About Meridian Advisory

I have spent twenty-five years working within institutional learning systems, designing, building, and running them rather than advising from the outside.

My institutional career began at Université Laval in 1995, working with Canada's TeleLearning Network of Centers of Excellence on the localization of learning management systems and the policy frameworks that shaped Quebec's first connected-school strategy. The work produced "Pour une école branchée," a policy report distributed in 4,500 copies to the Quebec Ministry of Education and provincial stakeholders, and Canada's first online directory of francophone educational resources.

I joined Old Dominion University in 2000 as an instructional designer and spent the next twenty-five years there, serving as Interim Director and Director of the Center for Learning Technologies, and most recently as Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning with Technology. Over that period the center grew from eight to thirty-four staff. The institutional online portfolio expanded from forty to one hundred twenty degree programs, a 137 percent enrollment increase across the decade leading into 2020. I directed the LMS migration from Blackboard to Canvas affecting 625 courses, built a WCAG 2.1 accessibility scanner assessing 100,000 pages across the course inventory, and led the institutional pandemic response that converted 1,777 courses to remote delivery in three weeks during March 2020.

Most recently, I authored Old Dominion's institutional AI integration plan, one of the first at a Virginia public university, covering usage policies, a competency framework for 3,000 faculty, and the CRAFT prompt engineering methodology. The framework was subsequently adapted for the Eastern Virginia Medical School certificate program in teaching, learning, and assessment, where I served on the institutional AI advisory board and trained seventy-five medical faculty across a three-tiered workshop series.

Alongside the institutional work, I completed forty-one consulting projects in sixteen countries for UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, and other organizations. The longest engagement was with UNICEF and the Tunisian Ministry of Education from 2002 to 2011. It comprised twenty-one technical assignments on curriculum reform, teacher professional development, quality assurance, and ICT integration. Other projects included evaluating Morocco's national e-Takwine LMS for USAID, which informed the Ministry's expansion from 5,000 to 120,000 educators; creating The Gambia's digital learning roadmap for UNICEF by surveying 573 households across urban and rural areas; evaluating an EU-funded refugee education program in Syria that served 15,084 Iraqi refugees and 96,000 students from the host community; conducting a regional study on out-of-school children for UNICEF MENA that covered Morocco, Sudan, and South Sudan; and assessing ICT integration for the UNESCO International Bureau of Education in Gabon, Oman, and India.

I served on the Virginia State Council of Higher Education’s Learning Technology Advisory Committee for eighteen years (2007–2025). I co-authored Virginia’s K–12 online learning regulations through the Department of Education’s virtual education workgroup.

For engagements requiring additional depth in regional policy, clinical content, or language localization, I draw on a vetted network of senior practitioners. I remain accountable for scope, quality, and deliverables throughout.

I founded Meridian Advisory because the gap between what institutions attempt and what they can sustain is a systems problem. That is the work I do.