Monthly Archives: February 2015

Thomas Armour, Enterprise Middleware Specialist, Enterprise Applications

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In his new role, Thomas Armour will be working with various groups to identify and resolve issues with MacAfee Antivirus, MySoft, Verint and Software Express on a more enterprise-wide basis. A seven-year Emory veteran, Tom was hired originally in 2007 to work on the enterprise-wide desktop management solution (LANDesk). Before coming to Emory, Thomas did LANDesk […]

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Jake Kirsch, Research Informatics Analyst, IT Data Management and Solutions

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Jake Kirsch is currently working on the surgical critical care initiative (SC2i), where his team is consuming surgical data from multiple sources to help improve the quality of surgical care. Before coming to Emory, Jake was an ETL developer at Premier, a healthcare data company out of Charlotte, NC, for about 18 months. He also […]

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Update from HR

Rachelle Jones, Operating Systems Analyst/Admin, Sr., reporting to Sharon Mason, starts her new position on 2/23/15. (…more on Rachelle)   Pengpeng (Lucy) Liu, Research Informatics Analyst, reporting to Jeff Weaver, started on 2/17/15.  (…more on Lucy) Roland Farrar, Project Manager, Network Communications, reporting to Lamar Kelly, started on 2/3/15.  (…more on Roland) BèAnka Tate (Facilities) is leaving […]

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Mark your calendar

The second InfoForum of the month is scheduled for Thursday, February 19, from 2:00 to 3:00 in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library. The topic is “Research Data Management and is being presented by Jennifer Doty. Please join us. InfoForums are opportunities to share a new project or initiative, to learn more about what’s going on in other […]

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BI Initiatives: where we are and where we are going

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BI – EBI – OBIEE –– Oh me, oh my! Sounds like “Old MacDonald” had a few too many. Instead, we have a few too many acronyms that need to be defined. Several members of the Finance department partnered with the Enterprise Applications Data Warehouse team on the first phase of the Emory Business Intelligence […]

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Mark your calendar

The IT Briefing is scheduled for Thursday, February 19, from 10:15 to noon, in the Fourth Floor Auditorium of the North Decatur Building. Refreshments will be served so please join us. The LITS Campus and Community Relations team presents the monthly IT Briefing to provide the Emory IT community with very important technical information and […]

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John Bence selected for ALI15

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[Ed. note: the following press release was written by Rachel Vagts, Director of ALI.] In a competitive application process, John Bence has been selected as a participant in the 2015 Archives Leadership Institute. ALI is a program funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives and […]

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