Project Leadership
Paul Gray
Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, Principal Investigator
Paul Gray, the Principal Investigator of the Interactive University Project, is the Berkeley campus's chief academic officer. He has principal responsibility for the planning, development, implementation, and assessment of all academic policies and programs at UC Berkeley. Dr. Gray is the Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering.
Jack McCredie
Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor - Information Technology
Jack McCredie is the CIO for the University of California, Berkeley where he is responsible for leading all central computing and commumications activities including the campus data and voice network. Previously he directed the External Research Program at Digital Equipment Corporation, and before that he served as president of EDUCOM and vice provost for computing and planning at Carnegie Mellon University. Jack is a charter member of the boad of directors of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), where one of his responsibilities is to serve as the chair of the Program Steering Committee for the Digital California Project.
Barbara Morgan
Director of Strategic Technology & Planning - IS&T
Core Team
David Greenbaum
Director of the Interactive University
David is one of the creators of the Interactive University Project at Berkeley. He has worked for six years investigating how the campus can best use the Internet to support at a very large scale K-12 teachers, learners, and local communities. He has secured over $4 million of grant funding for the project through grants from the Department of Commerce, Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation. He is also Associate Director of Strategic Technology Planning at Berkeley, helping campus leaders to use information technology to support teaching, learning, and research. David graduated UC Berkeley with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa, and carried out graduate studies at Berkeley in Jurisprudence and Social Policy.
Shifra Gaman
Administrative Manager and Programmer Analyst
Shifra has been involved in setting up the Interactive University offices and handling its administrative needs from its beginning in 1996. She has her BA and MA from UC Berkeley from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She recently was awarded her AA degree in Computer Information Systems at Vista College and is becoming a programmer for the IU under the mentorship of Dr. Raymond Yee.
Jim Harris
Communications and Development
Jim has worked in strategic technology planning, computer resource management, and social science research at UC Berkeley for more than 20 years. He joined the IU team in 1996, and works on communications and development projects. He headed a fledgling writing group at Sun Microsystems in 1984 & 85. An undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, he has graduate degrees from Berkeley and Stanford, where he taught composition and literature. In 1987-88 he was a Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellow, and in 1997 received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Rick Jaffe
Video and Web Producer
Rick Jaffe guides the production of video and other multimedia resources for the IU. He has twenty years' experience making films and videos for the broadcast, educational and home markets. Rick produced and directed the award-winning documentary The Water Cycle and served as Director of the Multimedia Production Unit in the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley from 1998 to 2001. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history.
Adam Lim
Administrative Assistant
Adam has worked for Information Systems & Technology since 1996; he provides administrative support for the Strategic Technology Planning and Interactive University staff in areas of accounting and personnel. Adam's hobbies include cooking and gardening.
Issac Mankita
Associate Program Manager
Isaac Mankita has over 10 years experience conducting and coordinating research and public programs. His administrative experience includes several positions: managing a research center’s daily operation, carrying out special research and educational outreach projects, evaluating and implementing information technology in workplaces, producing print and electronic publications and managing international conferences. A native of Mexico, Mankita has conducted research on the nature of economic integration in North America, social and economic implications of industrial development along the US-Mexico border, and the relationships among technology, work organization and skill development in complex manufacturing facilities in the US and Mexico. He is completing his doctoral dissertation in communication at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on the impact of technology on teacher classroom practices.
Grace Nguyen
Administrative Assistant
Tim Peebles
Intern
Before joining the IU Team in 2003, Tim worked for several years as a manager the Central Computing Services at UC Berkeley's IS&T.
Tom Schirmer
Programmer
Before joining IU in 2003, Tom worked for a couple of start-ups, and, prior to that, the Stanford Digital Library Project for three years.
Raymond Yee
Lead Software Developer and Technology Architect
Dr. Yee has been involved in software development for over fifteen years, working in areas ranging from image processing, cellular and protein simulation, web services, statistical educational software and online community development. He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. While earning his Ph.D., he also taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus.
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