3. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management Alumni Newsletter CSM Alumni.... by Phyllis Bernt, Director Happy Holidays to all of you from all of us in Athens. We have had a very good fall quarter. As you will read in this newsletter, the School has been awarded $45,000 (one of only three programs in the University); we are expanding our laboratory facilities; the faculty continue to be amazingly productive, and we are moving into the area of professional education. Fall quarter has also been a good time to see alumni. Several alumni were on campus for recruiting visits. Heather Aul ‘96, Jeff Perry ‘95, and Tod Bickley ‘96 came to campus representing Claremont Technologies; Jason Harris ‘96, Chris Nehez ‘96, Victor Paini ‘96 and Jeff Zaleski ‘92 spoke to students about Ernst and Young; Amy Frisch ‘95 interviewed students for J.C. Penney; and Terrisa Wailer ‘96 and David Graham ‘96 led a contingent of LCI folks down to Athens for an information session with students. Glenn Ruff ‘88 and Kate Redmond ‘91 were on campus representing the School on the College’s Society of Alumni and Friends. Jason Comstock ‘89, Anne Timonere Bennett ‘85, Andrea Schroer ‘91 and Mike Stephens ‘93 took part in the Fall Advisory Board resume/mock interview workshop. Deb Cohodas ‘93 (on her way to Portland, Oregon), Doug Bowie ‘94 (with his wife, Jennifer), and Brett Lambing ‘96 stopped by the School’s Friday Homecoming reception; Chris (Continued on Page 2) Award for Excellence The School recently was awarded one of three Assessment Awards in the amount of $45,000. Last spring, over 50 schools and departments on campus submitted Outcomes Assessment Re ports to a review committee. These re ports explained what mechanisms and procedures schools and departments were using in order to assess how well they were attaining their goals. Three schools were awarded $45,000 each for their reports. According to the review committee, these three schools (including CSM) clearly stated objec tives, focused on student outcomes, and provided excellent documentation of accomplishing objectives. The re view committee’s comments about CSM specifically were: “This school uses a variety of inter nal and external indicators as sources of information for assessment. The capstone course in this school focuses on actual problems and solutions in the field, and feedback from these activi ties serves as a basis for program im provement. The only restrictions on the use of the $45,000 award is that it be used to further the goals and objectives of the School. New Initiatives The faculty continue to expand School laboratory facilities and to move the curriculum into new directions. A REDCOM PBX will be added to our lab facilities this year. The REDCOM PBX has the benefit of being totally pro grammable, making it an ideal lab switch. Hans Kruse has been working with the Communication Network Ser vices folks to do an ISDN trial in the RTVC Building and has just installed a NASA earthstation on the roof of the MCI Lab building. On the curricular front, Hans is offer ing a topical seminar in wireless tech nologies this winter. Varadharajan Sridhar has had great success with an experimental client/server database course. He was awarded university funding to develop and offer the course last summer; he offered it again during the fall and is ready to get it approved as a regular offering. Phil Campbell just found out he is getting university fund ing to develop and teach an experimental course in Computer/Telephony Integra tion this summer. Educating Industry Professionals A new School initiative is to move into providing continuing education for in dustry professionals. As a first step in this initiative, Hans Kruse and Trevor Roycroft provided a day-long seminar in Columbus on December 6th. During the morning session, Hans covered the topic “Applications and Technologies of To morrow;” during the afternoon session, Trevor spoke about “The Impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on Telecommunications Managers.” The topics for the day-long seminar were de veloped in response to a survey dis
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3. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management Alumni Newsletter
CSM Alumni....by Phyllis Bernt, Director
Happy Holidays to all of you from allof us in Athens. We have had a verygood fall quarter. As you will read inthis newsletter, the School has beenawarded $45,000 (one of only threeprograms in the University); we areexpanding our laboratory facilities; thefaculty continue to be amazinglyproductive, and we are moving into thearea of professional education.
Fall quarter has also been a good timeto see alumni. Several alumni were oncampus for recruiting visits. HeatherAul ‘96, Jeff Perry ‘95, and TodBickley ‘96 came to campusrepresenting Claremont Technologies;Jason Harris ‘96, Chris Nehez ‘96,Victor Paini ‘96 and Jeff Zaleski ‘92spoke to students about Ernst andYoung; Amy Frisch ‘95 interviewedstudents for J.C. Penney; and TerrisaWailer ‘96 and David Graham ‘96 leda contingent of LCI folks down toAthens for an information session withstudents. Glenn Ruff ‘88 and KateRedmond ‘91 were on campusrepresenting the School on the College’sSociety of Alumni and Friends. JasonComstock ‘89, Anne TimonereBennett ‘85, Andrea Schroer ‘91 andMike Stephens ‘93 took part in the FallAdvisory Board resume/mock interviewworkshop.
Deb Cohodas ‘93 (on her way toPortland, Oregon), Doug Bowie ‘94(with his wife, Jennifer), and BrettLambing ‘96 stopped by the School’sFriday Homecoming reception; Chris(Continued on Page 2)
Award forExcellence
The School recently was awardedone of three Assessment Awards in theamount of $45,000. Last spring, over50 schools and departments on campussubmitted Outcomes Assessment Reports to a review committee. These reports explained what mechanisms andprocedures schools and departmentswere using in order to assess how wellthey were attaining their goals. Threeschools were awarded $45,000 each fortheir reports. According to the reviewcommittee, these three schools(including CSM) clearly stated objectives, focused on student outcomes,and provided excellent documentationof accomplishing objectives. The review committee’s comments aboutCSM specifically were:
“This school uses a variety of internal and external indicators as sourcesof information for assessment. Thecapstone course in this school focuseson actual problems and solutions in thefield, and feedback from these activities serves as a basis for program improvement.
The only restrictions on the use ofthe $45,000 award is that it be used tofurther the goals and objectives of theSchool.
New Initiatives
The faculty continue to expandSchool laboratory facilities and to movethe curriculum into new directions. A
REDCOM PBX will be added to our labfacilities this year. The REDCOM PBXhas the benefit of being totally programmable, making it an ideal labswitch. Hans Kruse has been workingwith the Communication Network Services folks to do an ISDN trial in theRTVC Building and has just installed aNASA earthstation on the roof of theMCI Lab building.
On the curricular front, Hans is offering a topical seminar in wireless technologies this winter. VaradharajanSridhar has had great success with anexperimental client/server databasecourse. He was awarded universityfunding to develop and offer the courselast summer; he offered it again duringthe fall and is ready to get it approved asa regular offering. Phil Campbell justfound out he is getting university funding to develop and teach an experimentalcourse in Computer/Telephony Integration this summer.
Educating IndustryProfessionals
A new School initiative is to move intoproviding continuing education for industry professionals. As a first step inthis initiative, Hans Kruse and TrevorRoycroft provided a day-long seminar inColumbus on December 6th. During themorning session, Hans covered the topic“Applications and Technologies of Tomorrow;” during the afternoon session,Trevor spoke about “The Impact of theTelecommunications Act of 1996 onTelecommunications Managers.” Thetopics for the day-long seminar were developed in response to a survey dis
tributed to ATP members last fall.Twenty-six industry professionals fromthe Columbus area attended this seminar,which we hope will be the first of manysuch continuing education events.
ConununicationWeek ‘97
Mark your calendars now and plan toattend CSM’s Communication Week dayon Monday, May 5.
The format this year will be differentthan in the past. Communication Weekhas been shortened in order to combine itwith the International Conference onEntertainment-Education for SocialChange. Each school will have half-daysessions instead of the usual full day;CSM’s activities will be Monday afternoon.
The Communication Week Committee,chaired by Leslie Hillier with facultyrepresentative Trevor Roycroft, is already hard at work lining up speakersand panelists and planning an eveningbanquet. Watch for your invitation inthe mail this spring.
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Nehez stopped by the College booth atthe Convo on Saturday.
It was wonderful to see each and everyone of these alumni (and any others wemay have inadvertently omitted from thelist). We’d like to see if we can geteven more alumni to campus next fallquarter--and to see if we can get morealumni TOGETHER when they come tocampus. So, we’d like your feedback.Should we sponsor a CSM event forHomecoming? If so, when and wherewould you suggest? Please share yourideas with us either by filling out theinformation form on page 7 or by callingthe office (614.593.4890).
Have a great holiday season and hopeto see you at Communication Week!
Message From theNew Dean
I’m pleased to be at Ohio Universityas dean of a college with an excellentnational reputation. The College’ssuccess is due not only to our excellentfaculty and motivated students, butalso to our dedicated alumni.
It’s through your loyalty and enthusiasm that we are able to provide students with valuable programs and opportunities, such as the Mentor Program, Career Network receptions,Communication Week, visiting professionals, internships, externships, jobs,scholarships, and much more.
Our relationships with alumni arebecoming more interactive and dynamic than ever before. You offer aveiy broad and deep set of intellectualresources from which students andfàculty can benefit. From your contributions, we gain insight to integrate intoour educational programs and initiatives.
I’ve met many alumni during my firstfew months as dean, and I hope tomeet many more as I travel to your cityor as you return to campus. I welcomeyour ideas and suggestions.
On behalf of the College of Communication, I thank you for helping us tobe one of the best in the country.
Kathy A. Krendl, Dean
Faculty Activities
Phyllis Bernt has had a monographpublished by the National Regulatory Research Institute titled The EligibleTelecommunications Carrier: A Strategyfor Expanding Universal Service. An advance copy of the report was sent to thestaff members of the Federal-State JointBoard on Universal Service.
Phyllis has also been elected Vice President/President Elect of ATP.
Crosstalk
Steve Brescia, where are you? Last Iheard, you’re in Philly! Get in touch! -
Kimberly Green-Kantra
“Swampy” did you ever end up gettinga job? - Jason Hall
Hope to see everyone from the class of‘86 and ‘87 at Homecoming this fall -
Rick Vanden Eynden
Jeff Zaleski - Are you still inCleveland? CalL me sometime. - DaveGuerini
Andy Doyle + Mike Herrrnann ‘93 -
Are you guys sure you want to beconsultants? Just Curious. DebCohodas - how’s your tan? NatePeters - Where’s my 1 % loan?Congrats on the job. Joel Eidelberg‘85 - how’s your landscaping? - RandyRisch
Kristi Emick - study hard, be a goodteacher & keep in touch! Oh.. .andenjoy the snow & humidity! HaHa! -
Kristine Koeller-Schmid
Congrats to Tom Dunlap - MatthewRegan
Hello to Kris Keesy - Irene Kenayasand Lori Kristoff
Karen Green + Ken Greer - where areyou? How are you?? give me a call at317 214 2017! - Lynnette LowmillerBaughman
Hello to Joan McCracken (‘83) andDonna Bajko (‘84). What’s new? -
Michelle Six Heywood
Kris Keesy + Jen Middleton - we needanother trip to the Big Easy? Call me -
Tony Mele was appointed as the College of Communication’s Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Development. He is responsible for providingleadership in coordinating, enhancing,and facilitating faculty development forthe college.
Trevor Roycroft, retained by theMaryland Office of People’s Counsel asan ISDN expert, recently provided testimony to the Maryland Public ServiceCommission regarding proposed ISDNrates to be charged by Bell Atlantic. Formore details, see the Bell Atlantic ISDNAction Page at www.essential.org/cptIisdn/bellnews .htm.#RecentNews.
Sridhar Varadharajan co-authored“Topology Design and Bridge-CapacityAssignment for Interconnecting Token-Ring LANs: A Simulated Annealing Approach,” which appeared in Telecommunication Systems, Vol: 6 (1996).
Mentoring ProgramWould you like to help CSM students
in their career efforts? The College ofCommunication has initiated an Alumni-
Student Mentor Program that will enableyou to do just that. Your commitmentto this program is at your discretion -
and usually takes the form of phonecalls, letters, and/or e-mail exchanges.Personal meetings are also possible.
To participate in this mentoring program, e-mail the following informationto JoAnn Lipsey at [email protected]:your name, title, company, address,phone, fax, e-mail address, web-pageaddress, and a very brief description ofyour job and company.
This information will be put in a Mentor Notebook and on a Mentor Web sitestarting winter quarter. Selection of amentor is up to the student, so you couldhear from several students or no studentsat all.
Congratulations!Congratulations to the following recent
graduates who found employment:
Patrick Noyes - LCI International. DougStaub - Key Services Corporation. BrettLambing - Reliance Electric. ChrisBrownfield and Chad Pfaff - The Limited. Marvin Eppley - WestinghouseCommunications. Suzanne Stoehr -
Federal Aviation Administration.
From left to right, Doug Bowie ‘94, faculty member Philip Brett Lambing ‘96, left, and Philip Campbell at Homecoming.Campbell and Deb Cohodas ‘93 at the Homecoming reception.
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Thanks to everyone who returned a response form from the summer WATSLine. Here’s what you told us:
Chris Roben ‘96, Information Development Specialist at Lucent Technologies, is developing courses for line engineers to keep them up to date on newhardware/software features that will beoffered in the future of the 5ES-2000switch. Randy Risch ‘93, Account Service Administrator for Ameritech, married Holly Oldham ‘92 August 24 andbought a home in Westerville. He is atthe half-way point of earning an MBAdegree at Capital University.
Kristen Koeller-Schmid ‘87, left aconsulting position with Nestle USA inAugust to prepare for the birth of hersecond child which was due in October.Rick Vanden Eynden ‘86, was recentlypromoted to Sr. Account Executive in theadvertising department at WLWT-TV.Dave Guerini ‘91, Sr. Network Analystat National City Corporation, will startfall classes at John Carroll University inthe MBA program. On the job, he isproject manager for installation of thevoice/data infrastructure in the new National City Center in downtown Pittsburgh.
Michael Herrmann ‘93, is the newProject Manager for Internet Access Services at MCI in Dallas and enjoyingworking with other OU grads there.Michael Persina ‘92 and LindaArmstrong-Persina ‘91 just had a babygirl named Halley Nicole.
Bryan Ireton ‘90, Manager III, Infrastructure Implementation at MCI, assumed responsibility for project managing the building of MCI’s remote LANdial platforms. He was expecting hisfirst child in November. Matthew Regan ‘90, is a Sales Rep for CallawayGolf Company. Irene Kehayas ‘90,
Voice Operations Coordinator at Merck,is in her last year of the MBA programat Rider University. She spent severalweeks in Greece this past sununer. Lynnette Lowmiller-Baughman ‘91, finished a European Army tour and is nowa GA at Ball State University workingtoward a Master’s in Information andCommunication Sciences. Her daughter,Alexis, will be one year old.
Michelle Six Heywood ‘83, left thework force to stay at home with her twochildren and do volunteer work. JoelEidelberg ‘86 is an International VoiceConsultant for MFS International, Inc.Nathan Peters ‘96 is working as aTelecommunications Analyst at Huntington Bank.
Andrea Dunlop ‘94 is working inNetworking System Sales for Anixter.Kris Keesy ‘92 is now a Team Leader,Global Services Delivery, MCI Telecommunications. Sharon Levinson-Kulda‘89 was promoted to Information Technology Manager for ICI Acrylics Business, managing all communication needsfor nine locations.
Paul Goetz ‘89 was promoted to manage all the telecom facets within a56,000 sq/ft office/classroom building atthe University of Maryland UniversityCollege. He had a baby girl, KatherineAlma, this past summer. AndreaSchroer ‘91 was promoted to Sr. ProjectEngineer at LCI International, and isheading up implementation efforts fornew local services division.
Sarah Gilliland-AIlman ‘93, ProgramDirector for Telecommunications Concepts, Inc., is responsible for coordinating installations of small to largeToshiba and Mitel telephone switches.She married Jim Allman last October.Jeff McCann ‘95, Network Coordinatorat Progressive Insurance, handles remote
project installs and equipment installs onsite. He married Natalie Kovach last Oc
Aithea Hill ‘89, Kristin Bowers ‘95,and Sarah Young ‘94, NCR, all wereelected to offices of the Dayton Chapterof Business and Professional Women.Judd Meece ‘93 is working as a Communications Information Systems Officer forthe United States Marine Corp.
Douglas Tignor ‘94 is working as aSystems Network Analyst at the SwissBank for Perot Systems, Inc. He completed an M .S. in Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State and intends to pursue a Ph.D. in MIS at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago. JasonHall ‘95, Telecommunications Analystfor the Longaberger Company, is doingmoves, adds and changes on all companyPBXs and phone mall systems, plusmaintaining the Ti infrastructure. He ismarried and has a baby girl.
Chris Fauth ‘95, TelecommunicationsAnalyst with Franklin International, wasrecently certified on the NEAX 24001MG and is in charge of all telecommunications and WAN. Eric Jenson ‘95, is aSystems Analyst for Telecontrol, an independent communications consulting firm.Todd Bahner ‘86, Marketing Manager,Hyperstream and Frame Relay, MCITelecommunications, runs MCI’s framerelay services. He will be speaking atTCA in San Diego in August and InteropEast in Atlanta in September.
Tricia Anderson ‘96 is currently ananalyst for Procter & Gamble’s Management Systems division. She is part of anew worldwide information deliveryteam, working with Oracle applications.Kimberly Green-Kantra ‘92, TechnicalAnalyst, Johnson & Higgins of Ohio, isresponsible for a number of technical applications for 6 offices. She marriedSteve Kantra ‘92 this past spring.
That’s it for the winter WATSLine. Ifyou’d like to be in the summer issue, fillout and return the information form onpage 7.
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