Ronald "Skip" Cole
Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic
Distance Learning | Education | Information and Communication Technologies | Training for Peace
Phone: (202) 429-4717
E-mail: scole@usip.org
Ronald Cole joined Institute’s Professional Training program early in 2006 as an instructional technologist. He helps deliver
important instructional content developed at the Institute to the world via technology. Cole has extensive experience in the field of simulation, both in content and technology. He has developed molecular dynamics simulations and simulations of businesses and business decision-making processes. He is a Sun-certified enterprise architect, programmer, and developer. Cole is also an Oracle-certified database associate.
He was a nuclear reactor operator in the U.S. Navy, has worked for a number of private-sector firms (including Arthur Andersen), and has teaching experience.
He has a B.S. in biophysics from the University of Connecticut, a master’s in biophysics and computational biology from the University of Illinois, and a master’s in global management from the University of Phoenix.
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