Author: Wade Moricle
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Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Software Engineer, Sr., R-WIT
Rebecca came to the Library six years ago fresh out of grad school and started working in the Beck Center, which allowed her to combined her dual skills of electronic texts and computers. Born in Salt Lake City, UT, Rebecca came to the Deep South to get a PhD of English Literature from Emory. She…
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Alex Kyrychenko, Business Analyst II, Academic Technology Services
Alex Kyrychenko (pronounced “kee-ree-CHAN-ko”) is the Learning Commons coordinator. He came to the Library in 2009 after working in ECIT for four years. “Our goal,” says Alex, “is to provide a unified user experience throughout the campus.” Alex is graduating this semester with PhD in Religion from Emory. He received two Master’s degrees from Abilene…
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Mike Mitchell, Java Developer IV, R-WIT
Mike has been the Systems Team Leader in the Library for the past three years. Before Emory, he worked for six years at Florida State University as the lead software developer and a Blackboard administrator. Mike also worked at Turner Broadcasting, where he worked as a web editor for the CNN newsroom. He eventually became…
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Mark Prefer, Operating Systems Analyst, Sr., Digital Programs and Systems
Mark Prefer (pronounced “PREH-fur”) likes to describe himself as a jack-of-all-trades and is still in his first year at the Library. Before Emory, he was at Morris Communications in Augusta, GA for 20 years, where he was also an operating systems analyst. Born in Augusta, GA, Mark got a BBA from Augusta College. Mark is…
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Alex Thomas, Software Engineer, Sr., R-WIT
Alex has been working in the Library since 2008, and has been doing a lot of work with the Fedora Commons repositories using Python, Django, and PHP. Before Emory, he worked at Ricoh where he was a back-end Java programmer. At the Library, Alex has worked a lot with the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD)…
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Jay Varner, Operating Systems Analyst, Sr., Digital Programs and Systems
Jay’s official title is the Digital Scholarship Solutions Analyst and he’s been at the Library for a year. Prior to that he was at an SaaS startup called Predictix, where he was a member of their global operations team. He worked on retail forecasting applications for two years. He also worked on computer systems and…
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How Social Media Can Make History
In the latest in my series of Wade’s Favorite Ted Talks, Clay Shirky, a writer, professor, and consultant, delivered the following embedded presentation to the US State Department regarding the transformed media landscape. According to Shirky, whose consulting firm develops decentralized technologies such as wireless networks and peer-to-peer, what matters in today’s communication “is not…