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Mary Bradley | Bob Jones | Mohammad Maleki | James Joule
By Vicki Nelson (vmn@oregon.uoregon.edu)
Our spring issue introduces you to some veteran Computing Center staff members, as well as one who is relatively new. Mary Bradley, Bob Jones, and Mohammed Maleki have each been part of the Computing Center for close to a decade, while James Joule celebrated his first anniversary as a staff member last January.
Mary Bradley
Micro Lab Coordinator,
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Mary Bradley's career in the Computing Center began way back in the good old days of punched cards.
After attending Northwest Christian College, she began working in the Computing Center as a job expediter in production control, setting up computer jobs and checking output.
Today Mary manages the Klamath, Millrace, and EMU computer labs and is working with the Grayson Hall Design Development committee on a new lab that will open next year. She manages the labs' software budgets, schedules instructional labs, and keeps the computers up-to-date.
Outside of work Mary leads the busy life of a single mom. She has two children, Alex, 14, and Shauna, 13, and spends most of her after-work time on homework patrol. She's also an active member of a fitness center.
Although she was born in Eastern Oregon and has lived in various Northwest locales, the beach is Mary's favorite place. She recently vacationed in Hawaii, where despite rain, she managed to find some sun every day, and enjoyed swimming, snorkeling, and walking on the beach.
Bob Jones grew up in Audubon, Pennsylvania, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He went to college at the University of Delaware, where he majored in computer science and statistics and met his wife, Teri.
After graduating, Bob worked for Sperry Univac (now known as Unisys) and then for Cray Research at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UCSD campus.
Visits to the Northwest had impressed Bob and Teri. Looking for a place to settle down, they began subscribing to the Sunday Register Guard for the classified ads. One thing led to another, and in 1988 Bob joined the Computing Center staff. As senior systems manager, Bob is responsible for UNIX and VMS system administration and security.
Bob and Teri have two boys, Dylan, 15, and Denali, 12. At home Bob lives a low-tech life (the family does have a computer, but it's basically for the boys' homework). The couple enjoy gardening, hiking, backpacking, skiing, and sports ranging from basketball to Frisbee. They're planning a backpacking trip to Southern Utah in April.
Bob Jones
Senior Systems Manager
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Mohammad Maleki
Network Engineer, Network Services
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When Mohammad was a young high school graduate in Tehran, a family friend in Corvallis encouraged him to come to OSU. Once there, Mohammad studied English as a second language, then went on to study math at the UO and electrical engineering at Cal Poly, where he met his wife, Nahla Bassil. Back at OSU in 1989 for graduate work in electrical engineering, Mohammad worked as a student assistant in networking at OSU's computing center.
Mohammad began working at the UO as a network engineer in Network Services in 1992. His broad assignment is to keep the UO network up and running, and he's responsible for the upkeep of switches, hubs, terminal servers, hdsl, rdsl modems, and fiber optics circuits. He also troubleshoots and installs wireless networks.
Mohammad swims whenever he can and enjoys playing with his five-year-old son Basseem (whose name means "Smiley" in Arabic) and his three-year old daughter Monya (whose name means "Best Wishes").
After an absence of over 20 years, Mohammad is planning a trip to the Middle East this year. He'll visit family in Iran and Lebanon, where he will meet college-age nieces and nephews for the first time.
Although James Joule was born in Texas, he thinks of Westminster, Colorado, as home. Thanks to boyhood summers spent visiting relatives near Seaside, he's also quite at home in Oregon.
After earning his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Colorado State at Fort Collins, James worked as an information systems manager for Applied Computer Technology, where he met his fiancee, Jennifer.
In January 1998, James arrived at the Computing Center's Auxiliary Services. During the past year he has assisted Kit Larsen with programming projects for the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) as the UO moved from an outdated payroll system to the new BANNER-based system.
James enjoys campus life, especially taking graduate level computer science classes (he's also interested in the new software engineering curriculum) and playing basketball in the gym. Outside pursuits such as hiking and camping are favorite recreations, as is playing with his chocolate lab, Lucy. James and Jennifer also bowl on EWEB's team.
James' plans for this summer include a 4th of July wedding in Colorado.
James Joule
Systems Analyst, Auxiliary Services
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