SIGDOC 2009 Invited Speakers
SIGDOC 2009 Awards Banquet Speaker: Karen Schnakenberg
Karen Schnakenberg will give the Awards Banquet presentation, "Documentation in the 21st Century: The Evolving Challenges for Academic Programs." This talk will be about the challenge of preparing students to both move successfully into the current workplace and come equipped with the analytic and problem-solving skills to understand and meet the challenges of emerging and evolving media and users.
Dr. Schnakenberg is a Teaching Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon. She directs both the MA in Professional Writing (MAPW) program and Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate programs in professional and technical writing. She also works closely with the department’s interdisciplinary degree in Communication Planning and Information Design, administered jointly with the Carnegie Mellon School of Design.
She has over 20 years' experience developing and teaching courses, planning and implementing curriculum in professional communication, supervising PhD and adjunct instructors, and teaching undergraduates as well as MA and PhD students.
As the head of the Teaching Committee of ATTW (Association for Teachers of Technical Writing), she has organized and presented multiple national workshops on teaching technical communication. She has also worked as a technical writer and editor and a communications consultant, most recently on a project teaching instructional design to trainers for Infosys in India.
In 2006, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the national Council for Programs in Technical and Professional Writing (CPTSC) in recognition for her work in pedagogy, curricular development, and service to the profession. In fall 2008, she was the invited keynote speaker at the 35th anniversary meeting of CPTSC at which her talk focused on both the history and expected trends in curriculum for teaching technical and professional communication. She is also an invited reviewer for two of the leading journals in the field, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication and IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication. She received her PhD in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996.
SIGDOC 2009 Invited Speaker: Michael Priestly
Michael Priestley is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, and its lead DITA architect. He was one of the original developers of DITA, and co-editor of the OASIS DITA 1.0 and 1.1 specifications. He is an experienced information architect and XML architect, and has presented and published prolifically on information development processes, information design principles, XML development techniques, structured authoring and Web 2.0, and of course DITA. He is currently supporting new DITA projects, products, and customers, and continuing to work on DITA 1.2.
Michael has a long history with ACM SIGDOC, including numerous papers and presentations, two terms as Vice Chair, and two terms as Program Chair for SIGDOC's annual conference. He met his wife at the 1998 conference in Quebec City. He introduced DITA to the world at the 2001 ACM SIGDOC conference, and is excited to be returning to talk about his latest work with DITA as the basis for an enterprise content ecosystem.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
SIGDOC 2009 Invited Speaker: Jason Melton
Jason Melton is a Data Management Sales Specialist with IBM Software Group where he's worked since 2005. He has also worked with Molloy Wellness in Indianapolis and Des Monies and with Ball State University's Academic Research and Sponsored Programs as well as the Office of the VP of Business Affairs. Jason holds an MS in Information and Communication Sciences and MBA, both from Ball State.
Jason's discussion "Bridging the Divide Between Academic Learning and Real-world Skills" is from the point of view of a former adjunct faculty member and current professional in industry.
He will discuss the role of industry in the classroom and provide a brief introduction to IBM’s Academic Initiative (AI) and describe how the AI message was taken to, and received by, Ball State.
SIGDOC 2009 Invited Speaker: Jim Shea
James Shea is Director of Planning for the School of Informatics. Shea has developed programs for Baxter, Lilly, Roche Diagnostics, Morgan Hospital, Cummins, General Motors, Authorhouse, AIT, The Villages, and The Center for Occupational Research and Development. He has also worked with many local school systems and all 50 State Education Agencies as well as the Territory of Guam. He was previously Director of Professional Development Programs for IU Bloomington Continuing Studies.
SIGDOC 2009 Invited Speaker: Ramesh Venkataraman
Ramesh Venkataraman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Whirlpool Faculty Fellow at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is also Chairman of the MS in Information Systems (MSIS) program. As Chairman of the MSIS program, he has successfully grown the program from 14 students in 2002 to more than 84 entering students in fall 2008. He has published over 25 papers in leading journals, such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, , Information Systems, IEEE Expert etc., edited books and conferences. His research interests are in Data Modeling, Heterogeneous Databases, Virtual Teams and Groupware, Usability in Mobile Systems and Software Engineering, and his teaching interests include IT Controls and Governance, IT Service Management, Database Design, Object-oriented Design and Programming (Java and VB.NET), Web Applications Development (JSP/Servlets, ASP.NET), and E-business infrastructure.
Ramesh will be a co-author on one of the leading database books on the market, Modern Database Management, along with Jeff Hoffer and Heikki Topi starting with the 10th edition of this book. He has also written an online book on Programming Perl with databases for Digital Education Systems/O’Reilly & Associates.
In addition to his university teaching and research, Ramesh is actively involved in several service activities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of e-Service Journal, and an Associate Editor at Information Systems Research (ISR). He is an active participant in both the ISACA and the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) communities. He serves as the research committee chair for itSMF’s academic committee. He has served on ISACA’s international academic relations committee and was a contributor to the IT Governance using COBIT and ValIT Student book. In September 2007, he was awarded the Industry Knowledge Contribution award by itSMF international for his work on evangelizing IT Service Management concepts in academia.
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