Category: Meet New Employees
-
Tierra Thomas, Visiting Archivist, Collection Services, Rose Library
Tierra Thomas is the new visiting archivist for the Southern Jewish Collection in the Rose Library. Prior to this position, Tierra spent two years as a graduate research assistant at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also spent two years as a student assistant at…
-
Joan Wenders, Director of the Project Management Office and Portfolio for LITS
Joan Wenders takes over as the new director of the Project Management Office and Portfolio for LITS after spending 29 years at Assurant (which has undergone a few name changes via acquisitions and mergers). Joan started as a health underwriter, then became an IT manager in the late ’90s. She subsequently moved into project and…
-
Danny Bridges, Manager, PeopleSoft Administration, Enterprise Applications
Danny Bridges initially joined Emory in 2009 as an application integrator. For over 10 years, he held a key role on the PeopleSoft Administration team supporting Emory’s critical administrative systems. In April 2020, Danny stepped into an interim manager role for the team when Mike Davidson moved to the new Information Security Architecture team and…
-
Kayla Shipp, Digital Scholarship Specialist, Digital Publishing, ECDS
Kayla Shipp joins ECDS as the new digital scholarship specialist on the Digital Publishing Team in ECDS. Before transitioning into her current full-time role, she was a digital scholarship associate at ECDS from 2016-2019. At the time she was also completing her Ph.D. in English and working as an instructor in the Emory English department. Before…
-
Amy Li, Communications Coordinator, ECDS
Amy Li recently joined the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) as their new communications coordinator postdoctoral fellow, having spent the past year as the Emory Libraries/ECDS Digital Humanities Fellow. She also finished the final year of her PhD, graduating this past May. Amy has also worked as: a social media coordinator for ECDS through…
-
Joseph Lee, Cloud Solution Engineer, Research Solutions
Joseph Lee joined Research Solutions as a cloud solution engineer. In his new role, Joseph will be actively working with AWS at Emory to help users design, test and troubleshoot their solutions. He brings expertise about DevOps and cloud security from his recent experience at Warner Media as a DevOps software security engineer (2 years)…
-
JC Frisnel, Network Operations Dayshift Manager, NOC
Frisnel Jean-Charles (he goes by “JC Frisnell“) is the newest member of the Network Operations Center (NOC). Prior to coming to Emory, JC spent nine years at FibreLight as the network operations manager. Overall, he has spent over 25 years in the communication industry, including work at AT&T, Level 3, Bell Labs, Lucent, Avaya, Nortel,…