Author: Wade Moricle
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Tabitha Pirtle Visits China
Tabitha Pirtle (Call Center) has traveled the world. Having grown up in a military family where she was raised in West Germany and Japan, she has managed to see her fair share of foreign lands. So when her cousin Micah told her that she simply MUST attend his wedding in Shanghai, China, it became a…
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Be Careful What You Ask For: a Lesson in Password Security
Password security is no joke. If you have ever struggled to bolster the strength of your passwords or had difficulty remembering them, you can appreciate the frustration that often accompanies password maintenance. Toby Turner, comedian, YouTube celebrity and entrepreneur, recently posted this hilarious video rant about his frustration with password security requirements (apologies for the…
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Sam Phillips, Systems Analyst/Admin, R-WIT
Sam came to R-WIT to do application support. His last job was at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he did high-performance computing for three years. He was also a system administrator at Sanford Brown College. Possessing a management degree from Georgia Tech, Sam also has a CIS/SP certification. He attended Tech despite growing up…
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Victoria White, PS EPM Developer III, Enterprise Applications
Victoria joins the Enterprise Applications team as a PeopleSoft (PS) Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) developer. Previously she worked on multiple engagements as a PS EPM and Reporting consultant, where she traveled to different client sites in the southeast. She has done this work for the past twelve years. Victoria got an MBA from the University…
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Go Red For Women Day in the Call Center
On February 1, the UTS Call Center celebrated Go Red for Women Day, where everyone was asked to wear red in support of women’s heart health. The Call Center put up an informative display and used it to distribute hand outs and heart-healthy snacks. Every February, the American Heart Association (AHA) acknowledges women and their lifelong role…
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Paul Mitchell Honored By Decatur Focus
Paul Mitchell (Enterprise Applications) was in the Decatur Focus last month after being honored as one of Decatur’s 2012 Hometown Heroes. According to the article, “Paul Mitchell has been a Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project volunteer since its founding in 2003. Paul has professional skills in all aspects of home repair and renovation. In 2010, Paul joined…
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DATAM8R Gets a Three-Dimensional Reward
When Barbara Anderson (Integration) got to work last week, she found a surprise from Elizabeth Bell and Erika Buchholz (both of Integration) in her cubicle…an amazing, three-dimensional data model! Barbara was the architect of Emory Shared Data (ESD). Nicknamed “the DATAM8R” (it is on her car license tag), Barbara created the entity relationship diagram as…