Staff Profile of Dylan Hurd: Director of Web-Based Services is Man on the Move
Posted on 12/3/2008
Dylan Hurd spends much of his time at work writing Web applications for the College of Education and Health Professions. While his work keeps him at a desk most of the time, you’ll often find him enjoying the outdoors with his family during his free time.
As director of Web-based services for the college, Dylan is the administrator of the college’s Web site, and he provides training and support for faculty on technology such as SMART boards in classrooms. He began working in the college as a graduate assistant, receiving his master’s of education in educational technology in 2006 and beginning his full-time staff position in April of that year. He has also worked at the university’s Arkansas Alumni Association.
Dylan received a scholarship to the University of Central Arkansas in Conway and earned his undergraduate degree there in English in 1995.
He has lived in Fayetteville for 10 years and calls it his home. His wife, Suki, who is also a UA alumnus, is a sociology teacher at Fayetteville High School. They have two sons, David, 10, and Jack, 6, who both attend public school in Fayetteville.
Outdoor activities are the main hobbies of the Hurd family. They take bike rides on the Skull Creek Trail when the weather is nice. They also like to camp and hike outdoors, sometimes taking a summer vacation in Colorado. The family camps for about a week and then rents a cabin for a couple of days after camping.
The Hurds enjoy travel, too. Jamaica and Cuacao (both in the Caribbean) have been travel destinations, as have Europe.
A particularly interesting trip was when Dylan and his wife went to Europe for vacation in 2005. They spent three weeks in London and Paris.
Catch was, it was a week after the 7/7 London public transportation bombings.
Dylan said they avoided the London Underground for a couple of days, but in the end traveled to Paris on the Eurostar, the high-speed train through the English Channel Tunnel.
They made it to Paris. However, on a train scheduled after theirs, a suspected bomber was arrested and taken into police custody.
“Everybody was tense,” Dylan said. “(London) is a big city. It was very tense.”
By Jessica Powviriya, University Relations intern
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