Résumé

Résumé and Curriculum Vitæ of David S. Sherman

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EMPLOYMENT

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Human Resource Management
Professionals in Human Resources Association
National Association of Media and Technology Centers
American Society for Training and Development
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
California Computer Using Educators
International Society for Technology in Education
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
AARP
Dan DeSantis Invitational Hearts Tournament (est. 1970)- Charter Member

ACCREDITATION AND OTHER EXPERIENCE

CA Licensed Psychotherapist
California Community Colleges Teaching Credentials
Founder and leader of 70′s rock group Dave King & Asgard
High school classroom teacher:
English Literature, English Composition, Advanced Composition, Biology
High school counselor

AWARDS RECEIVED FOR INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE*

Gold Eagles for Interactive Programming (Council on International Non-theatrical Events)
Silver Cindy (International Association of Audio Visual Communicators)
Excellence in Education Award (Technology & Learning Magazine)
“Maverick in the Morning” CNNfn for Technological Innovation

SKILLS

New business development, intrapreneurial, organizational management and analytical skills, software development, production and interface design.

BOARDS AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Board of Directors – Criteria Corporation
Board of Directors & President – The Audio Visual Group, Inc.
Board of Trustees – Western State University College of Law
Board of Trustees – Clubhouse Children’s Museum
Board of Directors (Honorary) – Kids ‘N’ Computers Foundation
Harvard University Alumni Interviewer
Sigma Alpha Epsilon

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT AIMS MULTIMEDIA

Transformed AIMS Instructional Media Services from 16mm film and filmstrip company to AIMS Multimedia, one of the largest and most innovative educational media companies in the world.

• Conceived, designed, and produced AIMS Multimedia’s flagship product— DigitalCurriculum™ curriculum on demand™ (the first Internet-based video on demand system that included over 100,000 multimedia components and had over 20 million subscribers within its first three and a half years)
• Conceived, designed, and produced over three hundred and fifty interactive DVDs, interactive CD-ROM, interactive CD-i, interactive laser videodisc, and interactive software programs
• Designed, and produced AIMS Multimedia sales contact management software
• Founded and chaired the AIMS Multimedia Digital Learning Advisory Board
• Created and implemented AIMS Multimedia’s nationwide school retailer program
• Developed various technology production partnerships and negotiated full funding to be provided by Pioneer Electronics ($750K), Sony Electronics ($85K), and Philips Electronics ($75K)
• Negotiated barter agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica for encyclopedia Internet rights and marketing use of Encyclopaedia Britannica name.
• Produced Mr. Know-It-Owl’s™ Video School and Video Encyclopedia
• Recipient of over one hundred national and international video awards (as co-executive producer)*

Software

Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia DigitalCurriculum™ Complete Curriculum on Demand™ software
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia web-based internal contact management & production software
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia Digital Video Interactive DVD software series
Designed and produced Mr. Know-It-Owls™ All About Animals CD-ROM software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia Interactive Science Essentials CD-ROM software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia Back-to-Basics CD-ROM software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia Reading with Peter Cottontail CD-ROM series
Designed and produced AIMS CD-i titles
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia HyperStax™ level–III Interactive Laser Videodisc software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia level-I interactive laser videodiscs
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia HyperStax™ Interactive software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia Software Films™ Interactive software series
Designed and produced AIMS Multimedia sales and contact management software

* Additionally awarded hundreds of awards as executive producer and distributor of educational and training videos from worldwide festivals such as the International Film and TV Festival of New York, the London Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Australian Cinema, CINE, Parma, American, Columbus, National, and Birmingham international film and video festivals.

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A Question of Balance
A novel by David S. Sherman, Ph.D.

AFRICA
A photo journal by David S. Sherman

Educational Technology: From Research to the Classroom

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Los Angeles Daily News 8/27/03

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Sherman, David Scott. 1983. “Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Substance Ab/Use.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

Abstract: Research on the psychosocial correlates of adolescent substance abuse was examined and inconsistencies within the research literature were noted. The majority of research studies supported the traditional view of the adolescent substance abuser as rebellious, lacking in self-esteem, having a low sense of psychological well-being, poor academic performance, low religiosity, a broken family, anxiety, alienation, and maladjustment. The administration of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (Fitts, 1964) and a substance abuse questionnaire, incorporating a life satisfaction inventory, to 495 high school students provided contemporaneous normative data by which to “test” the veracity of the adolescent substance abuser stereotype. 87% of the subjects had tried a licit substance and 67% had tried an illicit substance. In contrast only 8% of the subjects had never tried any substances at all. Over one third of the sample reported use of four or more substances. Only perceived parental and peer substance abuse, lower academic performance, and greater truancies were positively correlated with substance abuse. Self-esteem, parental divorce, number of persons living in the home, religiosity, psychopathology, maladjustment, age, and sex were all found to be unrelated to substance abuse. The data also indicated that drug-related arrests and drug-related counseling were ineffective in deterring substance abuse. Past users and low to moderate users were the most psychosocially healthy while non-users as well as heavy users were found to be the most disturbed and maladjusted. Substance abuse is conceptualized as a (statistically) “normal” phase in adolescence. Labelling theory accounts for the process by which “negative” psychosocial variables became correlated with substance abuse. The term “substance ab/use” is suggested to avoid pejorative labels and stigmatizaton of substance abusing adolescents.

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