The TTS team is composed of a group of permanent consultants, located in the company’s principal centers of activity, and a group of globally distributed associate consultants who work directly on specific projects located in their region and also collaborate online in global consulting, research and e-learning activities. Many of the permanent and associate consultants maintain their own teams of educational and organizational change management specialists and technical support personnel, which constitute further resources available for the execution of TTS projects.

            Permanent consultants. 

 -       Alexander Joseph Romiszowski (partner & director). Engineer and Educator – Masters degree in Engineering Science (University of Oxford, UK) and PhD in Education  with specialization in mathematics education and educational technology (University of Loughborough, UK). He is managing director and principal consultant of TTS and also a Research Professor in the Department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDD&E) of Syracuse University, where he is also the Technical Director of the Training Systems Institute (TSI). He was previously employed as Chief Technical Advisor and Project Manager of United Nations Projects in developing countries, project manager and director of multinational education, training and change management consulting organizations, professor and researcher in seven universities in North and South America and Europe, and consultant in over 30 countries in every part of the developed and developing world. He has also held editorial and editorial board positions on several professional journals and executive or advisory board roles in professional associations in the UK (AETT), USA (AECT; NSPI) and Brazil (Brazilian Association for Educational Technology – ABT; Brazilian Distance Education Association – ABED). He has undertaken numerous projects that involved the design and development of instructional systems and learning materials for educational and corporate client organizations. He is the author of over 200 publications on various aspects of instructional design, educational media, organizational change planning and management, and human resources development, including over 20 books of which four have been awarded international prizes. He is a regular consultant to projects of the World Bank, UNESCO, ILO, ITU, and the school systems, corporations and governments in various countries. Base: USA; Brazil; Europe.  

-          Lina Pastor Romiszowski (partner and director). Educator, with many years of experience in the early years of mass-media-based distance-learning systems. She has a Masters degree in Educational Technology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a PhD in Education, with specialization in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation, from Syracuse University. She is a researcher, consultant and the pedagogical director of TTS. She is a past president of the Rio de Janeiro chapter of ABED (Brazilian Distance Education Association) and is currently a member of the national board of directors of ABE (Brazilian Education Association) and a member of the scientific council of ABT (Brazilian Association for Educational Technology). Her areas of expertise include: design and development of educational systems and materials (in a variety of delivery media); rational uses of technology in education; cultural factors in the international transfer of educational technologies; selection of teaching methodologies; management of distance learning teams and projects; evaluation of projects and programs of educational innovation; human resources training and development. She has published many research papers and instructional materials packages. Base: Brazil; USA. 

-          Carlos Villalba (consultant). Qualified in software engineering in Venezuela. He has a Masters degree in Education, with specialization in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation, and is currently completing PhD in the same area, at Syracuse University, USA, where he is also a webmaster and an instructor in business applications of ICT. He specializes in instructional design, multimedia communication, and the development of online resources for e-Learning. Base: USA; Venezuela. 

-          Clifton Chadwick (consultant). Educational psychologist and educator, with a PhD in the area of instructional technology from Florida State University. After many years as educational consultant and manager on international projects of the Organization of American States (OAS), USAID, UNDP and the World Bank, he founded the experimental “Chadwick School” in Santiago, Chile, in order to “put educational research findings into practice”. He specializes in the planning and evaluation of educational projects and programs, at both micro and macro organizational levels. He was the field director and chief of party of the OAS-funded Multinational Educational Technology project that ran in several South American countries (including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela). More recently, he advised the governments of countries as different as Quatar and East Timor on primary school system reform and curriculum development. Base: USA; Chile.  

-          Eduardo Stefanelli (consultant). Initially trained as a software engineer, he is now a university and technical-vocational college teacher of computer science, software engineering, mathematics, technical drawing and multimedia design. He has a Masters degree in educational computing and is studying for a PhD in this area at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in the design and development of instructional multimedia and educational websites. He has developed many educational multimedia software packages for clients in the corporate training world and in the technical and vocational education sector. These include a series of courses for training waiters, front desk personnel and other employees in the hotel and tourism industry, and the award-winning interactive multimedia course on “Geometry Basics for Technical Drawing” that gained first prize in the annual educational software competition of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Brazil (MEC, 1996). Base: Brazil.   

-          John Stone (consultant). Educator and assistive technology specialist, who obtained a PhD in Educational Technology from Florida State University, USA, and then spent many years working in Brazil, first on satellite-delivered distance-learning projects, then teaching at university level and consulting to industry. He helped to set up three programs of graduate studies in education, at INPE in São Jose dos Campos and in the Federal Universities of Espirito Santo and Maranhão.  He currently specializes in the planning and management of graduate courses, e-Learning and technology-based solutions to the learning problems and challenges of students with disabilities. Base: USA; Brazil.  

-          Maria Isabel Rodriguez (consultant). Industrial designer, ergonomics expert and educational technologist, with a Masters degree in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University, USA. Her areas of expertise include instructional design, graphics for communication, workplace design, project monitoring and evaluation, and the design and development of instructional materials for e-Learning systems. She now concentrates on the development of systems of on-line education and training, and on the evaluation and quality control of educational projects and programs. Base: Brazil.  

-          Philip Doughty (consultant). PhD in Educational Technology from Florida State University, USA. Professor and program chair in the department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDD&E), School of Education, Syracuse University. He is also the Executive Director of the Training Systems Institute (TSI), an integral unit of the university and a TTS partner organization, which offers external consulting and project execution services in the development of instructional materials, design of teaching-learning systems and performance improvement in both corporate and educational institutions. His principal areas of specialization include: cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies of educational and HRD interventions, needs assessment and other forms of front-end analysis, human performance technology solutions, project management, the process of planned organizational change and the diffusion of innovations in general. Base: USA.

             Associate Consultants (International Network) 

-          Badrul Khan (associate consultant). Currently Professor and Head of the Department of Leadership in Educational Technology at George Washington University, USA, Dr. Khan was born and completed his initial educational studies in Bangladesh, then taking his PhD in Educational Technology at Indiana University, USA. He maintains a network of contacts with educators in countries throughout Asia and the Middle East, where he frequently works as visiting lecturer, teacher and consultant. He is the author and editor of many articles and books on distance education and particularly on Web-based Training and e-Learning. He is a regular contributing editor to Educational Technology Magazine and also the founding editor of the Website “BooksToRead.com”. Base: USA; Asia; Middle East. 

-          John Tiffin (associate consultant). International expert in educational radio and TV, distance education, online schools and universities and the associated leading edge technologies – including educational applications of virtual reality and tele-presence. Originally from the UK, he first worked in mass media based education projects both there and in British Commonwealth countries. He later obtained a PhD in Educational Technology from Florida State University and was director for Brazil of the Multinational Educational Technology Project of the Organization of American States (OAS). From the mid-1980s, he worked on pioneering projects to implant educational computing in the schools of New Zealand and was later the founding professor and head of the Department of Communication Studies at Victoria University in Wellington. He ran the program of this department in large part by means of advanced satellite-delivery technologies, employing an internationally distributed team of “virtual” visiting professors. This experience led him to conceptualize the “Global Virtual University” (GVU). This model, which he has described in several books, became the basis of a program of international collaborative research (Australia, Japan and New Zealand) on the leading-edge technologies required to transform the model into reality. Base: New Zealand; Australia; Japan. 

-          Joseph Kessels (associate consultant). Founder and director of the human resources development and consulting organization Kessels & Smit (“The Learning Organization”), operating initially in the Netherlands and increasingly on a global basis. In its early years, this company ran a professional training and development program for corporate training and development professionals, which was recognized as one of the most innovative programs of this nature in the Netherlands and possibly in Europe. Dr Kessels holds a PhD from the University of Twente, where later he was also a professor and responsible for developing graduate programs in the HRD and organizational development area. He is currently teaching at several other universities and continues to work as consultant to various national, multinational and public-sector organizations. He is the author of many articles, monographs and books, the most recent of which – Human Resources Development in a Knowledge Economy - was co-authored with the British consultant Rosemary Harrison. Base: Netherlands; Europe.   

-          Lalita Rajasingham (associate consultant). Specialist in educational technology, distance education, digital inclusion in developing country contexts, cultural aspects of the transfer of technologies, e-Learning, and the Internet in education. Originally from Malaysia, she completed earlier study in the UK and then a PhD in Communication, with specialization in digital technologies for education, from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, where she is now professor and head of department. She has traveled widely, both as consultant and as visiting scholar, having recently spent a sabbatical at the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver and several other world-renowned distance learning institutions. Base: New Zealand; Malaysia; Asia in general. 

-          Nick Rushby (associate consultant). Director of the British consulting organization Conation Technologies, which offers technology-based training, electronic communication design and other services to both private and public organizations, acting at all organizational levels from operations staff to top-level directors. He has also, for many years, acted as editor in chief of the British Journal of Educational Technology, one of the most respected refereed journals in this field. Prior assignments have included: director of projects of the UK Government sponsored “National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning”; director of multimedia development and utilization for the multinational management consulting organization “PA Consulting Group”.  Base: UK; Europe. 

-          Paulina Pannen (associate consultant). Director of the South East Asia Open Learning Center (SEAMOLEC), the distance education research, development and project implementation center of the South East Asia Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Previously, she was a professor, researcher and head of the Faculty of Education at Universitas Terbuka, the Indonesian Open University. She holds a PhD in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDD&E) from Syracuse University, USA. She acts as consultant to various educational institutions in Indonesia and other South East Asia countries and is the author of various scientific papers and instructional modules on aspects of the planning, management and evaluation of distance education systems. Base: Indonesia; Southeast Asia in general. 

-          Robin Mason (associate consultant). Professor, researcher and departmental head in the area of educational technology, and particularly online learning, at the United Kingdom’s Open University. Her PhD study, which investigated the first full scale use of online learning technologies by the Open University, predates the invention of the Internet by some years, and her subsequent book, co-edited with Anthony Kaye – “Mindweave: communication, computers and distance education” (Pergamon Press, 1989) – was one of the first to present an international perspective on the educational future that has now arrived with full force. She is the author of many other works on aspects of distance education, including a periodically updated review of the state of research on educational uses of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), co-authored with Alexander Romiszowski, that has appeared, in 1996 and 2004, as chapters in two editions of the AECT’s “Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology” (edited by David Jonassen).  She acts as consultant to distance-learning projects for various client organizations in various countries. Base: UK; Canada; the world.  

-          Samuel Pfromm Netto (associate consultant).  Psychologist, researcher and past professor on graduate programs in education at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Catholic University of Campinas (PUCCAMP), in Brazil. His career has been marked by intensive and extensive involvement with media – in journalism, radio, cinema, television, distance-learning and individualized instruction. He has been, at different times, consultant, manger, council member and president of: “Fundação Padre Anchieta” - São Paulo’s educational radio and TV organization; “Fundação Centro Brasileiro de Televisão Educativa” (FUNTEVÉ) – the Federal Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) ETV organization; the distance education programs division of CIANET – roughly translated, this stands for “Center for Interactive Telematics (i.e. ICT) in Education, Public Administration and Business”. He has authored numerous publications, including over 30 books, on various aspects of psychology, education and mass communication. He currently directs the consulting group PNA Associados, located in São Paulo. Base: Brazil; Latin America ingeneral.