VILMA GREGORY-CONSULTANT BIOGRAPHY

Vilma Gregory offers her unique blend of computer, foreign language and communications skills to the Caribbean and the wider global market. Since 1987, as the owner of the multimedia firm, VILCOMM Multimedia Ltd ,  she has forged strategic partnerships with key regional institutions and organizations such as UNESCO, CARIFORUM, University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech),  University of the West Indies (UWI), the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) and  the Caribbean Hotel Association – to name a few..

In 1995, Ms Gregory launched the possibilities of Multimedia Technology for learning, teaching, sales, marketing and production in a conference dubbed “Multimedia ‘95” and this took place in Kingston, Jamaica . Along with a team of talented artists, computer scientists and communicators, she has been loyal to the transformational powers of this new technology which she states, “should allow us to learn and produce more in less time, learn and produce more effectively, ,with greater enhancements and at  much cheaper costs.”

She has delivered multimedia technology seminars and workshops in English, French and Spanish to communities and institutions in 16 Caribbean territories. Along with her team, she has taught Multimedia and e-Learning skills to over 20,000 Caribbean nationals, including 950 university lecturers at UTech, UWI , University of Suriname and University of Guyana. She has also developed multimedia and multilingual web sites, CD-ROMs , DVD-ROMs and digital archiving solutions for private and public sector clients. She is now actively researching and developing new concepts and prototypes for educational games and M-learning mobile projects using Caribbean culture.

Ms Gregory has taught several industry-specific foreign language skills in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese to hotels, exporters and international organizations, using a unique twenty-four hour multimedia-based methodology branded “LinguaLearn”. She has also delivered train the trainer language courses to key tourism and corporate organizations.

As a Canadian commonwealth scholar, she completed graduate studies in Communications at the University of Quebec in Montreal. As a commonwealth fellow, she completed professional post graduate studies in Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. She pursued studies in foreign language pedagogy while teaching English in Bordeaux, France as a French government scholar. She graduated with honours from the University of the West Indies, Mona where she pursued undergraduate studies in foreign languages and literatures (English, French, Spanish, German). She has received several sports, community service and academic awards.