Alan Wolff
Chris Gilmore
Rebecca Swierz
Mike Vilches
Steve Slocombe
Gary Lyons
Joseph Urbanski
Mark Kim
Daniel Lee
Robert VonMoss


Alan Wolff

Director of Information Resources
Email: a-wolff@northwestern.edu

Alan has been working in IT at Northwestern since 1989. He was appointed as Senior IT Director at McCormick in 2001. He previously worked for the University Enrollment managing systems and support for undergraduate admissions, financial aid and the registrar's office. Prior to that he worked in the Controller's Office as a programmer/analyst. He has expertise in database management systems, software development, market research and statistics, and network management. He has a PhD from Northwestern in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Alan also teaches in Northwestern's Information Technology program.

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Chris Gilmore

Windows support manager
Email: c-gilmore@northwestern.edu
Help Line: (847) 467-3713

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Rebecca Swierz

Windows support
Email: rswierz@northwestern.edu
Help Line: (847) 467-3713

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Mike Vilches

Engineering First® Lab Administrator
Email: action@mccormick.northwestern.edu
Help Line: (847) 467-3713

Mike joined the McCormick Computing Support team in 2001, hired as the Engineering First® Lab Administrator his primary responsibility is to take care of computer labs 3 labs are Engineering First® Labs, consisting of 70 workstations, 4 printers, 2 scanners and 5 projectors. The Engineering First® program is an innovative first-year curriculum for McCormick undergraduates. The program gives Northwestern engineering students the fundamentals of a successful engineering education, and lets them experience more real engineering early in their undergraduate careers. The other two labs are PACE and Bodeen these two labs add 38 more workstations 2 more printers and 2 NT servers. Additionally Mike is the backup support person for the McCormick help desk, his knowledge of the NUNet software package as well as the Palm Pilot/Treo operating systems has helped him to work with McCormick's Administration to solve many of their computing problems. Being a team player he spent time on the board of the McCormick Staff Strategy Steering Committee. In this group he continued their goal of empowering the McCormick staff and Making McCormick... "the place to work".

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Steve Slocombe

Tech Information Center Manager
Email: s-slocombe@northwestern.edu
Help Line: (847) 467-3713

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Gary Lyons

Unix/Linux and Research Cluster Support
Email: g-lyons@northwestern.edu

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Joseph Urbanski

Unix/Linux Support

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Mark Kim

Windows support
Email: mark-kim@northwestern.edu
Help Line: (847) 467-3713

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Daniel Lee

Database/Web Applications Developer

Email: daniellee@northwestern.edu

• Large-scale database modeling, SQL design, SQL performance tuning, and Data warehousing
• Enterprise software applications development (full life cycle), maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Web/Application Software development
• Supply Chain Management System, CPIM
• Advanced Tennis player/swimmer

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Robert VonMoss

Associate Web Developer
Email: r-vonmoss@northwestern.edu

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Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Let us know! action@mccormick.northwestern.edu

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