Speaker: Mary Jane Russell

Mary Jane Russell is currently the Director of Finance at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. She holds a Master of Science in Administration from Saint Michael's College, and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont. She began her career as a Certified Public Accountant with a regional CPA firm and later worked for KPMG as an Audit Manager, focusing on tax-exempt clients in the health care, higher education, and other tax-exempt sectors. Before joining Saint Michael’s, Mary Jane also served as the Assistant Director of a scientific research organization, managing the financial and administrative aspects of sponsored psychological research programs. She has given presentations at EDUCAUSE, NACUBO, SCUP, EACUBO and both regional and national Datatel User’s Group conferences.

Speaker: Dave Wedaman

As Director for Research and Instruction Services at Brandeis University, David helps lead a team of reference librarians and instructional technologists providing a broad range of services and programs supporting teaching, learning, and scholarship.

David's background is in higher education, instructional technology, and library-I.T. collaboration. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brandeis, an M.A. in Humanities from Indiana State University, and has taught numerous French, Writing, and Humanities courses. In his years in I.T. at Brandeis, David worked in various capacities related to the support of instructional technology and user services, including managing the Language Media Center, Instructional Technology Resource Center, and Media Services group, as well as contributing to the management of key services-the course management system, model teaching and learning projects, classroom technology support, and public computing services. More recently, David's interests focus on integrating library and I.T. resources in instruction and research and exploring new areas of collaboration between faculty, students, and I.T. and library staff in teaching and learning. David sits on the SIG Masters Committee and the Program Committee, has hosted recent SIGs on videoconferencing and pedagogy, and has presented at the NERCOMP annual conference and at SIGs on student management and course management systems.