The executive team and employees of TRI have extensive backgrounds in education and the educational technology field. Jointly, we have an excellent record of success in the educational software and hardware business as two of our prior educational software products have been installed in more than 1600 schools nationwide since 1994. The remarkable aspect of this is that more than 99% who purchased these products on a yearly basis have continued to renew their license due to their student’s success and not a single client has been lost due to dissatisfaction.

Our management team consists of the following individuals:

Richard G. Hetherington, President

Mr. Hetherington, the founder of TRI, possesses a B.S. Degree in Education with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. He began his career as a public school teacher teaching General Science at the middle school level. He left the teaching profession to pursue a career in the business world and gained extensive experience in the educational technology field when he joined IBM’s Education Division in 1982. Over the past 27 years, he has personally designed, developed, and marketed a number of successful technology based products for the educational field and industry. For example, he conceptualized and led the development of one of the first integrated administrative systems for the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools. In 1987, he created an on-line intelligent authoring system that enable courseware developers to design voice activated training systems for the K-12 marketplace.

In 1991, his company contracted with the Department of Defense’s Foreign Language Laboratory under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Their task was to automate the foreign language laboratories instructional method of teaching survival language skills to Department of Defense employees who were temporarily assigned overseas. During this period, His development team designed and developed computer based independent study versions of Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic language courses that enabled employees to achieve a “survival” level of competency in

as little as 50 hours of independent study. This fact was verified by George Mason University’s Language department whose evaluators concluded that students who worked independently in the language for a 50 hour period showed a level of proficiency equal to a student who spent an entire year in a traditional language course.

As Mr. Hetherington’s company gained the commercial rights to these products, he sold licenses to hundreds of school systems nationwide for use in their language programs. After three years of successfully selling these products, he sold the rights to these products to Broderbund Software, a major software distribution company.

In 1996, Mr. Hetherington created Educational Options, Inc. a firm dedicated to the delivery of high school academic instruction to at-risk students. This product, which he personally designed and developed, offered unique and innovative methods to ensure the success of students who had failed in traditional schools. This product was hugely successful in that more than 1400 schools are currently using the system and less than 10 have failed to renew their license over the past 12 years. In 2007, he created Teacher Resources, Inc. for the specific purpose of developing a new type of Instructional Management System for use by classroom teachers. This product, STATIS© is now commercially available.

Robert Fabian, Executive Vice President

Robert Fabian is a stockholder and senior member of the executive team of Teacher Resources, Inc. He has a BS in Mathematics and a MS in Gifted/Talented Education and has continued to stay at the forefront of educational technology by completing the Instructional Technology Leadership program at the University of Virginia. He is an educator with years of experience as a mathematics teacher within a Virginia school system and has extensive experience in designing mathematics training products for use in the classroom and which he used to ensure the success of his students. In 2007, he saw the need for developing a tool that could be used by students for practice and instructional purposes to ensure that they were prepared to master the State of Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL) test in mathematics. This product, TRI Booster© is an integral part of the STATIS© Benchmark Monitoring and practice system.

Mr. Fabian has continued to expand the features and benefits of the STATIS system for grades 3-9 to include multiple learning strategies that enable students to ensure their mastery of content.

One of the many innovative features that Mr. Fabian has created within the STATIS system is the ease by which it can be aligned to the learning objectives of every state. Through his development efforts, teachers can identify the academic strengths and weaknesses of every student as they proceed through the subject during the school year. A major benefit of STATIS is that it enhances the instructional process led by classroom teachers by producing a synergy between teacher and student that is unavailable from other products.

Mr. Fabian brings a wealth of business and computer technology experience to our firm from his twenty year career in the computer industry. His experience includes Director of a 7×24 Help Desk to support Tier 1 computer manufacturers. He has also managed multi-million dollar computer services contracts for customers such as National Car Rental, Alamo Rental Car, Hewlett Packard and Compaq’s Home Products Divisions. As a programmer, he co-wrote “TRW-ESP” an award winning product developed to predict hardware errors before they occurred on Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX computers. His extensive VAX/VMS knowledge was often tapped to help customers resolve some of their most difficult network and system management issues. His years in the computer service industry combined with his educational interests provide him with a unique perspective to view today’s use of technology in education.

Andrew Fabian, Vice President, System Development

Mr. Fabian is a key member of our executive team as he brings a rich history of working to drive the core technology of our development team. He was also instrumental in bringing major components of a major firm’s technology based management system to life.  Andrew combines his creativity and expertise with the latest web-programming technologies to propel STATIS into the forefront of online education applications.   Our customers benefit from his design, development, and operation of web based applications.

Mr. Fabian left this firm to accept a major opportunity at the Newman Library at Virginia Tech University, where he was given the opportunity to maintain the university’s legacy software.  After a few months in his new position, he suggested to the University’s Head Librarian he could replace decades of legacy software with a single, load balanced and fault tolerant consolidated system that handled the Department’s seven terabytes of data and at a fraction of the cost of the university-run system. With their approval to proceed, and while working alone, he developed a software solution that consolidated user access across a gamut of library user applications into a single web based system. Had the University gone outside to contract for this application to be completed it would have easily resulted in a multi-million dollar expenditure. Mr. Fabian’s efforts saved the University a substantial amount of time, effort, and money.

His knowledge and experience with library applications caused us to implement our own on-line library and we now have a unique library application within the STATIS© system that contains more than 22,000 volumes of the world’s greatest public domain based literature. This new product has become an integral part of our offering to our clients.

Mr. Fabian has been the primary developer of our product and is now in the process of completing the design of a fourth product that we believe will revolutionize the classroom instructional process. One of Mr. Fabian’s strengths is that he understands the requirement of our client school systems and designs accordingly.

B. Ruth Moore, Vice President, Education

Ms. Moore was a middle school teacher in Prince Georges County, Maryland for 31 years and has been an officer and shareholder in our companies since 1997. Ms. Moore brought a wealth of instructional and content experience to her position as our Manager of Content Development. She was also the designer of an innovative instructional strategy that is still employed by the more than 1400 schools who are still using the independent study system that we introduced in 1997. In fact, during the 2008-2009 school year, more than 475,000 students used this product to achieve high school credits for graduation purposes. As an experienced classroom teacher, Ms. Moore played a key role in the design and development of the STATIS(c) system and the development of our middle and high school lesson plans for Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies for middle school.

Ms. Moore also served as a curriculum specialist and consultant to the American Automobile Association’s Traffic Safety Department. Over a five year period, she designed a substantial part of the safety curriculum that was delivered to thousands of elementary schools nationwide.

She has been a key asset for our firm for more than ten years when she elected to retire in 2008. Although now retired, she provides keen insight regarding the needs of teachers and students and serves as a member of our Board of Directors.