OARC - Key Persons
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- Human Resources Analyst / Human Resources Administration
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- Manager, Research Web and Data Platforms / Research
- Manager, Research Web and Data Platforms / Research Data and Web Platforms
- Research Web and Data Platforms Manager
Andrew Browning is the Research Web and Data Platforms Manager for the Office of Advanced Research Computing. He is also on the advisory board for the Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science at California State University Long Beach. He previously served on the board of Santa Monica Dragons Lacrosse, served as President of Santa Monica Vikings Youth Lacrosse, Served as the Chair for the Santa Monica Field Sports Advisory Council, and was a Candidate for Santa Monica City Council in 2020.
Before coming to UCLA, Andrew worked in IT global services specializing in the lean delivery of IT services for the healthcare staffing industry. Andrew also worked as a researcher at California State University Long Beach focussing on intermodal drayage efficiency and its externalities and was a California Space Grant Scholar working on the California Launch Vehicle Initiative.
Andrew, along with other members of OARC, is currently working on an NSF/NIST funded symposium entitled, "Strategy for Resilient Manufacturing Ecosystems." Andrew and his team are working on a Proctor and Gamble funded dental recommender engine for the UCLA School of Dentistry, and they are also working with CESMII performing verification of their proprietary platform.
Andrew's interests include intermodal logistics, smart manufacturing, elegant design, software engineering, and project management. Andrew is also a musician and performs with the UCLA Old Time Ensemble and his roots band, Andrew Browning And The 9 Pound Hammers.
Areas of Expertise
Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture
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- Manager and Senior Statistical Consultant, Statistical Methods and Data Analytics
As manager and member of the IDRE Statistical Consulting group, Andy provides help with data analysis and statistical modeling to UCLA researchers directly and to researchers world-wide through development and maintenance of the group's website. Andy's previous scientific research mapped genome-wide human genetic interaction networks.
Areas of Expertise
Data Analysis and Statistics
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- Application Programmer and AV Specialist / Research
- Application Programmer and AV Specialist / Research Data and Web Platforms
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- Event Manager
- Executive Assistant
Barbara Woltag is a higher-education professional who specializes in supporting executive-level university administrators in communications, event coordination, travel arrangements, calendaring, and special projects. Her earlier career experiences in journalism, marketing, local politics, and development, serve to inform her approach in providing a precise and intuitive approach to supporting leaders in effective day-to-day operations. Prior to UCLA, she worked as publications manager at Santa Fe Community College and development coordinator at the University of New Mexico.
Education
California State University, Northridge
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- Manager and Senior HPC Systems Architect, HPC Systems
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- Senior Program Manager, Disabilities & Computing
Born with a congenital disability, Carolanne Link didn't even know how to fit in. It wasn't until Carolanne came to UCLA as an undergraduate student and discovered a disabled community that she began to be proud to identify as a disabled person. Now, as the UWAI Project Manager, Carolanne strives to help educate the campus about disability culture and accessibility best practices, hoping to change the hearts and minds of the general population to be amazing allies to the disabled community. UWAI helps elevate UCLA's digital accessibility through web development, digital document training, cultural seminars, advice and evaluations, and even social media presence.
Areas of Expertise
Disabilities and Computing
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- Software Quality Assurance and Requirements Analyst
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- Senior HPC System Administrator
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- Senior Accessibility Engr & Web Developer / Research
- Senior Accessibility Engr & Web Developer / Research Data and Web Platforms
Chris Patterson focuses in web accessibility and web development, including content management systems and custom applications. Chris specializes in database architecture, information architecture, and user-interface design. She consults with users to determine functional requirements for applications, and then designs, builds, and maintains those systems.
The lead developer of the OARC Web Team, Chris has developed, designed and maintained numerous websites and applications. Today, Chris builds sites primarily on the Drupal Content Management System.
Chris is proficient with various web and database programming languages, tools and standards including HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, XML, XSL, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, WCAG 2.0, Siteimprove, and more.
Chris is also the technical lead of the Disabilities and Computing Program and has served as an accessibility evangelist for UCLA since the early days of the web. She helps other web developers and content editors understand what it takes to make a website work for everyone.
Chris serves as one of the UCLA representatives on the systemwide Electronic Accessibility Committee and the UC Tech Ambassadors Group.
Areas of Expertise
Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture
Having worked as a statistical consultant for more than 20 years, Christine is comfortable working with a wide range of data types and statistical models. She has assisted clients with all phases of the research process, including experimental design, item development, instrument development, data collection techniques, data de-identification, data cleaning, statistical analysis, testing model assumptions, graphing raw data and results, interpretation of results, written and oral presentation of the results, and responding to comments from reviewers of peer-reviewed journals. She is comfortable working in SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, Mplus, MLwiN, HLM, SUDAAN, Wesvar, PASS, G*Power, Survey Monkey and LaTeX.
Christine's areas of particular expertise include the analysis of public-use complex survey data sets, meta-analysis, statistical disclosure control, and reading old data files into current statistical software programs.
In addition to assisting statistical consulting clients, Christine has co-authored many articles published in peer-reviewed journals and given numerous presentations at various statistical meetings.
Areas of Expertise
Data Analysis and Statistics
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- Director, Workforce & Ecosystem Development, CESMII
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- Director of the Western Regional Manufacturing Center
- Regional Manufacturing Center ( RMC ) Director / Program Manager - CESMII Novation / CESMII - the Smart Manufacturing Institute
Mr. Turner is the Director of the Western Regional Manufacturing Center, a regional operation of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is responsible for Institute operations in the western United States. His team works with the Institute's regional members to develop and implement Smart Manufacturing technologies in the region. They also provide outreach /training to both industry and researchers in Smart Manufacturing.
Dale Turner has over 31 years of experience in Department of Defense government operations and services. 18 years of experience at the senior executive level, with demonstrated revenue growth through the entire business development/sales lifecycle having a 83% win rate on capture efforts and an outstanding industry record for successfully winning and operating large-sale, high profile US Government contracts and programs across numerous DoD agencies totally a value over 12.9B for those wins and over 14 years' experience as a highly successful entrepreneur in the private business sector.
Prior to CESMII, Dale Turner was the Vice President and founder of the Camden Defense Business Initiative and Industry Consortium. A newly formed company located in Camden, AR, the defense contractor capital of the south-central U.S., the CDIC advises and partners many top U.S. Defense manufacturers with local and regional business owners. Mr. Turner's vast experience and strong reputation within the defense industry has led to the creation of many rewarding alliances within the CDIC, sparking new economic growth and superior productivity within those regions. Having raised and saved millions of dollars for consortium partners with his own Win-Win strategy, Mr. Turner to expand this business model into other regions across Arkansas.
Mr. Turner also held the position of Sr. Vice President for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions leading up Business Development activities. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions is a leading provider of warfighter solutions in advanced engineering and information technology (IT) services, security and surveillance systems, (C4ISR), critical infrastructure design and integration services, military range operation, technical services, and weapons systems lifecycle support. Mr. Turner was responsible for Develop, integrate and manage corporate business development processes and procedures ensuring Kratos business units meet and exceed BD CMMI level 4 standards to ensure increase of revenue growth on win rates.
Areas of Expertise
Smart Manufacturing
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- Membership Manager, CESMII
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- Software Development Manager, CESMII
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- Interim Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Managing Director for the UCLA
Davida Johnson is the Managing Director for the UCLA Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). She has overall responsibilities for the day-to-day administrative and operational functions for the OARC providing leadership, management, and vision to ensure the organization has the right balance of operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and diverse talent able to maximize their contributions and effectiveness within the organization. She also has oversight over the development and tactical implementation of the ongoing strategic roadmap of the OARC working across the unit leadership in support of the research mission of the university. In addition, Davida oversees public-private partnership programs that aim to develop collaborative research initiatives within the local and national information technology communities in both public and private sectors.
Having earned a joint Bachelor of Science degree from M.I.T. in Humanities and Computer Science Engineering, Davida's diverse background helps to bridge the gap and communicate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders. She is an avid supporter of women in technology and co-leads the UCLA Women in Technology initiative, which she launched in 2015.
Davida began her career in the Center for Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems at Clark-Atlanta University, where she worked as a research assistant developing software programs to help build enemy target detection algorithms to identify foreign military tanks, funded by the Army Research Laboratory. Davida continued her career as a software developer and program manager for Accenture, then in various technical project manager roles at Warner Bros. Entertainment before joining UCLA.
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- Senior Program Manager, Research Facilitation
Eleanor Koehl supports the development and execution of OARC's research facilitation practices to enhance digitally enabled research opportunities for UCLA faculty and graduate students. She works closely with the OARC Research Technology Groups, the Institute for Digital Research in Education (IDRE), and other campus partners to promote OARC's mission of fostering data-driven research at UCLA.
She was previously Associate Director for Outreach and Education Services for the HathiTrust Research Center and Digital Scholarship Librarian at HathiTrust. Throughout her career, she has advanced research capabilities for digital scholarship such as through contributions to grant-funded, national-level projects, including developing a professional development curriculum on text analysis for librarians, leading a national forum on research with use-restricted data, and collaborating on a summer institute about legal literacies for text data mining. Her areas of scholarship and expertise include workshop facilitation, researcher consultation, and research needs, particularly in digital humanities.
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Job Titles:
- Manager and Digital Research Specialist, GIS and Visualization
Francesca Albrezzi, PhD, works at the intersection of humanities research and technology. As a digital research consultant at the Office of Advanced Research Computing, she assists faculty with their digital research needs, from ideation to execution and publication. Her dissertation "Virtual Actualities: Technology, Museums, and Immersion" (2019) interrogates modes of publishing, display, and information capture in museums and archives that illustrate a break from "traditional" models, and argues that digital modalities provide a distinctly different paradigm for epistemologies of art and culture that offer greater contextualized understandings.
More broadly, Francesca's research explores spectrums of immersive experience within GLAM organizations as offered by technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 photo and video capture. She also has significant experience developing digital tools, such as The Getty Scholars' Workspace™ for conducting collaborative arts research and preservation. She was a HASTAC Scholar, has worked and taught within the field of Digital Humanities, Art History, and Cultural Studies for over a decade, and helped to produce an online digital art history textbook. She is affiliated with the College Art Association's educational committee, Art History Teaching Resources, and the Digital Art History Journal, where she serves as the director of the virtual gallery.
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- Manager, Infrastructure Support Services
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- Information Systems Specialist
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- Fund Manager
- Fund Manager / Financial Planning
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chief Technology Officer of CESMII the Smart Manufacturing Institute
- Chief Technology Officer, CESMII
Haresh was appointed Chief Technology Officer of CESMII The Smart Manufacturing Institute in March 2018. Haresh oversees the technology mission, roadmap, and objectives of CESMII and is responsible for developing the institute's project portfolio for Smart Manufacturing technologies spanning advanced sensors, controls, modeling, analytics, and platforms for manufacturing. He also oversees the development and application of the nation's first interoperable, collaborative Smart Manufacturing Innovation platform for industrial applications. Haresh brings three decades of experience in industrial RD&E covering the development and deployment of Smart Manufacturing technologies. Prior to joining CESMII, he was the Director of Digital Manufacturing & Automation Technologies at Arconic/Alcoa Technology Center where he was responsible for developing the organization's strategy for smart manufacturing and deploying solutions that drove productivity across the company's discrete and hybrid operations.
Areas of Expertise
Smart Manufacturing
Education
Northwestern University
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- Web Application Developer With CS Background Working at OARC Web Team
- Web Developer & Cloud Architect / Research
- Web Developer & Cloud Architect / Research Data and Web Platforms
Hayk is a full stack web application developer with CS background working at OARC Web Team. Currently most of his projects are based on Drupal 7 PHP framework. He also works on projects based on other PHP frameworks, including applications built from scratch without using any framework.
Areas of Expertise
Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chief Operating Officer, CESMII
- VP of Business Development of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Howard Goldberg was appointed VP of Business Development of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) in May of 2018. In his VP of Business Development role, Howard is the primary externally-facing business interface. He will work to develop new members, expand the smart manufacturing opportunities, retain the base membership and grow the Institute. In addition, he is accountable for the establishment of a technical education and workforce development program that leverages the CESMII Regional Network and for developing and executing a comprehensive strategic communications capability for CESMII with regards to marketing, communications, and public relations.
Howard brings over 20 years of leadership experience in successfully growing the Business and Operations of leading-edge sensor-solutions companies. Howard was most recently the Executive Vice President of Operations for Pressure Profile Systems, a developer of tactile sensors that enable the "sense of touch" for electronic products, where he drove the launch of the most complex product in the history of the company and achieved a 14% increase in record shipment revenues. Additionally, Howard was the former President and COO of Interlink Electronics (NASDAQ: LINK) a globally recognized a manufacturer of human-machine interface sensors, where he achieved a 36% increase in revenues. Howard presents an extensive portfolio of successfully introducing both product and supply-chain solutions to a broad spectrum of industries: microelectronics and sensors, Wearables and IoT, consumer electronics, medical devices and digital healthcare, automotive, industrial control, energy, aerospace, and defense.
Howard holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), a B.S.E.E from Lehigh University, and Executive Management Certification from Rice University. Additionally, he is an inventor on 10 issued patents related to sensor/actuator design and fabrication.
Areas of Expertise
Smart Manufacturing
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- Director, Marketing, CESMII
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- System Administrator for UCLA 's HPC
- System Infrastructure Administrator
Jimmy is currently a system administrator for UCLA's HPC cluster Hoffman2. He's been in this role for almost 10 years now and has played a major role in its phenomenal growth from the beginning. He has been tasked many times in spec'ing out multi-million-dollar HPC hardware, from procurement to finally deployment and integration. His most recent project was to architect a low-cost commodity GPU platform for machine learning/AI. He was able to build a cost effective and robust off-the-shelve solution at a fraction of the cost of a vendor solution. Jimmy's ability to assess technology needs and recommend solutions is one of his strongest attributes. Additionally, he is the day-to-day operations manager for multiple datacenters.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chief Executive Officer, CESMII
John comes to CESMII from Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), where he was the Global Director of Software Business Development. In this role, John helped drive the transformation of Rockwell Automation to a leadership position in software for manufacturing. He was responsible for strategy development, and the acquisition and development of capabilities needed to transform their software portfolio. John developed and began the execution of a multi-year software acquisition strategy to shape Rockwell Automation's software portfolio. He was a key leader in shaping their Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) strategy and was responsible for their global Strategic Alliance with Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft). Prior to his role at Rockwell Automation, John led the Product Management and Marketing teams for GE Fanuc (now GE Digital), (NYSE: GE) with responsibilities for the entire Production Management software portfolio (Proficy), including Workflow, Historian, Portal, Tracker, MES and many other software modules. He developed close relationships with many large, key manufacturers. Mr. Dyck played a key role in building a software startup in the Manufacturing Intelligence space. As Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development for ActivPlant, he was instrumental in raising over $20M in VC funding and developed and implemented a successful sales and channel strategy, resulting in significant revenue growth. In addition to his manufacturing software and business experience, John has been actively involved in MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association), a CESMII partner. John served as Chairman of the Board from 2013 - 2015. In his new role, John will oversee CESMII overall business and operations, continuing to drive CESMII's technology and smart manufacturing objectives to promote energy and productivity efficient practices to US manufacturers. "I am excited and honored to be a part of this institute," says Dyck. "We're in a great position to drive the innovation and the democratization of key technologies and business strategies on the journey towards Smart Manufacturing." A key aspect of the CEO role will be to drive innovation and foster more strategic collaboration among all of the contributing stakeholders in this Smart Manufacturing ecosystem.
Areas of Expertise
Smart Manufacturing
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- Technical Analyst, CESMII
John works at the CESMII - Smart Manufacturing Institute. As the Technical Analyst, he supports the Project Management Operations team from the roadmap lifecycle implementation to its completion. Currently, he operates the project web application system to enhance the management of projects within the given constraints and devises reports with quality control checks for the program portfolio. Lastly, he supports data management strategies for the portfolio of projects for secure documentation and deployment.
Areas of Expertise
Smart Manufacturing
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
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- Applications Engineer, CESMII
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- Senior HPC System Administrator
John Pedersen works in the IDRE High-Performance Computing Systems and Networking group. As a System Administrator, John supports the IDRE Hosted and Shared Cluster resources, analyzing and resolving any system issues that arise. He has experience working with multiple platforms - Linux, Mac OS, and Windows - and various productivity and utility software applications. He also collaborates with others to research, design, and implement emerging technologies.
Since 2001, John has supported various groups within IDRE/OARC (and previously ATS), including the Disabilities and Computing Program, iMedia, Desktop Support, and the Visualization Portal.
In his free time, John enjoys golfing and spending time with his family.
Areas of Expertise
High-Performance Computing
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Director, Human Resources / Human Resources Administration
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- Instructor at UCLA Extension
Lauren leads the product and visual design in the Mobile Research, Cloud and Data RTG. She designs innovative mobile and web applications, platforms, websites, and advanced data visualization tools that are used by UCLA's academic and research communities. Her specialties include UI/UX design, interactive prototypes, branding, illustration, animation, advertising, and marketing.
Lauren delivers presentations and workshops on app design and mobile research projects at events such as the UC Tech Conference, the UCLA Mobility & Modern Web Conference, LAdobe User Group meetings, and UCLA Code for the Mission bootcamps.
As an instructor at UCLA Extension, Lauren enjoys teaching Illustrator I in the Design Communication Arts program. Also, she writes on design and technology, including contributing the introduction to legendary artist John Van Hamersveld's Drawing Attention book, writing a cover story for LA POP arts magazine, and contributing approximately 200 graphic design and technology related articles for multiple online publications.
Areas of Expertise
Custom Mobile Apps
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Campus Research Initiatives
- Director, Computational Research Technology Groups & Research Initiatives
Lisa is OARC's Director of Campus Research Initiatives, Acting Director of the Research Technology Group (RTG), and Manger of GIS, Visualization, and Modeling Group within the RTG. Through these roles, Lisa is responsible for providing institutional leadership and support to coordinate and build campus capacity for innovative research and pedagogy through institutional coordination, alignment, and development of IT system requirements related to research computing and research data management. She also works to facilitate broad-based, campus-wide collaboration and coordination with all academic departments, administrative and academic support units, campus computing facilities, and media/communications offices to align research and research computing with institutional direction.
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- Senior Financial Analyst
- Senior Financial Analyst / Financial Planning
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- SMIC Operations Director, CESMII
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- Director, Technical Programs, CESMII
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- Manager, Mobile, Cloud and Data Research
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- Solutions Architect, CESMII
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- Senior Computational Scientist
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- Technical Support Coordinator
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Mobile, Web Research & Accessibility
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- Digital Research Specialist
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- Quality Assurance Lead Tester
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- Manager and Senior Computational Scientist, Computational Science
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- Program Manager, Innovate@UCLA
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- Financial Analyst / Financial Planning
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- Director, Business Development, CESMII
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- Chief Computational Scientist
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- Administrative Analyst, CESMII
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- Senior Fund Manager / Financial Planning
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- Manager, Disabilities & Computing Program