Month: August 2013
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Mary Walters, IT Product Manager, R-WIT
Mary joins R-WIT where she will be managing the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT). Currently she is using a product called Symplectic Elements to help build faculty research profiles. A fifteen-year employee at Emory, she started in the Office of Admissions for the School of Nursing and was also a business analyst on the Student Information…
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OIT Employees Shine at Educause
Three OIT employees recently made presentations at the 2013 Southeast Regional Educause Conference. Held from May 29-31 at the Weston Buckhead in Atlanta, the conference theme was Amp It Up! Powering Education with Technology. The first presentation was co-presented by Anne Marie Alexander (Integration) and John Isenhour, the CTO of Kennesaw State University. The topic…
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Szabrak and Bray Participate in Film Competition
In June, over 70 Atlanta teams competed to create a 4-7 minute short film in the annual Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project. At 7 p.m. on a Friday, each team drew a genre at random. Then all teams were given a character, prop and line of dialogue that had to be included in the film.…
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LUNA Imaging Delivers New MARBL Collections
The Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library (MARBL), now a part of our newly-formed LITS division, will be using LUNA to deliver images in a new high profile image collection this fall. A couple of years ago, Faculty Services contracted with LUNA Imaging to host Emory University Unique Image Collections at http://digitalgallery.emory.edu. The only customers…
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Credit Card Processing Project: A Successful Collaboration
The PeopleSoft (PS) Financials Technical Team successfully provided oversight for the lengthy and extremely complicated Credit Card Processing Project. Led by Elija Pasha (Enterprise Applications), the team worked closely with Haniya Vaid (Emory Financial Operations), who was the primary technical contact for the project. The Credit Card Processing project involved the difficult change-over from American…
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Tonia Edwards, Project Manager, R-WIT
Tonia is a PMP-certified project manager in R-WIT and she will be working primarily with the Library development team. Her current project list includes the Slave Voyages project and a range of others. Before coming to Emory, Tonia worked at Balentine, an investment management firm, as Director of Project Strategy and Implementation. She was also…
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Noy Hawkins, Data Analyst, R-WIT
Noy works in Research and Woodruff Health Sciences IT (R-WIT) as a data analyst. Prior to Emory, she worked at a sales and use tax auditing firm called Michael James Sales Tax and Chatham Capital, a mezzanine investment firm. Noy received her degree in Medical Sociology and French from Kennesaw State University. A native of…