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Macromedia Software Demonstrated

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NACS is always on the lookout for opportunities to bring technical expertise and demonstrations of useful tools and solutions to campus.

Last month, Sylvia Bass coordinated a presentation from Macromedia for campus Web developers. Jaimi Groothuis and John Schuman of Macromedia showed their content management software, “Contribute.” Contribute is an easy-to-use, full-featured web site management package which costs much less than similarly versatile alternatives. Participants included staff from Adcom, Parking, Humanities, ICS, Engineering, Biological Sciences, Housing, Department of Undergraduate Education, Campus Recreation, and Communications.

Attendees were treated to an in-depth tour of Contribute and their Web publishing system. John also demonstrated two new software packages. Macromedia Captivate allows you to record all onscreen actions to create interactive tutorials. He also showed us Breeze, a tool to have online meetings or training courses over the Internet using Powerpoint and Flash.

If you missed this demonstration and would like to learn more, or if there are other technology companies or products you would like us to invite to UCI, please contact NACS.

Radio Systems Specialist

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Brian Chrisman

Brian Chrisman

In 2002, Network and Academic Computing Services (NACS) created the Radio Systems Specialist position, in order to better serve our clients. The new position consolidated management of the 800MHz radio system and cellular carriers’ cell sites on campus, responsibilities which at that time were shared among several NACS staff. Brian Chrisman was hired to fill the new position.

Brian was previously employed by the Motorola vendor that maintains the radio infrastructure on campus. He was able to transition into the new position quickly because of prior experience with UCI’s 800MHz radio system.

Brian has diverse responsibilities, but some key ones are:

  • 800 MHz radio system administration, vendor coordination, performance analysis, and system maintenance/upgrades.
  • Customer service, analysis of campus radio needs for daily operations and emergency use, communications consulting, and radio training for campus departments.
  • Assessment of need for additional cell sites on campus with campus administration. Coordination with all responsible parties for planning and construction of sites.

Brian Chrisman is available on campus Monday through Friday. He can be reached at (949) 824-8151 or bchrisma@uci.edu for assistance with campus radio communications.

Please visit the radio area on the NACS web page at http://www.nacs.uci.edu/network/ for additional information.

Central Computing and Security

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NACS has merged its network security activities into the Central Computing Services group, which has been renamed Central Computing and Security (CCS). UCI’s Network Security Coordinator Mike Iglesias, and network security staff member John Lenning, are now a part of CCS. John Mangrich has also been reassigned to the group, and serves as CCS Manager.

In addition to UCInet network security duties, CCS designs and operates UCI’s central computing services, including the “EA” system for undergraduates, “gradEA” for graduate students, “E4E” for faculty and staff, “Orion” (enhanced services for faculty and staff), USENET news service, campus FTP service, and the server hosting UCI’s web site.

Other staff in CCS are:

  • Joseph Farran, Cluster Architect
  • Ted Gielow, UNIX Systems Administrator and Lead Programmer
  • David Mussoff, UNIX Systems Administrator
  • Minh Vo, UNIX Systems Administrator
  • John Ward, Enterprise Services Architect

Garrett Hildebrand continues his role as NACS Network Planner, and is currently working with Cal(IT)2 to address their leading-edge research network needs.

New Assistant Manager

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Francisco Lopez

Francisco Lopez

NACS is happy to introduce the newest member of the Distributed Computing Support group, Assistant Manager Francisco Lopez.

Francisco is a double graduate of UC Berkeley. He received an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a graduate degree from the Haas School of Business. Francisco was a member of the technical staff at UC Berkeley while an undergraduate and a career employee upon graduation.

Francisco also worked as a system administrator and manager for Inktomi in Silicon Valley and as a system administrator at Ceridian in Orange County before coming to UCI.

New Assistant Director

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E. Scott Menter has joined NACS as the Assistant Director who will oversee the efforts of Central Computing Services, Network & Support Programming, Distributed Computing Support, and Network Planning& Security.

Scott has over fifteen years of experience with information technology management. As the CEO of ESM Services Inc. (an IT consulting firm), Scott built client relationships and supervised teams of IT consultants for clients including: Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, UBS Warburg, Bear Stearns, Mount Sinai Health and SAIC.

Previously, Scott served as a First Vice President of Lehman Brothers, New York, where he led a staff of forty-five in worldwide systems engineering. Scott has also worked for Sun Microsystems and for UCI.

Scott feels getting to know his staff and his clients is a top priority, and invites your suggestions to escott@uci.edu.