Subject: RE: Reminder - MSCTC Advisory Meeting Wednesday Night
From: "Barbara Halverson" <halversonb@juno.com>
Date: 9/28/2012 8:45 PM
To: "'Tim Preuss'" <tim.preuss@minnesota.edu>

Tim,

 

I ended up with a much busier Wednesday than I anticipated and wasn’t able to get away from work in time to come to the meeting.  I was looking forward to the discussion and to catching up with folks.

 

I think last spring you had asked about what Bolder Thinking (where I started working last April) does.  We offer a cloud telephony platform for business and call center customers.  John Jaspers, who was part of both Navteq and SEI, came up with the idea in 2009 and brought a couple people along board to see if they could make it work.  They did, and today we are a small but growing company; still in the startup phase, but slowly building our platform and our customer base.  Our philosophy is that telephony doesn’t have to be hard or intimidating.  We have a user-friendly web portal that customers can use to create and administer their telephone system - create users and IP phones (softphone and hard phones) and voicemail boxes and IVRs, call queues and skill agents.   We run through the Amazon cloud.  Most of us do lots of jobs at this stage.  I am working with technical support, implementation for new customers, training and documentation, and just two days ago did my first demo of the platform to a business wanting to set up a small call center.

 

It is an amazing opportunity.  I work with a great team, all of whom are at least 15 years younger than I am, teaching me loads, and just a fun and dedicated group to work with!  Some days are chaotic, most are just busy.   Needless to say this really confirms the decision to go back to school!

 

I hope the fall semester is going well for you.

 

Barb Halverson

 

 

 

From: Tim Preuss [mailto:tim.preuss@minnesota.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:16 AM
To: halversonb@juno.com
Subject: Reminder - MSCTC Advisory Meeting Wednesday Night

 

·         Information Technology Advisory Meeting Reminder

·         Fall 2012 Invitation

·         Dear Barb,

·         The Information Technology faculty at M State (Minnesota State Community and Technical College) invites you to our advisory meeting. The meeting will be held on September 26 @ 6:00 pm in room B150 (outside door N3). Please contact us if you wish to have a campus map with the room numbers.

·         The Advisory Meeting consists of Information Technology professionals guiding the curriculum and instructional direction of our Information Technology programs. Our current program offering is Computer Programming – AAS, Information Technology – AS, Information Technology – AAS, and Information Technology – Diploma. Please contact us if you wish to have a copy of any or all of our curriculum offerings.

·         We very much need your input to our programs. We very much appreciate those of you who already replied to this invitation. Your reply helps us accurately plan enough food for the meeting. You may extend this to other professionals you think would help us improve our curriculum and instruction. The meeting agenda is provided below.

·         We look forward to seeing you.

·         Yours,

·         Minnesota State Community and Technical College Information Technology Faculty

·         Chris Goltz, Computer Programming Instructor, Chris.Goltz@minnesota.edu

·         Deb Flaskerud, Computer Programming Instructor, Deb.Flaskerud@minnesota.edu

·         Dave Hjalmquist, Computer Programming Instructor, Dave.Hjalmquist@minnesota.edu

·         Randy Johnson, Information Technology Instructor, Randall.Johnson@minnesota.edu

·         Tim Preuss, Information Technology Instructor, Tim.Preuss@minnesota.edu

·         Agenda for Spring 2012

·         MSCTC welcome

·         Informatics class overview - Is our definition worthy of creating a program?

·         Discussion: Identify current and future processes and technologies

·         Review of Computer Programming course of study topics

·         Review of Information Technology courses of study topics

·         Discussion: Educational relationships with vendors

·         Discussion: Change management

·         Announcement:

·         Questions and Answers

·         Advisory Member Functions (MSCTC Advisory Committee Guide)

·         Identify specific subject areas of program inclusion

·         Prioritizing the recommend subject areas

·         Specifying appropriate program content level

·         Reviewing program outcomes on an ongoing basis

·         Assessment of program quality

·         Specifying appropriate foundational skill standards for local needs

·         Identifying general education and related technical skills needed by graduates

·         Recommending equipment to support the program content

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