Duncan Phillips

Duncan Phillips has joined NACS Departmental and Distributed Computing Support (DDCS) as a system administrator, responsible for support of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as some Civil Engineering and Physics clients. Duncan worked for NACS as he was completing his undergraduate degree here at UCI, and has demonstrated a rare combination of technical skill, quickness at learning, and warm interpersonal skills. We are happy to welcome him to the group.

Duncan replaces Sinclair Fleming, who has left NACS for a job in the communications industry.

Rick Colman

Rick Colman comes to us as part of a special arrangement with Dave Schetter and University/Industry Research and Technology (UIRT). Rick has been employed for several years as a highly skilled designer and engineer of commercial World Wide Web sites, and will be plying his skills on behalf of the UC-ACCESS project. UC-ACCESS is a UCOP-sponsored effort at UCI to communicate information about UC faculty research and UC programs which could be of use to California business and industry as part of UCOP’s technology transfer program.

Kim Carpenter

Kim Carpenter has joined the NACS’ Business Office as an Administrative Assistant. Kim is no stranger to the UC system, having worked at UC San Diego for 5 years and most recently at UC Riverside. She also worked for the Navy Purchasing department for several years. Kim brings lots of good administrative expertise with her, and we are glad to have her on board.

NACS now has a full-time Receptionist/ Dispatcher at our help desk, Sylvia Bass, who joined NACS in June. Sylvia previously worked for Wyland Galleries as Executive Assistant to Wyland. Her background is in Fine Arts, and she is experienced using various Macintosh software. She is very organized, enjoys interacting with people, and will facilitate timely and professional handling of requests. The next time you call us at us at extension 46116, join us in welcoming Sylvia to UCI.

Leonard Megliola

In July, Leonard Megliola joined the professional staff of NACS’ Academic Applications Group. Leonard graduated UCI in June with a BA in ICS having worked as a student employee in NACS during his undergraduate career. Part of that work included creation of Zot-Dispatch, a tool for processing information submitted via Web forms, which is used extensively at UCI and at places as far away as Australia, France, and Hong Kong.

As part of NACS’ support of the UCI Electronic Educational Environment, Leonard will help develop and support the broad use of new technologies. He recently joined others from NACS in a presentation at the UC Computing Services Conference on “Web Tools for Building an Electronic Educational Environment.”

Jan Vescera

In late July, Jan Vescera joined NACS’ Departmental and Distributed Computing Support group. Her principal responsibility will be to foster communications among the technical support staffs in the schools and with NACS, but she will also be taking the lead within NACS to work with software and hardware vendors of importance to UCI, managing site licenses, the Workstation Acquisition Service, product fairs, non-disclosures, and technical forums.

Jan joins NACS from the commercial world, where she has undertaken such projects as designing and implementing a technical support staff training and certification program, but has over 8 years’ experience at UC, working at various departments in UCLA. One of the most noteworthy projects from her tenure at UCLA was the creation and nurturing of their Multimedia Users’ Group which survives (and flourishes) still.