Category Archives: Meet New Employees

Laura Akerman, Metadata Librarian, Core Systems

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Laura Akerman (pronounced “AY-ker-men”) is the Technology and Metadata Librarian and she has been at Woodruff Library since 1986. Laura has led or contributed to many projects to introduce new technologies and transform library metadata to provide new or better services. Before her time in the Library, Laura spent ten years in Human Resources at […]

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James Bias, Operating Systems Analyst, Sr., Digital Programs and Systems

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James has been at the Library for two years as an operating systems analyst. Prior to Emory, he administered servers for PEER1, managing web-hosting for over a year. Interestingly, James has also worked as a corporate spy. He used to work for IronMail, which was eventually bought by McAfee. He had several Fortune-500 business customers […]

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Jon Bodnar, User Experience Librarian, Core Systems

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Jon has dual titles as the User Experience Librarian and the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations Program Coordinator. He’s been at Emory for three years. Before coming to Emory, he spent four years at Georgia Tech’s library as a Faculty Engagement and Assessment Librarian and as a Subject Specialist and Departmental Liaison to the Schools of […]

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Ceray Doss-Williams, Project Manager, PMO

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Ceray (pronounced “sur-RAY”) has worked in the Library for nearly six years. She originally came to Emory as the coordinator of the federally-funded 21st Century Librarians project, which granted Master’s of Science in library Information Systems degrees to Georgia residents. Impressed with her project management skills, Library management gave Ceray several other Library projects, including […]

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John Ellinger, Director, Digital Programs and Systems

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As Director of Digital Programs and Systems, John has been at Emory for two years. Before working in the Library, John was at Morris Communications in Augusta, GA for seven years as the Director of Technical Operations, including network engineering systems and data center operations. John also spent 12 years at Westinghouse-Savannah River as a […]

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Bela Gazdy, Lead Operating Systems Analyst, Digital Programs and Systems

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Bela has been at Emory since 1986 and used to be with ITD and UTS before coming to the Library with the latest renovation. Prior to coming to Emory, he was a post doc at the University of Florida. A native of Budapest, Hungary, Bela moved to the United States in 1983. “I came for […]

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Bernardo Gomez, Technical Project Manager, Sr., Core Systems

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Bernardo is familiar with OIT because he began his career at Emory in 1995 as a UTS employee in support of the Library systems. He moved over to the Library staff several years ago and now he is back in UTS again. Before coming to Emory, Bernardo worked for 10 years as a programmer for […]

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