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| Robert Baird is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Coordinator of Instructional Development for CITES EdTech. Robert has used technology in his teaching and supported faculty using technology for 20 years. He has run travel blogs while visiting England, Denmark, Scotland, and Costa Rica, uses wikis extensively at work, and contributes to Wikipedia. | |
| Mr. Beidelman is president of the consulting firm WTC and has 35 years of networking and telecommunications experience. Mr. Beidelman's experience includes assisting clients with voice and data system design and implementation, cost analysis, development of strategic plans, development of capital budgets and life cycle operating budgets, outsourcing feasibility studies, and trade-offs for alternative methods to large voice and data networks. | |
| Randy Cetin joined CITES in 1986 as research programmer in the “Graphics Group,” and has since held numerous positions in the organization. An alumnus of the University of Illinois, Randy is the Director of CITES Systems and Technology Services. The division encompasses a wide range of service responsibilities that include the CITES computer labs, cost-recovery services for Unix workstations, CITES' two data centers and Operations Center, management of numerous production servers and services, and the development of integration tools and infrastructure services. | |
| Mike Corn joined CITES as the Director of Security Services and Information Privacy in December 2003. Mike originally came to Urbana for graduate school and has worked and taught in both the School of Music and the Department of Astronomy. During the mid to late 90s he worked as a developer, database designer, and policy work with University Administration. | |
| Ryan Eads has been the Security Engineer within CITES Security for nearly a year. Prior to coming to the University, he was a security architect and technical lead on the Cryptography team at State Farm. While at State Farm, he participated in several research efforts and two product deployments that provided strong authentication and local encryption for PDAs. | |
| Debbie Fligor has been working for CITES in some form or another since she was a student in 1988. Many folks in CCSP met Debbie when she was a member of the NDO from 1993-2000 and worked on building designs across campus. She currently works in Network Engineering, where she does various things, including researching wireless technologies and acting as the Service Manager for UIUCnet Wireless. She's been interested in radios, since first getting her ham license in 1981, went on to get a BSEE here at UIUC, and has been investigating wireless network technologies since the NDO first got a set of Motorola wireless bridges around 1993-94. | |
| Chuck Hayes has been a member of the CITES Network Maintenance group and has served on the wireless design team since 2001. As part of the original Wireless design team, he helped establish the methods used to design UIUCnet wireless LANs. Currently serving as Wireless Technical Manager, Chuck provides technical design guidance to the wireless design team and helps evaluate new wireless technology. Chuck is also overseeing the design and installation of the campus wireless backbone network and is a member of the CIC IT Wireless Group. | |
| Paula Kaufman became the Interim Chief Information Officer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after spending seven years as University Librarian there. Previously she served as Dean of Libraries for eleven years at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to taking that position she served at the Columbia University Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head of the East Asia Libraries, and Head of the Business Library. She also has considerable experience in the private sector, at McKinsey and Company and as co-founder and partner of Information for Business.
Ms. Kaufman has written and made presentations on a number of issues pertaining to scholarly information, privacy, copyright, research libraries, recruitment, and leadership. Her recent presentations include “Role and Mission of Academic Libraries: Present and Future.” Japanese Association of Private University Libraries, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, November 18, 2005, “Libraries in the Licensed World” at the Intellectual Property Symposium, University of Iowa, February 25, 2005, panels on shared storage facilities and leadership at the 2004 annual meeting of the Illinois ACRL, “Research Libraries in the Future” at the Midwest Higher Education Facilities Management Association, Champaign, IL, June 9, 2003, “Everything Old is New Again, or is It?” at the Library Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Annual Conference, March 17, 2003, “Quo Vadis? Scholarly Communication and Trends in Research Libraries.” Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries e-Forum: Electronic Issues for the Academy, November 8, 2002. Among her recent publications are “Copyright in the United States and Japan: Storming the Barriers to Access.” in Marcum, Deanna and George, Jerry. Digital Library Development. Greenwood Press (forthcoming), “It’s Not Your Parent’s Library Anymore: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Webs of Complexity.” Journal of Library Administration (forthcoming), “9/11 Legislation and Technology: The Academic Impact,” with Peter Siegel Educause Review, Sept/Oct. 2002, "New Encroachments Recall Old Ones." Library Journal October 1, 2002 “Where Do the Next ‘We’ Come From? Recruiting, Retaining, and Developing Our Successors.” ARL Bimonthly Report, April 2002, “Whose Good Old Days Are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age” Journal of Library Administration 2001, "Looking Over Electronic Shoulders: Privacy in 21st Century Libraries" in The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century. (Purdue University Press, 1999), "Structure and Crisis: Markets and Market Segmentation in Scholarly Publishing." In The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources in 21st University Universities by Hawkins, Brian and Battin, Patricia. (CLIR and AAU, 1998), and "I Never Harmed an Onion, So Why Should It Make Me Cry?" in Tennessee Librarian, Fall 1995. Ms. Kaufman has served the profession with board memberships in the Center for Research Libraries (chair), the Association of Research Libraries (president), the Council on Library and Information Resources (vice chair), the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, the Illinois Computer Services Organization, the Research Libraries Group, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, CAUSE, and Solinet. She has served on numerous university committees at the University of Illinois, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Columbia University. |
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| Brian A. Levine has served as a CITES DS Consultant for nine years. In 2000, he picked up his first Palm OS device. Since then, he has researched, evaluated, deployed, and supported a variety of wireless handheld devices within CITES, the CIO's office, and the College of Applied Health Sciences. He's especially interested in issues regarding convergence, wireless networking, usability, appropriate use, collaboration, support, and training. | |
| C. Liang serves as the technical lead for the contract and cost recovery branch of the Systems Management Group, previously known as the Workstation Support Group. Having spent roughly 10 years doing system administration work at other educational institutions, she joined CITES earlier this year. | |
| Larry Liddle started as assistant manager of CITES Communications Customer Service in 1995 and has been manager since April 2000. The Communications Customer Service department manages all telecommunications, voice mail, pager, and cellular service adds/move and changes under the State cellular contract for faculty/staff business use. | |
| Panit Lisy joined CITES as the Manager of the Emerging network Technologies and Services in August 2005. The team, part of the CITES’ Communications Technologies Division, consists of service managers and developers. The team’s charter is to build new communications services in collaboration with other University units. These works involve research and development initiatives for creating network management tools, DNS, voice over IP, and multi-media technologies. The team also supports Pinnacle Billing Service. Panit was the Director of Open Systems at AITS, where she worked for 15 years. Prior to that, she worked for the University Housing as computer specialist and network administrator for several years. | |
| Tim Newcomb has been the network analyst at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) since 2001, administering the local network, managing domain servers, creating Web applications, and maintaining the CIC Active Directory. A mechanical engineer originally, he transitioned to network administration in the late 1990s. He started supporting Palm PDAs, beginning with the Palm IIIx, and has deployed and managed the Palm i705, Treo 300, 600, 650, and 700p PDA/Smart phones for the CIC program staff since 2002. Tim has also been involved in the CIC TechForum, a premiere conference designed for CIC institution campus IT professionals held every 18 months. | |
| Brynnen Owen earned his PhD from the University of Illinois in Physics were he spent more time with computers than with physics. Today, he works as co-head of the GSLIS Systems group, where he has worked to implement a new shared SAN system, a CUPS print server with a custom quota, and a LDAP/SaMBa domain. He has also co-implemented the combining of three separate systems into a single infrastructure. | |
| Jim Pirzyk has been working for CITES for the past three years on the production side of the Systems Management Group, formerly the Production Systems Group. Prior to his tenure at CITES, he worked for an entertainment corporation for eight years, where he participated in the move from SGI IRIX to alternate platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X workstations. | |
| Chris Ritzo is the Assistant Manager of the CITES Help Desk and has been with CITES since 2002. Previous to his support role at the CITES, Chris provided general desktop, network, and technology support to a wide variety of users, from college students and faculty at the UI Springfield campus to students and teachers in rural schools. In anticipation of broader adoption of PDAs on campus, Chris is leading an initiative at the CITES Help Desk to test and document PDAs with campus and CITES services. | |
| Christian Sandvig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, where his research specialization is Communication Technology and Public Policy. His current research project about the diffusion of wireless data networking is funded by the National Science Foundation. He is also a computer programmer with industry experience working for a Fortune 500 company, a regional government, and a Web 1.0 San Francisco Bay Area software start-up. | |
| Chris Skaar, Iris Service Manager, is a member of the CITES Network Maintenance group in CITES Communications Technologies. He has worked for CITES since 2001. Previous to his current placement, he has held positions in the Operations Center and Network Design Office. He previously worked as a systems engineer for a small consulting firm in Sioux Falls, SD that, through several buyouts, eventually became part of McLeodUSA. | |
| Mike Smeltzer has been Director of Network Communications for CITES, since March of 2005. In that role, he has focused on coordinating campus input and collaboration on the Campus Network Upgrade project and also works with campus units on projects that are “outside the box.” He came to CITES from McLeodUSA, where he was the local Operations Manager. In that capacity, he worked with the campus on a variety of voice and data projects. In addition to working in the communications industry, Mike has been a faculty member in both the UIUC College of Communications and University High School, and was publisher and general manager of the Illini Media Company. | |
| Sean Stevens began working for CITES in 2000, when he was still a student. Since 2004 he has been a CITES Departmental Services consultant, working with EWS, primarily as a UNIX systems administrator. Sean recently took on the role of Interim EWS Manager with oversight responsibilities, including planning, budgeting, implementing, securing, and supporting 10 EWS labs located across the College of Engineering campus. | |
| Neil Thackeray is a Computer Systems Specialist and co-head of the Systems group at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). While at GSLIS, Neil has been co-creator of the GSLIS infrastructure, which includes a new shared SAN system, a CUPS print server with a custom quota, and a LDAP/SaMBa domain. He has also co-implemented the combining of three separate systems into a single infrastructure. He manages the GSLIS computer labs, including a student lab and a classroom lab. | |
| Ryan Thomas has served the College of Education since 1995. Originally, he was assigned to the college as a CITES Departmental Services consultant to perform database development and network administration. Now, as Associate Director of IT of the Office of Educational Technology, Ryan leads a team of IT professionals who provide a wide range of IT services to the college. Involved in various IT-related campus-wide committees over the years, both Ryan and members of his team contribute significant efforts to improve campus IT services and their articulation with colleges and departments. | |
| Mike Wonderlich has served as the Technical Architect for Decision support since March 2003. His primary responsibilities include the oversight of the technical architecture supporting the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Business Intelligence (EDDIE) environments. Previously, Mike served as the Associate Director of Technical Services with Information Systems Office at Kansas State University. | |
| Melissa Woo joined CITES in 2000 as a UNIX system administrator in the former CITES Workstation Services Group. Since then, she has held positions of progressively greater responsibility within CITES and is currently Assistant Director, CITES Systems and Technology Services Division. Melissa oversees the groups responsible for production Windows and UNIX system administration, IT operations center, and data centers, as well as the new group that will support campus IT Professionals. She also assists the Director with overall management of the Division. |
