| Tim Aaron, Executive Director, CEI |
| Timothy Aaron is currently Executive Director for CEI. He has over 12 years of experience in the campus card industry as a campus card administrator at Duke University, and project manager for Wells Fargo Campus Card. He has extensive project and product management experience and is a qualified director with and MBA from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. | Cheryl Akers, National Sales Manager, GTE Smart Card Programs |
 Cheryl Akers has 20 years experience in information technology. In her capacity as the National Sales Manager for GTE Smart Card Solutions she is responsible for the overall performance and leadership of the promotion and sales efforts of leading edge smart card applications technologies, throughout the United States. Cheryl and her team recognized that success is built on establishing key relationships and customizing a program to meet each customer's unique needs. |
Tom Barlow, Xavier University |
 Tom Barlow is the Director of Auxiliary Services at Xavier University where
he has been employed for the past 14 years. His position includes the
development and management of Xavier's Musketeer All Card program.He has worked in higher education since 1978 after completing his master's 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 to include 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) Since 1993, has assisted many educational, corporate and federal institutions with the comprehension and implementation of card applications. |
Diana Becker, Commonfund |
| Becker, Director , Payment Systems with Commonfund Treasury, has over 20 years of treasury and accounting experience in education and banking. Diana works with schools providing member support and consultative services. Diana has been a speaker at Treasury Management Forums for both national and regional conferences sponsored by Commonfund, NACUBO, NAIS and Professional Development Group. She is the Purchasing Card Specialist at Commonfund, where she is instrumental in the development of their National Purchasing Card Program with First Union National Bank. Diana was a member of TMA's Project Team to develop a standardized Purchasing Card RFP. She has a BA from Eastern Nazarene College and an MBA from the University of New Haven. |
Doug Beckmann, University of Illinois |
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Patti Burton, University of Colorado-Boulder |
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Mark Casey, MCI |
| Mark Casey is the General Manager of campusMCI at MCI Worldcom where he has overall responsibility for MCI Worldcom's student services programs. He has been with MCI Worldcom in this role for the past 2 years and has over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining MCI Worldcom, he held management positions with both AT&T and Bell Atlantic in the areas of marketing, finance, and business development. Mark leads MCI Worldcom's efforts in the College & University Market and actively directs the company's support of, and participation in a number of higher education associations including: National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), Association of College and University Telecommunications Administrators (ACUTA), National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS). He holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from The American University in Washington DC. He is recently married and resides in Herndon, VA. |
Jack Chao |
| Mr. Chao currently serves as President of Han's Inc. Jack is the owner and operator of Han's Fine Chinese Cuisine and Grace's Café at Duke University. After operating restaurants for twenty years in Korea, Jack moved to Atlanta in 1977 and opened their first North Carolina restaurant in 1981. Currently, Jack operates two other restaurants in Durham, in addition to his eateries at Duke University. |
Adrienne Conforti, First Union National Bank |
| Adrienne E. Conforti, Smart Card Technology Project Manager for First Union National Bank has nine years experience in the banking industry. Ms. Conforti began her banking career with CoreStates Bank where she served clients in multiple industries including higher education, real estate, insurance, mutual fund, and broker dealer. She currently works with colleges and universities to provide consultative assistance and promote banking services as part of a "single campus card" solution. Ms. Conforti has a B.S. in Finance from the Pennsylvania State University and graduate work towards an MBA from Villanova University. |
Martin Damian, Northeastern University |
 Martin J. Damian has been at Northeastern University for over twenty years. He was Director of Financial Aid for ten years prior to being named to his current Bursar position. His responsibilities include oversight of all Bursar operations including student accounts, cashiering, loan collections, payroll, and accounts payable. Mr. Damiam has been an integral part of a campus team working to combine service departments in order to enhance student services. He became involved in the campus card program named the HuskyCard in January of 1996. The University has developed the HuskyCard from a Polaroid laminated ID, to a full service digitized card with full banking functionality. Most recently added to the cards versatile list of capabilities the new one-stop shopping concept. |
Bill Deep, DuPont |
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John Diaz, Duke University |
| John Diaz is Director of the DukeCard System at Duke University. A
graduate of Clemson University, John has been involved in the planning,
implementation and administration of university card systems for more than
10 years. He is responsible for overseeing all functions of the DukeCard
System which provides identification, debit and access card services to the
students, employees, contractors and guests of Duke University. Through
its network of 750 on-line card readers, the DukeCard system processes more
than 250,000 financial and access transactions per day and authorizes debit
card purchases totaling more than $16 million each year. Prior to arriving at Duke in 1992, John was the Technical Services Manager of the Clemson University Tiger 1 Card program. Most recently, he has coordinated the expansion of the DukeCard program into the Duke University Medical Center and the rapidly growing Duke University Health System. John was elected to the AT&T CampusWide Access Solutions Users' Board last year and currently serves as secretary. |
Barbara Dickinson Todd, University of Colorado-Boulder |
 Ms. Todd is the Associate Registrar for Support Services at the University of Colorado - Boulder, and one of the offices reporting to her is the Buff OneCard office. Barbara has been at the University and at the registrar's office since 1983. In 1994, she was asked to lead a campus committee to study the possibility of implementing a campus onecard operation on the Boulder Campus, and from this committee, the Buff OneCard was implemented in 1997. During that development stage, Barbara participated in the development of several business plans for the Buff OneCard program. |
Patricia A. Eldred, University of Vermont |
 Ms. Eldred currently holds the position of Interim Director of AFS Auxiliary Services at the University of Vermont. Prior to this she has also served as Assistant Director for Continuing Education at the University of Vermont and Assistant Dean of Students for Illinois Wesleyan University.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: CATcard Service Center (one-card office), Campus Ticket Store, University Store, University Graphics and Printing, Licensing Program, Mail Services and contracted Travel Center and Vending Services. Eldred led the committee that developed the University's one-card program and oversaw the comprehensive evaluation of the University Bookstore. Eldred recently chaired the University's PBX/Telecommunications Purchase Committee, 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. She is also "mom" to her seven-year-old daughter, Jennifer and "spouse" to husband, Wes. |
Shirley Everson, University of Minnesota |
 Everson has been employed at the University of Minnesota for over 28 years and has worked as a Program Coordinator, Student Counselor, Fiscal Officer and currently as the Director of the U Card Office. In July, 1994, Everson was named Project Lead for the University's campus card project, one of the most successful projects at the UMN in the last five years. The U Card began with a Steering Committee, which under Everson's direction, laid the groundwork for the implementation of the U Card system, identified qualifications for U Card services and determined strategies for generating campus-wide support for the program. In addition, Everson successfully met the University's goal of offering valuable telecommunication and banking services in conjunction with the U Card by spearheading contract negotiations with service providers. Due to the U Card's initial success under her direction, she was named Director of the U Card Office in April 1996. The future of the U Card may include a transition from magnetic stripe to smart card technology, the growth in number of service providers on and off campus accepting the card's cash value feature for payment of services and a constant improvement in the ease with which staff and students obtain U Cards. |
Linda Gardner, First Star |
| Linda K. Garner is Vice President of Workplace and Student Banking at Firstar. Star Banc Corporation and Firstar Corporation merged in November 1998. The new company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has approximately $38 billion in total assets. Linda Garner has just assumed responsibility for Workplace and Student Banking at Firstar. Prior to that, Linda was responsible for Emerging Channels at Star Bank. Emerging Channels was comprised of Visa Check Card, PC Banking, Internet Banking, Voice Banking and Video Banking. Prior to joining Star Bank, Linda was responsible for Marketing Communications and Product Management at Student Loan Funding, an Ohio based secondary market for student loans. Linda also has 12 years of banking experience at Citibank in New York. Responsiblities there included Branch Automation, Executive Banking and Worldwide Consumer Banking. |
Doug Gibson, University of Northern Colorado |
| Douglas Gibson graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Marketing. He was an active participant in the UNC Marketing Association. Doug served as a plan developer on the Award Winning Marketing Plan Committee for a Major National Corporation. After spending two years doing marketing for a national sporting goods company, UNC recruited him back to help develop a marketing plan for the new UNC Card Program. He worked diligently with the UNC campus community and also with the businesses in the Greeley area to ensure the success of the UNC Card project. Doug has done extensive research on one-card platforms throughout the United States and how effective marketing can make a card system. After numerous consulting projects with various schools and companies, Doug is now doing Technical Research and Networking Analysis for UNC to enhance new technology in the University environment. |
Kevin Gillick, DataCard |
 As Director of Market Development for DataCard Corporation, Kevin is responsible for creating and implementing the long-term marketing vision for DataCard Badging and Identification Solutions for several vertical markets, including Higher Education.His specific expertise is in the area of smart cards where, for the last seven years, he has helped application developers and system integrators transition from conventional card programs to new smart card based business enterprises. Kevin has been with DataCard since 1994. Prior to DataCard he worked for Honeywell, Datakey and National Computer Systems. To date, his 18 year career has focused almost exclusively on the introduction of new technology to early adopters in emerging markets. Kevin is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota with degrees in both Business Administration and Economics. |
Heidi R. Harring, BankBoston |
| Heidi Harring is a Director in Electronic Banking Product Development at BankBoston. She built the business case and oversaw product development for the BankBoston Campus Card that was launched this year in partnership with Northeastern University and Diebold Inc. She has also worked on strategic plans and business cases for other electronic banking products. Prior to joining BankBoston, Ms. Harring held marketing positions in the Braun Division of Gillette and at CPC International. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and received her MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. |
Tom Hilton, The CBORD Group |
 Prior to joining CBORD, Tom was a private entrepreneur, operating Lewton's Haberdashers in Ithaca from 1977 to 1985. Previously, he had been a men's clothing buyer for Whitehouse & Hardy and Frank Brothers in New York City. He earlier occupied a similar position for Filene's in Boston.Tom attended Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA. Active in the Ithaca, NY community, Tom has served as president of the Downtown Ithaca Business Association, business division chairman of the Tompkins County United Way, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. He is currently active in the Ithaca Yacht Club. |
Dr. Ben Hitt, American Heuristics Corp. |
| AHC Senior Fellow and Founder of the American Heuristics Corporation. He is the intellectual force, program designer and principal instructor of the Gordian Institute. Also involved with coordinating peer reviews, focus groups and training activities for the corporation's internal process of selecting new technologies for external funding. He has developed two new algorithms which have been submitted for patent consideration. One is a self-organizing pattern recognition system called the Adaptive Fuzzy Feature Map or AFFM which corrects the short comings of previous algorithms. The second is a self-organizing data fusion system called the Adaptive Temporal Correlation Network which finds correlated events and patterns in diverse data streams. |
Joseph Ienuso, Columbia University |
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Bryan Ignozzi, KPMG, LLP |
 Mr. Bryan K. Ignozzi is a Senior Consultant at KPMG, LLP specializing in the
delivery of financial services out of the Charlotte, North Carolina office.
Focusing on card transactions, Mr. Ignozzi works closely with companies in
the Financial Services, Campus, Telecom and Transportation vertical markets.Mr. Ignozzi held a prior position in consulting and also worked for PNC Bank. Mr. Ignozzi holds a MBA with a concentration in International Marketing from Rollins College and serves on the Alumni Board of Directors, along with a degree in Economics from Allegheny College. |
Carolyn Iorii, PNC Bank |
| Lynn Iorii is Assistant Vice President and Account Relationship Manager for PNC Bank's Campus Card Programs. As Account Relationship Manager, she ensures the partnership goals between the University and PNC Bank are achieved as well as developing new business relationships. Lynn's career of more than 25 years in the banking industry provides her with the expertise necessary to successfully incorporate financial services into a University's card program. Her depth of knowledge includes electronic payment systems, retail banking and credit card merchant services. Lynn has a degree in Business Administration and is a graduate of the National School of Bank Card Management at the University of Delaware. |
W. Carson Leonard, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Director of Student Services at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's Newfoundland Canada and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Leonard has been working in Student Affairs and Services since August 1971 after completing 2 undergraduate degrees and completed his graduate degree in 1977. Leonard is responsible for the campus identification system since January 1993 and has held positions from program coordinator in the University Centre to his present position where he is responsible for: Campus Smart Card program; scholarships, awards and financial aid; university bookstore; university liquor services and licence control; University Centre; and undergraduate career experience program. In addition to administrative duties, Leonard teaches two sections of first year mathematics and has the following committee responsibilities: chair, New University Centre Planning Committee; University Senate Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards; University Senate Committee on the Bookstore; University Representative on 3 Student Boards of Management; University Representative on 3 Provincial wide scholarship selection committees; and Deputy Marshall at Convocation. |
Peter Livingston, CapCard, Inc. |
 Peter Livingston has been chairman of Stark/Livingston, Inc. since its
creation. He also served as principle researcher for and president of
CapCard(tm). He developed the open ID card system concept, where
multiple financial institutions can participate in the same campus ID
card program. The most complete implementation of this concept is at
Penn State University.
Before joining Stark/Livingston, Peter was president of a market
research company, PDL, Inc. for six years. He began his career at the
Credit Union National Association (CUNA), in 1968, becoming Vice
President of Product Development, Research and Economics in 1973. He
served on national standards committees for electronic funds transfer.
He led projects that developed unique credit union checking and ATM
programs.
Peter served on the board of the University of Wisconsin Credit Union
for two decades. He was educated at Harvard University (1962) and the
University of Chicago (1966). |
Gary Lorenz |
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Ralph McCaughan, Duke University |
| Ralph McCaughan currently serves as Associate University Counsel in the Office of Counsel of Duke University and Duke University Health System, Inc. He is also Of Counsel to the law form of King, Walker, Lambe & Crabtree, PLLC in Durham, North Carolina. A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Mr. McCaughan practiced law in the firm of English, McCaughan & O'Bryan in Fort Lauderdale, Florida until he joined the legal staff of Duke university in 1981. Admitted to practice law in North Carolina, Florida, and the District of Columbia, Mr. McCaughan is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the North Carolina Bar Association and the American Bar Association. |
Wayne McKinley, AT&T Campuswide Access Solutions |
| No Bio Available |
Gary Meszaros, Western Kentucky University |
| Gary Meszaros is the Director of Business Services at Western Kentucky
University, the largest CBORD account in terms of on-line readers. He has
been involved with the ID business for approximately 11 years. Previously,
he worked at Case Western Reserve and implemented the campus-wide ID system
using the HARCO access system there in 1988. Gary has been a presenter at four of the five previous NACCU conferences covering the subjects, "How to Establish an ID System on Your Campus," "Financing an ID Card System," "Above and Beyond the Campus ID Card" and "The Kiosk Connection". He was also involved in panel discussions twice for the NACAS conferences as well as presenting last year. He was elected to the NACCU Board of Directors two years ago and serves as Secretary. |
Sara N. Moss, Wright State University |
| I started attending Wright State University in the fall of 1992. I got a part-time job with the food service provider, Marriott Education Services. I started as a cashier and was quickly promoted to Student Assistant Accounts Payable Secretary. I then became responsible for the Meal Plan System. In December 1995, Sodexho became the food service provider at Wright State and I became their Points Administrator, responsible for the Meal Plan System. In December of 1996, I was hired by Wright State University as the Assistant Administrator of the Wright 1 Card. In December of 1997 I graduated from Wright State University with a degree in Liberal Arts. In February of 1998 I was hired as the System Administrator for the Wright 1 Card. |
Bill Norwood, VP - New Business Development, Cybermark |
 As the lead visionary for CyberMark, Bill Norwood is-once again-reshaping the campus card industry. In the mid-1980's, 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 the early 1994, he established the Card Application Technology Center (CATC) at FSU and 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 the smart card efforts for CyberMark, a newly-formed Ohio-based company. In his first year with CyberMark, he has helped the company to achieve an industry-leading position with 15 campus smart card installations. 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 ed and card technology conferences. He currently serves as a board member for the Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA). |
George Pashales |
| Mr. Pashales currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Classic Food Services. George first joined the food service industry in 1968 and has been in his position with Classic Foods since 1988. Classic Foods is the vendor of Coca-Cola and snack products and has been contracted by Duke University for the past seven years. George is currently Chairman of the Coca-Cola Bottlers Vending Association and was named North Carolina Vendor of the Year in 1996. |
Ron Pierce, Troy State University |
 Ronald I. Pierce has been serving as Director of Auxiliary Services at Troy State University for the past 2 ˝ years. For the previous 18 years, he served as Director of the Dorothy K. Adams University Center. His responsibilities as Director of Auxiliary Services includes over-seeing the complete operations of the University store, Trojan Media Services, the Box Office, the All-Campus Card. Pierce also serves as the President of Center Services, Inc., Troy State's non-profit student service organization. |
Joe Pietrantoni, Duke University |
| Joe Pietrantoni is currently Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services, Duke University. Joe has 37 years of operations management experience both in industry and university settings. His university experience includes serving as a physical plant administrator and for the past 17 years, developing the Auxiliary Services program at Duke. Several of his programs have received acknowledgement 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 organizations. He has been a consultant for both industry and higher education. |
Steve Rizzo, Laugh it Off Productions |
| President of Laugh It Off Productions, Stve is a national headlining comedian for more than 18 years. He has appeard on SHOWTIME, FOR TV, COMIC STRIP LIVE, EVENING AT THE IMPROV COMEDY CHANNEL and many other cable and network TV shows. He was nominted at the SHOWTIME Comedy All-Star. He holds degrees in English, Educations, Psychology and Theater Arts, was a teacher and counselor, is a member of American Seminar Leaders Association and an active member of the world-renowned Friar's club, where he annually roasts celebrities such as Bruce Willis. Steve is a member of the National Speakers Association and an active board member of the National Children's Cancer Society. He is a favorite of Gold Stars; don't be fooled as he is not only very funny; he also has the ability to convey deeper messages, as needed. He is a natural "teacher" through humor. He is very talented and versatile! |
David Rose, Penn State University |
| David Rose has been Manager of the Penn State id+ Office since 1994. He is responsible for the daily operation of the multi-application, multi-campus, card program. He served on the Implementation Team for the new PSU id+ Card Program. Prior to this position, he provided computer support and training, since 1986, within Housing and Food Services, with responsibilities including System Administrator of the dining hall and residence hall access system. Mr. Rose is a graduate of Penn State. |
Jay Rottinghaus, National City Bank |
| Jay Rottinghaus is the Group Product Manager for Advanced Technology and Campus Cards. He is responsible for identifying and evaluating new opportunities for the Retail Bank that involve electronic access and/or e-commerce. Jay is also responsible for managing the Campus Card group. The Campus Card program includes 7 universities for which National City provides banking services integrated into their student, faculty and staff identification cards, along with stored value/smart card capabilities. Jay graduated from Bowing Green State University in 1993 with a BS in Finance. Prior to joining National City Bank in June of 1997, he held various positions within Star Bank (now Firstar). |
Bob Russell, University of Michigan |
| Robert E. Russell is Assistant Director of Financial Operations at the University of Michigan, a leading research university with annual revenues of $3 billion. His responsibilities include systems, network operations, and bank card services in the Business & Finance Division where he is the project director for Mcard, the University's smart card-based ID card. Through the Ann Arbor Advanced Card Technology Project, Michigan is spearheading a move to an open system utilizing a single electronic purse for services on campus and throughout the city. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, and a M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. |
Pat Samwick, Citibank |
| Ms. Samwick has spent close to 19 years working in various areas of consumer banking both domestic and international. She has worked extensively in bringing new technologies to customers and blending these technologies with existing product offerings. Her work has included the introduction of the electronic corporate cash management product in the late seventies as well as the creation and launch of the Citbank home banking product, Direct Access in the mid-eighties. In her various roles in banking she has managed a major branch, consulted for various international banks on consumer bank marketing, as well as being the director of Sales Management for Citibank's Private Banking Western Hemisphere Division. |
Jill Sauter, Norwest Bank |
 Jill Sauter is the Consumer Banking and Branch Manager for Norwest Banks Colorado handling responsibility for the LaSalle location and the University Center location. With over 20 years banking experience, Jill has held positions in the banking world that include bankcard sales and setups, marketing, and training. She executed a sales and marketing program for the Ft Collins teller and customer service area that was duplicated for the entire Norwest banking system throughout the United States. Jill was instrumental in creating the bank interface for the nationally renowned University of Northern Colorado card program and is currently writing standards to assist other banks in developing banking relationships in higher education. |
Valerie Shafer, Ohio State University |
| 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. |
Wayne Smith |
| Mr. Smith is currently Vice President of Academic Services for Mac-Gray. Wayne has been with Mac-Gray for 15 years and currently heads the Academic services division that was created two years ago to better serve the college market. The company offers goods and services for laundry and the MicroFridge to over 500 schools across the country. Over 100 of these campuses operate with some type of campus card. |
Kathy Stipa, Villanova University |
 Kathy Stipa is the Assistant Director of Campus Card Systems at Villanova University. Kathy has been involved with Villanova's Wildcard for the past five years. The Wildcard at Villanova houses their debit, mealplan, access, library, and new this year to Villanova, "Smart Chip Technology".Kathy is currently serving her 2nd year on the Board of Directors for Diebold's Campus Systems Users Group. She has been a presenter at the Diebold Campus Systems Users Conference for the last 3 years. |
Chris Sullivan |
| Mr. Sullivan is Co-Founder and Director of Business Development for Alpine Bagels and Brews. Chris co-founded Alpine in 1994 and the company currently operates seven restaurants, two of which are on college campuses, Duke and Vanderbilt. Now in its third year of operation at Vanderbilt, and in its first year at Duke, Alpine is growing into the university market as the concept was built for on-campus operation. |
Michael Tempora, MasterCard |
 Vice President, Chip Card Product Management, U.S. Region of MasterCard International, a global payments franchise company comprising more than 23,000 member financial institutions worldwide. He is responsible for introducing information-based chip card applications in the U.S. Prior to this position with the U.S. chip card Business group, Tempora held positions of increasing responsibility during his previous 9 years at MasterCard. Most recently, he had responsibility for the development of information-based chip card applications. Prior to that, he was vice president member relations for MasterCard where he was responsible for developing member strategy and joint product initiatives in cooperation with many of the 20 credit card issuers and aquirers in the United States. In this capacity, he developed and customized co-branding proposals for the supermarket, petroleum, telecommunications and retail segments in support of major members. |
Adam Thermos, Strategic Technology Group |
 Dr. Thermos is the President of the Boston based Strategic Technology Group, since 1989.After a 15-year University faculty career in Criminology and Criminal Justice with Boston based Schools, Dr. Thermos became involved in the design and implementation management of campus-wide access control and security systems. He is the originator and designer of a multitude of systems from Harvard and Brown, to FSU and BYU. Dr. Thermos served over 20 institutions with complete campus-wide designs, from Maine to Florida. He was entrusted with technology selection and system implementation management of over 17 million dollars in capital projects. He is currently the designer of many SUNY Schools and the private Ivy League in the North East. A number of his publications, by-liners and ghost-authored articles appear frequently in the Access Control Magazine, and he maintains an extensive article archive in the his web site, free for all to access and benefit. Dr. Thermos' web domain is "www.drthermos.com" and his e-mail is "thermos@drthermos.com". A frequent presenter in national forums of NACCU, NACUBO, NACAS, ACUHO and other, Dr. Thermos insists that he has left his heart with NACCU, because "he was there from the beginning", when NACCU was born. |
Joanna Truitt, Cleveland State University |
| Joanna Truitt is the Director of Contract Administration at Cleveland State University and is serving as coordinator of the campus smart-card initiative. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. Joanna was formerly Director of Conference Services at CSU and in 1996 had the opportunity to take more of a leadership role with Auxiliary Services. Before coming to SCU, Joanna served as Associate Director of the University Center at Towson State University and Assistant Dean of Students at Catholic University in Washington D.C. She started her career at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County where she held a variety of positions in the University Center. Joanna has been involved in numerous professional associations including the Association of College Unions International serving in various regional leadership positions, presenting at National and Regional conferences and Co-chaired a national workshop on Campus Dining Services. She has also served as Conference Coordinator and Treasurer to the Washington Regional Task Force on Campus Prejudice. |
Alan Tydall |
| Mr. Tydall currently serves as President of Straight Line Pie, Inc. Alan has been a Domino's Pizza franchiser for 13 years and currently owns seven stores in Durham, NC. He has been a member of the merchant-on-points program at Duke University since 1991. |
Randy Vanderhoof, Schulmberger/DANYL |
 Randy Vanderhoof is the Director of Marketing , for Schlumberger Smart Cards and Terminals. He has 11 years of experience with Schlumberger and the former DANYL Corporation, responsible for marketing and product development of magnetic stripe and smart card-based card payment systems. Since the Schlumberger acquisition in 1995, he has participated in the product development and marketing of Schlumberger's multi-use smart card solutions across diverse markets. Schlumberger's card technology is used at over 350 campuses, including more than a dozen colleges and corporate campuses with smart cards. He has worked closely with financial institutions in establishing campus banking relationships and identifying "best of breed' providers of campus security, card imaging and personalization, settlement, and network security solutions. He is frequently involved in industry planning sessions surrounding smart card solutions for Schlumberger Test and Transactions, North America and is counted upon to provide a "real life" perspective based on his personal experience with hundreds of closed system installations. He is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and conferences on the shifting trends in stored value card technology and how smart card applications are impacting the higher education marketplace. Randy was elected in 1998 to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the Smart Card Forum. The mission of the Smart Card Forum and its 200+ members is "To accelerate the widespread acceptance of multiple application smart card technology by bringing together, in an open forum, leading users and technologists from both the public and private sectors." He was formerly the chair of the Education Workgroup. Randy is a graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He received his MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Prior to joining Schlumberger DANYL, he was a Senior Account Representative for ITEK GRAPHIX, Inc. Randy is married with three children and resides in Mercerville, NJ. |
Jim Wulforst, Duke University |
| Jim Wulforst came to Duke University in November 1996. In three years time, he has introduced new concepts such as Han's Fine Chinese Cuisine, Chick-Fil-A, the Devil's Den, and Alpine Bagels & Brews. Jim is a proactive management professional who brings to campus dining a solid knowledge of dining operations and market trends. He is well known for his customer focus and willingness to listen to his customers. Jim has 23 years experience in food service management which includes 7 years as conference & restaurant services director for Time Warner in New York, operating his own restaurants in New York and Florida, and training instructor for Marriott food services. He has won numerous awards for his creativity, customer focus, and cost effective management. |