J. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management Alunmi Newsletter CSM Alumni.... by Phyllis Bern4 Director Greetings from all of us in Athens This past spring has been very productive. Phil Campbell, our newest faculty member, has gotten acclimated very quickly and has been teaching the introductory course and also COMT 444 (formerly COMT 470); guess that means he gets students coming and going. Hans Kruse is having great success with his NASA project, and has received further funding for that project. Tony Mele has been teaching lots of sections of COMT 312 (formerly COMT 375) to help get a record number of students through the program on a timely basis. Trevor Roycroft has revamped the regulatory sequence, which is now comprised of two four-hour courses. Varadharajan Sridhar has developed a new course on client-server databases, which he tried out this summer. Tom Dunlap actually did retire this year, after handling the internship program for us so ably for so long. He is definitely missed. I’ve been handling intemships this year, and will do so this next year as well--and I would appreciate your help in identifying internship opportunities for our students. Our alumni already do a wonderful job in helping with placement aCtIvI3es Alumni from MCI LCI fçØ*4Wed on Page 4) Communication Week ‘96 The theme for this year’s very successful Communication Week was “The Future of Telecommunications.” The Communication Week Committee, chaired by Brett Lambing with Trevor Roycroft as the faculty advisor, put together an excellent program of speakers and activities. Thanks to GTE for once again sponsoring our day. Gary Segreto from GTE gave a presentation on distance learning. Joan Griffin from British Telecom and Richard Juday, an international telecommunication consultant, spoke on international telecommunications. Ronda Hartman Fergus, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, addressed the emerging issues in local exchange competition; and John Gilliom, Ohio University, shared his research on privacy issues in the communication age. A virtual office demonstration by John Carey of Cincinnati Bell completed the day. These events were well attended by students and alumrn. We were happy to have Bob May ‘95, Randy Risch ‘93, Jodi Kaufman-Manley ‘94, Derek Fink ‘95, Dan Drake ‘87, Sylvia Nedreberg ‘91, Susan Lammert ‘87, and the alumni panelists pictured above join us (we apologize if we missed anyone). Master’s Program Our proposal for a master’s program is almost fmished. The next steps will involve going through a grueling internal review process all the way up to the Board of Trustees; and then going through an external review through the Board of Regents. photo: Isabel Griffith Communication Week ‘96 Alumni Panel Members, from left: Doug Burger ‘83, Norstan Communications; Don Washburn ‘92, Ohio Department ofEducati on Schoolnet; Tanya Kline-Reichley ‘91, MCI; and Jennifer Borzelleri ‘95, Andersen Consulting.
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J. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management Alunmi Newsletter
CSM Alumni....by Phyllis Bern4 Director
Greetings from all of us in AthensThis past spring has been veryproductive. Phil Campbell, ournewest faculty member, has gottenacclimated very quickly and has beenteaching the introductory course andalso COMT 444 (formerly COMT470); guess that means he getsstudents coming and going. HansKruse is having great success with hisNASA project, and has receivedfurther funding for that project. TonyMele has been teaching lots of sectionsof COMT 312 (formerly COMT 375)to help get a record number ofstudents through the program on atimely basis.
Trevor Roycroft has revamped theregulatory sequence, which is nowcomprised of two four-hour courses.Varadharajan Sridhar has developeda new course on client-serverdatabases, which he tried out thissummer.
Tom Dunlap actually did retire thisyear, after handling the internshipprogram for us so ably for so long.He is definitely missed. I’ve beenhandling intemships this year, and willdo so this next year as well--and Iwould appreciate your help inidentifying internship opportunities forour students.
Our alumni already do a wonderfuljob in helping with placementaCtIvI3es Alumni from MCI LCIfçØ*4Wed on Page 4)
CommunicationWeek ‘96
The theme for this year’s verysuccessful Communication Week was“The Future of Telecommunications.”The Communication Week Committee,chaired by Brett Lambing withTrevor Roycroft as the faculty advisor,put together an excellent program ofspeakers and activities. Thanks to GTEfor once again sponsoring our day.
Gary Segreto from GTE gave apresentation on distance learning. JoanGriffin from British Telecom andRichard Juday, an internationaltelecommunication consultant, spoke oninternational telecommunications.Ronda Hartman Fergus, Commissioner,Public Utilities Commission of Ohio,addressed the emerging issues in localexchange competition; and John
Gilliom, Ohio University, shared hisresearch on privacy issues in thecommunication age. A virtual officedemonstration by John Carey ofCincinnati Bell completed the day.
These events were well attended bystudents and alumrn. We were happy tohave Bob May ‘95, Randy Risch ‘93,Jodi Kaufman-Manley ‘94, Derek Fink‘95, Dan Drake ‘87, Sylvia Nedreberg‘91, Susan Lammert ‘87, and the alumnipanelists pictured above join us (weapologize if we missed anyone).
Master’s Program
Our proposal for a master’sprogram is almost fmished. The nextsteps will involve going through agrueling internal review process all theway up to the Board of Trustees; andthen going through an external reviewthrough the Board of Regents.
photo: Isabel Griffith
Communication Week ‘96 Alumni Panel Members, from left: Doug Burger ‘83, NorstanCommunications; Don Washburn ‘92, Ohio Department ofEducation Schoolnet; TanyaKline-Reichley ‘91, MCI; and Jennifer Borzelleri ‘95, Andersen Consulting.
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The program will be a Mastersdegree in Communication Technologyand Policy. Our curriculum willconsist of four core courses which allstudents will complete. Students willthen select either a technical or a policyspecialization and will complete threecourses within the specialization oftheir choice, as well as completing twocourses from a related discipline.
A thesis will be optional; studentswill be able to take additional coursework and pass a comprehensive examinstead. The following is a list of ourproposed courses:
Core Courses:Research MethodsRegulation and Policy for Comm.
NetworksInformation NetworksStrategic Issues
Technical Specialization:Theory of Network Management and
DesignTheory of Communication NetworksBcerging TechnologiesLab PracticumAdvanced Readings
Policy Specialization:Market Structure and Competition in
Network IndustriesCommunication and Economic
DevelopmentInternational Communication NetworksSpecial Topics in Communication
PolicyAdvanced Readings
An important component of ourproposal will be demonstrations ofindustry support. Letters from industryprofessionals, especially alumni, wouldbe very helpful to us. If you would bewilling to supply such a letter, givePhyllis Bernt a call at 614/593.0020 formore details.
Faculty ActivitiesThe faculty have been veiy productive
on the research front this year. HansKrusc has been very active in his NASAproject, and will be getting the use of aNASA earthstation for furtherexperiments. He will be in Cleveland forthe month of August helping to establishan internet applications via satellite testbed at the NASA Lewis Research Center.
Hans also presented a paper at theAIAA 16th InternationalCommunications Satellite SystemsConference in February on datacommunications protocol performance
on geostationary satellite links, and apaper in March at the FourthInternational Conference on TelecomSystems, Modeling and Analysis onoptimizing data transmission capacity onsatellite links with non-zero bit errorrates.
In June he traveled to Salt Lake City,Utah, to testify as an expert witness forthe Division of Public Utilities in anISDN rate case hearing in front of theUtah Public Service Commission.
Varadharajan Sridhar presented twopapers at the Institute for ManagementSciences and Operations ResearchConference in May: survivable topologydesign of interconnected LANs usingsource routing bridges; and a joint paperwith Hans on the multi-period optimalmigration policies for LAN expansion.He alsà received a provost summer poolaward to teach an experimental courseon clientlserver database systems firstsummer session and a ResearchCommittee Award for a project onoptimal migration policies for networkexpansion in April.
Trevor Roycroft has been serving asan expert witness in several stateregulatory proceedings; he had the raredistinction of testifying in Marylandagainst Alfred Kahn, the grandfather ofderegulation. Trevor and Phyllis Bernt
Communication Week ‘96 Committee Members, from left: front row,From left to right, Sylvia Nedreberg, Bob May, Tony Mele, Jodi Denise Kumninski, Leslie Hillier, and Jason Brechi; back row, KrissyKaufman-Manley, Jennfer Borzelleri, and Randy Risch at Dant, Brian Taylor, Mike Farley, Brian Rudy, Brett Lambing, and RonCommunication Week ‘96. Minto (not shown, Stacey Koskinen , Tricia Anderson and Trevor
Roycrofl).
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also co-authored an article on the newTelecommunications act which appears inthe Central Business Review this summer.
Phil Campbell participated in aCompetitiveness Forum held on theAthens campus for Southeast Ohioregulators, legislators, and small businesspeople; he vi1l produce the publishedreport summarizing the forum. Phyllis dida presentation and a paper on regulatoryissues in Ohio for the Forum. She alsodelivered a paper on universal support(Connnued on Page 6)
NASA ExperimentResults
Hans Kruse, principal investigator, andDon Flournoy (T-Com professor andproject manager) released the final reportin February on a joint project betweenOhio University, Huntington Bank, andNASA Lewis Research Center to provide asatellite-based data backup system for useduring a disaster.
Testing began in 1994, three monthsafter the Advanced CommunicationsTechnology Satellite (ACTS) wasdeployed from the space shuttle Discovery.Experiments were conducted to determineif the satellite could be used during adisaster to transmit financial data ratherthan terrestrial T-1 lines.
Analysis of the tests, which were doneover a 20-week period, showed that theproject was a success, and that satellitetransmission has tremendous potential forfuture banking applications.
A paper Hans and Don wrote on theACTS Satellite appeared in the 1996Annual Review of Communications.
Web Page Contest
The CSM School web page, whichwas created by students Kwong ChiuBryan Dumm, Chad Pfaff, GwenJohnson-Barbier, and Mike Sursi, won
second place in the ICA School WebPage Competition. Second prize was acheck for $100 for the School.
Judging was done by IBM, AndersenConsulting, Pharmacia-Upjohn, andSkutski and Oltmann’s Public Relationsand was based on creativity, clarity ofcommunication of content, functionalease of use, and impact. Hans Krusesupervised the web page project, andaccepted the award at the ICA/Supercommeeting in Dallas this June. He wasaccompanied by three students, AshleighChurch, George James, and HeathWeber.
The web page address ishttp://www.csm.ohiou.edu/ if you wantto check it out.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following recentgraduates who found employment (thishas got to be the longest list we haveever published).
Andrea Pappada, Brian Rudy, BradLane, Mike Sursi, Regina Beer,Michael Proffitt, Kim Bierbaum,Kevin Patton, and Phil Osborne, MCI.Trisha Votaw, Chris Edgell, SangeetaNagaraja, Derrick Fischer, GregDaniel, Tom Sollie, Mike Dooley,Jason Pearce, Abbie Davison, TerrisaWailer, and Anthony Salyers, LCI.Tim Blue and Chris Steiner, NCR.Bob Kreitzer, Key Corporation.
Brian Taylor, Regent Systems, Inc.Heather Aul, Claremont TechnicalGroup. Regina Sewell, Norstan. BillErvin, and Nadia Haroon, NorthernTelecom. John Lurz, Ford MotorCompany. Dan Cantor, Rail Van.Jason Harris, Chris Nehez, and VictorPaini, Ernst and Young.
Eric Curtis, Nortel. Steve Jacob,Nationwide Insurance. Nathan Peters,Huntington Bank. Allen Gibson, I-NET. Raymond Heskett, ArthurAndersen. Tricia Anderson, Proctor &Gamble. Koon Huat Ng, SingaporeTelecom. Robin Potter, DynCorp.
1984 Graduates
Brian O’Connor requested a roster offellow 1984 graduates of the McClureSchool. They are:
Donna BajkoAnne BeltzSusan Bliss-FuryIra BrodyChristy Drake-McCallumGregory MajjasiePaul McLaughlinScott MoretzLance MorrisBrian O’ConnorEvan ParkeEdwin RonsavilleLoretta SantisiSharlene Sue-JimenezCharles VellaBeth Young
Crosstalk
Hi to Mary Akhers and D.J. Shisler.[-low about printing a roster of “84”grads - I’m forgetting names! - BrianO’Connor. (Brian, see below.)
Chad “Jerky Boy” Whilding, are youstill alive? - Jason Hall
Robin Chilton - How are you? Call mesometime at (214) 918-5328. AmyPerencevic - Where are you? - DebbieCohodas
Hey Molly is Beringer still yourfavorite? - Bing
Bonnie Pritts - send my binders to myhome address now! - Sabrina Webster
Where is Jeff Richards? - Scott Cline
I want to say hello to Tony Mdc, SteveGreene, Sara Marxen, & PhyllisBcrnt. From: Brian Timson andRick Landry. Sara Marxen...Wherchave you been?
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October 25-26. Saturday s activitiesinclude a parade at 10:00, a pregametentgater extravaganza adjacent to theVisitor’s Center at 11:00, and a footballgame with Bowling Green at 2:00. Thetentgater extravaganza replaces theConvofest; it will feature food, the OU
Marching Band and other activities.
If you’re planning on being inAthens for Homecoming,
stop by the CSMOffice, Friday, .‘ °-c *October 25,between2:00 and5:00 to
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visit andto have a piece of cake. We’d love to
see you!
According to our records, thefollowing alumni are in the Dallas area.(If our records need updating, please letus know.)
Thanks to everyone who returned aresponse form from the winterWATSLine. Here’s what you had to say:
Michael Persina ‘92 left Sprint and isnow working for Jams. Ng Koon-Huat‘95 graduated from the InterdisciplinaryTelecommunications Program at theUniversity of Colorado in May and isnow working as a Analysis Programmerat Singapore Telecom. Venessa Vaughn‘94 recently received a promotion toNational Account Support Consultantworking on Procter & Gamble s GlobalNetwork. She also got married May 25.
Greg Majjasie ‘84, Technical ServicesProgram Manager for MCI, is responsiblefor second level applications engineeringsupport, technical training of technicalfield personnel, and writing white papersand books on specific disciplines withinthe industry for MCI’s technical fieldpersonnel. RoseMary Labanara ‘85 isworking as a Federal Account Managerfor PictureTel Corporation.
Jason Hall ‘95, Network SystemsTechnician at The Longaberger Company,is studying to be Novell Netwarecertified. Debbie Cohodas ‘93, Engineerat MCI, is working on her MBA inTelecommunications at the University ofDallas. On the job, she is working in theData Product Support ImplementationGroup and acting as a TQM facilitator.
JJ James Evans ‘87 is working as anAccount Manager for J. L. Torbeck.Sabrina Webster ‘86 had a baby girl,Sydney, April 25, 1995. She left herposition at Sprint to be a fulltime mother.
Scott Cline ‘93 recently was promotedto the newly created position of RegionalCall Manager with Aetna Health Plans.He oversees call center operations for theEast Central Region. Brian Timson ‘91is working as a Relationship Managerwith Banc One Point of Sale ServicesCorporation. Michael ProffItt ‘94,
Engineer II with MCI, is starting anMBA program at the University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, in thefall. Matt Reese ‘95 is working atMCI as a TrafficEngineer/Coordinator. ChadWhilding ‘95 is working as a SiteAnalyst at SSDS, Inc. Abbie Davison‘95 is working as a Field SupportRepresentative for LCI International.
Marshall Clark ‘85 was elected tothe Board of Directors, GreeneCountry Club, in November 1995. Onthe job, he will be working on aproject installing UNIX systems. TimBall ‘91, Support Engineer forMicrosoft, married Michelle Vinezover a year ago and bought a house.
Stephanie Mayrose ‘86 leftMotorola in 1994. She’s been a stay-at-home mom with her 2-year old,Jackie, and is expecting another babysoon. Kristin Bowers ‘95,Technology Consultant, is enjoyingworking for Susan Lammert on theVirtual Office Implementation Teamfor NCR. Craig Rice’ 91, Sr. SalesEngineer-Data Applications at GTE, issingle and living it up in Tampa.
Mark Roese ‘91, TechnicalConsultant with MCI, recentlyrelocated to the Pacific Northwest,State Government and University SalesBranch in Sacramento, CA. He isresponsible for sales support forCalifornia’s state agencies andDepartment of Corrections, and theState of Nevada’s accounts. BrianO’Connor ‘84 is married to LisaRuhman and has 2 sons: Lane, 4 1/2;and Grayson, 17 months. He isworking as a TelecommunicationsManager for Cole Haan.
Dennis Macy ‘91 has a new positionwithin MCI Engineering as a TeamLeader in Transmission Database
Management. Sandy McDonald Davis‘90 was recently promoted to Manager ofDomestic Service Delivery at NCR. Herteam is responsible for voice, video anddata deployment for all of the US andCanada.
Gayle Sorgenfrel ‘91 is working forCellular One as an Associate SwitchEngineer. Eric Jenson ‘95 loves his jobas an Analyst at TeleControl. AndrewDoyle ‘93, Booz, Allen and Hamilton,is working on the development of anRFP for an inmate telephone system forthe Federal Bureau of Prisons. He ispursuing a graduate degree at GeorgeMason. Frank November ‘92 finishedhis term at the London Business Schooland is returning to the States to finish hisMBA.
Leslie Firlie Zimmer ‘91, is a ProjectManager of DANTE with MCI.DANTE is a system being developed totrend and analyze performance of theMCI transmission and switchednetworks. She is also managing projectson MCI’s switched data network andworking with their domestic switch sitesto improve span maintenance practices.
Jeff Zaleski ‘92 is working as a SeniorConsultant with Ernst & Young. JodiKaufman Manley ‘94, AccountExecutive for Bell Atlantic, married DonManley November 4, 1995. Derek Fink‘95, Technical Consultant for MCI, is aproject manager for domestic andinternational frame relay networks,installations, and addition provisioningand also provides cost analysis for futuredata telecom projects.
Rick Dosky ‘93, Specialist, End UserServices for Cardinal Health, is engagedto OU alum Lynn Samuels. DaveRobinson ‘94 is working as a CustomerRelations Rep for AT&T WirelessServices. Tracy Sheme-Rogowski ‘92got married in 1994 and bought a housein 1995. On the job as a Consultant forVanguard Communications, she workswith voice mail systems, voice response,and call center areas. Shane Orians ‘95is enrolled in law school at Ohio
Northern University College of Lawhoping to specialize in internationaltelecom. Michelle Baer ‘94 left MCI inTexas and is now working as a ProductDevelopment Specialist with LCI in Ohio.Ken Greer ‘89 left Ailtel Corporation towork as a Network Administrator withLitigation Management. Mark Loftin‘90 left a position with the Department ofDefense and is now working as a SystemsEngineer at Honda Research andDevelopment.
That’s it for the summer WATSLine.If you’d like to be in the winter issue, fillout and return the information form onpage 7.
Outstanding GradAward
This year’s Outstanding GraduatingSenior award went to Paul Vogel. Paulreceived a certificate and a $500 check,thanks to a special fund set up by J.Warren McClure to acknowledge theaccomplishments of CSM students.
Paul, a member of the US Coast Guardand originally from Spring Valley,Minnesota, moved to Athens with hiswife and three children from Honolulu,Hawaii. After graduation, he will beattending Officer Candidate School inCleveland.
Faculty Activities-Continuedfrom Page 3-
mechanisms at a conference in NewMexico in March, and a paper on theimpact of trade on domestic regulation ata conference on Electronic Space inHikone, Japan in May.
If you want further information aboutany of these papers or activities, feel freeto call the faculty.
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