Author: Wade Moricle
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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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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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Wilson Visits San Diego
Trisha Wilson (PMO) recently took a vacation to San Diego. Here is her account: “Aaaaahh, it’s great to have friends. My friend Paula invited me to visit her in San Diego in May. I’ve been to California three or four times, but I’d never visited San Diego before so I figured, “why not?” She had lots of activities…
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Networks V. Nature: the Hidden Side of Infrastructure
In our modern era of computing, network connectivity while sitting in the blissful air conditioning of a Georgia summer is quite simple. If my network is down, I call someone. I never spend time thinking about the actual infrastructure that makes it work. All that changed this week, however, as I accompanied Roland Farrar (Enterprise…
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Bianchi Swims to a Pair of Georgia State Game Titles
Felicia Bianchi (PMO) competed in the Georgia State Games last weekend in the 1K and 3K open water swimming competition. She won both events for her age group! She finished 4th overall in the 1K and 9th overall in the 3K. As a result, Felicia is now qualified to swim open water for the State…