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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under ATE Grant #DUE 0603297

 

Industry Advisors

Authenticity is a key requirement for a scenario-based task. The challenges offered students must be real-world—something they would be asked to do if they had been hired for their target job. The details and supporting documents must ring true to generate student involvement and provide useful work experiences.

Our Founding Industry Advisory Panel convened periodically to assure continued authenticity of our scenarios, tasks, classroom techniques, and course material during our initial project. For our latest project, we moved to an Ad Hoc Advisory Panel that consists of industry professionals and researchers who serve as judges for student presentations, subject matter experts for faculty and researchers, reviewers on assessments and tasks, advisors for faculty needing additional skills, and in myriad other ways that add to the quality and authenticity of the scenario-based experience for our students and faculty.

We thank our panel participants for generously sharing their time, ideas, knowledge and experience with our faculty and staff.

Ad Hoc Panel Members (partial list, 2008-2009)

Alex Russell, President, Dojo Foundation & Director of R&D, SitePen

Art Fortgang, research contractor/part-time robotics instructor, SRI International

David LaPlante, Twelve Horses

David Schnepper, Technical Yahoo

Erik Aker, Certified IT Specialist, IBM

Frank Flynn, Operations Manager, Spock.com

James Jones, Exec Director, M-PICT Center

Jasmine Lopez, Developer, consulting around Ajax programming content

Jessie McCaskill, The Shade Tree Shelter

John Thomas, Software Test Engineer, Google

Keith Dart, QA Engineer, Google

Kenny Spade, Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Nathan Dwyer ,Developer, consulting around Ajax programming content

Phillipe Alexis, nodiamonds webservices

Ruchi Bhanot, Researcher, assessment development and testing

Wesley Chun Senior Engineer, NearbyNow

Paul Bragiel, CEO at Lefora

Sandra Porter, GeoSpiza

Rao Akella Sr., Software Engineer at BEA Systems

David Korn, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Christopher Balz, E*Trade Financial

Scott Thomas, MGM Mirage Contract Information Security Analyst (Link Technologies)

Dr. Chad D. Mano, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University

Dr. Rob Erbacher, Sc.D., Dept. of Computer Science, Utah State University

Miles Johnson, IT Security Analyst, Utah State University

Mike Yaffe, Core Security Technologies Jim Purcell , SANS Trainer

The Founding Industry Advisory Panel met at De Anza College to review progress to date and provide input for plans for the future of the project.

Panel members included representatives from:

  • Oracle Corporation
  • Visto Corporation
  • IBM Global Services
  • Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
  • Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • MCS Business Services
  • De Anza College
  • Foothill College

Industry Team
Industry Panel

Founding Panel Members

Gaye Stevens
Director, Global Information Security
Oracle Corporation

Raymond J. Kehoe
Director of Engineering
Visto Corporation

Quynh A. Nguyen
SAP Administrator
IBM Global Services

R. Michael Sato
Corporate Director, Talent Acquisition& Development
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.

Howard Pomerantz
Cisco Systems, Inc.

W. Paul McConnell
Principal
MCS Business Services

Tony Tuan Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer, Security Technology Group
Cisco Systems

Sukhjit Singh
Faculty, CIS and Business
De Anza College

W. Michael Murphy
Faculty, Computers, Technology and Information Systems
Foothill College

Phillip Deaver
Adjunct Faculty
Foothill and DeAnza Colleges

Mack Kusumoto
Director of Information Systems
Quest Diagnostics

Justin Thomas
Information Security
Symantec Corporation

Yvonne T. Ryan
Founder, Sr. Consultant
Leader's Edge
Careerdevelopment for the technical professional

Tu Tran
Intel Corporation


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