Rick O’Connor grew up the last of eight children of a boisterous, gregarious Irish-American family in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Upon graduating from Boston College, Rick served three years as a nav...view moreRick O’Connor grew up the last of eight children of a boisterous, gregarious Irish-American family in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Upon graduating from Boston College, Rick served three years as a naval officer, obtained a Master of Science degree in Public Health, and became a Commissioned Officer with the U.S. Public Health Service where he worked in international communicable disease control, specializing in developing computer-based training programs in tropical medicine. Following this twenty-one year career, Rick spent the next twenty years in university-based Teacher Education, conducting cutting-edge research in classroom applications of emerging digital technologies.view less