Beginning in March of 2011, I’ll be working as the database manager at the National Priorities Project in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Prior that, I worked at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as the IT Director of Student Experience. The position was a departure from the straight-up IT work I’d been doing for the previous 13 years, and the opportunity to interact more directly with students–the users of our services–was a tremendous learning experience.
My previous position at Wharton Computing was with the Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab and involved working with peers and faculty to create web and rich internet applications for use in the classroom.
I started out as an old-school COBOL/IMS programmer before moving on to establish the use of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at a local hospital.
More details are on LinkedIn.
I love technology and what it makes possible. I love the people (and husband) I met through blogging. I love Skyping with a dear friend in Korea and being able to see her daughter’s shell collection via webcam. And I’m grateful that my father, whose illness took away much of his vision and the use of his left arm, could use a Kindle to read during the last year of his life. Technology should work for people, and not the other way around.
I live in Fishtown, Philadelphia.
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