<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: large;">Management Team</span></strong></span>

John Ramo, M.Ed. is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Directions. Mr. Ramo has over 25 years experience in educational technology and distance learning. Mr. Ramo founded and built a successful Washington D.C.-based, educational software company in 1979, and engineered a profitable IPO in 1997 on the NASDAQ. He is an award-winning producer of educational multimedia software for clients such as The Smithsonian Institute, Philips Media, Simon &amp; Schuster, Jean Michel Cousteau and Jodie Foster. He received a large grant from the National Science Foundation and worked with the American Association for the Advancement of Science to develop the first multimedia encyclopedia of the environment “Earth Explorer” for middle school students. Mr. Ramo is a former Special Ed Teacher. He holds a Masters in Education; fellowship awarded from American University.
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Barbara Freeman, M.B.A. is Chief Operating Officer and HELP Project Director. Ms Freeman currently sits on Colorado’s English Language Acquisition/No Child Left Behind Policy Advisory Council and is an advisor to the Colorado Mentoring Institute for Latino Leaders. It is from Ms. Freeman’s initial research that the HELP concept and program was created. Ms. Freeman has over 25 years of domestic and international experience in risk management and technology consulting, research and analysis, and business development. She has managed global client engagements and implementation teams on projects valued up to $40 million and affecting 5,000 employees, and created sustainable businesses for Blue Chip clients and government agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Ms. Freeman started her career on Wall Street. She holds an M.B.A. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Change at Fielding Graduate University, California.
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Linda Hardman brings over 25 years of educational publishing experience (both textbooks and technology products) to the Digital Directions team.  She has proven leadership developing and designing award-winning, high quality and innovative products.  Linda is a proven leader in content development strategies and implementations to engage students, to provide learning environments that inspire, to provide learning environments that enable students to learn, and to provide successful learning paths for students. 
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Linda’s work experience includes Vice President of Math Product Development for Harcourt Achieve, Vice President and Publisher (Science, Technology, Mathematics, & Medical) for ProQuest, Vice President of Business Development & Special Projects for Cogito Learning Media, Vice President of Educational Technology for Prentice Hall.
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Reena Rotz, B.A. – is Digital Directions’ Lead Project Manager.  Ms. Rotz has over 15 years of experience in project management, starting her career at EDS (Electronic Data Systems) working in Sales Support, then project management, working primarily on software and website development projects.   Ms. Rotz currently oversees all DDI’s quality control and new product development.
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