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Meg McCall (Chair)
Bob Ash
Peter Kaufman
Greg Konop
Jack Lepak
Peter Mann (Assembly Representative)
Tamara Walker
Ross Yahnke (Assembly Representative)

 

Meg McCall (Chair) joined DoIT in July 2004 and works in the Communications Department. She is responsible for helping motivate the campus to embrace IT services and initiatives such as Security, My WebSpace, Professional Technical Education and TechNews. Prior to working for DoIT, Meg was employed by United Way of Dane County for 14 years, serving as Director of Marketing/Communications for six years and leading and evaluating human service programs and public/private initiatives for eight years. She was also responsible for training hundreds of fundraising volunteers each year. Meg has a Masters of Business Administration and earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology here at UW-Madison.

Meg McCall

Bob Ash has been with DoIT since 2004. Working as a member of Customer Application Services, Bob oversees much of the day to day operation of Streaming Media Services. These duties include customer service, billing, live event production, website management, service documentation, account management & purchase requests. Prior to his employment at DoIT, Bob was an adjunct faculty member in the UW-Madison Art department. He is a graduate of both the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bob Ash

Peter Kaufman has been with DoIT since 1985 as an Academic Staff member working in various groups within the organization beginning with the Statistics group converting SPSS for the Univac, then onto the Database group, Micro Information Center, the Social Sciences MicroLab, POST, NST and is currently in EIS’ Middleware group.

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and has since continued to take University classes.

He believes that there are great benefits to working at the University. Whether Academic or Classified staff, he thinks employees are unaware (as he was) of the access to furthering education, recreational facilities, and additional monetary value in terms of benefits (retirement, etc) of working there. He attended a few of CASI’s informational sessions and found them to be quite valuable. He is excited about the direction CASI is heading and hopes to play a role in furthering that work.

Peter Kaufman

Greg Konop has been at DoIT since August 1999. Working within Academic Technology, Greg is the team lead for the e-Learning Development group within Professional and Technical Education. Highlights of this role include being the front door to customers, project management, instructional design and working with other PTE staff members to ensure the most effective technology is used for each customer. Prior to employment at DoIT, Greg was a fifth grade teacher in Woodridge, IL. He is graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Greg Konop

Jack Lepak has been with DoIT since May of 1999. He began in the Help Desk as the Second Shift Team Lead. About a year later, Second and Third shifts were combined under his supervision. In December of 2002, he became the Support Operations Supervisor, overseeing all Level 1 Help Desk operations and Level 2 Advanced Desktop Support operations. Prior to joining DoIT, he worked in technical support at both TDS-CS and Softmart/Sitel. Jack has a BS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jack's term runs through June 2007.

Jack Lepak

Peter Mann (Assembly Representative) has been with DoIT, and one of its predecessors, Administrative Data Processing (ADP), for over 15 years and is a Senior Information Processing Consultant in Customer Application Services within the Systems Engineering and Operations department. Peter's responsibilities include managing DoIT's Learn@UW and Streaming Media services, with a primary focus on improving service quality and managing resources. These services are available to all UW System campuses, including UW-Madison, and offer reliable, robust academic technologies. Peter earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peter is the Academic Staff Assembly Representative for District 451.

Peter Mann

Tamara Walker joined DoIT in August 2005 as a Team Lead for the Help Desk. She is currently the Help Desk Knowledge Base Content Manager. Prior to joining DoIT, Tamara worked with the UW-Madison Athletic Department as the Technical Services Help Desk Coordinator and with Beilstein Information Systems as a Trainer and Help Desk Representative. Tamara earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Tech and her M.S. in Chemistry from UW-Madison.

Tamara Walker

Ross Yahnke (Assembly Representative) has been with DoIT since 1988, actually starting at one of DoIT's predecessors, MACC. He has always expressed a strong interest and affinity for personal computers, and he was recently quite pleased to be the recipient of the first email his Mother has ever sent. Ross started supporting the campus community at MACC by working in their Micro-Center. He now is a Product Manager in the User Services group. He specializes in the ordering, inventorying, and suppport of Apple Computer products, Sun Microsystems products, and others. Ross holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Ross is the Academic Staff Assembly Representative for District 452.

Ross Yahnke