Bill has served the CATS organization and its members since the day it began and helped plan the first conference. His enthusiasm and creativity played a large part in bringing the CATS community to life, and he's been an active member of CATS ever since.

His valuable conference contributions have included facilitating presenting and facilitating panels discussions that bring forward new ideas that help our community prosper. He’s hosted a conference at his campus and has provided streaming support. He also initiated a formal vendor program that helps fund the attendance of an additional 23 participants each year.

Finally, Bill was the first chair of the CATS Executive Council and used his organizational savvy and maturity to guide the council in its formative year. His selfless dedication to CATS and willingness to serve, combined with his outgoing personality and sense of humor, has made a big difference for all of us.

And he does this in addition to his "day job" as Chico's Manager of Distributed Learning Technologies, where he oversees delivery of live Internet distance education courses as well as the "care and feeding" of Chico's WebCT and streaming applications and servers. His passion for deploying new technologies in the academic environment is being realized in his other role as technical Project Manager for Chico's enterprise deployment of WebCT Vista. When he's not working, Bill enjoys being a devoted husband and father of four, and playing the trombone.