Author: Wade Moricle
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Perfect weather leads to one of the best Decatur Book Festivals
Sunny skies and refreshing winds helped make this year’s Decatur Book Festival a wonderful experience for the larger-than-normal crowds that filled downtown Decatur this weekend. “It was a fabulous Decatur Book Festival, with more visitors than we’ve ever had before,” said Leslie Wingate, director of campus and community relations. Julie Newton, library coordinator in the…
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JonWes Smith, Service Desk Analyst II, Service Desk
JonWes Smith joins the LITS Service Desk as the newest service desk analyst II. Before his arrival at Emory, he spent three years as a senior help desk analyst with Intelliteach, a legal services company. JonWes also worked for two years in tier2 iOS and Mac desktops support for Apple. Born in Indianapolis, IN, JonWes came…
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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events
Recent LITS headlines: Emory Report: Emory shines at the Decatur Book Festival Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) September 10 – Exhibition: “Billy Howard’s Epitaph for the Living” LAST DAY – Woodruff Library Level 3 Corridor Gallery September 21 – IT Briefing: a monthly look into the IT projects across LITS…
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Hall and Burke get rewarded for cost savings effort
Gerry Hall and Joel Burke recently worked on an effort to setup single sign-on for Emory’s recruiting system with IBM. The team faced a challenge with this integration where there was a mismatch between the NETID they were transmitting and the NETID being stored on the IBM/Kenexa system. Gerry and Joel found a solution that…
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Susan Hobson, IT Product Manager, Data Warehouse and BI
Susan Hobson recently accepted the position of Product Manager for the LITS: Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence team. Her primary role is that of service owner of Emory Business Intelligence (EBI). EBI is a service that provides a business intelligence and analytics platform through an Oracle application (OBIEE) leveraging data from the administrative data warehouse sourced from Compass,OPUS, and other core enterprise applications. According to Dana Haggas, Director of…
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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events
Recent LITS headlines: ECDS news: Inside Brotherman’s Big City: A unique digital partnership brings a superhero’s world to life ECDS news: Emory museum’s digital catalogue puts fiber arts at your fingertips Emory Report: Meet Emory authors at this weekend’s Decatur Book Festival Emory Libraries news: Emory Libraries to display rare materials, Dreamachine at Beats…
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Ramya Bommareddy, Manager, Database Administration, IT Operations
Ramya Bommareddy recently became the new database administration manager in LITS. Prior to joining Emory, Ramya worked in various IT leadership roles for the Hewlett Packard group of companies, starting in 2010. She also worked as an IT consultant for nearly five years at AT&T/Cingular Wireless. Born and raised in south central India, along the banks of…