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Advanced Information Technology ManagementInstructors
Program Chair
Instructors
Katherine Askew currently holds the position of senior vice president, operations at MCY.com, an online digital music company focused on the lawful licensing and sale of music and intellectual property. In this capacity she oversees the ongoing development and support of all technology at the company, including MCY's new music portal. Previous to joining MCY, Ms. Askew directed the end- to-end delivery of large-scale, cross-platform, web software projects for the Internet-development division of Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. As program director at Eastman Software she oversaw the delivery to market of eight major software products including the company's legacy imaging and workflow product and the introduction of a new collaborative, messaging-based product line. In the role of process architect at Wang Software, she was responsible for organizational development, process improvement, and change management. From 1991 to 1996, Ms. Askew served as manager of marketing and sales at Sigma Imaging Systems. She holds an M.S. from American University in organizational development and a B.M. from Oberlin College. Ms. Askew began her career as a professional classical musician and holds a M.M. degree in viola from The Juilliard School. Matt Burton, director of streaming media technology for The FeedRoom, manages relationships with FeedRoom's business and technology partners, including NBC, Tribune Broadcasting, Akamai, Real Networks, Cisco, and Microsoft. In addition to developing these relationships, he manages an internal team in its selection of best practices for media acquisition, editing, encoding, integration, and streaming. Prior to his focus on streaming, he was director of production for The FeedRoom, leading the project management and team building for the company's broadband news and information prototypes and for the resulting live sites. Burton has worked in traditional broadcast as a designer, a video editor, an effects artist, and ultimately as the assistant director of postproduction for Thirteen/WNET (PBS). In 1995 and 1996 he worked independently as a site builder and graphic designer, creating early sites for CBS Newspath and McKinsey & Co, and consulting for Ogilvy & Mather Interactive, Viacom New Media, and The New York Times Electronic Media Company. In the past he has taught for Parsons School of Design and for the School of Visual Arts in New York City, creating successful curricula for site design, broadcast design, and digital film production, postproduction, and distribution. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Anna Copeland Wheatley, co-founder and editor in chief of AlleyCat News, has extensive experience covering the new economy. She appears regularly as a guest on CNNfn's The N.E.W. Show and covers the Internet market for such publications as Newsweek and Working Women. Prior to launching AlleyCat News, Wheatley worked on a number of new media projects including CMP's NetGuide Live, Jupiter Communications' report covering Women Online, and internal research for IBM. She served as research consultant for "The Digital Estate: Strategies for Competing, Surviving, and Thriving in an INTERNETworked World" by Chuck Martin, and as Senior Editor for OMNI Magazine. Wheatley has a Ph.D. in English from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and more than 10 years of teaching experience. She is a charter member of the New York-based Women in New Media, on the advisory board of the New York Info Tech Forum, and a frequent speaker and moderator of industry panels on topics, including venture capital finance, the global economy, marketing strategies, and entrepreneurship. Advisory BoardSteve Charatz, Vice President, Enterprise Operations Center, SONY Corporation of America Ken Devine, Executive Director, Broadcast and Production Technology, Thirteen/WNET Robert Farina, CEO, Enable Vision Michael Janis, Chairman, JGI, Inc. Catherine Kazienko, Founder and President, MNA Services Michael Murphey, Partner, Price Waterhouse Coopers Arnold Wasserman, President, Workgroup Computing Alliance |
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Arthur Langer,
M.B.A. Ed.D., publishes on the challenges of designing complex systems and
the management of information systems organizations. His research focuses on
the mentoring of adult students and the design of technology-based curricula
for corporations and universities. Langer presents seminars throughout the world
on analysis, design, and software management. He has authored various papers
on information systems design and management as well as The Art of Analysis
(Springer-Verlag, 1997) used in the U.S. and abroad by universities and professionals
in the industry. Langer is president of a privately held consulting firm that
serves major corporations.
Michael
Drapkin, chair of the E-Commerce Management concentration, is an expert
at delivering cost-effective e-commerce business solutions, with more than 20
years of management and technical experience at Fortune 1000 and new-media companies.
Before starting his own senior-level business, technology and management consultancy
for Web-centric businesses in 1999, he served as senior technologist at the
Web agencies Razorfish and Avalanche. He also was a vice president at Lehman
Brothers, overseeing the firm's deployment of client/server technology, including
their first installation of a company-wide data warehouse for brokerage client
business intelligence. He consults to numerous dot-coms and Fortune 1000 firms
on all aspects of e-commerce. Mr. Drapkin's articles on technology have appeared
in numerous trade periodicals, and he has been quoted in Fortune, Wired, PC
Week, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and numerous other publications. He is
a regular public speaker throughout the metropolitan New York area and at major
technology and e-commerce conferences, including PC Expo and eVenture World.
He is in demand as a moderator for e-commerce panels, moderating panels for
Akamai, Linkshare, the New York E-Commerce Association and other firms and conferences.
His book on E-Commerce strategy, organization and project management, 3 Clicks
Away, co-authored with Deutsche Bank E-Commerce executives Jon Lowy and Dan
Marovitz, will be published in January 2001 by John Wiley and Sons.
Ronald
Lamprecht is a manager of business development at CNBC.com, the leading
provider of financial information on the Web. He is responsible for assessing
new business opportunities, developing business strategy, forming strategic
alliances and generating new revenue streams for CNBC.com. Prior to joining
CNBC.com, he worked as a part-time consultant to AOL Latin America, where he
helped develop a market entry strategy for AOL into Argentina. He also worked
as a project engineer for a firm specializing in the design and build of large-scale
trading floors and technology centers. Mr. Lamprecht spent a summer in the Global
Operations division of Goldman Sachs, where he conducted an impact study on
how electronic communication networks (ECNs) are affecting securities trading.
He recently completed his MBA degree in finance and information systems at New
York University's Stern School of Business, and is also a graduate of the Cooper
Union for the Advancement of Science and Art with a degree in electrical engineering.
In his spare time he enjoys traveling, reading, cooking, and photography.