Council Member Bio-Sketches
John Balling, Vice President for Integrated Technology Services, joined Willamette University in September 1999. He is responsible for technology planning, network services, academic computing and instructional design, user services, administrative computing, media services, and telecommunications. Prior to coming to Willamette, John served in a similar position for 10 years at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Other information technology positions he has held include terms as head of academic computing at Bowdoin College and as director of the information resource center at the Smithsonian Institution where he implemented the Institution’s first user services program. John has also served as a research psychologist for the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Institute for International Development. In his first real job, he was a member of the faculty in psychology at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
John earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Massachusetts. It was in graduate school that he became involved with computing when he constructed his own equipment and developed software for capturing and analyzing human infants’ physiological responses to auditory stimuli. With respect to information technology, John has led the planning and implementation of the computing infrastructure at several of the Smithsonian’s sites, assisted with the development of medical information systems in several Latin American countries, and has planned and implemented major infrastructure upgrades at both Dickinson and Willamette.
John joined the NWACC Board in June 2001 as the member representative from Willamette.
Marianne Colgrove has been the Associate Director of CIS at Reed College since 1989. In 1999 she also became the Director of Web & Systems Services. She oversees college web systems, unix system administration, instructional computing, and deployment of computing resources through the college. Prior to her current position she managed Reed's 5-year Technology Plan to integrate computing into all aspects of the academic environment. Marianne has a B.A in Psychology from Reed College.
Marianne has served on the board of the Consortium of Liberal Art Colleges and as a member of the Educause Nominating Committee.
Marianne joined the NWACC Member Council in 2002. She served on the 2002 Conference Committee and began serving on the Grant Committee in 2004.
Chris Ferguson assumed the position of Dean (now Associate Provost) for Information & Technology Services at Pacific Lutheran University in May 2001. I&TS includes network and related systems, help desks, telecommunications, administrative computing, multimedia services (including audio and TV services), and the usual range of services and resources associated with libraries. Associate Provost/I&TS is a dual faculty and administrative appointment.
Ferguson's career has largely been in libraries. It took a strong turn for the technological when he became the inaugural director of USC's Leavey Library, which deployed the nation's first information commons. He spent the next several years in other leadership roles as USC set about merging libraries and computing into a single organization. He has written and spoken extensively on the integration of information and IT
services as well as related leadership issues.
Chris Gill was appointed as Gonzaga University's Chief Information Officer in March, 2007; he has been a member of the Gonzaga University information technology team for more than 17 years. Beginning in 1990 as a video producer for the University's distance education program, he has held a variety of positions in Media Services and Information Technology Services, including Video Producer/Director, Video Operations Manager, Director of Desktop Support Services, and most recently as Director of IT Project Management and Planning. Gill has served as a departmental manager for more than 10 years at the University, managing desktop computer support, overseeing the operation of the the University's web site and its course management system (Blackboard), and developing and implementing the University's first information technology project management system. In collaboration with the University information technology team, he has managed a range of major technology-related projects including installation of the campus-wide residence hall data network, implementation of Blackboard as the enterprise course management system, installation of the campusfs first enterprise web content management system, implementation of a comprehensive IT project management system, the complete replacement of the campus wired data network, and most recently the implementation of a campus-wide wireless network.
Gill is active professionally in EDUCAUSE and is a 2005 graduate of the EDUCAUSE Frye Leadership Institute. He currently serves on the 2007 EDUCAUSE national conference program committee. He is also a member of the Project Management Institute and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) IT Managers' organization. He holds a Bachelors degree from Gonzaga University and a Masters Degree in Technology Management from Washington State University.
Terry Gray is Associate Vice President for Technology Strategy and Chief Technology Architect in the UW Technology organization at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. As such, he serves as advisor, technology actuary, and occasional Agent Provocateur. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the UW Computer Science & Engineering Department. Earlier, Dr. Gray was UW's Associate VP for IT Infrastructure, and for fifteen years, Director of Networks and Distributed Computing.
Prior to joining UW in 1988, he was Vice President of Engineering for the Bridge Communications Division of 3Com Corporation. Earlier professional experience includes work at Bell Laboratories, Ampex Corporation, and many years in the UCLA Computer Science Department, first as a graduate student, and later in both faculty and staff roles. His education includes a BS in Electronic Engineering from Northrop Institute of Technology in 1967 and a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA in 1978.
For over 30 years his principal technical focus has been on distributed system architecture, but he has also published work in computer security, software engineering, distributed operating system design, network job control, and electronic messaging systems. In the 1990s, he chaired the IETF working group to standardize the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and was instrumental in bringing advanced Internet connectivity to the Pacific NorthWest, first by overseeing the design and operation of NorthWestNet (the original Internet service provider in the region), and later by leading the engineering team responsible for creating the Pacific/NorthWest Gigapop. Gray also participated in the creation of Internet-2 in 1996, and later served on the Internet-2 Quality of Service, End-to-End Performance, and Security-At-Line-Speed (SALSA) working groups.
During 1999 he became one of the prime movers behind UW's ground-breaking "Internet HDTV" experiments, culminating in systems to send uncompressed 1.5Gbps HD video streams over the Internet. In the following decade, network security became a major focus. Contributions in this area include UW's "Network Security Credo", and overseeing development of logical (topology independent) firewalls. Since 2007, his primary mission has been to help UW prepare for the mobility and cloud computing revolutions.
In a previous life as a young electronics officer, Gray was perhaps best known for commuting to Naval Station San Diego in his dune buggy with the "flower power" paint job.
Bridget Haggerty, MBA, MSEM, is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Bridget has worked in OHSUfs Information Technology Department since 1999 and has had a key role in implementing and managing their business, student, research, and clinical information systems during that time. Bridgetfs team of technical professionals is responsible for supporting all missions of OHSU (academic, clinical, research and outreach functions), as well as the multiple business entities that support OHSU. She has published and presented to professional organizations on application implementation and selection strategies.
Bridget has served on national and regional information system Boards including the Oracle Higher Education User Group (HEUG), the NorthWest Oracle User Group (NWOUG), the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Oregon Health Network and Oregonfs Health Information Technology Oversight Committee.
Don Harris is the Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University of Oregon. He oversees the strategic use of information technology at the university, ensuring that it meets the university’s needs and goals.
Prior to joining the UO in August 2005, Don served as Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO at Emory University. Earlier in his career, Don was Associate Vice President for Information Systems at the University of Memphis and held academic and administrative positions at Messiah College, the University of Maryland, and Pepperdine University.
At Emory, Don managed the implementation and upgrade of ERP systems, introduced course management software and collaborative labs to the academic community, and explored new approaches in teaching, such as the use of wireless labs and classrooms. Under his leadership, the IT Division at Emory was recognized for its outstanding work in faculty development and support by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, and it also served as a case study for the Frye Leadership Institute on how to build collaborative partnerships between IT units, libraries, faculty, administrative groups, and other institutions.
Don’s extensive experience as a teacher has served him well when evaluating and implementing IT needs in the classroom. As associate professor of information systems at Messiah College, he created an information systems major and designed and taught courses that bridged the gap between the computer science and business departments of the college. In addition to being a senior administrator at Emory, he was a faculty member for the Goizueta Business School. He also held faculty appointments at the University of Memphis, University of Maryland, and Pepperdine University.
Don holds a doctorate from the Claremont Graduate University (1983), where his research focused on the use of computer-based financial models and decision support systems, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Biola University. Don has been a member of the Frye Leadership Institute Program Committee and Faculty since 1999. He has served on the EDUCAUSE Professional Development Committee (1997-2000), the Seminars in Academic Computing Committee (1998-2000), and the Southeast Regional Conference Committee (2000-2003), acting as chair for the latter in 2001-2002. In addition, he was a member of the Tennessee Board of Regents Computer Center Directors from 1995-1999, serving as chair in 1998-1999. He joined the NWACC Board in 2005.
Harvey L. Hughett was named Executive Director of Information Technology Services at the University of Idaho in September 1998 and is responsible for technology planning, academic and administrative computing, networks and systems, customer support, database administration, web services, telecommunications infrastructure, telephone services, Center for Teaching Innovation, online and classroom media production, classroom technical support, computing labs, laptop computer program, video production, photography, publications, design, digital imaging, and photocopier services. Other information technology positions held include Director of Educational Technology Services, Director of Instructional Media Services, and related positions. He also taught for seven years at Virginia Tech. Prior appointments also include: Chair of Idaho State Board of Education (SBOE) Telecommunications Council; Chair of Access & Priorities Subcommittee for the SBOE Telecommunications Council; Steering Committee of WICHE WCET; Director of Northwest Managers of Educational Technology; President of Idaho Association of Teachers of Languages; and manager of a variety of service operations, task forces, and planning committees.
Harvey earned a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky, followed by post-graduate work at UK and VPI (with an emphasis on computer aided teaching and learning). He is the author and recipient of various technology-related grants from federal and state agencies and has made dozens of presentations at regional, national, and international professional meetings.
Harvey was appointed to the NWACC Board in May 2005 as the member representative from the University of Idaho.
Dr. Jacobs is a Professor of Neuroscience and the Assistant CIO and Director of Academic Computing at Montana State University. Her research spans several fields of Neuroscience, as well as the emerging field of informatics and databases for the scientific community. She served as the founding Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience (2000-2006).
Dr. Jacobs received her undergraduate training in Human Anatomy and Physiology from UC Berkeley, a Masters Degree in Physiology from UC Davis and her PhD in Neuroscience from SUNY Albany. She was a faculty member at UC Berkeley for 15 years prior to taking her current position at Montana State University where she served as the founding Department Head of Cell Biology and Neuroscience (2000-2006). She directs the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Biology Program; an effort to infuse mathematics and quantitative reasoning into the introductory biology sequence in her department. At the national level she was a member of the National Science Foundationfs Biological Sciences Advisory Committee for 6 years (1996-2002), and served as chair of that Committee (1999-2000), a member of the National Advisory Research Resources Council (2001|2005), a member of the Society for Neuroscience Committee on Informatics (2004-2008) and currently a member of the Pacific Northwest Gigapop Advisory Board.
Dr. Jacobs maintains an active research program funded through NSF and NIH in three distinct but overlapping areas of research: probabilistic and compartmental modeling of neural systems, Neuroinformatics, specifically the development of semi-structured databases and computational tools for use by the scientific community and most recently was the PI of the Lariat Networking project; an effort to upgrade the physical network infrastructure in 6 rural state institutions thereby improving the research competitiveness and collaborative activities of biomedical researchers at those institutions. In her new role as Assistant CIO and Director of Academic Computing, she is working on state and regional networking initiatives and developing a focus on scientific computing at Montana State University.
Ted Krupicka, Interim Director of University Information Services, joined Pacific University in 1993 as a Network and Computer Support Specialist and has advanced into several positions as the department has grown and evolved into what is now University Information Services.
As Interim Director, Ted is the Chief Information Officer of the University and leads the University planning effort for campus technology strategies to ensure inclusion and integration of academic technology needs and plans within the overall University strategic plan. He provides oversight and leadership to the Technical Operations, Enterprise Data Systems, Technology Information Center, and Health Professions Campus Information Services departments of the University. Ted is a member of the University Council and serves as an ex officio member of the University Technology Committee. He is also an elected member of the Staff Senate.
Prior to his positions with Pacific University, Ted was a network technician in the joint Network Operations Center for the University of Washington and NorthWestNet. He worked for Oregon Health Sciences University as a Computer Support Specialist from 1989 to 1991 supporting computer users throughout the University and in various University Hospital departments.
Ted graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Phoenix in 2000 and an Associate of Science degree from Portland Community College in 1997.
Jerry Johnson is the Chief Information Officer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Jerry joined PNNL in 1978 after graduating from the University of Washington with an MBA and B.S. Electrical Engineering.
PNNL, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy, is a multi-program laboratory conducting basic and applied research to deliver energy, environmental, and national security for our Nation. As Director of IT Services, Jerry is responsible for providing a leading edge computing and communications infrastructure to support the information intensive business of scientific research and technology development. This includes a high performance network supporting one of the worldfs most powerful supercomputers, unique information discovery and retrieval tools, and trusted capabilities for collaborating with researchers world-wide.
Jerry's responsibilities also include advising the Laboratory Director and other executive managers on IT strategies and issues, representing PNNL interests concerning information technology to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other federal and state agencies, and developing strategic relationships with other Battelle and DOE Laboratories, universities, business partners, and suppliers. Jerry is Chairman of the DOE System of Laboratories Computing Coordinating Committee and Chairman of the Virtual Possibilities Network (VPnet) Board of Directors.
Jerry joined the NWACC Board of Directors in 2004. He was appointed to the Award Committee in 2005.
John Lawson is the Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Western Washington University. Washington University. His responsibilities run the usual CIO gamut of network services, academic computing and instructional design, user services, administrative computing, media services, and telecommunications.
Prior to joining WWU in August 2006, John served as Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Tulane University. Preceding Tulane, John served as CIO at Pepperdine University. Earlier in his career, John held academic and administrative positions at the University of Oregon, Lewis-Clark State College, and Towson University.
At Tulane, John managed the implementation and upgrade of ERP systems, completed an institutional wide wireless network, renewed collaborative labs and technology, and reorganized the academic and user support groups into one organization. John served as Tulanefs representative and vice-chair of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) to bring high speed networking, high performance computing, and grid architecture to Louisianafs research institutions. He was CIO for Tulane during Hurricanefs Katrina and Rita. He considers himself an expert at evacuating with higher education executives from hurricanes.In addition to holding the senior administrator position of CIO at three institutions, he also held faculty appointments in computer science at Lewis-Clark State College and Towson University. At the University of Oregon he held adjunct faculty and research appointments in education and computer science.
John holds a doctorate from the University of Oregon (1985), where his research focused on the determinants of success in the introduction to computer science course utilizing a variety programming languages. He also holds a bachelorfs (geography, 1982) and two masterfs (geography, 1983 and computer science, 1983) degrees from the University of Oregon. John has served on a number of program committees including Educause 2005 and various National Educational Computing Conferences. He served as President and Executive Director of the National Educational Computing Association.
John Lehman - NWACC Secretary/Treasurer
John Lehman is Director of International Programs and professor of information systems and international business at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is also an affiliate professor of far Eastern philosophy. His former positions have included Executive Director for Information Technology for the University of Alaska Statewide System, Technical Director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Region Supercomputer Center, and acting Dean of the School of Management. He is also the University of Alaska representative (and head of the international collaboration subcommittee) for the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium.
John's academic background (all at the University of Michigan) includes a BA, MA, and ABD in Chinese studies, MBA in Accounting, and PhD in Information Systems. His research focus is on computerization of classical Chinese texts.
John served on the NWACC Board and Executive Committee from 1995 to 1998. In 1996 he was elected NWACC Secretary/Treasurer and continues to serve as an ex officio member of the Board. He chairs the Finance Committee and INvestment Sub-Committee and has served on the Fee Task Force.
William Morse joined University of Puget Sound as Chief Technology Officer on February 1, 2010. He came to UPS from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In his four years at Oglethorpe, Morse modernized and managed the university's technology infrastructure, resulting in improved service and considerable savings, introduced automated tools to improve desktop computer maintenance, replaced the switch-based telecom system with Voice-Over-Internet Protocol, and turned a challenging enterprise resource planning system implementation into a functional asset. He achieved ambitious goals with relatively few resources, while focusing on implementing the best systems to serve the needs of faculty, students, and staff.
Prior to this, Morse was chief information officer at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. Earlier roles included interim director of information services at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory, and director of information technology services at the School of Law at Emory. Morse earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science and a Juris Doctorate degree in law with honors from Emory University.
Morse is active in his profession and has written or contributed to numerous articles on information technology in higher education. While at Emory he helped develop a groundbreaking bio-informatics program and has taught in that program since its inception
Teri O'Rourke was appointed as Southern Oregon University's Director of Information Technology in June 2005. Prior to this appointment Teri served as Interim Director of Information Technology from June 2003 through June 2005 and as Associate Director of Systems and Operations from June 1996 to June 2003. Before coming to Southern Oregon University, Teri worked in the legal and savings and loan industries in Washington state, managing desktop and network services. She started her career in information systems as a civilian programmer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. She has more than 25 years of progressive management experience in the information technology field.
At Southern Oregon University (SOU) Teri oversees technology planning and provides project leadership in the areas of desktop, network, media, telecommunications, e-learning, academic and administrative support services and training. She also wears the hat of Chief Information Security Officer, serves on the Academic, Business, Technology and Executive Councils at the university and is a member of the incident command team. Teri has spearheaded several important initiatives during her tenure at SOU including: implementation of a web portal; integration and consolidation of network and telecommunications services operations; desktop and infrastructure equipment replacement programs; cable plant, wireless, computer lab, and media design engineering for several new buildings and renovations; and budget modeling and reduction planning. Her current focus is on implementing a new three year strategic planning program for information technology at SOU, expanding the MySOU web portal for prospective students and alumni, assisting administrative and auxiliary departments with evaluation and planning of various information systems improvements, and documenting and upgrading the security and disaster policies and practices of the university.
Teri holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian Studies and Political Science from Pitzer College in Claremont California and has completed graduate work in information systems management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California and Western Washington University.
Curt Pederson - Executive Committee Member-at-Large
Curt is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Oregon University System and Oregon State University. Curt joined OSU in 1997 as the Vice Provost for Information Services. He has reorganized, improved and expanded core IT services and continues to build toward a sound infrastructure for Oregon State University research, teaching and learning.
Most recently, Curt has been given responsibility for information technology for the Oregon University System, primarily serving the four regional universities and the Chancellor's Office. Under Curt's leadership the use and promotion of open source has been fostered with the creation of OSU's Open Source Lab (OSL) (see http://osuosl.org).
Prior to joining OSU, Curt served as Oregon's first state Chief Information Officer and as Associate Director of Information Services for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. Curt holds a Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude from University of Puget Sound (1975) and a Master of Public Administration from Seattle University (1986).
In 1991, Curt was elected Chair of the Washington State Information Processing Associates; in 1996/97 he was elected First Vice President of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives. He was appointed by the Governor to the Oregon Telecommunication Coordinating Council and serves as the Oregon University System's representative on the state CIO Council. Curt also is a member of the Dell Platinum Advisory Council and the Sprint/Nextel Higher Education Advisory Group.
Curt has been an NWACC Board member since 1997 and served as chair of the 1998 NWACC Membership Committee. In 2001, he served as Chair of the Conference Committee, was elected to the Executive Committee and was re-elected in 2005 to a two year term as Member-at-Large. He is also a member of the Investment Sub-Committee.
Keiko Pitter has been the Chief Technology Officer for Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington since January, 1998. Previously, she held a similar position for six years at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Keiko holds a bachelor's degree (1970) in mathematics from UCLA and a master of education (1990) in computer education from the University of Nevada, Reno. Previously, she was a member of the navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a programmer/analyst at Tektronix, in Beaverton, Oregon, and an instructor/department chair in the CIS department and later the Director of Information Services at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada.
Keiko is involved in various technology related organizations both locally and nationally. She serves on the Washington State K-20 Network Technical Steering Committee and is the founder of the Northwest Higher Education and Technology (NW-HEAT) consortium. She currently serves on the EDUCAUSE Administrative Award Committee and EDUCAUSE 2003 Program Committee. She has published more than 30 books (Random House and McGraw Hill) on computer applications, programming logic, Web development and the Internet. Her books have been translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian and Turkish.
Keiko began her involvement with NWACC in 1992, when she became an institutional representative for Willamette University. In 1994, she chaired the User Services Committee for NWACC/NW-Net. She has been on the NWACC Board since 1997, served on the Membership Committee in 1998-99, and chaired the Workshop Committee in 2000-2002. She also coordinated the NWACC-sponsored DocShare project. She was a member of the Grant Committee in 2003 and 2004.
Russell Poulin is the Associate Director of WCET, a membership-based cooperative dedicated to advancing the effective use of technology in higher education. WCET is a unit of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Russ organizes the information sharing activities among WCET's members and directs EduTools.info, which provides independent reviews of educational software and courses. He consults on distance education planning projects, and serves on the editorial board of Innovate. For WCET, Russ has headed projects on interstate program sharing and the Technology Costing Methodology project. Previously, Russ coordinated distance education activities for the North Dakota University System.
Aaron Powell was appointed Director of Computing and Communication at The Evergreen State College in January 2006. His responsibilities include academic and administrative computing, network services and telecommunications for the Evergreen campus.
Prior to his position at Evergreen, Aaron served as Chief of Information Technology for Washingtonfs child support program. As the IT Chief, Aaron was responsible for management of software development, mainframe/server databases, network services, and desktop support for 1500 users distributed statewide at over 40 service centers. His team also provided project management and extensive user training in support of major upgrade projects. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of integrated performance measurement systems and in the design and implementation of significant automation within the financial management systems.
Aaron earned his undergraduate and Masters from Evergreen State College and joined the NWACC Board as Evergreen's representative in January 2006.
Carmen is Assistant Vice President for Information Technology (ITS) at Central Washington University (CWU) in Ellensburg, WA, where he has been since September of 2003. Prior to CWU, Carmen was the CTO and Director of Information Technology at Lewis-Clark State College for 2 years, where he also served as an adjunct faculty for Information Systems Management curriculum. From 1996 to 2001, Carmen was the Director of Computer Services and Technology at the Immunex Corporation in Seattle, and for fourteen years prior to that he held various engineering and IT management positions at the Naval Engineering Center in Keyport, WA. Since arriving at CWU, Carmen has overseen numerous advancements in technology at the University, and the consolidation of the Web Development Office and the Enterprise Information Systems Department with the ITS Department.
Carmen received his BS in Electronics Engineering from South Dakota State University in 1981, his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Engineering Technology in 1988 from City University and a Certificate in Public Administration from Indiana University/Purdue University in 1995.
Carmen joined the NWACC Board of Directors in June 2004. He served on the Conference Committee in 2005.
Leslie Riester is Associate Vice President for Information Technology at Portland Community College. College Information Technology Services provides technology planning, consulting and project management services, telecommunications and network services, user support services, server administration, classroom and lab support, help desk and training, and media services, which includes distance learning operations.
Leslie earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Michigan, her M.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado, her M.I.L.S. from the University of Michigan, and is A.B.D. in information studies at University of Michigan. She taught journalism at Northern Arizona University and information technology courses at University of Michigan. She served on the Editorial Committee for CAUSE (pre-EDUCAUSE days), and remains active in EDUCAUSE. She is a member of ACM and a former member of SIG-CHI and ALA.
Leslie joined the NWACC Board in June 2004 and was appointed to the Workshop Committee in 2005.
Martin Ringle - NWACC President
Marty Ringle is the Chief Technology Officer at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Prior to coming to Reed in 1989, he chaired the computer science department at Vassar College. He holds a dual Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton, co-sponsored by the T.J. Watson School of Engineering and the Department of Philosophy. Marty has served as board chair of EDUCAUSE, the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), and other groups. During the past twenty-five years, he has consulted on technology issues for more than a hundred and fifty colleges, universities, corporations, foundations, and government agencies.
Marty was elected to the NWACC Board in 1990; became vice-president of NWACC in 1994, chair of the Board in 1996, and president/ executive director in 1999. He serves ex officio on all NWACC committees.
Phil Sheehan is the Director of Computing Services at Clark College. Mr. Sheehan oversees academic and administrative computing, and telecommunications at Clark. Prior to assuming his administrative post, Phil taught for seventeen years at Clark College in electronics, telecommunications, and computing. Mr. Sheehan serves on the IT Commission for the Community and Technical College system in Washington State. Phil is also a member of the Microsoft Higher education Advisory Group. Phil earned a BA degree from the University of Washington and an MBA from Marylhurst University. For relaxation, Phil enjoys flying and hiking.
Phil joined the NWACC Board in 2001. He served on the Workshop Committee in 2004 and 2005.
Greg Smith is the Chief Information Officer at George Fox University with responsibility for administrative and central computing services, networking telecommunications, user services, classroom / multimedia support, institutional research and hybrid learning technology. He came to the Northwest in 2004 from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he served as the Director of IT for eight years.
Prior to the IT career in Academia, Smith was a Systems Consultant with Hewlett-Packard primarily with the Analytical Group working out of San Francisco, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Other jobs included IT activity in the oil shale and coal mining industries of Colorado along with owning a computer store in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Prior to the IT careers, Smith was a chemist for various electric power generating companies.
Greg Smith earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Indiana University, IU, in 1978 and completed an M.S. in Bioinformatics from IU in 2003. Greg's thesis was titled "Security of Our Personal Genome" which investigated the protection required for our ultimate personal identity. Greg is active with Educause, CCCU and SunGard SBI higher education customer forum.
Greg joined the NWACC Board in 2004 and was appointed to the Conference Committee in 2004 and 2005.
Steve Smith - Chair of the Board
Steve Smith, Chief Technology Officer of the University of Alaska System has 25 years of experience in information technology and telecommunications in Alaska. He participated in the first experiments with teleconferencing and distance delivery in the state using the NASA series of Applications Technology Satellites during the mid-seventies. In 1984 he came to UAF to lead projects delivering data to rural areas using a conventional TV signal. Since then, he has worked closely with libraries statewide to design the first library CD-ROM network in Alaska and the Statewide Library Electronic Doorway (SLED) which grants public access to onlineinformation. Steve was a founding board member of Fairnet, one of the state's first community networks located in Fairbanks.While working on a wide range of projects from digital archives with Apple Computer to automation systems in the Russian Far East, Steve held a progressive series of information technology management positions, most recently as head of Division of Computing and Communications at UAF.
Steve joined the NWACC Board in 2001. He served on the Grant Committee in 2002, 2003, and 2004. He was elected to the Executive Committee in 2004 for a two-year term as Member-at-Large.
Molly Tamarkin is the Chief Technology Officer at the University of Puget Sound. She arrived at UPS in 2008 from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she was the associate dean for information technology in the College of Arts & Sciences. Prior to working with Arts & Sciences, she was the assistant dean for information technology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. While at Duke, she focused on simplifying academic systems and services to eliminate redundancies and increase agility. She transferred some services to the central IT organization and introduced social software to the academic enterprise, piloting wikis and content management systems as collaborative tools for both administrative and research support. She got her start in IT as the assistant librarian at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont, where, in addition to her service as a reference librarian, she was the systems administrator for the library's Solaris server. While at Marlboro, she was promoted to library director, and then formed the first IT department, becoming the college's inaugural director of information technology. She also served on the faculty of their Graduate Center, teaching courses on internet and database research.
Although Molly has worked in IT for the past ten years, she remains engaged with library services, drawing on her experience as a librarian at Marlboro College, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Welles-Turner Library in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and as staff with the University of Chicago Libraries and the St. Louis Public Library. She has degrees from the University of Chicago (BA), the University of Missouri (MS), and the University of Florida (MFA). Molly is active in EDUCAUSE and the Fedora Project and is also a writer: her poems can be found in a variety of literary magazines.
Dan is the Chief Technology Officer at Lewis & Clark College where he is responsible for the strategic leadership of administrative, instructional, multimedia, network and telecommunications technologies. Prior to coming to Lewis & Clark College, Dan held positions as the CTO for Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, Director of Information Technology for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Ohio, and Manager of Academic Computing at Augsburg College in Minnesota.
Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Augsburg College and completed graduate work (ABD) towards a doctorate in Educational Policy and Administration in Higher Education at the University of Minnesota. Dan has made presentations at a variety of conferences and most recently co-authored an article, “Information Priorities: Revising our ‘World-view’ of Service,” for Advances in Library Administration and Organization.
From 2001-2005, Dan served on the National Datatel Users Group Governing Board. Dan is currently serving a three year term on the EDUCAUSE Administrative Award Committee. He also served as the Chair of the Leadership and Management Track on the 2004 Western Regional EDUCAUSE Conference Program Committee and is currently serving on the 2005 SAC Program Committee.
Dan has been active in NWACC since May 2001, serving on the Conference Committee from 2002-2004 as well as the Grant Committee from 2003-2005. He has served as chair of both those committees. In 2005 he was elected Vice-Chair of the Board through June 2006 and Chair Elect of the Board, June 2006 through June 2008.
Dave Tindall - Vice Chair of the Board
Dave Tindall is the Assistant Vice President for Technology Services at Seattle Pacific University, a position he has held since 1981. He serves as the chief information officer with oversight of administrative computing, central computing services and networks, telecommunications, microcomputing, user services and classroom/multimedia support. During his tenure at SPU he has been an adjunct faculty member in Computer Science and Business and Economics; has overseen the creation of a robust campus network; upgraded the campus administrative software systems to SCT Banner for most administrative functions; created a centralized HelpDesk and User Services division; brought numerous services online via the web (registration, computer account management, classified ads, directory services, library databases, event calendaring, financial transactions and reporting, etc..); and implemented microcomputer hardware and software standards across employee desktops, academic labs and classrooms.
Dave has a Bachelors degree in Business and Economics (SPU, 1975) and Master's degree in Information Systems (SPU, 1989). He has served on many regional and national committees and boards in the areas of information technology and business administration.
Dave has been the NWACC member representative from Seattle Pacific University since 1991 and a member of the NWACC Board since June 2001. He has served as a member of the 2002 Grant Committee and several times as a member of the Nominating Committee.
Irv Wiswall is Interim Chief Technology Officer at Linfield College, a position he assumed in July 2001 as part of a college-wide consolidation of information technology services. Prior to that he was Director of College Computing at Linfield for 9 years, Director of Academic Computing at the University of North Carolina-Asheville for 4 years, Manager of User Support at Cornell University for 2 years, and provided technical and statistical support for the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research for 2 years. He has a BS (1980) and a MS (1982) in Development Sociology, both from Cornell University. Prior to that he had a career providing social services to adolescents where he learned skills that he still draws on when communicating with systems programmers.
Irv has been the NWACC member representative from Linfield since 1992 and joined the NWACC Board in June 2001. He has served on the Workshop Committee in 2004 and 2005.