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Jeannine Abele graduated from Purdue in 1984 with a B.S. in Computer Technology. After spending most of her career at The Procter and Gamble Company, she recently joined General Electric Transportation as CIO - Engine Services Global Operations based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is responsible for all IT capabilities in support of GE's global aircraft engine service shops. She is married to a fellow Purdue alum Adam Abele and has two children ages 15 and 7. |
Michael Antonoff is a 1999 graduate of Purdue University, with a BS in Computer Technology. He began his career with Braun Consulting, a mid-size consulting firm specializing in business strategy, data warehousing, and customer relationship management. Michael spent four years with Braun working as a Senior Consultant and Team Leader specializing in Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) technologies. In 2003, he joined Guidant Corporation as a Senior Analyst in Reliability and Quality Assurance in Cardiac Rhythm Management. His responsibilities include mentorship of Intermediate and Senior Analysts, Project Technical Lead, and the administration of the Reliability Analysis Detection and Response system (for analysis of performance of Cardiac Rhythm Management devices and regulatory reporting for the FDA and BSI). Currently, Michael is Manager of Product Delivery & Technology for RedBrick Health in Minneapolis, MN. | ||||
Amanda Bennett is currently and undergraduate junior in the College of Technology. She is studying Network Engineering Technology of the Computer & Information Technology tracks, and minoring in Organizational Leadership & Supervision. Over the summer of 2006 Amanda worked for Purdue University's Engineering Computer Network as a network technician student assistant. Amanda currently serves as the College of Technology's Women in Technology (WIT) student organization. Through her Presidency with WIT she hopes to increase their number of memberships and interact more with other organizations such as the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), Minority Technology Association (MTA), and the Technology Living/Learning Communities.
Amanda is also a member of the Purdue Triathlon Club and enjoys reading, photography, knitting and scrapbooking. |
Tom Ehrman graduated from Purdue University in 1991 with a B.S. in Computer Technology. Upon graduation, he joined Whirlpool Corp. in Benton Harbor, MI as a Data Base Administrator. In 1999, he relocated his family to Dublin Ireland to build an internal European SAP Support Centre. He currently has accountability for pervasive computing and the deployment of SAP Netweaver products, with a focus on enabling our employees, partners and consumers with easy access to information. He is married and has three children, ages 9, 6 and 4. | ||||
Daniel Fay is the Manager of eScience Program in Microsoft Research, where he supports academic research projects focused on utilizing computing technologies to aid in scientific and engineering research. Dan was previously the Program Manager for Project 7; a unique project that brought together a variety of academic languages and language researchers to target and give feedback on the Common Language Runtime and its multi language support. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Dan was a senior software engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation working on OSF/1 and embedded network devices. Dan is a graduate of Northeastern University in Electrical Engineering. |
Tammy Fisher is a Manager in the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Central Healthcare Practice. Ms. Fisher has 22 years of professional experience in the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Logistics, Healthcare and Biomedical industries. She has an extensive record of achievement in Distribution Management, Project Management, Program Management, IT Effectiveness and Continuous Process Improvement - bridging the gap between business operations and technical delivery. | ||||
Mark Gackenheimer graduated from the School of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Technology is 1993. Mark has over 12 years of experience working for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a leading health and hygiene company. He has been a part of numerous IT related initiatives at Kimberly-Clark including his latest opportunity as Computer Services Manager for Desktop Services. Responsibilities in his role include setting and maintaining security for PCs, standardization and usage policies, centralized management and web conferencing capability for thousands of workstations around the globe. In addition to his management responsibilities, Mark is the lead Kimberly-Clark recruiter for MIS on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus. He and his wife Cindy live in the Appleton/Fox Valley area in Northeast Wisconsin and have 3 children – Ryann, Jeremy and Emma. |
As Global Human Resource IT Manager for ExxonMobil, Ms. Grieger leads an IT team that works directly with her HR business partners to identify strategic activities, manage the portfolio of all active projects, stewards IT performance, and provide efficient/effective enhancements for the HR business globally. Stephanie has been with ExxonMobil for 20 years holding positions within IT that cross both applications and infrastructure as well as assignments in the Controllers organization, vendor management, and Data Privacy. A 1986 Computer Technology graduate, she continues to be involved with Purdue University via campus recruiting. Stephanie, her husband (who also works for ExxonMobil) and their two children reside in Sugar Land, TX. | ||||
Tony Kobrinetz is Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Canopy? wireless broadband products. As a seasoned technology and business professional, Mr. Kobrinetz has devoted over 30 years to the shaping of mobile telephony, wireless local area networks, cellular telecommunications and telematics. Key accomplishments include the development of a private wireless data network in the United States as well as the pioneering of a wireless local area network at 18 GHz. Mr. Kobrinetz holds numerous patents in communication components and systems. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University in Chicago. |
Jennifer Kurtz is currently engaged in consulting and writing. Prior to this, Jennifer managed strategic relations and communications for Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Before her Purdue appointment, Ms. Kurtz served a two-year appointment as Indiana’s Director of eCommerce. While there, she co-authored “INdiana Interconnect”, the first statewide broadband infrastructure study and was responsible for Indiana’s inaugural broadband conference. Other achievements there include eGov Task Force work that resulted in Indiana’s 2003 #8 ranking for eGovernment services, the Governor’s Technology Roundtable report, and the 2003 Indiana Life Sciences Resource Guide. She also worked on foreign policy at the White House and US State Department. Her educational background includes multiple languages, an International Relations degree from The American University, graduate work in history at the University of Maryland, and a MBA from Anderson University. | ||||
Mark is an Information Technology Manager for Rolls Royce and is part of the Aftermarket Program Management team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, working as part of the Defense North America business group. Mark’s area of focus is the identification, development and implementation of processes and support systems needed to deliver Defense Sector aftermarket business. Mark graduated from Purdue with a BS in Computer Technology in 1984. Mark is married to Nancy and has three children - Eric (11), Anna (11) and Claire (8). |
Eric Leill, a native of Lafayette, IN, has been with Cargill, Inc. since graduating from Krannert with an Industrial Management Major and Computer Science Minor in 1984. He is currently responsible for a technical team globally managing the lifecycle solutions of Windows Intel clients and servers. Altiris is the primary solution provider for the team. During his time at Cargill, he spent seven years in Japan as the country I/T manager. Eric currently resides in the Minneapolis area where Cargill's corporate headquarters are located. He and his wife Sheryl have two daughters.
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Edwina Lenz is a 1986 graduate of Purdue University, with a BS in Computer Technology. She began her career with the Kellogg company, where she had various roles in Information Management that included assignments in Latin America and the United States. In 1999 she joined Johnson and Johnson at their DePuy affiliate as Director of Technical Architecture. In 2000 she was promoted to Vice President, Information Management, where she had responsibility for Information Management strategy and management for their global operations. She subsequently moved to a Corporate role, where her responsibilities include Supply Chain application strategy and direction for the Medical Devices and Diagnostics companies globally. Edwina is currently leading a global SAP program which will enable the harmonization of manufacturing and inventory management business processes across the Medical Devices and Diagnostics companies. |
Timothy J. Martin – CBCP: Senior Manager responsible for the CSS-BCM Program Office at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle WA. In this role he is responsible for driving business awareness and mitigation strategies around business risk, relative to disruptive events regarding customer and partner interactions. Tim has over 25 years experience in Information Technology and is a Certified Business Continuity Professional. Tim's background began in the support of centralized midrange systems (Hardware and Software) in the early 1980s, distributed systems and network infrastructure throughout the 90's, leading to management roles within various business and consulting groups to present day. Tim is a 1995 CPT alumnus. | ||||
John McDonald is the Business Unit Executive for Product Introduction + Exploration, part of the Americas Software Technical Sales team. The organization is responsible for preparing and supporting our software field technical sales team, and John has particular responsibilities for technical collateral creation, delivery and process management, as well as enablement around Microsoft competitive issues, Linux and Software Architecture. John started at IBM in August 1989 as a Marketing Sales Assistant part-time while a student at Purdue, but he began his full-time employment in March 1995 as a local software marketing leader, and has held positions as a technical specialist for OS/2 and technical leader for Windows NT software sales. John managed the first Software Architect team, helping its growth to over 500 practitioners worldwide, and he remains the Americas Software Architect Community Leader. He graduated from Purdue with a bachelor's degree in Computer Technology in 1995. |
Matt McKillip is the co-founder at KMAP and CEO of CMS-Katra & Executive Director Katra Healthcare USA. He served as the Mayor of Kokomo, Indiana and is very active in the community with efforts like the Downtown Association, The Kokomo Technology Center Business Incubator and Rotary. In 1995 Matt started his own consulting firm, Momentum. Before starting Momentum, he worked for 10 years with Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati and in Europe. Matt is a native of Kokomo, graduated from Kokomo High School and with highest distinction from Purdue University in Lafayette in 1985. Matt is married to Heather and they have a lovely daughter, Sara Elisabeth. | ||||
Nick Miller is an Information Technology (IT) Project Manager at Eli Lilly and Company where he has been employed over the last 19 years. His current interests include project and portfolio management and he is Director of Outreach for the Central Indiana Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI-CIC). He has published several papers and spoken at national conferences on the subject of IT Project Management. Nick holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, has a BS in Computer Technology from Purdue University and holds a Masters of Project Management (MPM) from ITT Technical Institute. |
Tyron Moser is President and CEO of Moser Consulting, Incorporated. He started the company in 1996 with the mission to provide quality IT services in the area of data management. Prior to starting the company, Tyron spent seven years as a database administrator in the manufacturing and medical products industries. His specialties included large-scale replication and cross-platform database integration. He is a graduate of Purdue University in Computer Technology. His current and past community service includes serving as a youth baseball and soccer coach. Tyron and his wife Paula, also a graduate of Purdue, have three children.
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Dan Post received his B.S. degree from Purdue University in Computer Technology in 1986. He joined Exxon Chemical’s (now ExxonMobil) Systems and Computing Division immediately following graduation. His career has progressed via several positions of increasing responsibility including:
applications programmer, project leader, financial analysis, strategy and planning, supervisor/manager to his current assignment as Global Corporate Account Manager. Dan currently resides in Houston, Texas with his wife and four children.
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Ron Ramhap graduated from Purdue in 1985 with a B.S. in Computer Technology. Ron is currently a expert consultant on Service Delivery with Axon Global, a leading IT Services Supplier specializing in SAP.
Ron's focus is on helping customers install solutions that meet their business and cost requirements. Ron brings 23+ years of prior experience with Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, and Satyam in IT and manufacturing systems. Ron has significant career experience in program management and project management for large efforts especially for business transformation, application implementation or update, and application integration or separation for acquisitions and divestures. He has been successful building and leading large teams of resources from multiple employers, countries, and time zones. Ron is married to Cincinnati native Mary Ann. They have three children and are very active in Church, Marching Band, and Scouting activities. | ||||
Rick Schooler joined Orlando Regional Healthcare in October, 2001 as Vice President/Chief Information Officer. Mr. Schooler earned his Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis and his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology from Purdue University in 1982. He is a member of various professional organizations and sits on a number of boards and committees. |
Stephanie Semmel is a junior in Computer & Information Technology, specializing in Information Systems Technology. She serves as the Computer Roundtable Chairperson for AITP (Association of Information Technology) and is also involved with the Women in Technology group. | ||||
Steve Smith is the President of Innovative Network Solutions, Inc., an IT services and solutions provider for homeowners and small to medium-size businesses. Steve has fulfilled many roles in IT from Unix Engineer to CIO which have included working in various countries such as Japan and England. During his tenure with IBM, Steve leveraged his role and relationship with IBM and Purdue to introduce the first ever University program for Tivoli Systems whereby Tivoli training is offered within the curriculum. Steve is a 1992 graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology. |
Jeffrey Spreen is a distinguished 1989 graduate of Purdue University, with a BS in Computer and Information Technology. He is currently a PM/BA Consultant with Beacon Technologies, Inc. of Madison, WI. At Beacon Technologies, Jeff is responsible for managing various IT projects and for providing a high degree of business analysis for his clients. Prior to his position with Beacon Technologies, Jeff was a Senior Project Manager with SumTotal Systems, Inc. He has held Business Analyst positions with the Credit Union National Association in Madison, WI, American Girl in Middleton, WI and with Exxon Mobile in Houston, TX. Jeff brings over 16 years of IT experience to the Industrial Advisory Board. He and his wife Barbara have one son and reside in the Madison, WI area. | ||||
Pete Srejovic graduated from Purdue in 1999 with a B.S. in Computer Technology. After starting his career at KPMG Consulting, he joined Accenture's technical architecture group with their consulting practice in 2000. In his current position as Manager of the Products Technology Architecture Group, Pete's responsibilities include the definition, development, and execution of all technical architecture elements including: system requirements, functional requirements, project scope, project planning, project estimating and budgeting, project staffing, technical design, coding, and testing design and execution. |
Deborah Stidd-Schulman, Director of Systems Design & Integration for Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems, is responsible for the successful delivery of software solutions to Lockheed Martin businesses and functions enabling customer achievement of strategic and tactical business objectives. During her 25 years of experience in the Lockheed Martin Corporation, Ms. Schulman has held numerous technical and managerial positions of increasing scope. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, she was the Director of Data Processing for the City of Anderson, Indiana. Ms. Schulman has won numerous awards for her technical and leadership accomplishments including the Martin Marietta Corporation’s highest Award, the Jefferson Cup, and in 2004 the Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems President’s Award. She holds BS and MA degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. | ||||
Ronald Wertz is cofounder and executive vice president of Gottlieb & Wertz, Inc (G&W). Founded in 1990, G&W is a software development company that focuses almost entirely on Juvenile and Family Courts and the issues of juvenile justice. Mr. Wertz is a graduate of Purdue University, Lafayette, IN with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology. |
28) Brent Williams
Americas IT Security Lead Accenture Indianapolis, IN CPT Alumnus (1998) Brent graduated in 1998 with a B.S. in CPT and began working for Tivoli Systems in Indianapolis as a Software Verification Lab Administrator. Brent then moved on to become Network and Security Lead for ETS, Inc. While working for ETS, he returned to Purdue in pursuit of a M.S. in Information Systems Security Management. Upon graduation in 2002, he worked with a startup for a short period before joining Accenture. He has had many roles within Accenture, and is currently the IT Security Operations Manager for North & South America Delivery Centers. | ||||
Eric Williams graduated from Purdue in 2001 with a B.S. in Computer Technology, with a specialization in Telecommunications and Networking. Eric currently holds responsibility for the technical product roadmap and successful delivery of the Server Management Suite within the Altiris product line at Symantec. His responsibilities as a product manager include functioning as the technical subject matter expert for the server management and datacenter automation market; assisting the sales teams with presenting and communicating the product features, capabilities, technological architecture, and product roadmap for current and prospective customers; working with strategic customers to architect and implement automation solutions based upon specific business requirements and use cases; and driving technical product requirements for the datacenter automation products based on customer, prospect, and market-driven needs. Eric has passion for music, as he plays guitar, drums, piano, trumpet, and has his own recording studio. He is married and has one daughter, who was born in January 2008. |
Don Wray handles Corporate Information Security as the Access Control Product Manager for Cummins, Inc. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Security Specialist, for Haverstick Government Solutions. In these positions Don works with state and federal government clients in their existing and future security projects. As a Sr. Security Specialist Don is looked upon to provide information and solutions on current and best information security practices to assist the client in enhancing their current security posture. |
