People in WDS

John Beeler

Manager, Web & Software Development

Having worked at Partners Healthcare Systems, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and in the government and media sectors, John brings solid technology leadership, web, project, and operational experience to WDS. He spent five of his12 years at Harvard managing WDS development, and now leads overall operations.

Outside of work, John coaches a band of aspiring teenaged rock stars. He began working on web-enabled applications, CMS, and websites 11 years ago, helping to build the University's first administrative EPSS. Since then he has led development & support efforts for Harvard Worldwide, the recent rebuild of HARVie on the Alfresco ECM, various Provost's initiatives, along with projects for scores of other WDS clients.

John holds a B.S. degree from Boston University, has done graduate course work at Harvard Extension school, and has done professional-development work including Harvard's Foundations of Leadership, Sustaining High Performance, and technical seminars. He is a two-time Harvard Heroes team award winner.

Richard Clinch

Visual Designer

Richard adds the visual component to WDS. He has 10 years of experience designing websites in countries like the U.S., Switzerland and Ecuador and has a solid understanding of what internet users want: fast and easy.

His focus is to design websites and visual interfaces that are simple to use, strategically driven and visually compelling, all at the same time! Richard has been with Harvard since 2007, first as a consultant and now as a full-time staff member.

Before coming to Harvard, Richard worked as a graphic and creative 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.

Kenton Doyle

Assistant Product Manager

Kenton brings a long history of client relations, product and project management, and business process experience to WDS. He arrived at Harvard 13 years ago, and joined WDS in the Fall of 2004.

Since joining WDS he has taken a lead role in working with customers to convert their ideas and initiatives into web development projects. His primary role is first and foremost to listen to and understand client needs, digest for a bit, and then explain how best to leverage web technology to address these needs. He has worked closely with UIS Technology Services, OHR (HARVie), Financial Administration, The Office of the Provost, The Harvard-Yenching Institute and many other WDS customers on things such as site strategy, branding and design, functional components, PIN protection, and much more..

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 8 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.

Kevin Suffredini

Web Technologies Specialist

Kevin is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University on his first co-op. He is working towards his B.S. in Computer Science and Business; graduating in 2012.

Kevin is a fan of the New York Giants. He previously worked testing web applications for a company in Norwood. He enjoys waterskiing and listening to music in his spare time.

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 two years.

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 two years ago, and works on new development and maintenance of sites like HARVie, Harvard Worldwide, 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.