Wade is an Instructional Production Specialist and works with Penn State faculty to create Open Educational Resources (OER) textbooks in Pressbooks that are free for their students. He also implemented the update of Penn State’s OER website in WordPress/Sites. Wade has a background in graphic arts and 3D data visualization. He ran Information Sciences and Technology’s Extreme Events Lab Immersive Display CAVE installation and was a graphic artist for AccuWeather. Wade has played guitar for over 50 years and performs live to this day.