Posted by Mary Ellen Miller, Director of Marketing.
Jeff Morris has been named by the Business Journal of Tri-Cities/Tennessee/Virginia to the 2008 class of the 40 under Forty. Jeff will be honored at Friday's gala dinner at Millennium Centre. Jeff is n-tara's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. With his leadership, the company has grown from five people at its founding in 1999 to over 45 employees serving Fortune 500 clients worldwide.
Jeff is a graduate of Purdue University with a B.S. in Technical Graphics and an MS in Computer Graphics Animation from East Tennessee State University. He was Assistant Professor/Co-founder of the Advanced Visualization Lab at ETSU. It became the premier site in the world for the program he and his colleagues created in Computer graphics and 3-D animation. Jeff designed and taught courses in digital imaging, computer animation, motion graphics and computer illustration at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The program grew from 47 students to over 350.
In addition to serving the students he taught and mentored through the years, he is an Eagle Scout.