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John Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. He is primarily responsible for the technology strategy of the company's solutions and services portfolio for higher education. John is a 20 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions include large-scale enterprise architecture, open source software, and agile development methods. John is an engaging and perspicacious person who seamlessly integrates the latest technologies into Unicon's higher education solutions and makes it possible for the company to deliver unique world-class services to its customers. Prior to joining Unicon in 2005, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Arcanum Education Solutions, providing specialized IT solutions to the K-12 education community. After several years of rigorous software development work and study, John joined Andersen Consulting in 1993 and discovered his enthusiasm for providing technology-driven business solutions to customers. With Andersen, he was an integral part of designing and implementing mission-critical systems for customers including Intel and AT&T. In 1995, John joined Sybase, Inc. to start a new professional services practice for the company. He and his team delivered strategic technologies to customers including American Express and Motorola. In 1998, John united with several key associates to establish Arcanum International Corporation as a premier systems integration consulting firm that provided enterprise-class systems architecture and design services to customers including Motorola and Cisco. He also worked with several startup firms in the early 2000s as well as providing distributed systems operations and availability expertise for Charles Schwab. John has been a long-time contributor and advocate in the open source software community since 1997. In addition to contributions to a number of different open source projects over the past 15 years, he was the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, the standards-based Java Portlet development framework that is part of the wildly popular Spring Framework project. He is active in several higher education open source communities, including Jasig, Sakai, and Kuali. John is an expert on open source licensing and intellectual property, as well as the governance and coordination of open source community and projects. John serves on the Board of Directors of Jasig, the organization that stewards several open source projects supporting higher education, including uPortal, CAS, and Bedework. John's education includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Pepperdine University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, and graduate studies in Computer Science at Arizona State University. |
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Patrick Masson is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer for UMassOnline within the University of Massachusetts' Office of the President. As CTO, Mr. Masson is responsible for the discovery, design, development, and management of the technology infrastructure necessary to support UMassOnline supports education online across the five campus UMass system as well as several other public and private colleges and universities throughout the State. Prior to UMassOnline Mr. Masson served as the Chief Information Officer for The State University of New York, College of Technology at Delhi. As CIO, Mr. Masson facilitated collaboration, emergence and agility within Delhi's Campus Information Services (CIS) supporting enterprise/desktop applications, technical centers and labs, server/systems administration, network & telecommunications, online/distance learning, the campus print shop as well as user support such as help desk services and training. Previous to his appointment at SUNY Delhi, Mr. Masson worked for The State University of New York's System Administration as the Director of Technology for Learning Environments , and was responsible for identifying, developing and deploying next-generation technologies, including supporting SUNY's e-learning platform, The SUNY Learning Network (SLN). Before SUNY, Mr. Masson was Director of the UCLA Media Lab, developing a variety of technology based initiatives in support of education, research and patient care within the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine including medical illustration, computer imaging, statistical analysis, visualization & modeling, online learning and e-commerce. Mr. Masson is the founder and co-chair of EDUCAUSE's Openness Constituent Group, He he also co- founded Jasig's 2-3-98 project , focusing on open initiatives within higher education, and is currently serving on the Jasig Board. Mr. Masson is the former Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the State University of New York's CIO Council and "SIG Master" for NERCOMP's Open Source in Higher Education Special Interest Group. He has served on, and led, a variety of system and university-wide initiatives in areas including: online education, learning management systems, enterprise portals, identify management, distributed services, business intelligence and project management. Mr. Masson has written for, and contributed to, The EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, EdTech Magazine, Inside Higher Education, Campus Technology and others on various topics including academic technologies, Agile Project Management, distributed/remote services (SOA, Web Services, etc.), Openness and Open Source Software. He has presented on the same at various events including Campus Technology Magazine's annual conference, EDUCAUSE regional and national conferences, NERCOMP, Sakai's national conference, the Sloan-C Northeast Regional Conference, Jasig's National Conference, Academic Impressions, the SUNY Technology Conference, SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies and at multiple colleges and universities.Patrick and his wife Jamie, a pulmonary and critical care physician, and their two boys, Jack and Hank, live in Loudonville, New York. |
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Benn Oshrin is an independent consultant with over a decade of experience with various aspects of IT in higher education, including affiliations with Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, UC Berkeley, and Internet2. He has recently been focusing on Identity Management, and is currently lead developer on the COmanage project (providing identity services for Virtual Organizations), as well as a founding member of the Open Source IDM for Higher Education (OSIdM4HE) initiative. |
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I am Director of Communications & Middleware Technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and have over 25 years experience in Higher Ed IT, first as a programmer, and subsequently in IT management. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany (now the "University at Albany"). Prior to coming to RPI, as best as I can remember, I was a programmer in various operating systems development groups at what was then Sperry Univac. |
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Robert has been working in higher education for nearly 20 years now. He has worked at the number of institutions in the UK in a variety of roles and most recently has been at Hull for the last 13 years. At Hull he has held a number of posts, starting as the Intranet Development officer and is now the Head of Student Experience for Library and Learning Innovation. This role in addition to managerial responsibility for library services and eLearning, involves leaving and institutional project currently called eCommons which is looking to create a distinctive digital platform for learning and teaching and communications at Hull. Robert has been on the board of Jasig directors for the last four years, in the role of vice-chair for the last two, and is also board liaison and Chair of the uMobile Working Group. |