Manager's Experience

For 21 years in New Mexico and nationally, Bill continues being a practitioner in assistive and rehabilitation technology services, and has been an administator as well as a program developer for persons of all ages with disabilities.

• ARA-NM Services Provided 1995-1996; 2000-present:
  • Rehabilitation technology services including 408 VR cases with NMDVR;
  • 35 students with Kemtah Group (an IT training and job placement company in 2000);
  • Facility accessibility services with 9 New Mexico Workforce Job Training Centers in 2001 and 25 Hotel/Motels for the NM Lodging Association in 1995;
  • 97 DD Waiver home modifications and 98 VR cases with Adelante Development Center (2003-2008);
  • 122 AT Cases with Special Education in New Mexico Public Schools (1995-2008)

• New Mexico Technology Assistance Program (1990-1995; 1999-2003):
  • Positions:
    • Funding/Contract Specialist and Director;
    • NMONE (USDOL)-Program Manager
  • Activities:
    • IT Accessibility Promotion and Development with Secondary/Post-Secondary Schools and Job Training Centers including Assistance and Training with Adaptive Computing and Online E-Learning;
    • Set up and Development of Statewide Assistive Bank of Loan Equipment (ABLE) for Special Education and VR;
    • Set up FIESTAS-AT funding information system;
• 1996-1998: Program Manager with Consumer Assistive Technology Transfer Network (CATN):
  • The CATN was federally funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research/ U.S. Department of Education. Bill coordinated assistive technology-related transfer activities through an Internet website and networked with a national advisory board (including representatives from the FLN, USDE, VA, NASA, DoD, DoE, LANL), consumer programs, rehabilitation engineering research centers and U.S. federal laboratories.

• 1999-2006: Assistive Technology Practitioner - Certified with the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (RESNA)
  

• Publications (1991-2003):
  • Newroe, B. and Newroe, K.S., 1991, Video as a Self-Image Tool, Videomaker
    
  • Newroe, B.N. and Newroe, K.S., 1994, Getting Funding for Assistive Technology, Mainstream
  • Newroe, B.N., Winnegar, A.J. , Lucero, M., 1995, Funding and Eligibility System for Technology-related Assistance Services (FIESTAS) expert system, knowledge base and database, New Mexico Technology Assistance Program
  • Newroe, B.N., July-August, 1996, Solving Today’s Problems with Tomorrow’s Technology, RESNA News
  • Newroe, B.N. and Oskarsdottir,  A.Y., 1997, Identification and Networking of Assistive Technology- Related Transfer Resources through the Consumer Assistive Technology Transfer Network (CATN), Technology and Disability Journal, Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
  • Newroe, W. N., 1998, Guidelines to Assistive Technology-Related Research and Development in U.S. Federal Agencies, Technology and Disability Journal, Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
  • Newroe, W.N., 1995, 1998 and 2001, Electronic / Information Technology Accessibility Guidelines, New Mexico Technology Assistance Program, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services.
  • Newroe, Bill, 2003, Distance Education Accessibility, New Mexico State University-Office of Distance Education, DISTANCE EDUCATION UP CLOSE
  • NIDRR Award for CATN