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PANEL
PARTICIPANTS
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Bettyjo Bouchey
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Bettyjo
Howland Bouchey
is the Director of Professional Services for ThinkOne, a technology
marketing firm in Albany, New York. She is responsible for business
development, client marketing strategy and account management.
She has more than a decade of diverse sales, marketing and management background,
spanning technology and business (John Hancock Financial Services, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute's Severino Center and Radical Innovation Group,
ReQuest Multimedia, and Flow Management Technologies); product management
and merchandising (The Limited Corporation, The Nine West Corporation,
and National Industries for the Blind); to not-for-profit (Catholic
Charities Developmental Disabilities Services and The Association for
Retarded Citizens).
Bettyjo participates and supports several RPI Alumni and
recruiting projects, co-founded the Lally Mentoring Program and served
on the steering committee for the RPI Entrepreneurship Club. Bettyjo
is the founder and president of the NY Tech Valley Alliance of Technology
and Women (formerly Women in Technology International). She is an active
board member of the American Red Cross of North Eastern New York, the
Girls Inc. Eureka! Summer Camp, the Women's Business Development Center
(women owned business incubator) and an advisory committee member for
RPI's Women in Engineering and Technology Program. Bouchey is also in
the 2003 Class of the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce' CAPITAL LEADERSHIP
program.
Bettyjo graduated with her Masters of Business Administration,
Technical Marketing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. Bouchey
received her BA in Psychology and Business Administration, Magna Cum
Laude in 1994 from the State University of New York at Albany.
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Sharon Dawes
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Sharon
Dawes is the Director of the Center for Technology in Government
and Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University
at Albany/SUNY. She is responsible for programs, projects, and public-private-academic
partnerships which encourage innovation, reduce risks, and enhance the
quality and coordination of government operations and public services.
A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration,
Dr. Dawes is an experienced public manager, researcher, author, and
teacher. Her special interests are interorganizational collaboration
and government information strategy and management.
She holds a Ph.D in Public Administration from the Rockefeller
College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany
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Melissa Frenyea
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Melissa
Frenyea is the Director of Software Development at VersaTrans Solutions.
The road to this position began when she graduated in 1990
with a BS of Mathematics and Education degree and was invited to join
a small 8 person start up software company. Ten years, 2 lateral moves,
3 strategic career shifts and 5 promotions later, Melissa became the
Associate Vice President of Software Development at that same company
which had grown to 160+ employees. She then left that company to hunt
for another small technology company where she could put her experiences
to good use and be a part of leading even more explosive and successful
growth. With VersaTrans Solutions and the Alliance of Technology and
Women, Melissa thinks she has found the opportunities she's been looking
for.
She loves technology and the people who work at technology
companies.
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Tomie Hahn
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Tomie
Hahn is a performer and ethnologist whose activities span a wide
range of topics including: Japanese traditional performing arts, Monster
Truck rallies, issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial
individuals, and relationships of technology and culture; interactive
dance/movement performance; and gestural control and extended human/computer
interface in the performing arts.
Hahn carries a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University.
She currently teaches performance ethnology at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. She is also a teacher/performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo
flute), and of nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) holding the professional
stage name, Samie Tachibana. Web site: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/tomie/.
Hahn has performed and lectured at venues including The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, Japan
Society, Asia Society, the Freer-Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian
Institute, MIT Media Lab, Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, Mobius, and
Galapagos Art Space.
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Christine Haile
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Christine
E. Haile joined the University at Albany in September 2001 as Chief
Information Officer. As CIO she has campus-wide responsibility of information
technology strategy, policy, programs and services. Prior to coming
to UA, Ms. Haile was Associate Provost for Technology Services at the
SUNY System Office. Her professional experience in information technology
spans a range of networking, library systems, distance learning, course-management,
technology training and software support initiatives.
In 1999, she was recognized for her efforts with the "Friend
of SUNY Libraries" award by the SUNY Librarians Association. She led
the development and expansion of the SUNY Learning Network, which received
the Educause 2001 award for Systemic Progress in Teaching & Learning.
Ms. Haile is a member of the Board of NYSERNet, the New
York State Task Force on Distance Education, and the Awards Committee
of Educause.
Her BA degree (Political Science) is from Potsdam College
and she received an MBA from the University at Albany.
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Teresa Harrison
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Teresa
M. Harrison is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication
at the University at Albany. Her research and teaching interests focus
on applications of new technologies in community development and issues
related to communication and democracy.
She is managing editor of the Electronic Journal of Communication,
co-editor of the State University of New York Press Series on Computer-Mediated
Communication in Work, Education, and Society, and serves on the
editorial boards of New Media and Society, the Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, and Communication Quarterly.
She is Chair of the Communication and Technology Division of the International
Communication Association.
Teresa's research, in collaboration with Prof. James Zappen
of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, currently focuses on the development
of community information systems and is supported by the National Science
Foundation, the 3Com Corporation's Urban Challenge Grant Program, and
the City of Troy.
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Belle Gironda
Panel Moderator
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Belle
Gironda is the Assistant Director in the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany where she wrote a dissertation titled, After Image: Writing in the Age of Photography, Film and Digital Media. She has been an editor associated with the production of multimedia and web editions (as well as print versions) of The Little Magazine and special issues from We Press and Passages, A Technopoetics Journal. She is a published poet and art critic and has been involved in multimedia and poetry performance in a range of venues and geographies including the Subvoicive Reading Series in London, U.K. Karlstaad University in Sweden, Peking Unversity, Beijing, Kyber Pass in Philadelphia, Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory in NYC, the International E-Poetry Festival in Buffalo and Words in Transit at the Albany International Airport.
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