Q2 Learning.com

About Q2 Learning

At Q2 Learning, we are in the readiness business, helping organizations in rapidly changing, information intensive industries achieve competitive advantage by ensuring their workforce has the knowledge and skills they need today, and the ability to learn what they need tomorrow.

We believe that the majority of training today replicates the worst practices of education electronically: lecture and multiple-choice questions.

We believe that learning technology vendors can do better, should do better, and must to better to add value to our customers.

We believe that 21st century learning technologies should empower learning professionals to bring a complete solution set to their customers.

We believe that this should include traditional training events, but also proficiency-based learning processes, coaching and mentoring, communities of practice, and performance support systems – to fully support formal, informal, and just-in-time learning.

We believe that learning solutions involve people, process, and technology.

We believe that agile vendors who can bring the A-team and the A-Game to their customers can and should stand ready to help their customers with all three solution elements.

We believe in the power of online learning and collaboration.

That’s why we’ve developed the Q2 Learning System 6, and the complete set of services to support its adoption.

That’s why since our establishment in 2001, we’ve operated as a totally distributed company, using our own software as our work team center, bringing together our staff from six US states, two Canadian provinces, and offshore in China.

Meet the Q2 Team

Bill Bruck, Ph.D.
Principal

Valerie Bock,
Technical Services Lead

Dennis Shi,
Lead Developer

Bill Bruck, Ph.D., Principal

Since 2001 Bill Bruck has been the lead solutions architect for Q2 Learning, of which he is a founder. He designed the Q2 Learning System technology and end-to-end methodology that has been used in deploying over a hundred blended learning solutions for Fortune 500 corporations. Bill comes from Academia, where he was a tenured full professor of psychology and director of institutional research at Marymount University, where he designed a system for assessing institutional effectiveness that was cited as an exemplar during re-accreditation by the Southeastern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS). Bill has written over a dozen books on the effective use of technology, which have been translated into five languages. He serves as a luminary for media and industry relations, and provides keynotes internationally on collaboration technologies and their impact on organizations. His accomplishments have been recognized by his listing in Marquis Who's Who in America.

Valerie Bock, Technical Services Lead

Valerie Bock worked previously as a consultant and trainer for not-for-profit, educational, medical, manufacturing and financial organizations. Past engagements include work with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Howard Rheingold Associates, Illinois State Board of Education, Decatur Community Partnership and Chrysler Corporation. She was a corporate lending officer for Maryland National Bank and the Northern Trust Bank. Ms. Bock has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dennis Shi, Lead Developer

Dennis has seventeen years of experience building Web-based management systems for a variety of industries. His expertise lies within the areas of software programming, system analysis, architecture design and enterprise application integration. He is the J2EE architect and lead developer of the Q2 Learning System. He has been using various technologies to build web applications since 1996, with a special focus on J2EE architecture in multi-tier distributed environments.

Holding BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dennis is a Sun certified J2EE architect, web component and business component developer. He is also a WebMethods certified professional and conversant with its system integration solutions.