2008 Annual Meeting
Speakers
The following presenters are currently scheduled for this meeting:
Jared Beard, Indiana University
Mr. Beard has worked as the Associate Director of Information Technology Lab & Studio Operations for the Kelley School of Business for over six years. He also teaches the Network Management, Network Security and Wide Area Network Management Courses for the Masters of Science in Information Systems and MBA programs in the Kelley School of Business. Jared has been designing and managing corporate websites and networks since 1996. His certifications include: Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Novell, UNIX, Microsoft and CompTIA. His undergraduate degree in business communications plus his graduate degree in Organizational & Professional Communication Development have helped him in training students and businesses to understand how the web can be better utilized by to lower their costs, increase customer satisfaction, and increase customer's access to critical information.
Vincent Boragina, Arizona State University
Mr. Boragina is the Manager of the Server Operations group at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He designed the school's Citrix environment, its SAN/NAS infrastructure, secure data environments and virtual server systems. In 2004 his team designed and implemented the first fully virtualized Blackboard environment in production, including Cold Fusion and Microsoft SQL. Subsequently extended to other areas, to date the continuing initiative has virtualized 70% of the School's 100-odd servers.
Colleen Carmean, Arizona State University
Ms. Carmean is Director of e-Learning Strategic Technologies at the School of Global Management and Leadership at Arizona State University. She is also just completing a PhD in environment design for e-learning in workplace distributed knowledge environments.
Kathryn Everest, IBM Canada Ltd.
Ms. Everest is a Senior Managing Consultant specializing in social networks and collaboration. She has over 20 years of experience helping organizations collaborate, both within the organization as well as between organizations. Using research, experience and successful practices, Ms. Everest helps organizations manage the business aspects of social networking and collaboration, such as culture, adoption, governance, and measurement.
Marti Harris, Gartner Research
Ms. Harris is a research director in Gartner Research, where her research area is higher-education technology strategies including administrative and academic systems, learning technologies, distributed learning, e-learning, and library systems.
Jim Jindrick, University of Arizona
Mr. Jindrick is Mentor-in-Residence at the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. He has over 30 years of management experience encompassing strategic planning, business development, product engineering, international marketing, and manufacturing operations. He was responsible for the creation of some 30 products and business ventures that generated over $750 million lifetime sales. He received seven U.S. utility and more than 50 international patents for innovations in automotive test and diagnostic equipment, electric power distribution controls, and data acquisition and instrumentation systems.
Eric Olson, University of Florda
Mr. Olson is the Associate Director of Information Technology at the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. In his 20+ years at UF, he has been actively involved in a wide spectrum of projects: designing and installing the College's first networks; leading the technology team that built its Internet MBA degree platform; and, most recently, designing and implementing their new VMWare virtualized server environment.