John Beeler
Manager, Web & Software Development

John brings a wealth of web, project, and operations management experience to WDS. He has been at Harvard for 11 years, previously working at Partners Healthcare Systems, and has also worked in the Government and Media sectors. John believes that in general, and at Harvard, we are only beginning to know why we should be excited by the Web.

Outside of work, he coaches a band of aspiring middle school rock stars. John began working on Web-enabled applications and sites eight years ago as the technical manager for ABLE; Harvadr's first administrative EPSS. Since then, he has led development and support efforts for HARVie, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Initiative for Innovative Computing, and Provost's initiatives, along with projects for scores of other WDS clients.

John holds a B.S. degree in Communications from Boston University, has done graduate course work at Harvard Extension School, and has completed various professional development programs including Harvard's Foundations of Leadership, project management, web approaches, technologies, and usability.

Kenton Doyle
Assistant Product Manager

Kenton brings a long history of customer relations, project management and business process experience to WDS. He arrived at Harvard 11 years ago, and joined WDS in the Fall of 2004. He spent many years with Harvard's Printing & Publication Services serving in a variety of managerial and technical roles.

Since joining WDS he has taken a lead role in working with customers to convert their ideas and initiatives into web development projects. He has worked closely with Technology Services, OHR, Radcliffe, Provost initiatives and many other WDS customers on things such as e-commerce and credit card compliance, site design and branding initiatives, functional components and authentication services.

Kenton holds a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from the Harvard Extension School, a certificate in Client/Server Application development from Clark University, and has completed Harvard's Foundations of Leadership. He leads an active life outside of work, traveling, snowboarding, playing soccer, and freelancing.

Ryan Frazier
Product Manager

Ryan's primary focus is on developing a strategic framework for WDS and web operations and working closely with customers to ensure that WDS is meeting their web needs. Ryan also works closely with the University CIO and ITIS Common Services to examine the wider issues of web support at Harvard.

He has been at Harvard for nine years. Ryan believes that Harvard is only seeing the tip of the web iceberg, and that much excitement and possibility lies ahead. Prior to joining WDS, Ryan took a leave of absence to volunteer on several oceanographic research expeditions. During this time he spent three weeks on a British icebreaker off the coast of Greenland and four weeks on a US Coast Guard icebreaker north of Alaska...with no web access and only two e-mail uploads a day!

Ryan has a particular interest in the changing landscape of the web at Harvard, and examining how WDS and UIS can support this evolving environment. Current areas of interest include content management and support of collaborative environments. Ryan studied Chemistry at Harvey Mudd College in California and came to Boston to attend graduate school at MIT, where he received a Masters in Technology and Policy.

Prior to joining WDS, Ryan worked for UIS Network and Server Systems as the manager of the UIS Helpdesk and UIS liaison to the Peoplesoft implementation project.

Mary O'Neill Fowkes
Business Analyst

Mary is an IT professional that believes understanding the customer's business, is the most important factor in being able to offer a viable web solution to fulfill their needs.

Prior to Harvard, Mary worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Product Analyst on the mass.gov portal, as well as an IT Specialist with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance. The breadth of her experience, however, comes from the twenty two years she spent at the Boston Globe Newspaper Company. Mary held many positions during her tenure at the Globe, Manager of IT Process & Improvement, Systems Analyst, Education & Support Specialist, and the Manager of Internal Communications/Intranet. She holds a certificate in Project Management from U-Mass Boston, and attended Emmanuel College.

When she's not working, Mary's watching her son or daughter play hockey, softball or lacrosse.

Seth Gregory
Applications Developer

Seth has been a member of the Harvard family for the past 7 years, and has worked for several departments within Central Administration IT. Introduced to Harvard via the cooperative education program at Northeastern University, he accepted a full time position after graduation.

He has been an applications developer for WDS since its inception in 2004. Seth develops a wide variety of sites and applications for WDS clients, and was a key player in successfully meeting a university-wide credit card compliance initiative that required sweeping changes to be implemented across a number of sites within a short period of time.

Seth holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University, and has done graduate course work at Harvard Extension School. He has a minor in East Asian Studies, and spent a semester abroad in Beijing studying Mandarin Chinese. He is also an avid skier.

Marshall Levin
Senior Web Software Engineer

Marshall brings extensive experience in J2EE software development, web application development, and engineering best practices to WDS. He is in his first year at Harvard.

One of Marshall's frequent utterances is: "You Ain't Gonna Need It". In his free time, Marshall enjoys fermenting barley to create delicious beverages. Marshall has nearly 10 years of combined experience in consulting, where he has worked on web applications for high tech, banking, healthcare, logistics and supply chain management companies, and in product development, where he has worked on e-commerce and document management applications.

He has built applications in Java, C#, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, and Perl. Marshall holds a B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from Middlebury College, and has completed graduate-level coursework at the Harvard Extension School.

Noga Manela
Application Developer

Noga has been an application developer at WDS since January 2004. She has developed a wide variety of websites, and has worked extensively on sites and intranets including Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Alumni Affairs and Development, and Information Security and Privacy.

Noga holds a B.Sc. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with a major in Computer Science, and she is currently in the Human-Computer Interaction graduate program at Tufts University.

Before coming to Harvard, Noga worked for a company in Connecticut developing Websites for small to medium- sized businesses.

Vrushali Tole
Application Developer

Vrushali brings solid knowledge of Web development, deployment, and Java related experience to the WDS team. She has been at Harvard for one year.

Vrushali observes, "In this era of Web2.0, the only permanent thing is change!" She spends most of her free time learning and practicing light music. Vrushali started working with WDS as an application developer a year ago, and works on new development and maintenance of sites like HARVie, Stemcell Institute, Security.

Vrushali holds a B.S. degree in Physics, Masters in Computer Management from India, and is currently pursuing masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University.

Richard Clinch
Visual Designer

Richard adds the visual component to WDS. He has 9 years of experience designing websites in countries like Argentina, Ecuador and Switzerland and has a solid understanding of what intenet users want: they want it easy and they don't want to spend time looking for it.

His focus is to design websites and visual interfaces that are simple to use, strategically driven and visually compelling, all at the same time!

Before coming to Harvard, Richard worked as a graphic and crerative consultant for a wide variety of clients in the most diverse fields. On his free time he enjoys creating artwork with his kids and traveling to South America as often as possible.

 

Thomas Blatchford
Web Technologies Specialist

Tom is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University returning to WDS for his third and final co-op placement. He is working towards a B.S. in Computer Science; graduating in 2009.

He has previously worked for John Hancock as a release engineer and IT specialist. He enjoys cooking, biking, reading, and watching movies in his spare time.

Vu Chu
Web Technologies Specialist

Vu is a student at Northeastern University here on his first co-op. He is working towards his B.S. in Computer Science and Physics; graduating in 2011.

His first intention was to major in Physics only, but his father said that he should study something that would help earn money. He decided to dual major in Computer Science and Physics, where both of his interests, programming and physics, meet. He enjoys reading and playing pool with his friends in his spare time.