Carl Taylor
Instructor at Westwood College Dallas- Claim this Profile
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Dwight T.
I would like to recommend Carl Taylor as an outstanding Information Technology Instructor. I have personally witnessed several students request to sit in his class after successfully completing the same course at a different college. The students have told me that Mr. Taylor has a way of teaching that helps them understand even some of the most difficult concepts. Mr. Taylor has a desire to see students succeed and appreciates the importance of hard work and commitment. It is an honor to work alongside of him and to understand the ideals that set him apart from other teachers in our field. Expect good things when working with Mr. Taylor, because he will definitely expect them from you.
Jake Thomas
As a student at Westwood College I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Taylor for the past year. I have to say he was one of the first instructors I met at Westwood, and is also one of the best. They say knowledge is not knowing a lot about one thing, but rather knowing one thing about a lot of things. I believe Mr. Taylor is comprised of this concept and does well to distribute his knowledge amongst all his students. I have learned a lot through each course, and with that I know it will help me to further my education and degree. He is an excellent teacher with a lot of wisdom and full of compassion. He stops the lesson every so often to make sure everyone is performing at par. As he will tell you, his method of teaching how to sub-net is so easy it should be its own infomercial. I am proud to have Mr. Taylor as an instructor and strongly encourage this endorsement to anyone in his consideration towards anything he may pursue. Sincerely, Jake Thomas
Dwight T.
I would like to recommend Carl Taylor as an outstanding Information Technology Instructor. I have personally witnessed several students request to sit in his class after successfully completing the same course at a different college. The students have told me that Mr. Taylor has a way of teaching that helps them understand even some of the most difficult concepts. Mr. Taylor has a desire to see students succeed and appreciates the importance of hard work and commitment. It is an honor to work alongside of him and to understand the ideals that set him apart from other teachers in our field. Expect good things when working with Mr. Taylor, because he will definitely expect them from you.
Jake Thomas
As a student at Westwood College I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Taylor for the past year. I have to say he was one of the first instructors I met at Westwood, and is also one of the best. They say knowledge is not knowing a lot about one thing, but rather knowing one thing about a lot of things. I believe Mr. Taylor is comprised of this concept and does well to distribute his knowledge amongst all his students. I have learned a lot through each course, and with that I know it will help me to further my education and degree. He is an excellent teacher with a lot of wisdom and full of compassion. He stops the lesson every so often to make sure everyone is performing at par. As he will tell you, his method of teaching how to sub-net is so easy it should be its own infomercial. I am proud to have Mr. Taylor as an instructor and strongly encourage this endorsement to anyone in his consideration towards anything he may pursue. Sincerely, Jake Thomas
Dwight T.
I would like to recommend Carl Taylor as an outstanding Information Technology Instructor. I have personally witnessed several students request to sit in his class after successfully completing the same course at a different college. The students have told me that Mr. Taylor has a way of teaching that helps them understand even some of the most difficult concepts. Mr. Taylor has a desire to see students succeed and appreciates the importance of hard work and commitment. It is an honor to work alongside of him and to understand the ideals that set him apart from other teachers in our field. Expect good things when working with Mr. Taylor, because he will definitely expect them from you.
Jake Thomas
As a student at Westwood College I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Taylor for the past year. I have to say he was one of the first instructors I met at Westwood, and is also one of the best. They say knowledge is not knowing a lot about one thing, but rather knowing one thing about a lot of things. I believe Mr. Taylor is comprised of this concept and does well to distribute his knowledge amongst all his students. I have learned a lot through each course, and with that I know it will help me to further my education and degree. He is an excellent teacher with a lot of wisdom and full of compassion. He stops the lesson every so often to make sure everyone is performing at par. As he will tell you, his method of teaching how to sub-net is so easy it should be its own infomercial. I am proud to have Mr. Taylor as an instructor and strongly encourage this endorsement to anyone in his consideration towards anything he may pursue. Sincerely, Jake Thomas
Dwight T.
I would like to recommend Carl Taylor as an outstanding Information Technology Instructor. I have personally witnessed several students request to sit in his class after successfully completing the same course at a different college. The students have told me that Mr. Taylor has a way of teaching that helps them understand even some of the most difficult concepts. Mr. Taylor has a desire to see students succeed and appreciates the importance of hard work and commitment. It is an honor to work alongside of him and to understand the ideals that set him apart from other teachers in our field. Expect good things when working with Mr. Taylor, because he will definitely expect them from you.
Jake Thomas
As a student at Westwood College I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Taylor for the past year. I have to say he was one of the first instructors I met at Westwood, and is also one of the best. They say knowledge is not knowing a lot about one thing, but rather knowing one thing about a lot of things. I believe Mr. Taylor is comprised of this concept and does well to distribute his knowledge amongst all his students. I have learned a lot through each course, and with that I know it will help me to further my education and degree. He is an excellent teacher with a lot of wisdom and full of compassion. He stops the lesson every so often to make sure everyone is performing at par. As he will tell you, his method of teaching how to sub-net is so easy it should be its own infomercial. I am proud to have Mr. Taylor as an instructor and strongly encourage this endorsement to anyone in his consideration towards anything he may pursue. Sincerely, Jake Thomas
Experience
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Westwood College - Denver North
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United States
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Education Management
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor
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2002 - Present
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Instructor
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Oct 2002 - Jan 2012
I worked on council for determining instructional directions, policies, and procedures for the college. I acted as CNE Program Director for 2 years producing instructional materials, testing materials, and have delivered over 5000 hours of stand-up lecture / hands-on training in various subject areas including: A+ PC Certification Preparation, Intro to Cisco Networking, Intro to UNIX, UNIX System Administration, Windows 2003 Server, Server 2003 Active Directory, and Successful Career Strategies, Computer Applications (teaching MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint), C++ programming, data structure, + work in HTML/ website design. I served as a Curriculum Committee officer for the Computer Network Engineering program supporting 17 campuses. Show less
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Director of Development
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Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
Managed 10 full-time and contract development personnel on course analysis/design projects. Assisted CEO with initial budget and business analysis for company. Personally developed and implemented policies and procedures for training and task analysis, design and development, and production of all training materials for classified government courses, such as CALEA on DMS-10, Telecom and Switching, & SL-100 switching. Managed 10 full-time and contract development personnel on course analysis/design projects. Assisted CEO with initial budget and business analysis for company. Personally developed and implemented policies and procedures for training and task analysis, design and development, and production of all training materials for classified government courses, such as CALEA on DMS-10, Telecom and Switching, & SL-100 switching.
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SL-100 Emergency Technical Assistance Support (ETAS) Engineer
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Jan 1997 - Jan 2001
Provided 24-hour /7-day per week technical advice and problem solving support to SL-100 digital switch customers on all Northern Telecom hardware, firmware, and software products and applications.Solved problems with customer's SL-100 switching systems, tested and researched various problem scenarios, and reported results to customers and management.Served as on-call support for customer SL-100 sites during software and hardware upgrades, and during real-time (dynamic) software patching operations. Show less
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Senior Instructional Designer
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Jan 1991 - Jan 2001
Developed technical documentation on wireless products, performed subject/training analyses, developed courses/materials, and taught courses to internal/external clients. Mentored peer personnel, assisted management, and delivered informal seminars on course analysis/design methodologies. Developed documentation and/or training for wireless telecommunications/cellular telephony products:Produced documentation and lecture training materials, using FrameMaker, supporting Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) products, including: Personal Number Service, Voice Mail Callback, Wireless Voice Activated Dialing, Group Conferencing Service supporting multi-million dollar contracts and revenue.Delivered critical course instruction / supported installation of WVAD system in; Produced documentation supporting GPRS / EDGE / UMTS projects.Produced lecture materials teaching OSI model, in general, and specifically TCP/UDP and IP protocols. Show less
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Nortel Networks
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Instructional Designer
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Jan 1991 - Jan 1994
Responsible for developing training analysis, courses and supporting training materials, and leading classroom instruction teaching engineers and technicians in various land-line based telephony, PBX switching products. Produced installation/maintenance courses on ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) for Meridian 1 Options 11-81 PBX telephone switches with X.25 Packet Data exercises. Redesigned Basic Alternate Route Selection and Network Alternate Route Selection courses. Designed, scripted, storyboarded, and directed video shoots to co-produce series of instructional videotapes on ISDN BRI as classroom learning resource materials. Show less
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System Software Senior Technical Writer
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Jan 1988 - Jan 1991
Produced supporting documentation, with graphics, for IBM OS/2 Plotter Driver. Produced illustrated documentation for Mirrors Windows to Presentation Manager Porting Tool product, enabling MGX to be first on the market to port Windows applications to the OS/2 platform. Researched, wrote, and published 600 page Structured Graphics Toolkit library. Produced supporting documentation, with graphics, for IBM OS/2 Plotter Driver. Produced illustrated documentation for Mirrors Windows to Presentation Manager Porting Tool product, enabling MGX to be first on the market to port Windows applications to the OS/2 platform. Researched, wrote, and published 600 page Structured Graphics Toolkit library.
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IVD/CBT Task Analyst / Courseware Designer
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Jan 1987 - Jan 1988
IVD /Computer-Based Training (CBT) Task Analyst / Courseware Designer (Secret clearance required) Designed Interactive Video Disk CBT scripts and storyboards to teach maintenance on the hydraulics, electrical, environmental control, and other on-board systems of the B1-B bomber aircraft for the Strategic Air Command, 436 IVD /Computer-Based Training (CBT) Task Analyst / Courseware Designer (Secret clearance required) Designed Interactive Video Disk CBT scripts and storyboards to teach maintenance on the hydraulics, electrical, environmental control, and other on-board systems of the B1-B bomber aircraft for the Strategic Air Command, 436
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Training Specialist /Instructional Analyst and Designer/ CBT Author/Programmer/Project Lead
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Jan 1982 - Jan 1986
Produced CBT courses, and assisted in maintaining over 50 on-line mainframe CBT courses teaching various IBM mainframe computing end-user concepts and products, using high-level programming. Produced, developed training materials for, and taught professional and managerial level seminars. Served as back-up RACF IBM mainframe Data Security Specialist and Coordinator. Produced CBT courses, and assisted in maintaining over 50 on-line mainframe CBT courses teaching various IBM mainframe computing end-user concepts and products, using high-level programming. Produced, developed training materials for, and taught professional and managerial level seminars. Served as back-up RACF IBM mainframe Data Security Specialist and Coordinator.
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instructional designer
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1982 - 1986
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Dallas Independent School District
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Programmer/Analyst, and Instructional Technology Programming Group Supervisor
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Jan 1979 - Jan 1982
Supervised staff of six computer programmers for the Instructional Technology Group, responsible for implementing CBT course designs in computer firmware and software formats. Programmed CBT courses in GPL assembler code using Interactive Audio Disk and other voice synthesis, and computer graphics technologies, which taught reading, mathematics, and pattern recognition skills to kindergarten through eighth grade students in simple video game like formats. Developed Voice Synthesis technologies for Texas Instruments under a non-disclosure agreement. Developed videotapes teaching the GPL assembler programming language to programming staff. Show less
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Education
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1976 - 1979
Texas A&M University-Commerce
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University of Phoenix
Masters, Education: Curriculum/Instructional Design -
University of Phoenix
Master's degree, Education; Curriculum and Instructional Design -
East Texas State University
BS, Computer Science -
Westwood College
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