Peter's Professional Areas
Education Management | Interactive Development | New Media Education
Education Technology Management
RECENT > Dominican University of California (full-time) | USF (audit)
dominican.edu
Peter Mentzer, MSEd. Director of Web Services at Dominican University of California. Develops academic, marketing and operational strategy. Facilitates technological change and growth across the institution.
Manages all online services, including the public website for the university, the student portals and learning systems, the faculty-staff intranet, and the university-wide portal system.
Consults with peer institutions and vendors to improve effectiveness of their online campaigns and services. Holds a Master of Science degree in Education with an emphasis in Instruction Technology.
- Strategy and Systems Administration
- Content Management Systems
- Portal Technologies
- Web Development Frameworks
- Custom Application Development
Interactive Design & Development
RECENT > greenwebservice.com (design) | playdogplay.com (design/dev)
greenwebservice.com
Designs and develops interactive websites, animations and applications. Provides business development and marketing consulting.
Specializes in standards-compliant, simple, elegant solutions.
Brings over 10 years experience in design, art direction and creative direction from prior work in advertising and marketing agencies. Works with teams of copywriters, photographers and production artists as needed to realize projects.
- PHP, Custom Apps, Zend Framework
- ASP.NET, Custom Solutions, Sharepoint, Reporting Services
- Python, Zope, Plone
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails
- Flash, J2EE, JS, CSS, Standards Comliance HTML & XML
New Media Education
RECENT > Dream Waterfall Project (instruction)
Dream Waterfall (instruction)
5 years experience teaching new media to university students. Courses include: website design and development, graphic design, digital art, 3d modeling and animation, directed study and senior theses.
Most recent: The Dream Waterfall Project. Students worked collaboratively with traditional and digital tools to create a physical representation of their personal, image-based dreamscapes.
- Interactive Design
- Graphic Design
- New Media Art
- 3D and Animation
