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Tim JonesTim Jones

Tim Jones is the owner of Accelerate Computer Training. He has been teaching computer training classes for over twenty years. Tim holds the following professional certifications:


Beverly HouwingBeverly Houwing

Beverly Houwing worked at Adobe Systems as a Business Development Manager in graphics and ePaper products for over six years. She currently teaches InDesign at UCLA Extension, and has many years of training and consulting experience.

Beverly holds the following professional certifications:


Jonathan LevitJonathan Levit

Jonathan Levit’s background in publishing and graphic design took him to work for Quark, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. As a member of the training team at Quark and a founding and lead member of the Quark Evangelism team, Jonathan traveled the globe educating and integrating Quark products into some of the world’s largest publishing houses and design staffs. Jonathan has been called upon to be part of keynote speeches at some of the industry’s largest trade shows, including Seybold.

Since his time with Quark, Jonathan has continued to work in the publishing and graphic design field as a trainer and consultant, both for private classes as well as on-site to help companies adapt and grow within their workflow. As an expert in Quark and QuarkXPress, as well as an Adobe Certified Expert with focus on Adobe InDesign, he is sought after as a trainer and consultant to aid design staffs in their understanding of Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and the migration between the two.

In addition to being able to transfer knowledge and educate his students, putting highly technical information into a format that is easily understandable, Jonathan’s sense of humor and levity creates an atmosphere that students want to be part of and is more conducive to learning.

Jonathan is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign CS5.


Carol SpearCarol Spear

Carol Spear has been a computer trainer and training manager for more than twenty years. She teaches many classes, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and VBA classes, and exudes in all of them a caring warmth and professionalism that comes from thousands of hours of training room experience. Accelerate is also privileged to have as Director of Marketing. Carol holds the professional certification of Microsoft Office Specialist.


Chana MesserChana Messer

Teaching at the university level for over 20 years in the fields of fine art, life drawing, oil and acrylic on canvas, and papermaking, at Parsons College in NYC and at UCLA, Chana turned her attention to advanced computer graphics and digital imaging, for which she has now been teaching some 15 years at UCLA, Otis College of Art & Design, California State University, and Santa Monica College.

Chana is the lead instructor for the UCLA Visual Arts Department, conducting specialized seminars in addition to ongoing courses. Similarly, she is the lead instructor at Walt Disney Imagineering.

Through her business, Mac-In-Art, Chana works in many fields, consulting on projects from concept to completion. Her projects include corporate identity, interactive multimedia design, web design, onscreen presentations, CD/DVD covers, magazine covers, movie posters and brochures for clients such as Warner Brothers, Sony, Disney, Universal, Mattel, Houlihan & Lockey, Nike, Apple, and Adobe.

Chana is part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, is an Adobe Partner and Adobe Community Expert, as well as the Southern California Adobe Illustrator Users Group Manager. She holds the following professional certifications: