John M. Morris holds bi-coastal positions within Drexel University. At Drexel's Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies he is the Chief Technical Officer and Director of Operations. In Philadelphia he is the Director of Academic Technology Innovation for the Office of Information Resources and Technology (IRT). In 1992, he joined Drexel University as the Director of the Architectural Engineering program and was responsible for Drexel's first online courses and interactive classrooms. In 2000 he moved to IRT to champion and institutionalize web-based education and technology use in the classroom. Specializing in appropriate use of technology and "Best Practices," he designed the high-tech classrooms in Drexel's Korman Computing Center and extended those designs to the Sacramento campus. His Philadelphia based Web Group is responsible for DragonDrop, an award winning web-based content capture and deployment application. He current manages the graduate facility and technology.