About CentreLearn

Jim brings considerable expertise to his role as Chief Executive Officer of CentreLearn. He has more than 30 years experience in emergency health services research, administration and education. He is a former faculty member in the Emergency Health Services Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and served for many years as department chairman and director of graduate studies. In 1996, he designed and directed the development of the nation’s only online learning Master of Science degree program in Emergency Health Services Management Studies. He left the university in 1998 to create EMSED.COM, which rapidly became a leading provider of online continuing education support services for emergency services professionals. He served as President and CEO of EMSED and guided the company through its merger with CentreLearn in 2005. Dr. Eastham is a nationally recognized expert on the use of Internet-based learning strategies and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of EMS Educators and the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services. He has also led several national committees to establish recommendations, policies and procedures for the appropriate use and accreditation of Internet-based learning programs in Emergency Medical Services education. He holds a Doctor of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

President and co-founder of CentreLearn, Jason directs all technical operations. He has an extensive background in education technology development and the delivery of online education programs. In 1996, he designed the instructional technology used in the nation’s first online Master of Science degree program in Emergency Health Services Management Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Between 2000 and 2004, he directed the assembly of the core training curricula and instructional design process of the online training program used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). While guiding the development of the NDMS Online Training Programs, he co-developed the CentreLearn Learning Management System and the application hosting infrastructure to meet the unique training and record-keeping needs of federal multidisciplinary disaster response teams. He is an active New York State paramedic and a commanding officer of the FEMA NJ-1 Disaster Medical Assistant Team. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Emergency Health Services Management and Administration from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

As co-founder of CentreLearn and Director of Software Development, Avraham has more than 25 years experience in the software design industry. Prior to forming CentreLearn, he served as a software developer for Borland and Microsoft and worked on development of well-known products including Turbo Pascal, Quattro Pro, Internet Explorer and SQL Server. In addition to his corporate experience, he has many years of consulting experience developing cutting-edge Internet applications. He also designed a revolutionary new software modeling and design product called Conceptual Modeler, which dramatically reduces the amount of time needed to bring product innovations to market. Conceptual Modeler has been instrumental to the design and development of CentreLearn and provides the company with the advantage of incorporating client-inspired innovations into production quickly. He earned his Computer Science Master degree at Moscow University.