Speaker Introduction

Mederick Woods, B.S. is currently working as a Programmer Analyst in the Department of Interactive Video Services at The University of Texas Health Science Center Office of Academic Computing.  He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Houston. His interest in computing began as a hobby and was developed through undergraduate programming courses.  He joined the staff of the Educational Computing Department at The University of Texas Houston Medical School in 1998.   Mederick assisted in the development and maintenance of the medical school’s computerized grading and course evaluation system and database before moving on to work with Dr. Stephen Fath on Internet based video conferencing and streaming media. Mr. Woods’ first involvement with multimedia was a pilot project for streaming live and archived audio of the first and second year medical student lectures.  Later as funds became available through a series of grants, the program was expanded to include live and archived video of all medical school undergraduate lectures, grand rounds for several clinical departments, and capture of special lectures and other events important to the Health Science Center community.  Mederick is currently producing system documentation, installing new video systems, training new users, scheduling conferences and maintaining our website.