Presenters

Alan Rosenthal

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 11, 2010 - 2:12pm

Alan Rosenthal, also known as "flaps", has been hanging around the University of Toronto in a variety of capacities since 1980 (sometimes student, sometimes staff, sometimes faculty). He has been a system administrator since 1986, a unix aficionado since 1983, and a computer programmer since 1975. Even in this modern computing age he still prefers writing C programs over clicking on things.

Brandon King

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 27, 2010 - 12:22pm

Brandon King is a 14 year Intel veteran responsible for technical management of major accounts in the US Midwest and Eastern Canada. Brandon received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in 1990 and began work for The Kroger Co. as a Network Manager. He joined Intel in 1996 as a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Systems Management Division and was responsible for product direction and execution for Intel management software. Brandon became the Territory Manager for Intel’s software division, managing the Great Lakes region.

Brian Sutherland

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 7, 2009 - 2:26pm

Brian Sutherland serves as Instructional Technology Coordinator for the University of Toronto Scarborough and part/time lecturer in the CCIT Biomedical Communications program at UTM. He has been involved in educating teachers, new media students and web application developers at a number of institutions over the past 15 years. Brian's development work in education has been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. More recently Brian was an IT architect for the Province's educational repository e-learning Ontario with other OISE staff.

Chris Loken

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 7, 2009 - 3:10pm

Chris Loken is Chief Technical Officer for the SciNet High Performance Computing consortium. He obtained his doctorate in astrophysics from Queen's and then held postdoctoral and visiting faculty positions at New Mexico State, University of Missouri and St Mary's University. Before joining SciNet, Chris managed the computing facilities at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) overseeing the acquisition and deployment of two generations of clusters.

Daniel Gruner

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 6, 2009 - 7:58am

Daniel Gruner is the Chief Technical Officer - Software at the SciNet High Performance Computing consortium, which runs the largest supercomputers in Canadian academia. He is in charge of a team of scientific programmers and analysts, as well as user support. Daniel has a background in Chemical Physics (PhD, UofT 1988), and has worked both in industry and academia writing parallel software, doing GUI design and coding, and as a computational scientist. Before his current position with SciNet, he ran the computer systems for the Chemical Physics Theory Group in the Chemistry Department.

Dr. Richard Spencer

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 19, 2009 - 12:39pm

Richard Spencer is Executive Director of the Information Technology department at the University of BC. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer. He joined UBC in 1968 and was a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering for 20 years. He became University Registrar in 1988, and Registrar and Director, Student Services in 1993. Richard joined UBC’s Information Technology department in 2001, and became Executive Director in 2008.

Dr. Vaduvur Bharghavan

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on June 22, 2009 - 3:26pm

Vaduvur Bharghavan is Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Meru Networks, Inc, the fastest growing enterprise Wireless LAN company and the #2 market share leader in enterprise 802.11n networks. Bharghavan's research interests are in wireless medium access protocols and network architectures for converged wireless networks.

Duncan Hill

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 5, 2009 - 1:11pm

Duncan Hill currently serves as Campus Timetabling Officer at the University of Toronto Mississauga. In the past 8 years working at U of T, Duncan has worked in student recruitment, IT, and registrarial services, with a focus on improving efficiency and communication between students, staff, and faculty. Duncan is also pursuing his MEd at OISE, and enjoys eating cheesecake.

Greg Mount

Submitted by Greg Mount on February 9, 2010 - 12:28am
Greg Mount

Greg Mount is the IT manager at the Unversity of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. He has been with the University since 1991 and has been working in IT since 1996.

Greg has been involved with the organization of the TechKnow Conference since inception and, in 2009, was the conference chair. He has been involved with several U of T IT initiatives over the years, which includes the creation and administration of the techknowfile.org website.

Ian Thomas

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 19, 2009 - 12:34pm

Information + Technology Services (I+TS, formerly CNS et. al) provides Windows desktop management and support services for more than 1,500 people in more than 30 different departments across St. George campus. As the primary architect behind I+TS’s Open Managed Desktop System (OpenMDS), Ian evaluates new technology with a focus on ease of use, scalability, security and manageability. Ian’s other roles include oversight of the operation of the CAST Service Desk and 3rd level tech support.