About the Speakers...

Ral Arcese, Chief Operating Officer. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Arcese is responsible for the operating strategies of IP blue. Mr. Arcese ensures the health and well-being of IP blue's technology and market directions, and directs new technology investments and acquisitions. Mr. Arcese held a wide range of management positions at AT&T and Nortel Networks during his 18-year career in the telecommunications field. At Lucent Technologies, he was responsible for sales and operations in the Enterprise Networks division and in General Business Services. His breadth of expertise ranges from process development and management, strategic business planning, to financial management. Mr. Arcese was instrumental to the successful implementation of leading technologies for such notable companies as: The Blackstone Group, Montefiore Medical, American Express and IPX Systems. Ron Rosansky mailto:rrosansky@ipblue.com- Executive Account Manager. As an Executive Account Manager, Ron is resposible for partnering with clients to develop customized advanced VoIP and IP Telephony solutions that resolve critical business issues while enhancing client communication and productivity. Prior to working with IP blue, Ron worked for a global leader in progressive "Thin Client" solutions. Heading their Legal Solutions Group in Manhattan, Ron developed global LAN/WAN/VPN based thin client and remote access solutions for the world's top law firms.

Charles R. Bartel is Director of Operations for Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as Project Director for the campus' major network deployments since 1986 Network and more recently has served as Project Director for the Wireless Andrew project. Mr. Bartel has lectured on the subject of wireless LANs at EDUCAUSE, as well as MIT and Harvard. Mr. Bartel holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Thomas A. Edison State College and a Masters in Public Management from Carnegie Mellon

Susan Brazer, President, LionShare Media International. Susan Brazer brings substantial experience in launching new digital technologies and entertainment services worldwide.

Most recently, Brazer was Executive Vice President, Wireless Corporate Development for helloNetworks a software company that enables streaming media over wireless devices. She has forged strategic alliances with Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Motorola, Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Sharp, Compaq, Marubeni, Mitsui, Cybird and Sony to launch new mobile multimedia services.

Lianne Caetano, Product Line Manager, NETGEAR, Inc. Lianne has been involved in strategic product marketing strategy and development for top tier, high-tech companies, such as Apple, US Robotics and 3Com, since 1990 and is currently responsible for the wireless line of products at Netgear. Lianne graduated with a Masters in Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.

Steven Case is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he also serves as the co-director of the Minnesota Center for Advanced Telecommunications. At MSU, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer organization, data communications & networking, mobile data communications, and operating systems. He is actively involved in undergraduate and graduate research initiatives in wireless communication, real-time applications, embedded systems, language translation, and user interface design.

Jamie Coughlin

Susan DiRenzo, Assistant Professor of Bibliography, is the Systems Coordinator for the University Libraries at The University of Akron. She received her MLS from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. Her routine and regular responsibilities include administering and maintaining UA's integrated library system, maintaining and developing the University Library web site, maintaining, and troubleshooting other library systems, resources, and services, and managing new projects and initiatives within the library. For the past 16 months, Susan has worked with circulation staff to develop, implement, and maintain Bierce Library's Laptop Lending Program. Recently, she implemented ILLiad, an online Interlibrary Loan System and VRL (Virtual Reference Librarian) an interactive web-based reference service.

Christopher Doemel, Higher Education Systems Engineer, Ohio. Chris has over ten years of experience working to help individuals in higher education learn to use technology to meet the needs of faculty, staff, and students. Chris joined Apple in 1999 and supports Apple's higher education customers in Ohio colleges and universities.

John DuBois, Group Manager, Education Standards and Solutions Team. John is responsible for technology strategies and developing prescriptive architecture guidance for .Net in Education. This architecture work effort is intended to support Microsoft s high-level vision for web services and distributed computing in education and provides detail on Microsoft's plans for supporting them in a number of software and platform integration areas including handheld devices. John also acts as the liaison between the Education Solutions Team and Microsoft Research and works with this team in emerging uses of technology in education included mobility solutions.

Christine Dziedzina, Chief Librarian Brittingham Memorial Library, Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center

Nate Fagen is the Program Chair for Information Technology at the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) in West Des Moines, Iowa. His responsibilities in that position include directing, designing, and developing for DMACC's Wireless Initiative. Mr. Fagen assumed the role of Program Chair at DMACC after nearly 20 years in the business sector in various technology positions to include the last 7 years as a technology and project management consultant. Mr. Fagen holds a BSBA and an MBA from Drake University, Iowa.

John C. Fowler is the Infrastructure Market Development Manager for Global Education & Research at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Prior to joining Education Marketing he was a Systems Engineer calling on the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, specializing in security and infrastructure related problems. During the 17 years prior to his employment at Sun Microsystems, Inc., John was a Systems/Network Administrator to a private newspaper chain. John was responsible for all the wide & local area networking, two Digital Vax Clusters, all the Sun hardware, and NT based servers at eleven different sites. Previous employment includes a stint as a Director of Research and Development for a digital based paralegal firm, Director of Management Information Services for a Telecommunications company. John Fowler has a degree in BS Computer Science - Software Engineering

Bruce Friedman, Director - Mobile and E-Business Consulting

As Managing Director for Mobile and E-Business Consulting at Sprint, Mr. Friedman is responsible for identifying new service initiatives consistent with Sprint's strategic plans, and developing key opportunities. Currently, Mr. Friedman is leading Sprint's Mobile Computing and E-Business consulting business unit, delivering a suite of market facing services including 3G based multi-media messaging, mobile applications development and wireless infrastructure integration. Mr. Friedman recently directed Sprint's successful bid to build an application hosting and management platform, transforming Sprint from a long distance telecommunication provider into a next-generation Internet infrastructure company.

Tom Gaylord is the Vice President for Information and Instructional Technologies, Libraries, and Institutional Planning at The University of Akron in Ohio. He has 25 years of experience in information technology, information and instructional systems software, competitive intelligence, and institutional research. He has presented or authored over 100 papers in a wide variety of technology and strategic planning topics. Having worked at four major research universities, state coordinating commissions, provincial and institutional higher education organizations in Canada, and the private sector, he brings a blend of grassroots experiences forward in discussions on technology futures and how higher education can both shape and take advantage of them.

At Akron, Dr. Gaylord has helped transform the university into a leading technology center in the State, securing innovative partnerships with best of breed private sector technology companies such as CISCO, IBM, PeopleSoft, Time-Warner, and EduPrise/WebCT. Dr. Gaylord also serves on the Board of Visitors for the Ohio Supercomputing Center, the Ohio Board of Regents Performance Measures Committee, and the Ohio Board of Regents Technology Education Credit Task Force.

Prior to joining The University of Akron, he was chief executive officer of GDA Research & Information Systems Inc., based in British Columbia. He has held a variety of technical and research posts in Canada, including strategic planning and information systems consultant for the Technical University of British Columbia; chief of research and information systems/managing consultant for the Centre for Educational Information; and the Vice President of the Strategic Information Research Institute. Prior to GDA, Tom served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Planning, Computing, and Information Systems (CIO) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he brought up Alaska's first data warehouse. In the preceding nine years, Tom served at Alaska's Board of Regent's Office where he headed the system's Institutional Research Office and the Fiscal Analysis Office.

A graduate of Harvard's Management Development Certification Program, Tom received a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Florida. He earned a masters degree in physics from the same institution, after receiving a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Alaska.

Kenneth C. Green, Founder & Director, The Campus Computing Project. (cgreen@campuscomputing.net)

Kenneth C. Green is the founder/director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in US colleges and universities. The project is widely cited by campus officials and corporate executives as the definitive source for information about IT issues affecting American higher education. Green is also is a visiting scholar at The Claremont Graduate University (The Claremont Colleges) in Claremont, CA. His column on technology and higher education issues, Digital Tweed, appears monthly in Converge Magazine (www.convergemag.com).

The author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and some three dozen articles that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications, Dr. Green is frequently quoted on higher education, information technology, and labor market issues in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and in other print and broadcast media. Additionally, he is an invited speaker at some two dozen academic conferences and professional meetings each year, including recent conferences and seminars sponsored by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, American Assoc. of Community Colleges, American Assoc. for Higher Education, EDUCAUSE, The Institute for International Research, The League for Innovation in the Community College, and The Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA).

Green's consulting activities focus on information technology, campus planning and policy issues, and higher education marketing. His corporate clients and project sponsors include Apple Computer, Compaq Computer, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, Follett Corp., Gateway Computer, Harcourt Brace, Houghton Mifflin, Hewlett Packard, IBM, KPMG Peat Marwick, Lucent Technology, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Corp., Nortel Networks, Oracle Corp., Pearson Education Publishing, SCT Corp., Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba North America, among others. Green also serves as a member of the Education Section Board of the Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA).

A graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, Green completed his master's degree at Ohio State University and earned his doctorate in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

From 1989 to 1994, Green was a senior research associate (1989-1991) and later director (1991-1994) of The James Irvine Foundation Center for Scholarly Technology at the University of Southern California. Prior to his affiliation with USC, Green served for seven years as the associate director and operating officer of UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute and also the American Council on Education/UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the nation's largest and oldest empirical study of higher education.

Green's 1991 book, Who's Going to Run General Motors? What College Students Need to Learn Today to Become Business Leaders Tomorrow (Peterson's), co-authored with Daniel T.Seymour, has been widely praised by leaders in academe and corporations. Several reviewers described this book as a "must read" for college students, college faculty, and corporate officials.

Steve Grove is currently Medical Librarian at the Brittingham Memorial Library of the Metrohealth Medical Center, a teaching hospital affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, where he also serves as resource coordinator for PDA information He is a member of the PDA Library Users Group (PLUG) at the Medical Center.

Previously he was medical librarian at Community Health Partners in Lorain, Ohio. He has co-authored an article with Christine Dziedzina, chief librarian for the Brittingham Memorial Library, entitled PDAS in the Midwest in E-Sources, an e-journal published by Greater Midwest Region of the National Library of Medicine. He and Christine will also take part in the Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association's annual conference in Minneapolis in September where they will participate in a panel discussion on PDAs in the Medical Setting.

Anthony P. Lent, Sprint - Area Vice President - Great Lakes Area

Anthony P. Lent is area vice president for the Great Lakes Area of Sprint's wireless division, Sprint PCS. In his current role, Lent leads the company's sales and marketing activities in Great Lakes Area, which covers Michigan, northwest Ohio, western New York and Pittsburgh.

Mike Lorion, vice president of Education, joined the Palm team in February 2000 after spending nearly 12 years at Apple Computer, where he distinguished himself in both the retail and education arenas of the personal computer industry. For the past four years, Mike served as vice president of the Apple Education Division. Mike is in his 23rd year in the computer industry and, prior to joining Apple, held positions as a manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General in Massachusetts. Mike is an alumnus of Springfield College in Springfield, Mass. He is a trustee of the National School Boards Foundation and served on the board of directors of Smart Valley, Inc.

Kalle Lyytinen is a professor Case Western Reserve University in Information Systems Department and an adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He serves currently on the editorial boards of several leading IS journals including, Information Systems Research, EJIS, JSIS, Information&Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal, and Information Systems Journal. He has published over 70 articles and edited or written eight books. He is currently editing a special issue on pervasive computing for Communications of the ACM (December 2002)¸ and published an article of the research challenges related to pervasive applications. His research interests include information system theories, system design, system failures and risk assessment, computer supported cooperative work, nomadic computing, and the diffusion of complex technologies.

Dr. Randolph H. Manning, Assistant Dean of Business and Technology, Suffolk County Community College

Mark Marrow

Avik Mukhopedhyay

Myoung-ja Lee Kwon

Thomas M. Nosek, Ph.D. has been the Associate Dean for Biomedical Information Technologies for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 1997. Dr. Nosek is also professor of Physiology and Biophysics, heading a research team that is investigating the cellular basis of muscle fatigue.

Dr. Nosek was the founder and coordinator of the Computer Aided Instruction Research and Development Group in the Department of Physiology and Endocrinology at the Medical College of Georgia. This group of researchers and medical educators created a computerized learning resource containing heavily illustrated text, adaptive testing questions, sound files, animations, and video clips to help students learn the basic principles of medical physiology taught to first and second year medical students. Essentials of Human Physiology: A Multimedia Resource is commercially available on CD-ROM. Dr. Nosek is the executive editor and a section author of this computer-based application. The MCG Department of Physiology and Endocrinology has used this application in the physiology courses taught by the department. Dr. Nosek led investigations into the effects of this extensive, self paced resource on faculty teaching and student learning.

Phyllis O'Connor, Associate Professor of Bibliography, is the Assistant Dean of University Libraries at The University of Akron. Phyllis received her MLS from Kent State University and has worked for university libraries for nearly 24 years in several different positions. In her present position, she is responsible for monitoring the libraries' budgets, maintaining their physical facilities and coordinating its human resources. In addition to her duties as Assistant Dean, she serves as the Head of Circulation, which includes interlibrary loans, OhioLINK circulation, reserves, stack maintenance, billing, holds, remote storage, binding and physical processing. In January 2001, the laptop lending program was added to her list of duties as Head of Circulation.

Karen Oye has a Master's of Library Science and has been at CWRU since 1996, as Head of Customer Services for University Library. Responsible for traditional services and policies, she is also an administrative liaison charged with special projects, developing new tiers of service, outreach, and incorporating new technologies into library services to benefit staff and library customers. Prior to CWRU, Ms. Oye worked for 7 years at Cleveland's NASA Lewis Research Center as an aerospace/engineering and business librarian and put the NASA library and many of its services on the web in 1994.

Ms. Oye serves on numerous CWRU committees, is Chair of CWRU Library Systems Roundtable, and is the CWRU representative for OhioLINK's Inter-Campus Services Committee. A member of the American Library Association and the Special Libraries Association, Ms. Oye has been a panelist and a presenter at their national conferences, at the headquarters of Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), and has been an invited speaker at several state library association meetings.

Frank Peterpaul is Regional Director, Business Development, Oracle Corporation

In his current position, Frank is responsible for the business and product development for Oracle's Mobile and Messaging Product Division. Prior to joining Oracle, Frank held various positions within the wireless industry, most notably for AT&T Wireless Services. In this position, Frank was responsible for positioning AT&T Wireless' data and campus solutions. He has served as a wireless consultant for carriers and enterprises focusing on the delivery of key content for employees and customers' mobile devices. He has a Communications degree from Villanova University.

David Pilasky is the Manger of Network Operations and Network Administrator for Biomedical Information Technologies at CWRU School of Medicine where he has been helping students, faculty and staff at since 1993. He created the first website for the School of Medicine and developed the first version of the Electronic Curriculum. He initiated PDA support in the School of Medicine when Palm was still owned by US Robotics. In addition to his duties as Network Administrator, his areas of interest are in the use of technology in medical education including the use of PDAs, streaming and wireless.

David graduated from Kent State University with a B.S. in Biology. He received a Masters degree in Hospital and Healthcare Administration from the Ohio State University and a Masters degree in Computer Information Science from Cleveland State University.

Brandon Pinsky has been a network analyst with Columbia University for almost three years. He came to New York after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Latin. For the past year, he has been busy with Columbia's 802.11b deployment as the project manager. This has meant a lot of time on rooftops, in ceilings, and in other hard-to-reach places. He is currently working on a M.A. in Computing and Education from Columbia's Teachers College. B.J. is also an FCC licensed amateur radio technician.

Cristina Pope

William Quigley is currently the Special Projects Manager of the Netcentricity Research Lab at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. In this capacity, he is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities associated with two major projects associated with the Netcentricity Lab: eMaryland and the DoD Supply Chain Management Portal. The eMaryland Project is a collaborative initiative between the Maryland Department of Budget and Management and the University of Maryland's Office of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management Center. The goal of eMaryland is to position Maryland to become the Number One E-Commerce State in the Nation and to be recognized as the national leader in the digital economy.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has recently recognized the R.H. Smith School's Netcentricity Laboratory as DoD's Supply Chain Integration Center (SCIC). The purpose of the SCIC will be to provide an environment for furthering the application of technology to evaluate and monitor the real-time movement of transactions and supporting data through DoD's very large, dynamic supply chain.

Prior to joining the technical team at the University of Maryland, Bill spent more than 16 years at the MITRE Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center that performs systems engineering work on behalf of the US government. At MITRE, Bill tackled a wide variety of distributed information systems challenges while supporting the Air Force, the Intelligence Community, the FAA, the US Postal Service, the Veterans Administration, and the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Bill has Bachelors Degrees in both Mathematics (Stonehill College) and Electrical Engineering (University of Notre Dame) and a Masters Degree from Boston University in Computer Engineering.

Doug Randall is Technology Product Manager for Innovative Interfaces, Inc., a leading supplier of library automation systems worldwide, and is responsible for integration of new hardware and software technologies into Innovative systems. Since joining Innovative in 1985, Doug has held a number of positions in technical areas including integration, application software development and customer support.

Timothy Robson is Deputy Director of the University Library at Case Western Reserve University. He is responsible for the digital library initiatives of the University Library, as well as overseeing the technical services functions (cataloging, acquisitions, serials, and preservations) for the library. He has been active in a number of library professional organizations, including Chair of the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians, and the national chair of the Music OCLC Users Group. Mr. Robson began his professional career as a music librarian, and he continues a dual life as a church musician. He has been an unabashed Macintosh user since 1984.

Barbara Sawhill is the Director of the Cooper International Learning Center at Oberlin College. In addition to supporting the ILC and the Language Faculty that use it, Barbara also works with the wireless Electronic Seminar Room and the laptop loaner program thbrough the libraries at Oberlin . Prior to Oberlin, Barbara taught Spanish and was the Director of the Digital Media Center at the Noble and Greenough School (Dedham, MA)

Mark Uhart, Sprint - Education Market Manager - Business and Wholesale Markets

Mark Uhart, Education Market Manager for Sprint is responsible for the marketing strategies and plans for higher education markets on a national level. Mark's background is in telecommunications and Internet technologies and services. Sprint's franchise higher education market includes over 150 two and four-year colleges and universities and technical colleges. Mark, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel has extensive experience at the graduate level as an instructor and academic counselor and evaluator (ACE) at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

Michael Yeager began his career in the interlibrary loan department of the Case Western Reserve University Library in February 1988. While in this position he was primarily responsible for borrowing. Over the years, he assumed more and more responsibilities involving the technologies used by the department, and he quickly became the "go to guy" whenever someone needed help setting anything up, tweaking it, or repairing. His responsibilities evolved into providing support for the entire library. Two years ago, he reached his goal of becoming a member of the newly formed technology team for University Library. Most recently, Mike was an integral part of the team that developed and then rolled out the wireless iMac and iBook project at Kelvin Smith Library.