team

Meet the core team

Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director oversees the staff involved with the project. With more than thirty years in leadership positions with museums such as the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, The Bay Area Discovery Museum, the Seattle Art Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pitman is a museum administrator, curator, and expert in developing programs to help museums engage and educate diverse publics. She joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2000 and is responsible for directing the current program of the Museum. Pitman is a cum laude graduate of Sweet Briar College and earned her M.A. degree from Tulane University.

Homer Gutierrez, MCSE, CNE, joined the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) with over 14 years of experience in systems consulting and networks. With a broad background in computer networking design, he plays a key role in the implementation and support of the DMA's network infrastructure and telephony systems. He came to the DMA from IBM and has served as the IT Director since 1999. Gutierrez is is a member of the team that conceived of the TABS (The Arts Broadcast System) projects. He is also a recording engineer and producer with extensive experience in analog and digital recording. His continued involvement in sound recording and production affords him a level of sensibility to Quality Control that is essential to the Museum’s long-term TABS initiative.

Gail Davitt oversees the Dallas Museum of Art's Center for Creative Connections and the Museum’s education program and serves as project director for in-gallery education spaces and the Museum’s evaluation and research projects. She also works in close collaboration with Randi Korn and Associates to plan LOEA(sm) audience research and apply the results. She holds a B.A. from Bucknell University and an M.A. from Purdue University.

Jacqueline Allen, The Mildred R. and Frederick M. Mayer Director of Libraries and Imaging Services works with consultants to formulate the data structures for enhancing relevant search results for the Channels, supervise media cataloging as it is ingested in CMS, and advise on data standards for the object files data entry segment of the grant.  She is a key member in institution-wide team focused on integration of current technologies into staff work processes and contributes over ten years of library experience in assisting the community with finding extended information about objects in a museum’s collection. She received her Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas, and her B.F.A. in Art History from the University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts.

Jessica Heimberg, PgMP, CSM, is a member of the team that conceived of the TABS project and works in close collaboration with the Technical Project Director to develop new Web interfaces and the Arts Network channels for DMA Web sites. Heimberg joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2005 with over ten years of experience in application development, Web systems architecture, and project management. As Project Manager and Senior Web Developer, she oversees all related application and interface development at the Museum and plays a primary role in the planning and implementation of the Arts Network infrastructure and applications.

Ted Forbes is currently the Multimedia Producer for the Dallas Museum of Art. His duties include production of interactive and digital assets including exhibition websites, teaching materials, in-gallery interactive content (kiosks and touch screens) and video production. He is also collaborating on two major projects for the Museum - DallasMuseumofArt.tv, the online hub for Museum multimedia content and DallasMuseumofArt.mobi, the in-gallery content distribution center.
Forbes has been an adjunct faculty member at Brookhaven College since 2003 teaching interactive and web design.

Kevin Tucker, The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design serves as a technology advisor for the curatorial staff, overseeing data entry from collections records, attending project team meetings, communicating news and information as appropriate, and maintaining the scholarly integrity of the educational content and resources offered on TABS. Tucker has more than 16 years of experience in the field and is a specialist in American decorative arts and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He holds an M.A. degree in Applied History/Museum Studies and a B.A. in History from the University of South Carolina.