10:15 AM
Albemarle
Classroom Technologies – BoF
Matt Silverman
George Mason University
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Providing support for Classroom Technologies has become more challenge with the growing move of user devices for digital for! mats and more in the classroom space. As technology changes how are you supporting digital technologies, lecture capture, and iPads and other mobile devices with the classroom? What remote management tools have you adopted? What new skills have you had to learn or need to learn to support our ever changing customer needs? This session will give you the opportunity to interact with your peers and learn best practices from other universities.
Matthew Silverman is the Manager for Learning Space Design at George Mason University. He assists with the design of AV and IT systems for learning spaces and coordinates construction activities related to learning spaces. Additionally, he is responsible for collecting and maintaining data required for strategic planning related to technology upgrades to learning spaces.<br> <br>Silverman holds CTS and PMP certifications. He is a member of InfoComm’s Standards Steering Committee and InfoComm’s Technology Managers Council. Silverman also serves on the Board of Directors for the Crestron Owners Group and is active with the Virginia Classroom Technology Managers Group.
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Extending Your Investment: Share SharePoint with the Public
John Hagerty
Electronic Systems Inc
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There are a few factors that make SharePoint 2010 the most cost effective and attractive option for public internet sites. As users become familiar with SharePoint in an intranet setting, extend SharePoint as a Web Content Management tool to allow users to deliver internet content. Specifically, learn about how SharePoint can provide Content Editing, Content Publishing and Syndication, Mobile Viewing, Digital Assets Management, Search Capabilities and Security.
ESI and Microlink will jointly present on Sharepoint.
Additional Presenter(s): Joseph Balducci – Joe is the Manager of Online Learning Resources in the Division of Instructional Technology at George Mason University. Joe holds master’s degrees in information science and history from the University at Albany, and a BA from the University of Scranton. He joined Mason last August from Iona College in NY where he served in multiple capacities including as a librarian and most recently as Manger for the Center of Learning and Teaching. At George Mason, Joe manages the administration, training, and support for a variety of course tools including Blackboard.
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A full house approach to iPad deployment
Michael Greene
Rappahannock Community College
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Put on your poker-face and come see a royal flush of innovative uses for iPads across your organization. From classroom management and collaborative meetings to way finding and video conferencing see what hyper-mobile, multi-touch, cloud computing can do for your school. This session focuses on practical, replicable, and sometimes free (minus the iPad of course) applications of these devices offering a wide gamut of scenarios you can take home and implement yourself.
Responsible for Web Design, Development, Web Service Administration including SharePoint, Panopto, and Webex, and Apple iOS Management.
Additional Presenter(s): Leslie Smith, Dean of Technology and Distance Learning, Rappahannock Community College
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A Creative Solution With a Big Impact – Using Netbooks and Wireless to Solve Some Space & Teaching Issues
LeAnn Pittman
George Mason University
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At George Mason University, computer classroom demand has far exceeded the available resources. The English department was finding it increasingly difficult to schedule computer classrooms to meet the requirement of at least one day per week with hands on instruction with computers. Further, they needed the environment to be collaborative in nature. With budget & space restraints, and a small window of opportunity to solve the problem, creative methods had to be used. The shortage of computer classrooms drove the need to find alternative solutions to support the English department in their teaching requirements. <br>This presentation will outline a project-based initiative that has lead to successful outcomes using mobile technology in the classroom.
Since mid-2010, LeAnn Pittman has been a part of the Learning Space Design group at George Mason University. Prior to moving to Learning Space Design, LeAnn managed the classroom support office at Mason’s Arlington campus for nearly 10 years. Before coming to George Mason, LeAnn worked in the private audio visual industry for several years, working her way from technician to director. LeAnn currently manages learning space projects that include the installation of audiovisual equipment as well as collaborating with the Registrar, Facilities, colleges and architects for learning space design. She currently holds an InfoComm, ANSI Certified Technology Specialist (CTS), and continuing education in the design field.
Additional Presenter(s): Dr. Tim Murphy is the Director of Computer and Lab Technologies (CaLT). His responsibilities include all classroom support on 3 campuses, GMU’s Virtual Computing Lab, Learning Space Design, as well as imaging for 1500 computers.
Jefferson – PC Lab
Developing HTML5 Websites and Web Apps with Adobe Tools
Steve Adler
Adobe Systems
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Understand how to adapt your existing web development skills for mobile devices. With Adobe Dreamweaver leverage jQuery Mobile starter templates and components to build interactive websites tailored for the iPhone and PhoneGap integration to package these as native iOS and Android applications
Steve Adler is an Education Solutions Consultant at Adobe Systems. After working for many years in education as an instructor, coordinator, and Adobe Education Leader, Steve focuses on integrating Adobe solutions across the digital campus. Steve has served on numerous faculties including The School of Visual Arts in New York and Stanford University’s Digital Media Academy.
Montdomaine
Aliens, Androids, iPads and Transformers – Managing the BYOD Invasion
Phillip Scott
Xirrus
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BYOD has breached the campus and won’t be stopped. Administrators are examining the financial advantage and social values it brings and IT departments are having to adjust. This means re-engineering the network infrastructure to account for client densities and diversity at numbers never previously expected. This session identifies the components required for you to be successful in the face of BYOD learning environments.
Perry Correll is a Senior Technologist as well as the Director of Product Marketing at Xirrus. His extensive networking background extends from original Ethernet Thicknet technology, through the switching revolution and now is involved in pushing advancements in Wi-Fi technology to displace wired solutions. Previous roles included technologist and management roles at Cabletron, Xylan and Alcatel.
Washington – Apple Lab
Expanding Your Knowledge with “Free” Online Courses
Sheila Chandler
Virginia Commonwealth University
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If you want to be better at your job or expand your horizons there are a world of opportunities available for free! Many colleges and universities are opening up their courses for free online access. This presentation will explore some of the “free” online courses, specifically, discussing who is offering the courses, what is being offered, when can they be accessed, and how are they being delivered. The presenters have either participated in free online courses and/or designed online courses and will offer their different perspectives. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences with free online courses.
Sheila Chandler, is the Special Projects Manager at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has held technology positions for over 30 years. She has had responsibilities for the VCU’s Blackboard Learn system, the Blackboard Content Management system, and other applications related to academic technologies. Colleen Bishop is Director of Learning Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to VCU, Colleen worked at Piedmont Virginia Community College as the Coordinator of the Center for Excellence in Instruction (CEI). CEI provided professional development, technology training, classroom instructional technology design consultation & training, distance education management and Blackboard administration. Colleen has designed, reviewed, taught or taken online courses for 12 years.
Additional Presenter(s): Colleen Bishop, Director of Learning Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University.
11:45:00 AM
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Crack the Code: The Results Are In
Lucas Sullivan
Virginia Tech
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Crack the Code: Education and Marketing using QR codes by VT University Computing Support. The results are in! How we implemented a QR code campaign the unanticipated challenges we faced, a look at its impact, and our plans for next year.
Lucas Sullivan works for University Computing Support at Virginia Tech assisting the Manager of Special Student Programs. Carol Hurley works for University Computing Support as Manager of Desktop and Executive Support Services.
Additional Presenter(s): Carol Hurley, VT
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Virtual Desktops – A Leaner, Greener Solution
Shivaji Samanta
Piedmont Virginia Community College
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We have had presentations from the heavy hitters in VDI from the likes of VMWARE, CITRIX and others and while they are very feature rich and robust solutions, they also require considerable planning and resources to roll out in any scale. There are some other less expensive and quicker solutions using thin clients that are much less resource intensive and may be ideal for specific applications like kiosks, testing and training stations etc. and have the added advantage of being really inexpensive in comparison. PVCC is doing a pilot of one such thin terminal from nComputing this semester with thirty stations and plans on deploying a Math Emporium with sixty tutorial stations next Fall. RCC has deployed over 120 stations on two campuses and an off-site center. Each college will report on results of their short-term experiences with their deployment.
Shivaji has been Chief Information Officer at Piedmont Virginia Community College since January 2011. Prior to that, he served as Director of Academic & Administrative Computing at Wytheville Community College from 1998 to 2010 and as Information Systems Manager, Dept. of Anesthesiology, UVA Medical Center from 1987 – 1998
Additional Presenter(s): Leslie Smith, Dean of Technology and Distance Learning, Rappahannock Community College and Joe Wolski, Network Technician, Rappahannock Community College.
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Putting “Technical” Back in Technical Support — supporting a computational research environment
Clark Gaylord
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
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IT professionals are called to support various enterprise systems, general purpose IT infrastructure, and desktop support. In higher education, our scientific researchers have significant support needs beyond general purpose administrative systems, particularly in using computational systems to accomplish their research. Often these support functions do not leverage our help desk staff, but instead impact system engineers, graduate students, or research scientists, often with highly variable results. In this talk, we will discuss ways to structure a broad-function IT support staff to encompass research support. Staffing, skills, and systems will be discussed, as we uncover ways to deliver value to the other academic product: research.
Clark Gaylord is the Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), Virginia Tech’s largest university research center, where he leads a team of developers, system administrators, database administrators, and IT support staff. Clark is a contributing architect of Virginia Tech’s Scientific Data Warehouse, and VTTI’ data repository features petascale cluster file systems, parallel relational databases, and high-performance computational clusters. Clark has been at Virginia Tech over twenty years, as a graduate student and researcher in statistics and network engineer. Prior to joining VTTI, Clark was the IT operations lead for the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
Jefferson – PC Lab
Over One Million Users and Counting: Can Your Directory Service Do That?
Brian Viscuso
Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
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Even though significant and important IT services are provided by the VCCS, not all end-user IT services are provided centrally. Each of the colleges provides some level of IT services to their individual students, faculty, and staff such as file, print, computer labs, and wireless LAN. Because IT services are both centralized and decentralized, it has traditionally been difficult to provide unified authentication/single sign-on for all IT services to students, faculty, and staff. The net impact is maintaining multiple usernames and passwords for the services and locations. To overcome these challenges the VCCS deployed an Enterprise Active Directory in collaboration with Microsoft and the colleges to eliminate the many authentication and authorization difficulties. However, this is no small task when you have 425,000 active users and over one million accounts to manage and make accessible at 44 different locations. We’ll show you how we have taken the first steps of our journey to achieve a central directory for Single Sign-On (SSO).
For the past five years, has served as the datacenter manager and lead for the Enterprise Systems Engineering team at the VCCS System Office. Brian previously served as the Director of Systems Engineering at the University of West Florida.
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IT Trends & Transformation – The Implications for the Next Generation of IT Education
Mark Conway
NetApp
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There is a data explosion underway that is fundamentally changing how data is stored, managed and preserved. Gartner’s 2011 CIO Agenda and the Sloan School’s 2011 CIO Symposium Survey – have highlighted the need for CIOs and IT staff to better understand new, shared service IT solutions such as Cloud Computing and Virtualization. There is a fundamental shift underway as to how enterprise IT services are being designed and delivered, and this shift has major ramifications on how the next generation of IT staff and leaders should be educated. The skills and technologies that IT-savvy graduates need to understand are evolving rapidly, as are the topics and technologies that colleges’ Information Technology programs need to cover. Through its new Academic Alliances Program, NetApp is working with faculty in several colleges & universities to jump start a curriculum refresh effort, and infuse their IT, CS & MIS courses with many of these new storage-related concepts and technologies. As a NetApp customer, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is in the forefront of managing storage across its IT operations. This session will focus on how the VCCS, and other colleges and universities in Virginia can also leverage a collaboration with NetApp to impact their students’ learning opportunities.
Mark is the Sr. Program Lead for NetApp’s Academic Alliances Program. He joined NetApp in 2010 from Oracle Corporation, where he was a director for BI Product Marketing. Prior to Oracle, Mark led both Hyperion Solutions Academic Alliances, and PeopleSoft’s On Campus program working with schools of business worldwide. Mark was a founding member of Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) Internet Business Group, led Digital’s worldwide ISP marketing programs and served in DEC’s External Research Group. Mark is a frequent speaker at conferences and as a guest lecturer for many MIS and IT programs. Mark has a Masters in Technology, Strategy & Policy from Boston University and a Master’s in Education from Northeastern University.
Washington – Apple Lab
Who Owns the Apps? Mac and iOS Purchasing for Institutions
Jack Burns
Apple, Inc.
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This session will cover purchasing apps, volume purchases, and using the App Store and the Mac App Store for institutions and individuals.
Jack Burns has worked in education and technology for more than 20 years. He holds a M.S. in Math/Science Education from the University of Tulsa. As a former classroom teacher, department chair, technology director, Jack brings a wealth of academic experience to his current role as Apple HiED Account Executive covering the VCCS.
Additional Presenter(s): Jayson Bevins
1:45 PM
Albemarle
Web Redesign – BoF
Cathy Derecki and Curtiss Grymala
University of Mary Washington
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Web redesign is a term commonly heard in recent years. Many universities have recently redesigned their sites, are in the midst of doing so, or are thinking about it. Since the web is constantly changing anyway, what do we really mean by “redesign” – a new template, a different information architecture? Given the possibilities of current content management systems, how deeply into your organization should a redesign reach? Can you handle content-heavy, internally-focused vs. branding-heavy, externally-focused sites within the same system? How does your organization’s website help to shape how your university community does its day-to-day work?
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Implementing WPA2-Enterprise
Eric Braithwaite
Shenandoah University
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WPA2 is widely considered best protocol for securing Wireless LAN traffic. Our presentation will demonstrate how we have implemented WPA2-Enterprise across our campus and how we manage the components involved. Subtopics will include: the need for WPA2, configuring RADIUS/802.1x, the WLAN controller environment and how we simplify client configuration with Cloudpath.
Eric Braithwaite joined Shenandoah University in 2004. Originally a Help Desk Technician, he was promoted to Network Engineer in 2008. Eric plans, designs and develops Wireless LANs across all Shenandoah University campuses. He holds a BSBA from Longwood University and an MBA from Shenandoah University.
Additional Presenter(s): Ken Lambert, Shenandoah University<br><br>Tom Anderson, Shenandoah University
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Consolidating Network Services
Andrew Lyon
Virginia Community College System
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Three years ago many colleges within the VCCS were facing a dilemma of how to handle more students while budgets were being cut. IT budgets in particular were slashed; yet, auditing standards increased. The network group offered two solutions. Much of the VoIP infrastructure was headed towards retirement, so my group wondered about centralizing VoIP services to give colleges flexibility. Providing centralized logging and analysis was another option to meet the auditing requirements. This presentation will address centralization of VoIP services, logging, and analysis. I will also briefly cover DNS, Video, and Audio Bridging, as three additional tools the Network Engineering team will roll out soon.
Andrew is the Lead Network Engineer for the VCCS responsible for all Backbone Networking, Network Security, VoIP and Audio/Video bridging. Prior to the VCCS, Andrew was a Senior Network Consultant at Lucent Technologies in Westford, MA. He was part of a team responsible with finding solutions for Telecommunication Carriers with ATM/FR/MPLS design problems.
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Did We Build It Right? Evaluating the 21st Century Collaborative Learning Space
Zachary Shearer
George Mason University
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Four years ago, George Mason University embarked on a program to design and build collaborative (learning) spaces. To date, George Mason has two flagship learning space classrooms with impressive credentials but no assessment data from students or faculty. In fall 2011, two surveys were conducted with selected faculty and students that had used these unique classrooms. This session will share the results of these surveys, the process to obtain relevant data, and potentially where these data can lead us. Come join us for discussion on 21st century collaborative spaces as well as share your challenges and assessment techniques.
Since early 2010, Zack Shearer has been a part of the Learning Space Design group at George Mason University. He’s been with George Mason for more than five years and successfully managed technology installations in new construction and renovation projects for over 90 learning spaces. Zack continues to manage learning space projects that include the installation of audiovisual equipment as well as collaborating with the Registrar, Facilities, colleges and architects for learning space design. He currently holds an InfoComm, ANSI Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) certification and is working towards a master’s degree in Applied Information Technology as well as PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential.
Additional Presenter(s): Dr. Tim Murphy is the Director of Computer and Lab Technologies (CaLT). His responsibilities include all classroom support on 3 campuses, GMU’s Virtual Computing Lab, Learning Space Design as well as imaging for 1500 computers.
Jefferson – PC Lab
MDT: Not your typical Disk Cloning Tool
Jeremy Kong
UVA
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Microsoft Deployment Tool has been out for a few years now, and is the Microsoft solution for Windows Deployment. Couple this with SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager), and you have a mighty fine strategy for managing your enterprise of Windows PC’s. Are you managing more than 1 deployment image? You shouldn’t be. The MDT will provide you with tools to enable you to deploy Windows 7, and customize post deployment scripts to give you a very light touch imaging solution. Exectech has moved away from your typical sector by sector imaging solution and has been implementing MDT for over two years now. 85% of the supported customers are now using Windows 7 and have migrated up from XP. There will not be enough time for a hands on lab, nor will there be time to perform a deployment from start to finish. However, you will come out with a fresh perspective on how one deployment image can be installed across many types of hardware.
Exectech serves the Office of the President and the supporting Vice Presidents. Jer is your typical computer ninja extraordinaire. He has been serving Exectech for just over 4 years.
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Collaborative Learning – What does the Classroom of the Future look like?
Debbie Lennick
Creative
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Collaboration is a way of life on college campuses. Both in person and virtually, students and faculty rely on group work to get things done. We hope to inspire you to look at your campus through a different lens by sharing what Collaborative Learning looks like. We will share trends in higher education as well as real life case studies where enrivonments and technology have been designed in unison to take students and faculty to a new level of learning. We look forward to seeing you.
Creative has a long history working with Higher Education with roots in furnishings, but has morphed into a workplace interiors and technology company focused on the verbs not the nouns. We help clients, especially in the education arena, integrate technology and interiors to create compelling and effective learning environments. Ed Gillikin is a registered architect currently serving as Chief Facilities Architect for Virginia’s Community Colleges. He previously was Director of Design for Research Facilities at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has 22 years of architecture experience, including ten years of service to the Commonwealth of Virginia at VCU, and has managed multiple capital building projects totaling over $300,000,000 (300 Million Dollars).
Additional Presenter(s): Ed Giliken, Former VCU Director of Design for Research Studies, Current VCCS Architect
Washington – Apple Lab
Macs in Higher Ed: Lessons from the Trenches
Tom Anderson
Shenandoah University
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There’s no question the Mac is big on campuses around the country as more and more students are bringing them and institutions are implementing official 1 to 1 programs. Shenandoah University is entering its fourth year of iMLearning, our Mac and iOS based 1 to 1 program, and we’ve learned a lot along the way. In this session, we’ll share the things we’ve done well, the things we’ve struggled with and learned to make better, and how we’ve redefined the way we’re managing our fleet of nearly 3000 Macs.
Tom Anderson came to Shenandoah University as an Apple Network Engineer in April 2010. Tom is responsible for all technical aspects of the iMLearning program, including server and client systems management, mobile device support, future technologies planning, and providing assistance to the Technology Support Services Help Desk.Prior to coming to Shenandoah University, Tom owned his own consulting firm where he provided strategic IT planning and operations support to small businesses, supporting over 150 clients. Tom was also a Technical Manager at AOL, LLC where he led an international team of systems engineers responsible for managing the enterprise’s 20,000 desktop and laptop systems.
2:45 PM
Albemarle
Take Q&A Beyond the Basics…Introducing SMART Response
Colette K. Retrosi
Streeet & Co
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After a quick review of SMART Notebook V.10 software, learn how to enhance understanding in your classroom using SMART Response. The product allows you to establish an environment of immediate feedback, checks for understanding, surveys, and summative or formative assessments. Come find out how to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary!
Colette holds her BS English and MEd Administration & Supervision as well as a PK-12 Virginia teaching certificate. She taught K-12 education for seventeen years before accepting a position as a SMART Education Consultant for Street & Co. Audio Visual out of Richmond, VA. Colette is a member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and has presented at the VSTE and NECC annual conferences, in addition to multiple share fairs across the East Coast. Her presentation files are available on the SMART Exchange and on her website, where they have been downloaded and used by thousands. She fosters the belief that the use of SMART technology delivers three dimensional instruction, promoting multi-modality learning. She enjoys working with educators to discover interactive technology solutions, providing professional development to instructors across the state and sharing her enthusiasm for all things SMART!
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Update on Importing Electronic Transcript into Student Information Systems
Peter Coleman
Virginia Department of Education
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The VDOE is funding the development of software adapters to import VDOE-initiated high school electronic transcript data in the major student system – Banner, PeopleSoft and Datatel. Our higher education development partners are JMU, GMU, NSU and VCCS.
Project manager for the VA Department of Education (VDOE) in charge of the VDOE-sponsored electronic transcript project working with school divisions and higher education.
Additional Presenter(s): Joseph Manning, James Madison University
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Enterprise Audio-Visual – Moving Past Project by Project Thinking
Matthew Silverman
George Mason University
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In recent years, the Audio-Visual (AV) field has grown considerable in both scope and complexity. At the same time institutions have seen strong grown in the total number on AV installations they are supporting. Historically, AV was often handled on a project to project basis with a lack of continuity in equipment selection, different interfaces in similar spaces and lack of unified AV systems code. To cope with this rapid growth, constant technology change and increasing need to support more spaces with the same or fewer resources, AV support staff have moved the enterprise IT techniques to cope with the change and create a unifying AV environment. This panel will talk about the changing nature of the AV profession and present case studies of enterprise management and design process from George Mason University, Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Matthew Silverman is a Project Manager with the Learning Space Design group at George Mason University. He assists with the design of AV and IT systems for learning spaces and coordinates construction activities related to learning spaces. Additionally, he is responsible for collecting and maintaining data required for strategic planning related to technology upgrades to learning spaces. Silverman holds CTS and PMP certifications. He is a member of InfoComm’s Standards Steering Committee and InfoComm’s Technology Managers Council. Silverman also serves on the Board of Directors for the Crestron Owners Group and is active with the Virginia Classroom Technology Managers Group.
Additional Presenter(s): Dwayne Smith and Jeremy Parker – Dwayne Smith is the Senior Engineer for Classroom Central at Old Dominion University. He oversees the day to day activities of the Classroom Central group. He is responsible for design and integration of new technologies in the classroom environment throughout the University. Smith is an active member of InfoComm’s Technology Managers Council and the Virginia Classroom Technology Managers Group. Jeremy Parker is the Senior Crestron Programmer for Virginia Commonwealth University. He oversees every Crestron program that is implemented on Campus and manages the Crestron RoomView Application for the university—connecting to over 300 rooms. He recently designed the touchpanel layout that will serve as a standard interface across the university. Parker is a Crestron Certified Programmer and a founding member of the Crestron Owner’s Group.
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Reengineering – Using Technology to Make it Happen
Joy Hatch
Virginia Community College System
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Virginia’s Community Colleges face the same issues affecting higher education across our nation – unprecedented enrollment, state support declining at an equally unprecedented rate, and ambitious goals. To weather these issues required becoming smarter in the investments of people, talent and technology; along with leveraging the combined size and resources to break down barriers to change and improvement. Take a journey through the process and walk away with a new outlook on the technology available in the community colleges!
Joy Hatch is the vice chancellor for information technology services at the Virginia Community College System. She is pursuing initiatives designed to support the Chancellor’s vision – Achieve 2015 – and develop long-term technology-based plans to foster innovation and high performance across Virginia’s Community Colleges. She is also focused on delivering top notch assistance for all enterprise operations and applications development to support students, faculty and staff across the state. Joy continues to remain active in various technology organizations within higher education, taking time out when able to exercise the privileges of her ATP and flight instructor license.
Jefferson – PC Lab
VDI, the Evolving Data Center and How to Manage it All
Tom Spitnale
ABS Technology Architects
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Virtualization has crept through our DataCenters to find its way onto our PC’s, laptops, tablets and more. In some ways it feels like a return to Terminal Services – but why is VDI catching so much attention and how do you measure the cost, impact and benefit moving forward? How will Virtualization continue to impact the DataCenter…and how will you and your staff manage it all? Whether you are considering VDI, refreshing your DataCenter, or simply wondering what to make of the rapid changes in demand on your Core, join ABS Technology Architects for a top-down review of this evolving space!
A transplant from the television, marketing and advertising community, Tom Spitnale has been working in technology at ABS since 2005 first as a Senior Account Manager and then as the manager for all Regional Sales in Western Virginia. Tom’s career includes year’s long engagements with companies such as Advance Auto Parts and Rosetta Stone, and Universities that include James Madison, Radford, Longwood, Emory & Henry, Ferrum and more. His current focus is on the changing technology support strategy in most IT organizations as well as the rapid transition toward Virtualization in both the Data Center and in desktop environments.
Montdomaine
Govern Your Network with Central Policy Enforcement
Anthony White
Cisco Systems
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Provision and deliver cross-domain application and network services more securely and reliably with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) in all environments-wired, wireless, and VPN. This policy-based service-enablement platform helps ensure corporate and regulatory compliance. Enhance infrastructure security and simplify enterprise service operations. Gather real-time contextual information from the network, users, and devices, and make proactive governance decisions by enforcing policy across the network infrastructure.
Washington – Apple Lab
The Future of Enterprise Computing – Preparing for the Compute Continuum
Erin Moseley
Intel Corporation
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Intel’s employees (like students and faculty) increasingly desire to collaborate from anywhere, at any time, and they want the freedom to choose the devices and solutions that best suit their work styles. Intel’s IT organization is embracing this ‘consumerization of IT’ with an innovative approach, letting employees use their own smartphones and tablets as companion devices to their primary device, a mobile business PC. This IT@Intel Leadership presentation shares how Intel IT has enabled social media, enterprise wide collaboration, and secure access to an increasing array business services across a wide range of BYO devices increasing business productivity, maintaining IT efficiency and meeting enterprise security requirements. Find out how Intel IT is taking advantage of a combination of technologies and trends such as ubiquitous connectivity, cloud computing, desktop virtualization, enterprise security transformation, and client-aware technologies to redefine the way we provide services to meet user requirements. Intel calls the vision of seamless, consistent experiences across devices the ‘Compute Continuum’ and Intel IT has established a program to help deliver these capabilities.
Erin Moseley is a part of Intel’s U.S. public sector team which supports the efforts of educators, advocacy groups, policy makers, and public sector IT professionals to craft and implement high impact programs using technology solutions. She focuses on current and future technologies and Intel’s strategic objectives across key vertical segments for K-12, higher education, public health, broadband, and government services in the Mid-Atlantic region. Moseley has been in the technology industry for 16 years in fields such as data center services, networking, International technology integration, and has been focused on the entire portfolio of Intel products for nine years. She received a BS in Communications with a focus in Computer Science from James Madison University.
