In his role as Board President of CEdMA he champions the continuous quest of the Association's vision to be the vendor force shaping excellence in education, training and learning.

Mr. Hodgins has three main charters:

First - He defines the vision for diverse and "virtual" Autodesk teams that direct such programs as; Learning Resources, Instructor Development, Learning Transfer, Certification and Testing. In 1996 these programs provided the resources, training and support for over ten thousand teachers, trainers and instructors and over three million learners worldwide.

Second - Mr. Hodgins is responsible for the "Learnability" Research & Development of Autodesk software products. He provides the vision, leadership and overall direction for all aspects that influence the learning and resultant productivity of Autodesk customers. This includes such issues as documentation, learning environments, learning architectures, computer aided learning, online tutorials, online "help", Computer Based Training (CBT), Distance Learning, Internet Based Training (IBT), and the software features that directly influence learning such as wizards, menu structures, program logic flow, intelligent agent technology, and search engines.

Third - Mr. Hodgins works externally sharing his vision, and providing technical direction, expertise and application guidance for such groups as teachers, industry, customers and governments throughout the world. He is a highly sought after speaker and advisor. His constant travels take him worldwide to contribute strategic future thinking to key officials in government, industry, education and training.

In recent years Mr. Hodgins has typically made over 100 presentations, keynote addresses and workshops per year worldwide. These presentations focus on a range of topics which include the future of education, learning technology impacts, skill standards, cognitive domain research, usability, learnability, design automation, Computer Automated Design and Manufacture, Web Based Training, Learning Architecture & Learning Object standards, Learning in the 21^st Century, and virtual reality.

Mr. Hodgins sits on advisory boards for many industry and government task forces, commissions and associations in Canada, USA, Latin America, Asia and Europe and is fequently sought out to lead major industry wide task forces. Recent ones include the Certified Technical Trainer (CTT) program that has been adopted by hardware and software vendors and the professional training community as the standard for assessing instructional skills in technical training; and the "Learning API and Learning Object" (LALO) task force which sets standards for skills, learning objects and learning architecture. Most recently he was unanimously elected as Chair of the IEEE P 1484 Standards Working Group for Learning Object Metadata.

Mr. Hodgins is also sought after for articles, white papers and other publications on topics ranging from increasing corporate productivity to future learning trends.

Mr. Hodgins was heavily recruited from Vancouver, B.C. Canada, to join Autodesk in 1988. Prior to that he had spent almost 15 years in secondary, post secondary and industry education as a teacher, lecturer, department head, trainer counselor and principal. He has lived and worked internationally. His recognitions include the 1988 Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher award, three consecutive "Kentucky Colonel" award (the highest honor awarded by the Governor of the State of Kentucky), the 1995 Information Technology Training Association (ITTA) "Champion" award for outstanding contributions to the Information Technology industry and the appointment as World Expert in Computer Aided Design by the International Youth Skill Olympics.

Mr. Hodgins lives with his wife Diana, daughter Lia (I2) and son Skyler (10) in Petaluma California, north of San Francisco.

Autodesk Inc. is the fourth largest PC Software Company in the world. With headquarters in San Rafael California, it is the worlds leading supplier of software technology for the design automation and visualization industry. See www.autodesk.com and www.ktx.com for more information on Autodesk

CEdMA is an association of the Directors and Managers in the training, learning and education departments of worldwide hardware and software manufacturers. The mission of CEdMA is to be the hardware/software vendor force shaping excellence in education, training, and learning. See www.cedma.org for more information on CEdMA

IEEE LTSC is the Institute for Electrical & Electronic Engineers Learning Technology Standards Committee which is developing fully accredited, open, international de jure standards for such areas as Learning Object Metadata, Computer Managed Instruction, Student Profiling. See www.manta.ieee.org/p1484 for more information.