Author: Wade Moricle
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Lincoln Higdon, Sr. IT Manager, R-WIT
Lincoln comes to Emory to fill a new managerial position with the R-WIT team. Prior to Emory, Lincoln spent nearly five years as the Director of IT at Prommis Solutions. He also worked for Agilysys for a year and EDS for eight years. A Georgia native, Lincoln was born in Marietta, but was raised in…
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Joe Poole, Sr. Information Security Specialist, IT Security
Joe comes to the IT Security team from the Scientific Research Corporation where he spent the last three years doing network security. Prior to that he served six years in the US Air Force, where he was a Network Engineer and Systems Integrator. Joe received his Master of Information Technology Management degree from Webster University…
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Musa Varachhia, Network Engineer 1, Infrastructure
Musa joins Data & Voice Engineer Team to help maintain the configurations of the switches. He comes to Emory from Georgia Perimeter College where he spent nine years advancing from being a Service Desk analyst to Network Specialist. While at Georgia Perimeter, he participated in a wireless upgrade, installed and maintained network switches, and adhered…
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Wayne Morse, Interim Operations Co-Director, Center for Digital Scholarship
Wayne will be interim Operations Co-Director of the new Center for Digital Scholarship effective June 1st. The Center is based on a combination of existing Library and IT centers, and will support scholarly and academic activities using digital technologies. Wayne’s role includes helping construct the new Center and moving it towards a goal of a…
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Darla Wolf, IT Coordinator, Enterprise Services
Darla comes to Emory with more than seven years of call center experience working with various teams for EarthLink and Apple. Her technical aptitude and drive for customer satisfaction contributed to her success at EarthLink, winning awards such as the prestigious J.D. Powers Customer Service Award. “Mary Kinney‘s (Enterprise Services) vision for Coordinator Services is…
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Dance Vs. Powerpoint: a Modest Proposal
John Bohannon believes that bad PowerPoint presentations are “a serious threat to the global economy.” He says that poor use of PowerPoint gives the illusion of competence, simplicity, and understanding. Wouldn’t a presentation go over much better if it were delivered as a dance? In his Ted bio, Bohannon is described as “a biologist and…
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UTS Game Day Brings the Division Together
After a one-year hiatus, the UTS Game Day returned to the Cox Hall Computing Center on May 16 and was a tremendous success. The event, sponsored by UTS but open to the entire OIT division, provided food, fun and camaraderie. The event offered a variety of Wii and xBox gaming, steel-tipped dart boards, a poker…