAssign team and will be introducing them over the next few weeks.

This week’s spotlight is on Matt Kohlmyer, our Physics Visioneer:

Matt Kohlmyer has had extensive experience in physics education, both in teaching introductory physics and in research on students’ learning and problem solving.  At both NC State University and Georgia Tech he was involved in implementing, teaching, and developing materials for the innovative Matter & Interactions curriculum (developed by R. Chabay and B. Sherwood).  He has also had experience with innovative pedagogy including the studio-based SCALE-UP environment and clicker usage in large lecture classes.   In his spare time, Matt enjoys trips to the beach and is an avid hockey fan.  We are thrilled to welcome Matt to our WebAssign team!

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