Category Archives: Meet New Employees

Derrick Merritt, Communication Specialist, Enterprise Services

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Derrick joins the field services team to work on the VoIP Avaya phones and has already been busy at the Midtown location. He has been at Emory for over ten years, working as a maintenance mechanic and staging technician. He also worked for Allstate, where he had his P&C license, which he keeps current. A […]

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Kevin Glover, Web Developer, R-WIT

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Kevin has joined the R-WIT Web Team and will be working on Libraries and blogs. Before coming to Emory, he spent three years as a front-end web developer and graphic designer at the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robbins. Kevin also did instructional design, including developing training materials. Prior to that, Kevin worked at […]

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Cierra Lockhart, Communication Specialist I, Call Center

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Cierra joined the Call Center team part time in January after completing training that began in June of 2012. Before coming to Emory, Cierra worked as a contractor with Goodwill doing work for Emory. She has also worked at a daycare at Skyline Christian Academy in Ellenwood, GA., where she was a teacher’s assistant and […]

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Lincoln Higdon, Sr. IT Manager, R-WIT

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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

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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

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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

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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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