Jackie Carter - Senior Manager at Mimas

I am the director of the Jorum service at the Mimas data centre.

Louise Egan - Communications Officer

Louise Egan has led in Jorum reaching new and existing users through many online and offline communication tools, such as blogs, videos, newsletters, many Web2.0 tools and events. She also had a pivotal role in the Jorum visual identity. Her main focus is collecting stories about users of Jorum and promoting content for use and reuse. The future will involve Louise working more closely with the Mimas marketing team.

If you have any stories about Jorum or your resources, please contact: louise.egan@manchester.ac.uk

Nicola Siminson - Community Enhancement Officer

Nicola Siminson is a tremendous advocate for Jorum and has focused efforts on the requirements of the UKOER programme. She is also an accomplished influencer. Her role has required her to attend many key events, presenting to new and existing audiences, often tackling difficult questions. Nicola also now works part time for NoWAL, which involves her finding new ways to develop the service and widening access to libraries. She has a particular interest in Information Literacy and sits on the RIN Information handling group.

Yogesh Patel - Mimas software developer

Yogesh Patel is an award winning software developer. Yogesh is involved with the design, implementation and maintenance of Mimas services and projects. He also works on cross-services implementation and support of core technologies, and is currently specialising in Linked Data.

Laura Shaw - Senior Development Officer

Laura Shaw, the Service Manager is well known across the teaching and learning community, initiated the Jorum competition, and has a strong background in learning technology and project management. She has strong working relationships with the Director, current Jorum Team, other relevant Mimas staff and the external community.

Matt Ramirez - Technical Support

Matt Ramirez, has previously worked on the Jorum project, and will cover the 2nd line support. He is fantastic at user support and provides the support for Hairdressing Training service and technical support for the Hair.Net EU project.

Technical Lead - vacant

Sarah Currier - Technical Coordinator (R&D Projects)

Sarah has a library background, and emigrated to Scotland from New Zealand in 1997. She now commutes between Glasgow and Manchester, bringing to Mimas extensive experience in educational content management, including research & development, JISC programme support, interoperability, agile software product management, and service delivery. Immediately prior to joining Mimas in December 2011, Sarah ran her own consultancy for three years, with a varied portfolio including projects on open science, agile metadata management, data skills development, and the use of social media in supporting educational communities of practice. Sarah now coordinates Jorum’s R&D projects, including the JLeRN Experiment.

Steve Smith is Jorum's Educational Technologist. His role is to actively seek collaborative opportunities, and to encourage the whole of the post 16 sector to share open educational resources (OER).

A lecturer in Business Studies and Management by trade, he cut his e-learning teeth as an e-learning manager in a busy Sixth Form and FE College, introducing staff in 1998 to the Internet and to the first popular VLEs!

His abiding passion for open educational resources started when he lead a 14 college consortium in 2000, which met to develop and share digital teaching resources around the network. In 2007, he used Jorum as a platform to encourage 26 other institutions to develop and share learning objects, this in turn encouraged them to make the most of e-learning.

Steve welcomes any opportunity to meet with like minded managers and practitioners to discuss the importance of sharing OER.

Frank Manista - Community Enhancement Officer

Frank Manista, comes to us from CEEBL at the University of Manchester and the Open University where he is a lecturer at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Frank brings an academic background and considerable teaching and learning experience to the team and thus valuable insight from the educators’ perspective that will inform our academic engagement tactics.

Dr. Ben Ryan joined Jorum as the Technical Development Manager early in 2012, coming from the University of Leeds. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science, he’s worked as a Software Developer and consultant for a specialised typesetting and printing company, focusing on automated workflows for the production of printed and online academic journals an Ed tech working on LOM metadata, learning objects and specifications relating to electronic learning production and delivery; a technical director of a company developing delivery systems for online learning, as well as a Technical Officer for an ESRC funded qualitative longitudinal social science project responsible for achiving social science data. Ben is also an allotmenteer, fungalist, pizza oven pimper and specialist in building Heath Robinson style greenhouses.

Steven Cook - Mimas Development Officer (Jorum Website and Training)

Steven Cook is a fairly new member to the team. Steven brings insight from a developer perspective, particularly around how Jorum content can be repurposed through APIs and lightweight applications. His experience and knowledge of web development has been gained from working in both the public and private sectors. Previous work includes development of the MAG international website and a Geo blogging tool. He brings energy and fantastic ideas that led the development of the widgets that have been so well received by the community. He enjoys attending hack-days and engaging with like-minded developers.