NACS would like to welcome Harry Mangalam to our Research Computing group, and announce that Isaac Straley has accepted the position of Interim Manager for our IT Security group.

Harry Mangalam earned his Ph.D. in Physiology/Pharmacology from UCSD, and has held positions at the Salk Institute, the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, and at Acero, a Bay Area commercial bioinformatics company, as well as IT support positions within UCI’s College of Medicine and Earth Systems Sciences. Harry has been under the thrall of computers since the days when floppy disks really were big and floppy.

Harry’s position is a joint appointment, with half his time supporting Dr. Falko Kuester’s HIperwall project and the other half with NACS Research Computing, assisting faculty with their computational science needs.

Isaac Straley’s previous position was within the IT Security group he now leads. Prior to joining NACS, he owned his own consulting business, providing services to financial institutions famous for their attention to network and data security issues. His background includes both technical and management experience. He is also a life-long computer fanatic.

As Interim Manager of IT Security, he will be working with NACS and the campus to ensure a continued safe and reliable computing environment.

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.

Max Garrick

MAX GARRICK recently joined the Instructional Web Technologies group within NACS as a Junior Programmer Analyst/Consultant.

Max, soon a UCI graduate, brings diverse skills in Web programming and system administration, and extensive experience working with the public. He has worked in the NACS Response Center, and on several programming projects for various NACS groups.

Brian Chrisman

BRIAN CHRISMAN now serves as the system administrator for UCI’s 800 MHz radio system, related equipment, and other wireless systems including overseeing their installation, operation, programming and repair. He works in Telecommunications Customer Services.

Brian has four years of experience working with radio systems. He has worked as a radio technician for the Huntington Beach Police Department, and as a field technician for the vendor that supports UCI’s 800 MHz radio system.

Brian consults with campus departments on their radio communication needs. In addition, he provides technical support, analysis, and customer support for NACS wireless network services, and for wireless services provided by outside vendors (such as, the cellular telephone service sites). Brian’s other duties include: programming hand-held radios, coordinating FCC license requests and renewals, and participating in emergency preparedness planning.

John Allerton

NACS also welcomes two new Telecommunications Technicians. Field Technicians are responsible for getting network and telephone services to your office or lab. They install, move, and disconnect your telephone “dial tone,” or deliver and replace telephone handsets. They also install, test, and activate the network equipment that “turns on” network service at your wall plate.

JOHN ALLERTON comes to us from Covad Corp. in Long Beach where he was a Transmission Data Tech/Installer. He has worked in the telcom/data field for the last 15 years for Syndicated Office Systems in Santa Ana, Digital Voice Corp. in Texas and D&G Tel-Data Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Rudy Mendoza

RUDY MENDOZA comes to us from ITT Cannon Industries in Santa Ana where he was a Senior Telecommunication Tech. He was employed there for the past 16 years often traveling to off site locations in Phoenix, Arizona and Mexico.

The Network & Telecommunications Operations and Network & Support Programming groups within NACS moved to a new home at the intersection of Bison and California Avenues in the University Research Park in November of 2002.

Network & Telecommunications Operations maintains and supports the UCI campus telephone, voice mail, 800MHz trunked radio, and UCInet network service systems.

Network & Support Programming manages a range of central IT services including the Domain Name Service (DNS), printed and electronic directories (PH and LDAP), the campus email routers (MTAs), and the UCInetID authentication system.

Our telephone numbers, fax number, and email addresses remain the same. Our new address is 5201 California Avenue, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92697-5475.