2001 Conference Presenter Bios

TESA Entry Systems is the world leader in stand-alone electronic locking solutions with over 1.8 million locks installed worldwide. Fred Alger joined TESA in 1998 and is currently the Manager for the Education Market. Mr. Alger has 11 years of security and access management experience, which includes 3 years with Tesa Entry Systems and 8 with the US Marine Corp.

TESA’s primary goal is to work with colleges and universities as a strategic partner to solve access management problems related to their facilities. These solutions include installation of stand-alone locking systems, compatibility with most perimeter on-line systems, and export/import capability with resident management systems. Additionally, we have several key strategic alliances that we partner with to provide the broadest range of solutions in the industry.

Fred holds a BS from the University of Maryland, a MBA from Loyola College in Baltimore, and a C.P.A. in the state of Maryland.

Tim Aaron is a former campus card consultant, providing objective consulting and project management services to colleges and universities in the design, implementation and support of their campus card systems. He has been involved in the campus card industry for over 15 years as a student and administrator at Duke University, product manager at Wells Fargo Bank, and a consultant at College Enterprises Inc. and Aaron & Associates. Tim currently oversees the implementation of comprehensive web services, including online card management, to colleges and universities for Blackboard Inc. He has a B.S. from Duke and an MBA and Masters of Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Greg has since worked for CEI Card Systems (previously known as Special Teams, Inc.) from 1995 to the present, in roles including Regional Technical Service Manager (Mid-Atlantic Region) and Senior Director of Operations. Greg serves as the CEI Card Systems divisional representative, and is responsible for all aspects of divisional operations, sales and technology expansion. Greg has been directly involved and on site during over 50 college and University card system implementation activities.

Tom Barlow is the Director of Auxiliary Services and Risk Insurance Manager at Xavier University where he has been employed for the past 17 years. His position includes the development and management of Xavier’s Musketeer All Card program. He is a member of NACCU, NACAS, NACUBO and URMIA. He is a board member for the National Association of Campus Card Users for two consecutive three year terms and has recently been re-appointed for another 2-year term.

He has worked in higher education since 1978 after completing his MFA degree at Southern Illinois University. He has retained faculty or administrative positions at Northern Kentucky University, Cincinnati Academy of Art and Xavier University.

Mr. Barlow has provided a variety of management and card technology programs for the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS), American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and Association of College and University Telecommunications Administrators (ACUTA). He has directly assisted many educational, corporate and federal institutions with the comprehension and implementation of card applications.

Dennis is a long time participant in the plastic card industry. He has been at the technological helm of Caulastics for the past fifteen years leading the company in its groundbreaking work in composite card formulation and contactless card manufacturing.

He has served as consultant to prime contractors in international voter ID projects and domestic drivers license programs. Mr. Caulley has worked with numerous high tech companies in the development of card based auto ID technologies including the first release of two dimensional bar codes on plastic cards and the packaging of surface acoustical wave technology for high speed, long distance vehicle ID tags.

Mr. Caulley continues to stay technologically active in the plastic card industry, and is currently a chairperson of the Application Profiles subcommittee of the ANSI Card Durability Service Life Task Force. Dennis was also a founding member of the NACCU Card Study.

Mr. Caulley received his degree from Antioch West University in Mathematics and Education, but did the great majority of his undergraduate work at Santa Clara University in mathematics and chemistry. He initially worked in education in the Bay Area before entering the printing and card manufacturing industries.

Dick Jablonski is a Special Consultant to Magtek. Mr. Jablonski served as Project Engineer for 17 years at Burroughs Corp. in Electro-Mechanical Business Systems. He also spent five years as Director for Mattel Corporation’s Electronic and Mechanical Toys Division and 10 as Vice President of Computer Products for Compucorp Corporation. For the past 25 years Mr. Jablonski has been self employed Electro-Mechanical Developer and Consultant in the field of card magnetics and airline ticketing systems; reading and writing data related to magnetic stripes.

Jane Barrantes chaired the effort to bring the campus card program from an idea to a live operation at Santa Clara University and has been the program’s only director for the past 6 years. The program now has over 250 readers online covering some unique financial and access control services.

A member of NACCU since its first year, she has served on the CampusWide User Board now for four years and on the AT&T ACUS Advisory Board for one. She has presented at the CUCON annual conference on topics ranging from Card Office Management to Web Applications and has hosted several dozen universities visiting SCU to observe campus card operations. She also takes an active role at SCU as the President of the Staff Assembly Council. Prior to establishing our card program, she worked on and off at Santa Clara University for 13 years in a variety of project and financial management positions and worked on systems at two Silicon Valley firms as well as at UCLA.

Ms. Barrantes has a Master’s in Education Administration and a BA in Spanish and has been married for 27 years now with two children.

Mr. Becker is the Manager of University Card Services for Kansas State University. His duties include administration of K-State's Wildcat Card program and all campus card operations. These include ID Center offices, card production, orientation, marketing, banking and other vendor agreements, as well as an on-campus debit account and smart chip stored value account. he recently developed and implemented Kansas State's gift card program. Prior to joining the one-card program at K-State, Mr. Becker worked for four years as a purchasing manager for K-State and for five years as an associate regional manager for Dillard Department Stores.

Additionally, he is on the faculty of the College of Business Administration, Information Systems Department. Prior to joining LMU he spent 18 years in Computer Information Systems in various industries including commercial real estate, computer systems analysis and support, nonprofit organizations and training. John's experience in Information Systems includes campus card systems network management, geographic information systems, project management, product management, database development, contact management, financial analysis, remote access, and user interface design. John currently holds an MBA in Computer Information Systems. Prior to entering the world of computers he was a Helicopter and Fixed Wing pilot in the U.S. Coast Guard and in commercial aviation.

Thomas G. Bell is Executive Director of Campus Auxiliary Services, Inc. (CAS) at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has conducted seminars and discussions of ID technology, debit card systems, electronic imaging, and other current technologies for a variety of professional groups. He was a member of the SUNY Card Project Team that was responsible for the development and implementation of a New York statewide common identification card for the SUNY and currently serves as the SUNYCard program Contract Coordinator. Tom was also the past president, chairman of the board, and one of the founding directors of NACCU.

Sherry Blanton is the Operations Supervisor of the ID Center at Western Kentucky University. She has been with WKU’s campus card program for approximately ten years.

Renae Brinza is the administrator of the ID Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her duties include administration of the University’s Panther Card Program and all campus card systems and operations. These include card production and database functions for the main campus and the four regional campuses, the debit card program, the off-campus merchant agreement, the validation/verification program with the county transit authority and city museums. Renae has been in the campus card industry for the past six years and is an active member of NACCU. She also sits on the Advisory Panel for Blackboard Campuswide Transactions Solutions (the CEI Card Systems Division).

Jeanine Brooks serves as Director of Action Card, The University of Alabama's identification and debit card program. She has worked with the card program from its initial beginning over seven years ago. The Action Card office manages over 300 online card readers utilizing a variety of applications including POS, vending, off-campus debit programs, access, laundry, web, UnipriNT, copying, video imaging and bookstore. Jeanine previously served as Assistant Director for Business Administration for the University's Telecommunication Department. Jeanine has been with the University for 14 years.

Susan Hunter serves as the Software Systems Group Leader under the university's Information Systems Department. She supports business systems for the Action Card program, Telecommunication and Continuing Studies. Susan is instrumental in the tremendous growth and maintenance of the university's Action Card program. She performs software and hardware installs, data conversions and customized application development. Susan has a BS in Management Information Systems from The University of Alabama. Susan has presented at CUCON.

Kathleen Ragan, currently Director of Student Financial Services at The College of New Jersey, has a diverse professional background in the areas of Auxiliary Services, Residential Services, Student Accounts and Financial Assistance, and 3^rd party client server technologies including card access system management. She is Vice President of the CampusWide Access Solution’s User Board, and also serves as a Board member of the Delaware Raritan Girl Scout Council and as Treasurer of her homeowner’s Association.

Shannon Burks is the Director of Support Services at UNCG. Shannon is responsible for the overall operations of University Purchasing and Risk Management, UNCG FirstCard Center, Postal Services, University Graphics & Printing, and Business & Student Services Marketing. She has been involved with the implementation and operation of two smart card programs. The first program was at UNC Pembroke, where she worked for ten years. The most recent is at UNCG where she has been employed for the past 3 1/2 years. The UNCG FirstCard was introduced in Fall 1999, utilizing Cybermark’s smart card system. In Fall 2000, UNCG signed an exclusive banking agreement with Wachovia to provide student and administrative banking services to the University.

Shannon earned a BA in Business Administration from Southeastern Louisiana University.

Scott Milman is currently the Director of Spartan Services at UNCG, with operational responsibility over the UNCG FirstCard Center and Postal Services. Joining the University in 1997, he directed Housing & Residence Life’s ResNet prgram before coming to the FirstCard Center.

Scott earned a BA from Rhodes College in 1993 and MS in Counseling from UNCG in 1996. “You’d be surprised how far a counseling degree will go when you’re dealing with a One Card program.”

At Brown University since December of 1997, David Cardoza has effectively streamlined the campus-wide access control and security system. His previous experience as the security vendor’s project manager at Brown, as well as his 25+ years experience in computer technologies, enabled him to bring a hands-on management and organizational style to the project. While working for one of New England’s premier Security Installers, MAC Systems Inc, his previous campus installation experience includes installations at Harvard University, MIT, Harvard Business School and Bentley College. David currently resides with his wife and four children in Acushnet, Massachusetts, home of the Titleist golf ball.

Donald Davis is the editor and associate publisher of Card Technology magazine. He previously was editor of Faulkner & Gray’s Bank Network News and Debit Card News newsletters. His journalistic experience also includes positions at The Associated Press, Manufacturing Systems magazine and The Springfield Union, a daily newspaper in Springfield, Mass.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Davis graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in political science and economics. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.

Kori DeHaan is the Manager of UCard operations, and has been with the University for 6 years. She operated as project manager for a smart card installation Fall of 2000, where over 35,000 smart cards were issued and 230 chip devices were deployed. Current projects include implementation of various card services to enhance the chip programs, a pay for print solution, as well as on-line meal plan design and implementation of door access for Olympic Housing. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology.

Grant Moulton has been with the University of Utah for 30 years, and currently holds the position of Controller. His early efforts in selling the concept of a One Card System has resulted in a new program that tallied over 30,000 chip transactions in the first month. This campus wide support of the UCard program can be credited to his experience maneuvering in a University environment. His current efforts will incorporate various methods of authentication, including digital signatures, that will comply with HIPPA requirements as well as streamline many campus transactions. Mr. Moulton is a certified public accountant.

Patricia Eldred is currently Director of AFS Auxiliary Services at University of Vermont, after serving as Assistant Director of Continuing Education at the university and as Assistant Dean of Students at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL. She chairs the Advisory Council for the Center for the Study of Outsourcing and privatization in Higher Education, is past president of the Eastern Association of College Auxiliary Services, and serves on the board of Directors of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services.

Ms. Eldred's work experience in student affairs, academic administration and business administration have combined to create a broad understanding of university issues from a variety of viewpoints. She currently oversees the following areas: CAT card Service Center (one-card office), Campus Ticket Store, Purchasing, University Store, University Graphics and Printing, Licensing Program, Mail Services and contracted Travel Center and Vending Services. She led the committee that developed the University's one-card program and chaired the University's PBX/Telecommunications Purchase Committee.

Ms. Eldred holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from Gettysburg College, and a M.Ed. from the University of Vermont in Student Personnel Services in Higher Education.

Al Gilligan, currently serves as the Vice President Sales, Marketing & Client Relations for Cybermark.

Al was the Director of Business/Auxiliary Services for Florida State University prior to joining CyberMark's team. He developed much of the business strategy for the University's Card Application Technology Center (CATC) and facilitated the Center's transition to CyberMark. Al has
presented card technology at numerous conferences including the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), National Association of Campus Auxiliary Services (NACAS), the Association of College and University Telecommunication Administrators (ACUTA) and the National
Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU).

Applying his eighteen plus years of university experience and card application knowledge, Al is uniquely qualified to work with institutions of higher learning in developing optimal technology choices and associated financial and marketing strategies.

Prior to accepting his current role at CyberMark, Al lead the Company's National Sales Team responsible for more than 36 campuses adopting CyberMark's leading-edge smart card solution.

Kiran Gandhi is Vice President of Mag-Tek and is responsible for marketing, new product strategies, and business development activities for the company. As part his responsibility, he also pursues emerging technologies for use in card issuing, card acceptance, and card as well as cardholder authentication applications.

Kiran has been associated with credit, debit, and stored value card systems businesses for the last 18 years as President of Lexicon Corp. and Debitek. He has extensive knowledge of the payment systems industry. He is a member of the board of directors of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association, a member of the Smart Card Forum, and a member of the National Clearing House Association. He is very familiar with issues involved in creating a card-based infrastructure, including: establishing objectives, determining infrastructure needs, identifying appropriate machine-readable card technology, selecting devices and systems for card issuance/acceptance, and determining card marketing requirements

Rodney Lee Gittins received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Utah State University and started working for Computer Services January 1, 1973 (28 years ago). He worked on various accounting systems for the University and in 1980 designed and was the team leader for the development of USU’s Auxiliary accounting system. He is still responsible for this system.

In 1989 he was on the team involved with upgrading the meal plan system that was being used at USU. After total frustration with the quality and cost of existing systems, he located a source for programmable readers and created a model to prove that USU could build a better system that was cost effective.

He designed, programmed and integrated the needed devices that became the core for the existing card system at USU. This system has grown from 14 food service and bookstore limited usage readers in 2 buildings, to over 150 multifunction reader connections in 19 buildings all over campus.

Since the systems creation, he has designed and programmed additional interfaces for it. These include a link to Visanet for bank card processing, time clock processing, activity tracking, automatic deposits to the controller’s system along with Web and PCard transaction processing.

Mr. Robert ("Bob") Huber, C.M.C., C.P.C.M. is President of Robert Huber Associates, an international management consultancy specializing in assisting colleges, universities, hospitals, and corporate campuses with "All-Campus Card" implementations, upgrades, and off-campus applications throughout the United States and Canada.

Often referred to as the guru of the "All-Campus Card," Bob co-developed and implemented the first campuswide multi-application card system at Duke University, providing students with pre-approved access to hundreds of services using a single card. Implementation of such systems has resulted in expanded services, convenience, higher security, customer satisfaction, and new revenue for both the institutions and their service providers.

Bob has assisted over 150 colleges and universities, trained over 1,000 computer system users, and installed over 54 mainframe systems and over 150 food service systems (including debit card, credit card, point-of-sale, meal plan, vending, door access, and food production systems). He has direct experience with a variety of card system technologies.

Bob earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, and an Associate of Science degree in Restaurant Management. He has been certified by the Arizona Department of Education, the Arizona Community College Board, the Institute of Management Consultants (Certified Management Consultant), and the National Bureau of Certified Consultants (Certified Professional Consultant to Management). He is affiliated with the National Association of College Auxiliary Services, the National Association of College and University Food Services, American Society for Training & Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Association of Community Colleges, and the Association of College Administration Professionals. Bob is a frequent speaker at industry meetings, workshops, and conferences.

Ben Kahoussi is the Senior Support Engineer of the WebVTS ID card web interface at JSA Technologies. He has had several years of experience in the Internet technology field and is currently engrossed in maintaining the WebVTS at the cutting edge of ID card services. He has a Masters degree from NYU and a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University.

Vikki Ott is the Director of Marketing and Sales, and WebVTS Product Manager at JSA Technologies. Her background is in Marketing, with a concentration on Internet technologies. She has a number of years in this field, and has taken both JSA Technologies and WebVTS into the forefront of online value transfer business for the college ID card market. Vikki is also JSA Technologies’ liaison for Diebold related WebVTS sales, and the Account Manager for all other WebVTS platforms.

Vikki graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.

Gilles Lisimaque is one of the five founders of the French company Gemplus, a world leader in smart card applications. He serves as senior technical adviser to the U.S. Gemplus technical team, which provides support to customers and prospects in using and designing Gemplus products as well as advising them during the design phases of their application to find the best compromise between security, user convenience and cost.

Mr. Lisimaque is also vice-chairman of the Smart Card Forum and vice-chairman of the Smart Card industry Association.

Since 1987, he has often been asked to speak on Smart Cards at international conferences such as ACT, NISSC, Hammer Forum, CardTech/SecurTech, American Banker, IEC, UniForum, Anderson Consulting and many others. He also gives lectures at the National Defense University and is an active participant in the Smart Card Forum Education Institute.

Prior to Gemplus, he headed the Technical Marketing organization for SGS-Thomson Smart Card component R&D group. He was the architect of the company’s family of smart card components and led the development of the original chip operating system for smart cards.

He is a graduate of the Arts & Metiers French engineering school, where he specialized in automation and electronics.

Peter Livingston is a principal of Stark/Livingston, Inc., a research, consulting and communications company. In addition to his extensive background in product development for financial institutions, Peter was president of CapCard from 1993 to 1999. CapCard provided consulting services to credit unions and campuses interested in campus/financial institution partnerships. Peter was the initiator of the open system for such partnerships, as exemplified by the program at The Pennsylvania State University. Peter has developed, implemented and evaluated a variety of electronic financial services, including ATM networks and truncated checking.

Jack Mapes, Director of Schlumberger, Campus Solutions, is responsible for marketing, sales, development and systems integration for the Higher Education market. Based in Moorestown, New Jersey, the campus team under the guidance of Mapes plan, design, develops and implements integrated smart card ID solutions.

Mapes joined Schlumberger more than seven years ago, serving in additional leadership capacities such as Business Segment Manager for Danyl, Major Account Sales Manager and National Manager for Campus in North America. During his tenure, Mapes has been responsible for transitioning the Schlumberger campus offers to include information security components to protect digital and networked environments. The results are a much broader system offer resulting in a completely integrated Campus ID solution. Additional experience was gained through leadership of Schlumberger VisaCash initiatives at the summer Olympics and working closely with Financial institutions for smart card programs.

Prior to joining Schlumberger in 1994, Mapes managed POS sales for Sharp Electronics. The knowledge gained in this position has proved valuable in bringing merchant programs to Schlumberger Campus Systems. Mapes continues to take on more responsibility as he shares his vision for a more connected world of smart card users.

Mapes holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Philadelphia University. There he completed Marketing and Psychology degrees. He is a member of the Smart Card Forum and National Association for Campus Card Users.

Mr. Monk has over four years experience in the card technology market. As Director of Healthcare and Government, Mr. Monk has served as Project Manager for numerous leading smart card initiatives including the Western Governors Association Health Passport, the first multi-application, multi-state health and human services smart card program. Mr. Monk is a graduate of the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and is a featured speaker and author.

As the lead visionary for CyberMark, Bill Norwood is once again reshaping the campus card industry. In the mid-1980s, Bill utilized his 30-plus years of university management information systems experience to identify a plan which would ultimately move Florida State University to the cutting edge of card-based technology. His FSUCard became a model for campuses worldwide. In early 1994, he established the Card Application Technology Center (CATC) at FSU, and subsequently served as its executive director for three years. It was during these years that Bill and his assembled team assisted in program implementations at more than 200 institutions. Concurrently, he guided the design of the new smart card-based FSUCard.

In early 1997, Bill and his team left the CATC to help guide smart card efforts for CyberMark, a newly-formed Ohio-based company. In his first year as V.P. of New Business Development with CyberMark, he helped the company to achieve an industry-leading position with 15 campus smart card installations. He was recently named Vice Chairman of the Board for CyberMark.

Bill was a founding member of the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), served on the board of directors for CUMREC, and is a frequent speaker at CardTech/SecurTech and other higher education and card technology conferences. He currently serves as a board member for the Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA).

Joe Pietrantoni has 39 years of operations management experience both in industry and university settings. As a former manager for General Electric corporations, Joe worked on the manned space programs of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and United States Defense systems. His university experience includes serving as a physical plan administrator and for the past 20 years, has developed he Auxiliary Services program at Duke. Several of his programs have received acknowledgment in national publications for their service sensitivity and cost effectiveness. He has conducted workshops on several of the programs in addition to conducting special sessions at national meetings of college and university organizatoins. He is a consultant both for industry and colleges and universities.

Joseph Poole is the Executive Manager of StormCard Operations & Technology for St. John's University. He is responsible for managing the daily operations of the University StormCard Program as well as the development and implementation of its revenue programs. Prior to coming to St. John's, he spent two years at Colby College as the Assistant Director of Security/ColbyCard Systems Manager. He is a Certified Technical Security Systems Manager and a U.S. Marine of 12 years, where he worked extensively with security systems and techniques. He receive his B.A. from Cal Southern University.

Heather attended Alverno College and Milwaukee Area Technical College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, studying Video Production and Marketing. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minn. In her "spare" time, she created a website for and helps market a local band.

The firm worked with MCI and Florida State University in designing a student ID smart card rollout, is active in prepaid phone cards, and designed other e-purse/security chip card applications and clearinghouse systems for public transit in New York and Seattle. Q&A worked with toll collectors in New Jersey to design a clearinghouse system using contactless transponder technology. In 1996, Q&A worked with a large Chicago-based real estate organization to develop a transactional kiosk network for use by tenants for apartment and health related services.

While at EPS, Mr. Quadagno managed the company's role in establishing closed e-purse systems in universities, transit agencies and entertainment/resort industry. At the time, EPS was developing a smart card platform in collaboration with VISA. Mr. Quadagno also managed the development and launch of the MAC and EPS prepaid phone card products. Mr. Quadagno has spent 20 years in the payments industry. Prior to joining EPS, he was responsible for the creation of New York City's MetroCard, a magnetic-based, closed stored value card system used to access subway and bus service. He was instrumental in creating a new subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transit Authority-the MTA Card Company. MTACC's mission was to create a public/private joint venture to expand payment use of MetroCard to all MTA subsidiary agencies as well as non-transit related payments. This effort was the first of its kind in the U.S. MetroCard is now an accepted payment method for accessing and riding New York City's subways, buses and commuter rails and is currently piloting the combined use of transit with prepaid phone card applications.

Mr. Quadagno is a Director of the Smart Card Industry Association's Board and has spoken at industry conferences sponsored by NACCU, Faulkner & Gray, AiC, CardTech/SecurTech, Telecomm Business and Intele-Card World. He is pleased to return to NACCU 2001.

Delma Rodriguez serves as Coordinator of the very successful USFCard Program at the University of South Florida and is responsible for the card operations at each of the four campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Lakeland,
and Sarasota, Florida. She has been with the University of South Florida for 30 years, first as a student earning both a B. A. and an M.ED. in Administration and Supervision. Then In 1978, Ms. Rodriguez began working at
the university as Assistant Director of Audiovisual Services in Educational Resources where she supervised the "Polaroid" ID card program. Ms. Rodriguez is also an Adjunct Faculty member with the School of Library and Information
Sciences where she teaches Television Production in the Schools.

She began developing the new card program at USF in 1992 and implemented the system in October of 1994. In 1995, she became Coordinator of the USFCard in Auxiliary Services. She is now actively involved in developing the
strategies that will be used to transition the university into the chip/smart card technology. She is an ardent believer in the team management approach and leads the USF Users' group on campus and is an active member of
the Statewide ID Users' Group in Florida.

Bill Rogers is Publisher of the "Biometric Digest," a newsletter focusing on biometric identification technology. The "Biometric Digest: newsletter reports on emerging identification technology covering fingerprint, voice, hand geometry, facial recognition, iris scan, signature and others. Mr. Rogers moderates several national conferences on biometric technology and is a frequent speaker on this subject.

Mr. Rogers is also an Associate Editor of "Credit Union tech-talk." This publication reports on technology of interest to credit unions to include vendors, home banking, Internet, security issues, ATMs, industry trends, electronic commerce and others. He co-sponsors two technology conferences for credit unions, which are held semi-annually. He is a consultant and frequent speaker at conferences and seminars serving credit unions.

Mr. Rogers has more than 38 years experience working with financial institutions nationwide. he most recently was CEO for a national data processing firm serving credit unions. He was previously a Vice President and Regional manager with Electronic Data Systems. He was with EDS for six years prior to forming his own company in 1988. Prior to joining EDS, he was with the Missouri Credit Union League for over 19 years as Vice President of Credit Union Support Services and Manager of the League's data processing division for more than 14 years.

Joseph. Schuler is an internationally recognized expert in advanced electronic card processing systems, especially those utilizing smart card technology. He is responsible for E-Card strategy at Fargo which includes smart cards, proximity cards and advanced magnetic stripe cards.

Prior to joining Fargo he held executive level positions at Schlumberger, Gemplus and Visa International specializing in smart card technology and applications.

Mr. Schuler is a frequent speaker on smart card topics at colleges, universities and trade show conferences worldwide. He is co-author of a book on smart cards called THE ADVANCED CARD REPORT: Smart Card Primer. Mr. Schuler's experience spans virtually every aspect of the electronic card processing industry including marketing, systems integration, manufacturing, applications development and implementation, card operating systems and standards.

His expert opinions have been widely published in leading periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Forbes, POS News, Bank Network News, ID Systems, The Nilson Report and Credit Card Management. Additionally, Mr. Schuler has appeared as an expert commentator on CNN and network television news programs.

He is a former member of the United States delegation to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Association for Microcircuit Cards (INTAMIC) for the standardization of Smart Card technology. He also served as a technical expert on ISO and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Working Groups.

Mr. Schuler is a graduate of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and he has over three decades of experience in developing strategic partnerships, high tech systems product marketing, development and systems integration.

Shafer currently holds the position of Director of Information Systems and Services for the Housing and Student Affairs departments at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. This position includes directing the university's one-card operation, BuckID. Shafer has been actively involved in the campus card world for the past several years. She is past President of the AT&T CampusWide Users' Board and past presenter at NACCU and CUCON, AT&T's user conference.

Cindy Skura manages and coordinates the complex process of responding to nearly 100 requests for proposals from colleges, universities and other organizations each year. She reviews and responds to proposal requirements, gathering information from many sources while working with CBORD's business partners to provide the best possible solutions for prospective clients. Cindy's previous experience providing administrative support for CBORD’s support and development staff, in addition to years in computer and POS operations, has enabled her to bring valuable knowledge to her position. As a senior member of the sales team at CBORD, Cindy has also been involved in many other departmental projects, including development of a software tool to generate sales quotes, supervising the helpdesk database, and management of POS maintenance agreements.

In 1979, Ms. Skura earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology and French from Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, New York. During her undergraduate career, she spent a year in France studying the French language and culture. She pursued graduate studies in business administration and has earned a certificate in paralegal studies. She spent twenty years in retail operations as store manager, computer systems manager, technical writer and database supervisor. Before moving to Ithaca, New York and joining CBORD, she was a paralegal for a Connecticut law firm.

Debra Spitler, HID Corporation’s Director of Business Development, is responsible for developing new business markets for HID’s multi-technology credentials, ProxTrak asset tracking and eProx embedded proximity product lines. She reports to Vice-President of Business Development Steve Wagner.

Ms. Spitler joined HID in 1999 as global Accounts manager, where she created and managed the newly developed Global Accounts Program. This corporate user outreach program puts end-users n direct contact with HID’s growing portfolio of RFID-based security solutions. She continues to oversee the Global Accounts Program and educate end-users in employing the single card solution to manage facility access, network access and asset management.

Prior to joining HID, Ms. Spitler spent the last 11 years of her 18-year tenure at Honeywell’s Home and Building control Division as national account executive/manager. She received a Bachelors degree in Marketing from Arizona State University.

Homer Tedder is the Director of Technical Services for the Card Application Technology Center (C.A.T.C.) at Florida State University. Homer is responsible for both hardware and software services for the FSUCard Center and the CATC, and serves as an advisor to other universities regarding ID Card issues.

With a background in mainframe and PC applications, he was one of the founding team members of the Card Application Technology Center. He has been with Florida State University for 24 years, and has been working in the ID Card applications development area since 1990. He has been involved in all aspects of ID Card applications, from design, development, testing, and implementation.

From 1994 to date, he has assisted or coordinated the ID card integration / implementation strategies for over 125 institutions across the country. His efforts in defining and developing new strategies and technologies for ID Card systems has helped refine basic university applications such as Library, Dining, Security and Photo Class Rosters from stand-alone systems to card based integrated technologies.

He is a graduate of Florida State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management.

Adam Thermos is the president of Strategic Technology Group. Since 1989, Dr. Thermos serves as a nationwide Security Automation Consultant a large constituency of Colleges and Universities. His clients include the Ivy League, as well as Private and Public Colleges and Universities, Teaching Hospitals and Medical Centers in the US and Canada. A frequent presenter in the national forums of NACCU, NACUBO, NACAS, and ACUHO, Dr. Thermos serves the institutions with hands-on Security management consulting style and helps with frequent publications, by-liners and articles as they appear in the press. He also maintains an extensive web based research and articles archive.

Bret Tobey is the Senior Product manager at Diebold Card Systems, where he is responsible for both physical and logical security systems.

He has worked with smart cards at several companies since 1996. Mr. Tobey may be reached at tobey@gte.net with any questions.

Read is responsible for managing the college and university sales efforts within Communicating Systems Division. Read's sales team in higher education is responsible for privilege control systems, housing management systems, and conference management systems.

Before coming to CBORD, Read spent three years in residential life at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was responsible for the management of two residence halls and seven language houses. Read also helped rewrite the room assignment process for the college. While at Macalester, Read was a member of several higher-education professional associations including UMR-ACUHO, MCPA, and ATCCHA.

Read earned his BA in political science from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he also served as a resident assistant and captain of the club hockey team. He is an active alumnus, participating both in Alumni Affairs events and the Alumni Annual Fund campaigns. Carleton College is currently an OmniACCESS client.

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