[Athen] AT job Question

[Terry Thompson]

Hi Joe, 

That's a pretty extensive and high-end set of job responsibilities requiring
multiple specialized skill sets. How does the salary range compare with
other IT positions at Purdue? 

Terry  

Terry Thompson
Technology Specialist, DO-IT
University of Washington
tft at u.washington.edu
206/221-4168 
http://www.washington.edu/doit


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> [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Humbert, Joseph A

> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:26 AM

> To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

> Subject: [Athen] AT job Question

> 

> Hi all!

> 

> Is a salary range of 42,000 to 46,000 to low for this job?  It's in

> Indiana:

> 

>           The position of Adaptive Technology Specialist 

> supports all aspects of adaptive technology for students, 

> faculty and staff on their resident campus. Responsibilities 

> include but are not restricted to:

> 

> Oversee general operations of the Adaptive Technology Center 

> with limited on-site supervision. Perform testing, 

> installation, trouble shooting and maintenance of all 

> adaptive hardware and software including operating systems in 

> the Adaptive Technology Center and other campus locations. 

> Provide counseling with regard to appropriate adaptive 

> technology and training for students, faculty and staff who 

> need access to adaptive hardware or software. Develop 

> training on adaptive hardware

> and software - written, web-based and multimedia.   

> 

> Interpret, enforce and assist with development of operational 

> procedures for the Adaptive Technology Center. Prepare and 

> edit alternate media for clients of the Adaptive Technology 

> Center including electronic text, Braille and tactile 

> graphics. Maintain checkout system for loaner hardware and 

> software used by students, faculty and staff. Collect and 

> report on client usage data. Provide expert web development 

> including development and support of accessible web best 

> practices, accessible web-site development and maintenance 

> for the ATC web pages.  Develop, maintain and teach a web 

> accessibility best practices certification class. Lead the 

> functional and coding web accessibility testing project for 

> the [College] and [COLLEGE] campuses web sites.  Develop web 

> pages for the Adaptive Technology Center. Research, evaluate 

> and recommend new adaptive technology for the Adaptive 

> Technology Center.  Prepare and disseminate information about 

> the [COLLEGE] Adaptive Technology Center to various campus 

> units via advertising, print materials including brochures, 

> and meetings. Collaborate with campus Adaptive Education 

> Services on issues of technology and issues affecting 

> students, faculty and staff with special needs.  

> 

> Assist with general operations of the Adaptive Technology 

> Center (ATC) with limited on-site supervision Serve as 

> [COLLEGE] Adaptive Technology Center Program manager and Web 

> Developer.  Use expert, in-depth knowledge of all components 

> of PC and MAC operating systems, networking and complex 

> adaptive software, hardware for networked and standalone

> deployment of complex software licensing models.    Including Must

> provide multiplatform and operating system analysis for 

> application deployment; program analysis to determine how to 

> effectively deliver applications in very diverse operating 

> system environments; crisis management to ensure 

> uninterrupted services. Full and detailed knowledge of all 

> networking policies and procedures required to safely deploy 

> applications. testing, installation, trouble shooting and 

> maintenance of all adaptive hardware and software. 

> Develop/write detailed and complete training materials to 

> support clients using adaptive hardware and software. On a 

> case-by-case basis, analyze client need and recommend 

> adaptive technology that will best meet the special needs of 

> each client.  Develop and write up procedural documents for 

> the ATC client and adaptive technology workflow and operations. 

> 

>           Requires expert knowledge of server deployment, support and

> administration.   Expert knowledge of operating systems for PCs and

> MACs,  ghosting and image building, networking, and all 

> security best practices is required. Requires interpretation, 

> enforcement and modification of current operational 

> procedures for the ATC. Responsible for data gathering and 

> reporting for all ATC activities.  Ability to do database 

> programming required.  Analysis and implementation of the 

> following technologies required: 

> 

> -networking 

> 

> -database programming and administration

> 

> -all adaptive technologies and services

> 

> -operating systems 

> 

> -all aspects of network, workstation and laptop security  

> 

> Analysis of client needs, new and current adaptive 

> technologies needed to develop operational

> 

> planning for the ATC is required.

> 

> 

>   Develop all adaptive technology training and support for 

> students, faculty and staff.  Provide case specific 

> individual client counseling and training in use of adaptive 

> hardware and software.  Through

> 

>  programming with C#.net, Perl, MySQL, SQL Server, PHP, HTML, 

> CSS, SMIL, Dolphin Easy Publisher, VBScript create tools for 

> use with the alternate media production, database, work flow 

> support and web work of the ATC.

> Must have expert knowledge of the multimedia applications 

> like Macromedia, AVID  and Camtasia.  Develop with written 

> and multimedia components,  training on adaptive technologies 

> and services, ATC web content and conference materials for 

> adaptive technology. Create accessible web development 

> practices for use in accessible web trainings which will be 

> delivered by CD, video and the web. Develop and maintain the 

> database system for all ATC workflow including client 

> transactions, inventory and ATC workflow. 

> 

> Supervise [COLLEGE] ATC alternate media preparation for the campus.

> Prepare and edit alternate media for clients of the ATC.  

> Alternate media  includes but is not limited to all forms of 

> electronic text, Braille, tactile graphics, audio and 

> captioned videos. This requires knowledge of high-speed 

> scanning, several optical character recognition applications 

> and familiarity with Braille software and hardware.

> Knowledge of the production of tactile graphics also important.

> Meticulous editing of alternate media documents required; 

> attention to detail and excellent knowledge of MS Word required.

> 

>  Lead the ATC WEB Team. Develop and maintain the ATC web site 

> as a model of fully accessible, media rich web pages. Develop 

> and promote accessible web page best practices. 

> 

> Develop hands-on advanced accessible web page development 

> class.  Lead the ATC's web accessibility testing service for 

> the University. Through this service, web pages of [COLLEGE] 

> departments are evaluated for accessibility from both the 

> functional and coding perspective.

> [COLLEGE] Departments are provided with an accessibility 

> evaluation of their web pages along with suggestions for page 

> repair to bring the pages into compliance with [COLLEGE]'s 

> baseline accessibility standards.

> 

> 

>  Develop all [COLLEGE] publicity, outreach and teaching 

> modules related to the services of the ATC. Prepare and 

> disseminate information about the ATC to various campus units 

> via advertising including

> 

> but not limited to print materials including brochures, 

> fliers, newspaper articles, videos, etc. For specific 

> departments, prepare adaptive applications for delivery 

> through departmental computing labs, offices, etc. packaging 

> adaptive applications for delivery over a wide variety of 

> departments throughout the [COLLEGE] campus

> 

> Joe Humbert

> Assistive Technology Specialist

> Purdue University - ITaP - TLT

> Office: STEW 111

> Email: jhumbert at purdue.edu

> Phone: 765-494-4387

> 

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