Kentucky Society for Technology in Education

Greg has been in the communications industry since 1980 working first as a technician for Inter-connect companies and then as full-time staff at Okidata, Inc. In 1988 he received a business degree in Operations Management from LaSalle University. In 1990, he collaborated with the Okidata parent company, OKI Electric in Tokyo Japan, to build an international network that included Japan, Thailand, Australia, five sites in the United States, and the United Kingdom. Following ten years of service with Okidata, Greg took the position of Director of Campus Computing at Drexel University in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he wrote, and received, a grant from the National Science Foundation for connection to the vBNS national backbone. Returning to the corporate world, he took a position as Director of Global Computing Operations at Christian Dalloz, Ltd, a French company that manufactured and distributed personal safety products.  As Director, he was responsible for coordinating systems operations, WAN connectivity, and local LAN support for 42 sites worldwide. He then chose to return to the academic community at the University of Pennsylvania as the Executive Director of MAGPI, the regional aggregation point for Internet2.  MAGPI now connects 460 research and educational communities in PA, NJ, and DE to an advanced regional network and is dedicated to the proliferation of initiatives and applications requiring a high performance infrastructure.  He participates in The Quilt, The International Task Force, The Arts & Humanities Working Group, and the Economic Development Special Interest Group.  In addition, he has written several papers on advanced networking and high performance applications in the United States and has presented on several occasions to EUNIS, (European UNiversity Information Systems).