Robert H. Rouda
Simulation Software
946 Lydia Drive
Roseville, MN 55113-1924
Specializing in Instructional Systems Design and Technology
for Individuals and Organizations
- Excellence in systematic instructional design
- Applying technology to improve the efficacy of training
- Individual development planning
- Needs assessment by individuals using 360-degree feedback
- Development of personal learning strategies and plans
- Setting individual instructional goals and objectives
- Integrating individual development into organizational systems
Services Provided
- Instructional systems design
- Applications of computer and
communications technology to instruction
- Individual needs assessment and
instructional development planning
- Organization development
- Large-scale, real-time change management
- Development of learning organizations
- Strategic planning; needs assessment; program evaluation
- Delivery of training
- Software development and training
- Internet, E-mail
- HTML and web page design and coding
- UNIX systems
- Windows/DOS and applications
- Application software design and coding
- Technical writing
Special Skills
- Interpersonal relations -- focus on customer technical and personal service
- Leadership and management -- university engineering programs; industrial support foundations; professional associations
- Professionalism -- active leader in professional societies and contributor to the pulp and paper engineering and training professions
- Technical engineering ability -- paper industry process analysis
- Instructional design and presentation -- ability to make complex material understandable for industrial training and university education
- Diligence and tenacity -- high energy level, goal oriented, constantly striving for and achieving excellence in academic, work, and family life
Areas of Expertise
- Instructional systems design
- Organizational and individual needs assessment
- Organization development; change management; large-group organizational change
- Pulp and paper technology
- Applied chemical engineering; science and mathematics fundamentals and industrial applications
- Statistical experimental design; applications to quality control
- Internet use for distance education, communications, networking, and information retrieval
Experience in this Field
- Instructional design projects - needs assessment, design and development of several recent training workshops (1994-present)
- Change management projects and internships -- Research Assistant, University of St. Thomas (1994-present)
- Facilitation, planning and logistical support -- design, development and facilitation of several large-scale, real-time strategic change interventions
- Professor and Director, Paper Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (1985-95)
- Professor of Paper Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI (1974-85)
- Instructional Systems Design and Training -- courses developed and presented for manufacturing organizations, professional organizations, and universities
Selected Clients
- Organization Development -- Belden-Hyatt; Jerry's Printing and Design; Mobius Inc.;OD Corp.; Seventh
American Forest Congress; Twin City Die Castings Company; University of St. Thomas
- Training and Development -- APPITA (Australasian Pulp and Paper Industry Technical Association);
Applied Process Technology, Ltd.; Boise Cascade Corporation; Bowater Paper Company; Fadum
Enterprises; Hamline University Career Development Center; IBM; Marathon Engineering; Niagara of Wisconsin Paper
Company; PIMA (Paper
Industry Management Association); Potlatch; Procter and Gamble; TAPPI (Technical Association of
the Pulp and Paper Industry); Tasman Paper Company; and several universities
- Pulp and Paper Process Engineering -- Consolidated Papers; Minnesota Office of Waste
Management; Nekoosa Papers; Tasman Paper Company; Weyerhaeuser Company
- Software for Paper Industry Flowsheet Analysis -- FlowCalc (FLOWsheet CALCulation) program
with clients in over 50 organizations in 16 states and 7 countries
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Last update 12/31/96.