PERSONAL GOALTo serve as a pathfinder and guide; exploring new technologies and leading the way for others. EXPERIENCE Manager of Departmental Application ServicesApril 2008 to present. Office of Information Technology (OIT). Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.
DAS group transferred in reorganization from Academic Services to Administrative Information Services department. Core responsibilities and mission of group are unchanged. - Site collection administrator of OIT SharePoint service.
- Member SharePoint Governance Board.
- Led DAS team that designed a waiting room for Community Auditing Program registration.
- Led team that redesigned and re-implemented AIS website using Joomla.
- As manager of DAS had general oversight over 41 completed projects.
- Groups I worked as a member of:
- 201 Carnegie AV team
- Disaster recovery cross-functional team
- Implementation team for President's Correspondence Tracking System
- IT Architecture cross-functional team
- Migration tracking system selection team
- New OIT website taskforce
- OIT Ambassadors Group
- OIT Leadership Group
- Volunteer coordinator for Web Database Applications user group. Sponsor drinks for meetings, maintain Blog, and serve on planning committee.
Associate Director of Academic Services,
Manager of Database Application Services April 2004 to March 2008. OIT. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. Manage a small group who create web-database applications for Princeton University departments, and work to develop, support, and document the tools we use for this purpose. DAS addresses the need for professionally developed web-database applications that cannot be implemented by department staff, yet which fall below the enterprise level systems deployed by OIT’s AIS department. - Track DAS work requests to ensure they are fulfilled in a timely manner.
- Manage projects undertaken by DAS.
- When needed, write up project initiation plans and perform detailed planning.
- Coordinate DAS resources (staff) so that they are working in concert rather than solo.
- Act as a catalyst for obtaining outside resources as needed.
- Prepare DAS budget, monitor it and approve purchasing.
- Ensure DAS staff are properly trained in relevant technologies.
- Formed Web-Database Application user group.
- OIT “champion” for using Dreamweaver to create PHP/MySQL sites.
- Arranged for summer training in “Creating PHP/MySQL Applications Using Dreamweaver” and “Administering MySQL” for members of WDA user group and OIT.
- Lobbied to have OIT public LAMP servers configured so they are Dreamweaver-friendly.
- Built PHP/MySQL systems for DAS customers using Dreamweaver.
- Created “PHP/MySQL Web Development Using Dreamweaver” curriculum for OIT training series and taught classes.
- Serve on OIT teams and taskforces:
- Disaster recovery team
- IT Architecture team
- Rewards team
- Team Learning Forum
- Leadership group
Senior Associate, Academic Services July 2002 to March 2004. OIT. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. - Manage Academic Services’ web presence and public relations efforts.
- Responsible for Academic Services' educational outreach.
- Manage a talented group of self-sustaining graduate students and casual hourly employees that provide in-office visits instructing faculty in the use of Blackboard.
- Administer a small set of workshops designed to teach students/faculty the basics of commonly needed new media applications such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
- Co-organizer of "Lunch 'n Learn" brown bag lunch series.
- Managed Summer WebStudio 2002 summer seminars, providing a paid six week introductory training session in new media technology for 10 graduate students.
- Designed and created online registration system for Academic Services educational courses. The features of this design were used as the baseline for the new online course registration system currently in use by all of OIT.
- Member Princeton Project Office Advisory Group.
- Member OIT Communications and Training cross-functional teams.
- As part of the Communications team activities, volunteered to work on subteam that ran the 2003 "Information Village Fair." Responsible for Fair web presence, data architecture, coordinated move of equipment to and from fair, and served as floor manager of all lecture presentations.
- Created "OITPAS" -- a distributed projects and services database for OIT management.
Manager, Academic Technology Services July 2000 to June 2002. OIT. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. - In addition to the duties and responsibilities of New Media Center Manager, below, manage staff of two full-time employees.
- Led team of student developers to create website for Frist Campus Center.
- Project manager for development of teaching modules for Arabic language in Macromedia Flash.
New Media Center Manager June 1994 to June 2000. CIT. Princeton University. - Create and maintain web sites for Academic Services and the ATS PLACE.
- Manage daily operations of the Princeton Laboratory for Advancing Curricular Excellence (the PLACE), a member of the New Media Centers Consortium.
- Responsible for preparing budgets for PLACE and ATS, and for related purchasing and receiving.
- As senior staff member in ATS, serve as coordinator of other ATS consultants working at the PLACE.
- Manage "Web Factory" faculty outreach program, that sends trained graduate students into faculty offices to train them to build and maintain their course web sites
- Responsible for ensuring the hardware and software configurations of PLACE machines are properly maintained.
- Coordinate PLACE student multimedia consultants. Responsible for hiring, scheduling, and coordinating student work on project-related tasks.
- Act as a consultant to Princeton faculty, students, and staff developing Web pages, classroom and course-related multimedia applications.
- Current areas of software specialization: HyperCard, SuperCard, Adobe Photoshop, Marcromedia SoundEdit, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flash2, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe PageMill, Claris Home Page, Adobe Acrobat.
- Teach non-credit hands-on workshop in Adobe Photoshop given each term for Princeton faculty, staff, and students.
Senior Administrative Applications Analyst October 1987 to May 1994. Research Services, CIT, Princeton University. - Acted as an internal consultant to faculty, staff, and students in the areas of office computing, database design, computer publishing, and presentation graphics.
- Served as part-time computer consultant to the University Printing Office. Maintain and enhance their Macintosh-based layout and design operation consisting of Mac IIs, LaserWriter II-NTX, Linotronic 300, Autokon scanner, and AppleShare file server.
- Gave the following lectures in the CIT Education Series: Database Concepts and Design, Database Design Workshop, Intro to Q&A, Q&A: Beyond the Basics.
- Chaired taskforce on presentation graphics. Was involved in pilot Presentation Graphics Center, whose mission was to promote the use of presentation graphics, interactive videodiscs, CD-ROM, and hypermedia among Princeton's faculty and administration.
- Gained experience with the following microcomputer software and hardware: Aldus Persuasion, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Wingz, Suitcase II, Harvard Graphics, Lotus Agenda, Quattro Pro, Procomm, Mace Utilities, Turbo Pascal, Tops (Mac and PC), Digital Darkroom, SuperPaint, SuperCard, HyperCard, Fastback (Mac and PC), National Gallery videodisc, Vote '88 videodisc, Electronic Whole Earth Catalog, Macintosh II, Apple Scanner, Apple CD, Pioneer videodisc player.
Assistant Director of Information Services for Information Centers November 1986 to September 1987. CIT, Princeton University. - Acted as deputy to the Associate Director of Information Services, performing various tasks related to the management of Princeton's Information Centers.
- Held one of three permanent positions on the Microcomputer Software Taskforce, a group whose mission was to recommend software to be officially supported at Princeton.
- Taught the following classes and workshops: PC DOS for Beginners, PC DOS for Experienced Users, Database Concepts, Database Design Workshop, Introduction to R:BASE, and R:BASE for Experienced Users.
- Served as liaison with Engineering department chairmen during electronic mail pilot project. Provided one-on-one training in the use of electronic mail.
- Coordinated "New Directions in Computing" series of lunch-time talks.
- Gained experience with the following microcomputer software and hardware: MS Kermit, Macintosh SE, Tornado Notes.
Information Center Manager July 1985 to October 1986. Administrative Services and Information Systems (ASIS), Princeton University. - Along with one full-time and two part-time professionals, provided consultation and training to members of Princeton's administrative and clerical staffs on the subject of microcomputers and their use in the office.
- Designed and edited a monthly newsletter, Oasis. Personally did page layout using Macintosh and PageMaker. Oasis was the first widely distributed publication at Princeton to be produced using desktop publishing, and served as an example to others.
- Taught classes on Database Concepts for the Office and Advanced DOS.
- Served on Princeton's Microcomputer Software Taskforce. Products awarded highest level of support during this period: WordPerfect and R:base System V.
- Gained experience with the following microcomputer hardware: Apple ImageWriter, Apple LaserWriter, AST SixPak Plus, AST Rampage AT, AT&T 6300/7300, Bernoulli Box, Compaq, Hayes Smartmodem, HP LaserJet, IBM PC Network, IBM Convertible, IBM Quietwriter, IBM Proprinter, IBM 3812, IBM 3270PC, IBM PC/XT/AT, IBM 3278/79 emulation card, IBM Graphics printer, Intel Above Board, IRMA board, Macintosh 512/Plus, NEC Spinwriter, Quadram Graphics Master.
- Gained experience with following microcomputer software: CP/M, DataEase, dBASE III, DesqView, IBM 3278/79 emulation, IBM PC Network, Lotus 1-2-3, MacDraw, Switcher, Finder, MacProject, MacWrite, MS Chart (IBM), MS Word (IBM), MS Windows, MultiMate, PageMaker, PC DOS, PC Talk III, Qmodem, R:base System V, Ready!, ReadySetGo, Sidekick, Smartcom II, Symphony, ThinkTank, WordPerfect, XTREE, Yterm.
Assistant Project Leader November 1982 to June 1985. ASIS, Princeton University. - Designed application systems. Determined feasibility of proposed enhancements to application programs and systems. Wrote programming specifications. Wrote and documented modules, programs, and systems.
- Provided primary programming support for the following IBM mainframe based systems: Financial Reporting, Rents, Employee Loans, Counseling, and Infirmary.
- Created a system of CMS EXECs and XEDIT macros to allow end-users to create, maintain, and run Mark IV Query jobs with minimal knowledge of CMS.
- Led team that designed and wrote a microcomputer based cost accounting system in dBASE II for the University's Physical Planning Office.
- Proficient in structured systems analysis and design, OS JCL, IMS, VSAM, PL/I, Mark IV, CMS, REXX, EXEC2, PC DOS, MS BASIC, Lotus 1-2-3, and dBASE II.
Senior Programmer/Analyst January 1981 to October 1982. ASIS, Princeton University. - Coordinated the design and implementation of a general purpose data entry system for the Controller's Office.
- Served as liaison between ASIS and Controller's Office during transition period between old and new data entry systems.
- Created an information system to manage employee loans.
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