InWIC Presenters: Pointing the Way
ELISA
BERTINO is professor of Computer Science and
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and serves as
Research Director of the Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Previously she was a
faculty member at Department of Computer Science and Communication of
the University of Milan where she has been department chair and
director of the DB&SEC laboratory. She has been a visiting researcher
at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in San Jose, at the
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, at Rutgers
University, at Telcordia Technologies.
DIANE CURTIS is an Academic Developer Relations
Manager at Microsoft. Diane graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in
Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science. She started at Microsoft
as an intern on the .NET Framework. She worked as a Software Design
Engineer in Test on .NET Client and later became a Program Manager on
Windows Mobile and Safety Technologies. Diane recently joined the
Academic Developer Relations team, and focuses her efforts on
fostering student developer communities.
STACIE DEVINE graduated from IU Bloomington in
Dec 2000 with three concentrations: Finance, BPM and International
Studies. She was an active member of Delta Sigma Pi, holding multiple
executive positions. In the summer of 2000, Stacie interned with
Allegiance Healthcare in Waukegan, IL. Her internship centered on
their enterprise resource package (ERP), SAP; she created and enhanced
applications that were used within the Accounts Receivable department.
With her knowledge of SAP from IU and her experiences from her
internship, she was offered a position with Lilly's SAP implementation
project. She worked on this project for 4 years holding various
positions including ABAP developer for the Project Systems and HR
modules, coordinator of HR development activities, leader for all HR
and Valuation and Control (VC) development, and then finally
Production Support Coordinator overseeing all development changes made
in the production environment. In July 2005, she moved away from SAP,
and took a new position within Lilly's Demand IT area. Currently, Stacie
coordinates IT solutions that emerge from Six Sigma projects. This
role has her touching a lot more technologies, and working with a broad
range of Lilly's business processes. Her day-to-day tasks include:
resource allocation, issue resolution, people management, improvements
on processes and continuous communications regarding statuses and
project updates.
LISA KACZMARCZYK is an Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at the
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in August
2005 from the University of Texas at Austin. Lisa's interdisciplinary
dissertation research brought together the fields of computer science,
psychology and education. Her research used an artificial neural
network to model the effect of different pedagogical delivery methods
on student learning. Prior to attending graduate school Lisa was an
Instructor of Computer Science at Chemeketa Community College in
Salem, Oregon. At Chemeketa, she designed and taught most of the
computer science transfer curriculum. Lisa has taught a computer
literacy class in Spanish, and has worked extensively with a wide
range of non-traditional students. Currently, she is teaching
introductory computer science using innovative practices in pair
programming and project development. Lisa is developing a new course
for spring quarter that will introduce upper division computer science
students to highly influential writings in computer science. Lisa is
an active member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education (SIGCSE) and of the Cognitive Science Society.
CANDICE REIMERS joined Google in August 2005. Working out of the
Kirkland, WA office, she is responsible for recruiting software
engineers and for working on programs and initiatives to support women
into the engineering field. Prior to Google, Candice served as a High
School Assistant Principal. She spent six years internationally
working as a teacher and administrator. Candice holds a M.A. in
Education Administration from Michigan State and a B.A. in Sociology
from the University of California, Irvine.
KATIE A. SIEK is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer
Science Department at Indiana University Bloomington. Her primary
research interests are in human computer interaction, medical
informatics, ubiquitous computing, and performance support
systems. She is a National Physical Sciences Consortium fellow, a
founding member of Indiana University's Women in Computing (WIC) group,
and a former president of both WIC and the Computer Science Graduate
Student Association. She holds a B.S. in computer science from Eckerd
College and a M.S. in computer science from Indiana University.
AMANDA
STEPHANO is a 3rd year graduate
student in Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Indiana
Univeristy at Bloomington. She also holds B.S. in Computer Science
from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her current
research interests include HCI and Computer Security.
SUE WORKMAN is Director of User Support at Indiana
University and is responsible for IT support to IU faculty, staff, and
students on the IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses, including six
support and technology units. Her responsibilities with University
Information Technology Services (UITS) include: front line support:
delivered by the Support Center, the creator and host of the
internationally renowned IU Knowledge Base, and the Telephone Call
Center; second tier and departmental support, delivered by LSP
Services and Telephone Consulting; and support tools, enterprise
licensing agreements and distribution delivered by Support Software
Engineering and Distribution. In addition to supporting IU, Sue's
organization provides online support for the SAKAI open source course
management initiative, the Global NOC, and the Teragrid.