Combined our team has almost 100 years of educational experience! Our team is here to work with designers and instructors to share Yellowdig best practices and pedagogy. Bob Ertischek is the Head of Client Success at Yellowdig. Prior to coming to Yellowdig, Bob founded and led Profology, a professional development community for higher education instructors. He also taught political science classes and worked as an instructional technologist/faculty developer. Janeen Galligan has worked as an instructor of Communication for over twenty years. Her experience includes working with non-profit, private, and educational organizations as an educator, course designer, computer system support specialist, computer systems trainer, and project manager. Debra Olberding completed her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She was an instructor in the Masters of Art of Education Program and an Educational Technologist.

Brian Verdine is Yellowdig’s Vice President of Academic Product Engagement. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, where he was appointed and continues to be an Affiliated Assistant Professor. His research background involves learning from technology and informal-learning activities. In addition to overseeing student support, in his position at Yellowdig he mines data from instructors and Yellowdig’s platform to understand how Yellowdig can be applied best and to help manage product development that improves student and instructor outcomes.