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Immediately following the press event on November 11, 2008,
the Mid-Pacific ICT Center held its first Advisory Panel
meeting.
MPICTs Advisory Panel consists of some 70 representatives of
diverse sectors of society, including K-12 and post secondary
educational institutions, equipment manufacturers, software
companies, service providers, government, standards bodies,
enterprises and non-profits.
Each shares an understanding of the importance of ICT and a
skilled ICT workforce for their organizations and
economies, and each has an interest in advancing ICT fields,
ICT infrastructure and solution deployments,
and ICT education and workforce improvements.
MPICTs Advisory Panel is not a governing body. MPICT Advisory
Panel meetings build community around ICT education and
workforce development issues. They include sharing success
stories, building collaborative relationships, providing
informed feedback, brainstorming and evaluation.
This initial meeting introduced and described the Mid-Pacific
ICT Center and its Regional Partners, the NSF ATE funded
Center and Project community, MPICTs organization, goals and
opportunities, and collaboration opportunities with the
Center.
Significant time was also spent introducing Advisory Panel
members. It is such an incredible group, and there is great
value for members in getting to know each other and develop
relationships. Advisory Panel participants include:
MPICT PIs and Regional Partners
Gordon Snyder, Executive Director, National ICT Center
Ann Beheler, Convergence Technology Center PI
Deborah Boisvert, Director of BATEC
Ted Chandler, PI, Institute for Telecommunications
Technologies (IT2) at Cuyamaca College
Brian Court, Director of Network Engineering/Design, CENIC,
Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California
Dr. Eric Tao, Chair, School of IT & Communications Design,
California State University - Monterey Bay
Alan Rowland, Education to Careers Business Development
Manager, CompTIA
Patricia Theel, Supervisor, Career/Technical Ed/ROP, San
Francisco Unified School District
Joaquin Alvarado, Director, Institute for Next Generation
Internet (INGI) at San Francisco State University
Dennis Frezzo, Instructional Tools & Research Architect,
Network Academy Learning Systems and Development, Cisco
Systems
John Bjerke, West Region Area Academy Manager, Cisco Network
Academy Program
Scott Edwards, Director, Global Operations, Education
Services, Juniper Networks
Greg Kovich, Senior Account Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Ali Nooriala, Manager, Systems Engineering, Matisse Networks
Jon Burgess, Development Executive, Apple Computer
Nina Paolo, Program Manager, IBM Innovation Center for
Business,
Janice Foley, HP Procurve Americas Training & Certification
Manager
Leeann Peling, Comcast External Affairs
Gary George, President and CEO, IP Networks
Tom Swayze, Director of Network/IT, Telekenex
Tim Pozar, Founder, United Layer
Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, the Dandin Group
Lisa Murray Speltz, N. America Program Mgr, Microsoft IT
Academy
Megan Stewart, Adobe Systems Director, Worldwide Higher
Education
Denise Brady, Past President, NATOA
Lee-Whei Tan, Communications Division, CPUC
Emy Tseng, San Francisco Digital Inclusion Programs
Ruth Kavanagh, Labor Market Consultant, California EDD
Michael Butler, San Francisco IEEE Communications Society
Chair
Beverly Seyfert, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Area
Technology Director,
Tom McEwan, VP, Sales and Operations, Imtech Telecom Global
John Carrese, Director, Economic & Workforce Development
Center of Excellence, City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Indiana Quadra, CCSF Chair, Career Development/Placement Ctr
Deanna Abma, CCSF Articulation Officer
Andrea Speraw, Director, San Francisco Center for Applied
Competitive Technologies
Ken Ikeda, Executive Director, BAVC
Harold Galicer, Principle, Seakay
Donna Milgram, Executive Director, Institute for Women in
Trades, Technology and Science
Future meetings will involve requests for information and
ideas on specific issues and challenges.
We welcome opportunities to collaborate to improve ICT
education and the ICT workforce!
Together, we win!
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