A little Background Material:

I graduated from U.C. Berkeley, with a degree in Art, after vacillating between French and Math. I've been out here for a little over 10 years, but I'm still recovering from the move I made out here to this tempermental state called Michigan. My used-to-be-fiance-but-now-husband runs a circuit board design/consulting business called Great Lakes Modular.

Current Information

I am currently working for Strata Information Group (SIG) as a Senior Consultant for their Luminis Services division. SIG offers consulting services mainly to colleges & universities in helping them manage their IT infrastructure. With the push by SungardHE on Luminis and the UDC model, SIG has decided to add this new service division to help answer some of their current and future customer needs. My role is to act as a multi-functional project consultant, as it involve both technical and functional roles related to supporting a successful Luminis implementation. And besides going directly to SungardHE, SIG is the only other organization that offers Banner & Luminis IT consulting services.

Previously, I was the webmaster for Lake Michigan College, a local community college. My position was formally located within their Information Technology Department, but I bounced between I.T. and multiple departments (mainly the Marketing Department). My first 8 months on this job was spent overseeing the redesign of their website, and the new website launched in February 2001. My job responsiblities included overseeing internal efforts to encourage and support the departments, faculty & staff who were interested in establishing a web presence. In addition, I also acted as the systems administrator for the web-based applications that the college had implemented (Blackboard, Banner Self Service modules, and WaveLink (Luminis), the college's portal application), and backup to the Solaris systems administrator/ Oracle & Banner DBA. It was a whirlwind when I first started, but I learned a tremendous amount about the technical aspects of the job, and enjoyed helping others through the web page creation process.

Unfortunately, due to a recent reorganization at the college, my position in I.T. was eliminated and a new web coordinator position was created in Marketing to support the college's web initiatives. I learned a lot in the 6 years working there since the I.T. department staff had to juggle multiple support roles, but I also made the decision a year before the reorganization shakeup that it was time to move on in my career. So, the dreaded news wasn't as much of a shock as it could have been.

Previous to working at the college, I was the website administrator for Gast Manufacturing, a local manufacturing company. The job was an interesting challenge, as it had to be created from scratch since no-one has ever tackled this type of position before. Basically, I was the driver and project manager for projects and initiatives related to their web presence. This included website layout and design, content, technical programming such as cgi scripts for forms and bbs's, advertising and marketing efforts, and using the website as a proactive business tool. I had to do a lot of catchup work my first year in the position, as no-one had been doing maintenance and upkeep before I came along. But, I was forced to learn about other aspects of website design, marketing and promotion that I probably wouldn't have learned on my own.

In my spare time (of which I don't seem to have that much) I try to add to my knowledge and experience in an effort to stay up to speed. I currently offer freelance consulting services to small and mid-sized businesses, as well as graphic design houses who need outside programming consulting services.

I am also in the process of overhauling my fun car, a 1993 Super Red Toyota MR2 - NA engine. Here is some more information about my car.

My husband, Tony Clark, used to work as the production manager for a small business run out of the Physics department called A.U. Physics Enterprises. They make affordable teaching equipment that is used in physic labs in K-12 and higher education schools. His passion is analogue keyboards, and he used to run the DIY Archive web site, which is the place to go if you're looking for that rare analog keyboard schematic.

Recently, he decided to dedicate his time to offer design & prototyping services in cuircuit board design through his own company, Great Lakes Modular

In addition to the two of us, we share the house with our cats and several tropical fish.

This page was last modified : August 10, 2009