Thomas Santarelli

Background

About Thomas Santarelli

Over 30 years of experience supporting academia, Gov/DoD, and commercial industry as a training, simulation, and EdTech professional. Highly experienced training technology professional with a passion for games and digital media development with an emphasis on AR/VR/MR. Experienced in managing multi-disciplinary teams to design, develop and deliver training and decision support applications. Experienced in developing winning proposals for novel digital learning systems, developing innovative products using standard Software Development Life-Cycle processes, and managing teams of professionals to develop, launch, and maintain web-based, classroom, mobile, AR/VR, and game-based training solutions.Widely-cited author with over 70 publications including journals, book-chapters, and presentations. My training and digital media work has been highlighted in media outlets such as Computer Gaming World and USA Today as well as peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, the Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, and the Journal of Virtual Reality. Specialties: AR/VR, translating complex user and training requirements into system design specifications, instructional design and eLearning tools, managing interdisciplinary teams, providing technical leadership and oversight for complex engineering and training projects, and government collaboration and relations management.