Month: April 2016
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Emory expands access to Lynda.com online training for students, faculty, staff
Access to Lynda.com, one of the world’s leading online learning companies, has been dramatically expanded for all Emory faculty, students, and staff, according to an article written by Maureen McGavin. The company, which was purchased by LinkedIn in 2015, offers a broad mix of instructional content, including business, design, 3-D and animation, audio and music, education…
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Khushbu Amin, Sr Applications Dev/Analyst, University IT Services and Research
Before coming to the UIT team, Khushbu Amin worked for seven years as the program coordinator for Emory’s Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) Clinical Research Network (CRN). Prior to that she worked as a front end engineer at PCB Planet in India before coming to the US in 2008. Born in Ahmedabad, India, Khushbu has…
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Blair Boyd, IT Product Manager, University IT Services and Research
In his role as IT product manager, Blair Boyd is currently managing high performance competing (HPC) and informatics for integrating biology and the bedside (i2b2). Before coming to Emory, Blair worked as a project manager at Weill Cornell Medical College and the NYU Langone Medical Center. Born and raised in Sparta, OH (population 161!), Blair received…
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Erin Grant, Head of Metadata Services, University Libraries
Erin Grant joined Emory in the fall as the head of metadata services. Before this new position, she was the cataloging unit head at the Georgia Tech Library for a little more than a year. Previous to that, she spent over two years as the catalog, archives, and interlibrary loan librarian at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State…
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Natalie Mitton, PeopleSoft/Change Control Administrator, Enterprise Applications
Natalie Mitton (Zervas) is the new PeopleSoft/change control administrator in Enterprise Applications where she is hands-on with four enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications – Student Administration, Financials, HCM and ELM. Her previous work experience includes eight years at the Genuine Parts Company for eight years, where she spent most of that time as a senior developer and change control administrator…