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Helen Tanona

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Tiffany Taves

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Tiffany has spent 30++ years in the field of education, establishing academic programs, institutional policy, and procedure, designing curriculum, faculty development, and instructing classes. In that time, she has worked to help institutions and organizations understand strategies to continue growth and expansion. She has extensive leadership experience in relationship and team building; hiring professional, sales and technical staff; strategic planning; change management, systems, and policy; implementing budget performance and accountability systems; and creating effective professional development programs.
In her time teaching at the college level, she has had the pleasure of teaching at Quincy College, Massasoit Community College and the Boston Architectural College where she taught Writing 1 (Expository Writing), Writing 2 (Research Writing), Introduction to Literature, American Literature, British Literature, Western Civilization, Shakespeare, and the first-year seminar for entering architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture students. At Champlain College Online, she has taught: CREW I (Writing 1), CREW II (Writing 2), Writing in the Workplace, Introduction to Literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Fiction, Rhetoric: Using Evidence from Sources, The Writing Process, and Survey of Fiction. She has also been a subject matter expert (SME) for several courses where she created curriculum based on learning objectives, collaborated with other faculty and content administrators to ensure the best implementation of the product, and created engaging and integrative curricula or assessment to keep students engaged and improve student outcomes.

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Monique Taylor

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MaryEllen Tedesco

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Vikas Thammanna Gowda

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Trellany ThomasEvans

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Alexandre Tolstenko

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Alex is an experienced senior software developer who joined Champlain College in 2022. With over 15 years in the software industry, Alex has a diverse background as a software, game, blockchain, and reliability engineer, having held various positions including developer, architect, and CTO in startups. Throughout their career, Alex has delivered successful products to the market, accumulating over 250 million downloads.

Alex specializes in game development, general problem-solving, algorithms, product delivery, and team building. Some notable deliveries include implementing multiplayer networking and physics determinism for racing games, developing blockchain technology and IaaC for an NFT-based crowdfunding platform, and porting a game engine (including physics) from ObjectiveC to multiple platforms.

Originally from Brazil, Alex enjoys sports, learning new skills, and exploring emerging tech trends. They hold a BS in Computer Engineering from UNICAMP and an MS in Computer Science from UFPI, both in Brazil.

Distinctions & Awards

Unity Awards Finalist 2012;
Best paper award on SAE Aerodesign 2014;
Best paper award on international Coloproctology journal 2017
Featured Startup on Innovativa Brazil 2018;

Publications & Abstracts

Awesome GameDev Resources

Favorite Quote

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

—Walt Disney

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Sarah Tooley

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Sarah Tooley is an adjunct professor for Game Theory within the Champlain College Cybersecurity program. She attended the University of South Carolina for her undergraduate and graduate degree in math education with a focus on computer science. She is currently attending The Citadel where she is earning a second masters degree in Interdisciplinary STEM Education. She spent more than twelve years teaching in public high schools before becoming an online professor.

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Sage Tucker-Ketcham

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Sage Tucker-Ketcham is a process driven environmental artist, her work blurs the line between memory and imagination, the autobiographical and universal. Constructed layer by layer using thin applications of oil paint, sprays, and oil glazes, the depth, light, and atmospheric tension is palpable in the distinctive ecosystem of each painting. These lusciously layered, process-based paintings contemplate the points where the hyper-personal intersects with the collective in a shared experience of time, nature, and the journey of finding our place within it.

With over 20 years’ experience as a working artist, Sage Tucker-Ketcham’s art is collected nationwide and internationally. Tucker-Ketcham received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from Maine College of Art & Design and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Sage Tucker-Ketcham’s has exhibited at Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT; Provincetown Association and Art Museum and the Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland ME; Shelburne Museum, Shelburne VT; Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT; and Flynn Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT.

Tucker-Ketcham’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries in, Burlington, VT; Boston, MA; Dallas and Fort Worth, TX; Greenwich, CT; Martha’s Vineyard, Provincetown, Boston and Pittsfield, MA; Portland, ME; and Sarasota, FL.

Tucker-Ketcham’s works have appeared in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, Art New England Art Scope, Seven Days, the Provincetown Banner, Hemisphere Magazine, Burlington Free Press, Greenwich Times, TimeOut, NerdWallet among others.

Her pieces are part of international private collections in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Canada. Her works are in corporate collections including Northfield Savings Bank, Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group, The Hinds Loft, Delta Airlines, Roundstone International among others.

Publications & Abstracts

RUTLAND HERALD: ‘Reverie’ at the Chaffee: Three fine artists return to Vermont

TWO COATS OF PAINT: Two Coats Resident Artist Sage Tucker-Ketcham, July 20–25

SEVEN DAYS: ATM Gallery Sprouts in Shelburne

SEVEN DAYS: Sage Tucker-Ketcham on ‘Under the Water and Into the Woods’

HYPERALLENGINIC: View from the easel

Portfolio of Work

NATURE BASE OIL PAINTINGS

DABBING WORK

TWO COATS OF PAINT RESIDENCY

UNDER THE WATER AND INTO THE WOODS

STK/KLES PROVINCETOWN

THE HEDGE WORK

IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

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Scott Tuft

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Scott Tuft is an award-winning writer, director and producer who has created television programming for HBO, PBS, Cartoon Network and Disney; sold and optioned feature screenplays; written graphic novels for DC Comics and Image; and created and produced a successful independent podcast.

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Tracy Tuten

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Tracy L. Tuten, Ph.D. is an expert in marketing strategy, digital and social media marketing, marketing research, and branding. She is the author of several books including Social Media Marketing and Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age, published by Sage Publications. Her research has appeared in such journals as Psychology & Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, and Social Science Computer Review, among others. Dr. Tuten has served consultant and guest professor roles internationally and in the United States with organizations that include Dell, Samsung Electronics, Royall & Company, the Martin Agency, and the NFL Coaches Association. She has twice served as a Fulbright Scholar and has won national and institution-wide awards for teaching excellence.

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Favorite Quote

An honest man is one who knows he cannot consume more than he has produced.

—Ayn Rand

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Meagan Van Woert

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Geoffrey Vanderpal

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Adam VanSertima

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Adam has been teaching courses on the culture of Canada, Quebec and Montreal for 11 years for Champlain Abroad. An academic background in Art History and Philosophy, combined with a professional history in film and video production gives him tools and experience to provide exciting perspectives to his students. Born in the UK, he has lived much of his life in the Montréal area, so is familiar with the feeling of being a newcomer, and also settling into a beloved new home, and hopes to share that experience with his students.

Distinctions & Awards

Francine Page Award 2022

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• Object(Live)ly Speaking

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Aaron Videtto

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