The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
NACS would like to welcome Harry Mangalam to our Research Computing group, and announce that Isaac Straley has accepted the position of Interim Manager for our IT Security group.
Harry Mangalam earned his Ph.D. in Physiology/Pharmacology from UCSD, and has held positions at the Salk Institute, the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, and [...]
NACS is happy to introduce the newest member of the Distributed Computing Support group, Assistant Manager Francisco Lopez.
Francisco is a double graduate of UC Berkeley. He received an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a graduate degree from the Haas School of Business. Francisco was a member of the technical staff at [...]
E. Scott Menter has joined NACS as the Assistant Director who will oversee the efforts of Central Computing Services, Network & Support Programming, Distributed Computing Support, and Network Planning& Security.
Scott has over fifteen years of experience with information technology management. As the CEO of ESM Services Inc. (an IT consulting firm), Scott built client relationships [...]
MAX GARRICK recently joined the Instructional Web Technologies group within NACS as a Junior Programmer Analyst/Consultant.
Max, soon a UCI graduate, brings diverse skills in Web programming and system administration, and extensive experience working with the public. He has worked in the NACS Response Center, and on several programming projects for various NACS groups.
BRIAN CHRISMAN now serves as [...]
The Network & Telecommunications Operations and Network & Support Programming groups within NACS moved to a new home at the intersection of Bison and California Avenues in the University Research Park in November of 2002.
Network & Telecommunications Operations maintains and supports the UCI campus telephone, voice mail, 800MHz trunked radio, and UCInet network service systems.
Network [...]
NACS has formed a new 3-person team, Network Planning and Security (NPS or NetPlanSec). NPS is active in a variety of ways to improve the safety and reliability of UCInet.
NPS runs periodic scans for vulnerable servers on campus before attackers do. They also regularly publicize security information and notify system administrators when weaknesses are discovered. [...]