Jim Babbage

Senior Solutions Consultant - Education
Jim's passions to share knowledge, take photographs, and manipulate images led him to a long-lasting careers in those areas as both a college professor and creative professional. An avid photographer to this day, Jim is the author of several books and video training titles and has written hundreds of articles on Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Digital Fluency, and other general web, photography, and digital literacy topics. He has spoken at Adobe MAX and other
education-focused conferences. A former media professor of 21 years, Jim has worked the last 10 years as a Senior Solutions Consultant for Adobe and is also a regular contributor to Adobe Stock.

Learn more about Jim’s passion for storytelling, photography and teaching at:
Behance: https://www.behance.net/JimBabbage
Portfolio: http://jimbabbage.photography
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimbabbage/

Pete Kelley

Pete Kelley also joined Connection in 2001 and brings over 20+ years of experience in Higher Education. Pete is our Business Development Manager assigned to NERCOMP. Our BDM's work with a very tenured and talented team of individuals within Connection, who cover everything from day-to-day tasks, to specialty areas including software, storage, and security. Pete has close relationships with a multitude of manufacturers, allowing him to focus on the best possible solutions for our customers. As a strategic partner and consultant, Pete is dedicated to providing technology solutions including hardware, enterprise software, and professional services to ensure a successful outcome for our customers. Pete can be reached by phone at:  802.289.3829 or by Email: pete.kelley@connection.com.

Leslie McAllister

Leslie McAllister first joined the Connection in 2001. She is an experienced licensing solutions specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. For the last 18 years, Leslie has been focused on working with education customers as an Adobe Licensing Specialist. Leslie can be reached by phone at 603.440.5591 or by email: Leslie.mcallister@connection.com


 

Meredith Robinson

Meredith Robinson is a 20+ year technology marketing and sales professional whose career is focused on supporting the use of technology in the classroom. (She comes from a long line of teachers.) While in college, she was recruited by Apple to serve as a student representative, which led her to working at Microsoft in Education Sales and Marketing for over 17 years. For the past 3 years, Meredith has worked at Adobe – first as an Account Representative and Product Evangelist, focused on increasing the usage of Adobe Express in K12 named accounts. And now, she is an Education Program Manager guiding large education institutions through an update to Adobe’s Enterprise Storage Model that will enable user access to new collaboration features within Creative Cloud and Adobe Express applications utilizing the Adobe’s Spaces/Team infrastructure.

Meredith lives in the Seattle area. She has an 18-year-old son who’s a recent high school graduate., For fun she takes West Coast Swing dance lessons. She also loves to hike, bike and camp any chance she gets.  Meredith is a foodie - so a perfect afternoon is spent hiking in the forest, gathering wild mushrooms, and searching for rare, delicious, black truffles to cook up on a camp stove!


 

Steve Watson

Steven is a Sr. Education Customer Success Manager with Adobe Systems.  Steven has been with Adobe for over 7 years, connecting higher education consortium-system institutions from all over North America with software deployment and faculty enablement resources.  His passion is to partner with institutions in creating a digital literacy atmosphere on campus, thereby giving students ways to learn in a visually engaging way and to acquire digital tools to help them in their career paths.