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Our Instructors

Ashli Van Dyke

Ashli was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, moving to Florida and joining the Advantage Software team in 2010. At Advantage, Ashli got her start in tech support, and she quickly netted a reputation as a go-to person for help with extraordinary Eclipse questions and for discussing ideas. Over the years she has worked intimately with the Eclipse development team and has played a key role in many version releases. She has been involved with product research, quality assurance, technical writing, and customer education. She especially loves demoing the benefits of Eclipse and showing off its latest features!

Anissa R. Nierenberger

Anissa Nierenberger,  RPR, CRR, CRC, CRI, has been a captioner for 29 years.  In 2000, Anissa founded Dictionary Jumpstart, a realtime dictionary-building software that has helped hundreds of reporters improve their dictionaries and allowed them to explore other areas of reporting, including captioning and CART captioning. As an author, Anissa has also published several articles as well as five books.  Her latest book, Terrific Tidbits was just released in May.

Bettye Keyes

Bettye Keyes, CCR, CSR, CVR-M, RVR is the reporting industry’s first certified realtime voice writer to develop and author works related to speech-recognition-based realtime voice writing techniques and theories.  She is a Certified Court Reporter and Certified Shorthand Reporter at the state level and also holds Certified Verbatim Reporter-Master a

Jennifer L. Thompson

Jennifer “Jen” Thompson CCR, CVR-M has been in the legal industry since 1987, beginning her career as a paralegal. She then went on to become a court reporter in 1993. With voice writing schools being few and the need being great, she founded the first court reporting school in South Carolina in 2000. In her 28 year career, she has served the profession as a court reporting firm owner, court reporting instructor, and freelance court reporter. She has served in numerous leadership capacities, including President of the SC Court Reporters Association and is a longstanding member of NVRA.

Jeremy Thorne

Jeremy Thorne has been the Director of Research and Development for Advantage Software since its inception in 1987. He has an abiding love for the reporting profession and an unmatched talent for writing court reporting software. Jeremy welcomes feedback from our customers, which is his most important influence in software development. When he isn’t working on Eclipse, Jeremy likes to spend his time as a volunteer coding teacher and FIRST Robotics mentor.

Julie Samford

Julie Samford is a former court reporter, licensed in Texas and Louisiana. She has worked in the reporting industry for over 30 years. Julie has been doing software and technology training for Advantage Software for over 20 years and is a certified advanced group trainer for Eclipse.

Keith Vincent

Keith Vincent is a freelance reporter residing in Houston, Texas. Since 1992, he’s been an Eclipse user, field tester, sales representative, trainer, and seminar presenter. During that time he’s produced a steady stream of tools to help you take maximum advantage of the Eclipse CAT system. These include the Efficient Editing Tutorial and more than 350 short Visualizer movies that are built into Total Eclipse. Keith has also created the Eclipse Realtime Editing Kit, the Prefixes and Suffixes Kit, and the Conflicts Kit.

Wil Wilcox

Wil Wilcox is a freelance court reporter in Los Angeles, California, and works both in court and in depositions. He is an Eclipse user and Eclipse CAT Software sales representative, trainer and seminar presenter. Wil has traveled the country giving seminars on technology for court reporters, and has spoken at many State Associations. He is also a student of technology and is always testing the latest hardware and software products to learn what particular uses there are for us as court reporters to streamline our jobs and be more productive.