Speaker: Geoffrey Greene

Geoffrey Greene is Director of IT Support Services at Brown University. Geoff has worked in IT at Brown since 1988, holding a variety of positions. In his current role, Geoff oversees the Help Desk, Software Services team, IT Support Consultants team, Communications and Training team, and the Production Services team. He led the Google project that moved all university faculty, staff, grad, and med students to Google. Geoff is a proponent of ITIL and continuous service improvement methodologies. He is helping to lead efforts to use ITIL to standardize process and tools in support of all IT services. Additionally, Geoff manages Brown's IT service catalog.
 

Speaker: Marion Kennedy

Marion Kennedy is a member of the Google+ Community Partnerships Team. Her work is focused on using the Google+ platform to empower students, connect universities and colleges, and overall, to make learning accessible across the internet. Before joining Google, Marion worked as a Senior Coordinator at Duke University. She has also worked as a 7th grade special educator in Boston, MA. A lifelong advocate for education and learning, Marion applies her passion everyday. 
 

Speaker: Arun Nagarajan

Arun is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google. As part of the Developer Relations team, Arun works closely with Google Apps customers, partners and independent developers to help build compelling applications and workflows using Google Apps Script. Prior to Google, Arun spent over 9 years at a Boston area mobile software company building a cross-platform mobile application development framework for large enterprises. Arun has a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Arun resides in New York City but still loves the outdoors.

Speaker: Ravi Ravishanker

Ganesan (Ravi) Ravishanker began his career as an Higher Ed IT Professional at Wesleyan after completing his PhD and postdoctoral work in computational chemistry and a Masters in Computer Science. He worked at Wesleyan from 1986-2009 in various roles in IT and from 2006-2009 as the Assistant VP for ITS. He then worked as the CIO in Pace University in NY until Nov 2010, when he moved to his current position as the CIO at Wellesley College managing a merged Library-IT organization. These diverse experiences will help him contribute in a unique way to NERCOMP membership from a leadership role.

Ravi is very interested in new and emerging technologies and their application to teaching and learning. He also is an active participant in social media and has actively tweeted during NERCOMP SIGs, as well as NERCOMP and EDUCAUSE annual conferences. Ravi has been blogging about technology topics as well as managing large Higher Ed technology organizations -  http://blogs.wellesley.edu/ravisblog.

He thoroughly enjoys playing golf and angry birds (on his iPad), listening to Tamil film music, and wasting his time watching Tamil films. For a complete list of Ravi's accomplishments, please see: https://blogs.wellesley.edu/ravisblog/about/. Ravi believes that he will be a strong contributor in helping shape NERCOMP's agenda in several important areas such as network security, vendor negotiations, emerging trends in social media and multimedia, and management of a complex organization.
 

Speaker: Andrew Stillman

Andrew Stillman provides instructional design, technology support, project management, planning services and execution support for implementing blended learning strategies (online and in class curriculum) across multiple schools. He supports school administrators and teaching staff in the redesign of schools' instructional models and selection of high caliber online curriculum. He is the co-founder of Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science & Engineering. Andrew earned his B.S. with honors in physics and philosophy from the University of Oregon and his M.A. in secondary science education from The City College of New York. Andrew's work has been featured on Google Developers Live, at Google I/O, and he is author of a number of popular scripts in the Google Apps Script gallery, including autoCrat, formMule, Doctopus, and others.