His experience as a university level instructional designer and then as an Apple Creative has honed his skills and understanding of new media production, distance and informal distributed learning, and new media architecture and design. His interest in mobile media in interpretation led to his publication of Borrego, a digital brochure for California's largest state park. Dr. Rademacher is the recipient of the ANGEL Impact Award (ANGEL Learning Inc. 2006), the Instructional Technology Council Award for Excellence in Distance Education (2005) and the NMU Faculty Technology Innovation Awared (2011). He is currently co-creating with his students an iBook Author text.