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Technology Training Coordinator
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Christine L. Vucinich, MA - Technical Education & Outreach Coordinator
Expertise: Overview of OIT Services, Desktop Publishing, WordPress & iMovie
Christine is the Technical Education & Outreach Coordinator for
OIT Training. Her responsibilities include organizing the training
program, training the trainers and marketing the overall program.
Christine is constantly evaluating the training program to improve its
offerings to best match the needs of Duke's academic community. Two
programs Christine initiated over the last few years include the Learn
IT @ Lunch series (monthly IT focused brown bags during the academic
year) and online training (including access to the lynda.com online
tutorials at Duke). Christine has an undergraduate degree in
communications and a masters in adult education and communications technology and has over 12 years IT training experience in the classroom and working in higher education.
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Student Technology Trainers
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 Patrick Royal - Training Student Supervisor, Mathematics and Computer Science, 2014
Expertise: WordPress, Microsoft Office, iMovie
Patrick Royal is a junior from Raleigh, NC. He is studying
mathematics and computer science with a minor in Economics. Patrick is
also an intern at the Shodor Computational Science Corporation. He has
always been drawn to education and is excited to teach seminars at Duke.
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 Alex Dou - Bio-Medical Engineering, 2013
Expertise: Microsoft PowerPoint, WordPress, Photoshop
Alex Dou is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But now he lives at Duke
in House A and never wants to leave. He's a BME student and has a
morning ritual of doing the crossword over Chobani yogurt and Alpine;
indulgent, he knows.
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Expertise: Web Design, WordPress, Mac, Sakai Project Sites
Born and raised in Cote d’Ivoire, from Togolese parents, Dagbedji has
studied for two years in South Africa before enrolling at Duke
University. He finds interest in anything related to engineering,
information technology and education. During his free time, he enjoys
hanging out with friends, learning new skills, playing soccer and doing
random things. He is very excited about sharing his passion for
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 Kevin Hu - Biomedical Engineering and Finance, 2015
Expertise: WordPress & iMovie
Kevin is a sophomore from Rockville, MD. When he’s not busy managing his ever increasing engineering workload, he enjoys jamming on the piano and playing tennis. You can see Kevin around campus singing for the Duke Chorale and screaming in Cameron. He joined OIT as a trainer because he loves technology and working with others!
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Jenny Su - Trinity, 2015
Expertise: Microsoft PowerPoint, WordPress
Bio coming fall 2012.
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Duke Staff - Area Specialists
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Michael Faber - Multimedia Project Studio Manager, OIT
Expertise: Photoshop, Illustrator, DDI
Michael Faber is a Duke Grad (Class of '05) and currently the manager
of the Multimedia Project Studios. In his free time he is a freelance
graphic designer and spends most of his waking hours playing with
Photoshop and Illustrator. Michael teaches a number of seminars each
semester including one of our most popular sessions "Photoshop for
Digital Photographers."
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Natalie Jackson, Survey Research Associate, Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology - SSRI
Expertise: Survey Design
Natalie Jackson will receive her Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Oklahoma in December of 2011. Her research focuses on
American political behavior and public opinion, with additional
interests in public policy and elections. She was a Graduate
Research Assistant for five years at the University of Oklahoma Public
Opinion Learning Laboratory, where she worked on hundreds of survey
projects for a wide variety of clients including academic factulty and
staff, government agencies, legal firms, and private
organizations.
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Artem Kazantsev - University IT Security Office
Expertise: Information Security
Artem works for the University IT Security Office as a Senior Security
Analyst. His areas of expertise include: intrusion prevention and
detection, vulnerability management, use of encryption, and multi-factor
authentication, among others. He enjoys educating users about
information security and does not miss a chance to promote secure
computing. In his spare time he enjoys the outdoors when hiking,
mountaineering, sport orienteering and rock climbing.
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Tom Milledge, Analyst, IT Sr., Scalable Computing
Expertise: Scalable Computing
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John B. Pormann, PhD - Director, Scalable Computing
Expertise: Scalable Computing
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