Technology Professional, and Scholar-Practitioner from a Social Change Perspective in Educational Technology and Instructional Design. My research interests focus on teachers’ technology training as a sound venue for teachers’ technology competency and students’ successful academic performance in the classroom of the 21st Century, promoting Lifelong Learning, Bridging the Digital Divide, and the pursuit of knowledge as a key driver to authentic liberty and genuine happiness. And We Shall Know and We Shall be Free, and We Shall be Happy.

I started academic life in 1964 at École Sainte Croix in Leogane (Haiti) where I completed my primary education in 1971. I then completed Secondary and High School studies at College Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) in 1978, obtained my bachelor’s degree in computer science at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, in 1989, acquired the master’s degree in technology management at Columbia University (New York City) in 2009, and obtained the EDS Degree in Educational Technology at Walden University in 2020. On June 14, 2024, I successfully defended my dissertation thesis, Exploring Teachers’ Lived Experiences Teaching Online in the Wake of COVID-19: A Phenomenological Study, for the Ph.D. Degree in Instructional Design at National University. Currently, I am seeking to develop professional competency in Artificial Intelligence through MIT Professional Education with the program “No Code AI & Machine Learning”.

Professionally, I have been in Information Technology for over thirty years performing as a Computer Science student, Computer Labs Manager, Computer Field Service Engineer, Programmer Analyst, Programming and Computer Applications Instructor, Technology Consultant, and Application Systems Developer. After a three-year career in Haiti as a Fiscal Inspector with the Finance Ministry of the Republic of Haiti, I immigrated to the United States in August 1982 where I worked a diversity of odd jobs before starting my new career in the Information Technology field as a Programmer with Watts 800 Inc., in Evansville, Indiana, United States, in 1991. I have worked for a variety of commercial and academic institutions including Watts 800 Inc., Indiana Vocational Technical College, the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Suffolk Community College, Carlson Precast Inc., Medical Manager Corporation-Northeast, and The Career Center Inc. in Manhattan, New York. After 23 years of service, I retired in 2019 as an Application Systems Developer from Columbia University. I am fluent in speaking, reading, and writing English, French, and Haitian Creole with a working knowledge of Spanish

I subscribe to the constructivism and connectivism learning theories and nurture special interests in Online Teaching and Learning, Open-Source Technologies, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Academic Return on Investments in Educational Technology, Just-in-time Teaching, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Lifelong Learning, the Digital Divide, and ultimately Teachers’ Technology Training as a reliable venue to Teachers’ Technology Competency and thereby Students Academic Performance in the classroom of the 21st Century.

This website, www.DoctorVermeille.com, is aiming at hosting my digital portfolio, and scholarly leanings, and providing insights into my academic and professional endeavors. My motto is: Yes, with Education and Technology, tomorrow will be better and brighter than yesterday. My take on knowledge: The more we selflessly share what we know, the more abundantly we will know it. My core beliefs can be framed as, And We Shall Know, And We Shall Be Happy, And We Shall Be Free.