September 14: Jennifer Bond, Vice President, International Affairs and Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives, US Council on Competitiveness.

The council of competitiveness is the only national organization whose membership is comprised exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders and continually benchmarks United States competitiveness in international trade

Jennifer Bond Presentation

September 21: Gio Wiederhold, Professor of Computer Science, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and advisor to IRS on international intellectual property issues.

Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford, Dr. Wiederhold's retired from full-time active academic service June 2001 but remains busy with other activities. He is the author of over 200 papers and articles dealing with issues pertaining to computer science, electrical engineering, valuation, software IP rights, medicine, and outsourcing. His personal website can be found here.

Dr. Wiederhold Presentation

October 12: Randy Guthrie

An Academic Developer Evangelist (ADE) for Microsoft Corporation, Randy provides academic and research support to faculty and students at top-tier schools in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Kansas. Prior to his working at Microsoft, Randy was a professor at Cal Poly Pomona, where he taught software engineering, programming & MIS courses. Before his appointment at Cal Poly, Randy spent thirteen years working for the Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he was a contract manager on the Stealth Bomber project, a project manager, and a financial analyst. Randy earned his MBA in 1998 from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, and a PhD in Information Science in 2007 from the School of Information Science and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. Randy’s dissertation studied how developer team bias software interfaces to particular types of users. Randy currently resides in Denver, CO with Jane his wife of 29 years, their daughter Molly and son Seth. His newest computer is a Dell Latitude 620 core dual with two 2.4GHZ processors, 4GB of RAM and 120GB Hard Drive. The operating system is 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate.

Randy Guthrie Presentation

October 19: Joseph (Bob) Assenzo, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering & Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 1963–1966.; Ph.D. Executive Director, C-Path Educational Programs, and Founding Operating Board Member.

Bob Assenzo, PhD, served as Executive Director for the Drug Information Association (DIA) from 1996 to 2003. He was responsible for the oversight of all DIA offices and staff, provided direction to the DIA Board of Directors on strategic and operational planning, and supervised the overall operation of this international volunteer association. He previously had been President of the DIA Board of Directors. Under his leadership, membership more than doubled to 27,000 members working in the pharmaceutical and related health care industries. Prior to DIA, Dr. Assenzo served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & Project Management and Senior Advisor for Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before joining Novo Nordisk he served in capacities of increasing responsibility and leadership for The Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan for 28 years, culminating his service as Executive Director, U.S. Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs, Medical Communications, and Pharmacovigilance. For this service, Dr. Assenzo received The Upjohn Company Distinguished Employee Award.

In addition to his current work as head of Education at C-Path, Dr. Assenzo serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics & Epidemiology at the University of Arizona and participates in its Clinical Research Scholars Program. Dr. Assenzo has a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University, a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University and a PhD in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Bob Assenzo Presentation

November 9: Shanon Schockmel, Manager, Identity and Access Solutions, Dept. P3CF, IBM Certified Deployment Professional Tivoli Identity Manager v4.6

Mr. Schockmel manages the Identity and Access Security Solutions team in IBM Global Services. Shanon and his team of 100 individuals (working in the US, India, Argentina, and China) have deployed Identity and Access solutions for dozens of companies in the US, Canada, and Europe. They have experience in deploying projects in multiple sectors including Healthcare, Financial, Travel, Public, and Industrial. They also have experiences with numerous Identity and Access tools/solutions. Over the past five years his group has accumulated numerous lessons learned as well developed best practices in this space. Shanon was also the IBM Delivery Service Leader for Identity and Access from 2003 through 2004 as well as a member of the IBM Data Governance Council. Prior to working in Identity and Access Solutions, Shanon has worked in other areas of IBM including, Web Development, Storage Systems, and Healthcare Solutions. Mr. Schockmel has spoke at numerous internal IBM events including Software University.

Shanon Schockmel Presentation