Harold Henke, Ph.D. is the principal consultant of Chartula and has worked in the computer industry for 23 years. His first job in the computer industry was as a student loading punch cards into an IBM computer (at that time, he did not know the difference between COBOL and a baseball). He has been active in the design and evaluation of distance education courses and programs for over 12 years and has been involved with electronic publishing since 1984.
He has been an Adjunct Professor at City University in Seattle, Washington, where he taught communication courses to "nontraditional" students and also developed technical training courses for Boeing and IBM. His has developed and taught online courses to students, world-wide. His work has included building relationships with other companies, world-wide, to jointly develop courses, for global deployment. He co-published an article: Factors Influencing Attrition in a Corporate Distance Education Program in the United States Distance Learning Association, Education at a Distance magazine. He also has presented papers on both eBooks and eLearning at conferences sponsored by the ACM and IEEE.
In addition to working in the field of distance education, he has also been a "nontraditional" student who completed his Masters at the University of Phoenix. He recently was a "distance education student" who completed his dissertation: A Study of the Use of Paper Book Metaphors in the Design of Electronic Books as partial fulfillment for a Doctorate of Computing Technology Education, Nova-Southeastern University.
He has published two books on electronic publishing: Electronic Books and ePublishing, BertelsmannSpringer and An Empirical Design for eBooks, Chartula Press.
While at IBM, he was the Integrated Product Development team leader for a corporate world-wide eBook project and published two patent disclosures:
- Methodology for Searching Adobe Acrobat Portable Data Format Files Based on Relevance. Originated July, 1999; published March, 2000
- Design of a Problem Determination Tool for Customer Support. Originated June, 1999; published February, 2000
He is also the Research Fellow for the Open eBook Forum where he conducts research to benefit the membership and those interested in electronic book technology. He has published two white papers for the OeBF: Consumer Survey on Electronic Books and Survey on Electronic Book Features.