Presenters

Alan Rosenthal

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 11, 2010 - 3:12pm

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.

Anthony Castro

Submitted by acastro on May 18, 2010 - 10:03am

Tony has been with the University for over 10 years, working on the CAST Service Desk as a Network Administrator, managing OpenMDS servers and systems and providing 3rd level technical support. When he is not putting out fires and trying to be an IT Hero, Tony spends his time golfing, taking singing lessons and participating in community theatre, as well as spending time with his wonderful wife and four month old son.

Bilal Khalid

Submitted by sianmeikle on May 14, 2010 - 1:08pm

Bilal Khalid is a Senior Applications Developer at University of Toronto Libraries. He is the lead developer for the new library catalogue application, including the back-end and the public interface. He is also a part of the Web Services team at Robarts Library and is involved in
various projects such as the MyMedia multimedia streaming service, mobile development, and other web services development projects undertaken by the department.

Brandon King

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 27, 2010 - 1:22pm

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 - 3:26pm

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.

César Mejía

Submitted by cesar.mejia@uto... on May 12, 2010 - 4:18pm

Cesar Mejia is the IT manager at the Office of the Registrar at UTM. He has been with the University since 2002 and has been working in IT since 1990. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 1989 and his MBA in 1998. He moved from Colombia in 2000. Cesar enjoys camping, photography and he is trying to get use to the cold winters in Canada.

Chad Holden

Submitted by Chad Holden on May 17, 2010 - 3:41pm
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Chad Holden joined University of Toronto in 2001 as Art Director at the Faculty of Phys-Ed. He joined the Information + Technology Services team as the Web Developer and Systems Analyst in 2005 and is responsible for the implementation of events.utoronto.ca (co-implementer), news.utoronto.ca (design & cms management), and most VP websites. Chad is an active champion of the UT Web Developers group and an expert in Accessibility, Usability, WordPress Development, and Design. In his spare time Chad flies around the world in reverse to change the past and affect the future.

Chris Loken

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on May 7, 2009 - 4:10pm

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 - 8:58am

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.

Daryl Weade

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 17, 2010 - 11:57am