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BICS 363 Fall 2000 - Management Information Systems

I work for Campus Systems, a unit of Computing Services, at San Francisco State University. My official job title is Internet Applications Coordinator, but I am known as the Websterina. As Websterina I manage and maintain SFSU's central WWW servers and Internet application development. Web services I (and my staff) provide include: presenting static public information; creating secure methods for students, faculty and staff to access their personal information; providing technical assistance to faculty who are developing online courses; assisting university departments, faculty, staff and students to create web sites; evaluating client and server software for campus-wide distribution; answering/redirecting E-mail sent to the general information address.

Brief Chronology at SFSU

Summer	1984	Enrolled in Summer School and subsequently transferred to SFSU as a Junior.
Spring	1986	Graduated with a B.A. in Biology
Fall	1986	Enrolled in the M.B.A. program
Spring	1987	Met my first computer!
Summer	1987	Fell in love with a Macintosh
Fall	1987	Began working in a computer lab as graduate assistant
Spring	1988	Graduated with an M.B.A. in Marketing
Fall	1988	Hired as a lecturer by the BACS Dept. Taught every semester until...
Fall	1992	Not rehired as a lecturer due to budg et cuts
Fall	1992	Hired as a Network Specialist by Computing Services
Spring	1994	Hired as an Associate Systems Analyst by Computing Services Became a part time Websterina
Fall	1995	Re-hired as a part-time lecturer by the BACS Dept.
Spring	1996	Became a full time Websterina
	Now	Full time Websterina & Part time lecturer

Last updated May 3rd, 1998 by Julianne Tolson