Sharon Jirak
Sharon Jirak is a senior instructor at Dunwoody College. She has been with
the computer networking department since 2002 and has taught students in
networking, software and hardware courses, windows shell scripting,
VBScript, Powershell, Windows Client and Windows Server. She has also helped
many of her students towards their certifications such as A+. Sharon holds a
Bachelor of Technology from the University of Northern Iowa in Industrial
Technology and has certifications in A+, Net+ and MCP. She is currently
working on a Master's of Management Information Systems degree at Metro
State. Sharon feels her strengths while working in industry have been in the
areas of electronics, hardware, industrial programming and scripting.
Steve Zitnick
Steven M. Zitnick is the Director of the Augsburg
MBA program and Assistant Professor of Management, Augsburg College.
Professor Zitnick brings over 25 years of Fortune 500 international
corporate experience as a human resources and organization development
executive and consultant. He has been both an adjunct and continuing faculty
at Augsburg in the Business Department for over 10 years. He was appointed
Director of the MBA Program in 2007. Zitnick attended University of Chicago
and has a Bachelor of Arts from Shimer College and a Master’s of Science in
Economics and Management from the University Of Utah Eccles School Of
Business. Steven did his doctorial work at Tilburg University (Netherlands).
Joy Lewis
Joy Lewis has been a Community Relations
Specialist at ITT Tech since 2008. In this role she has developed in-bound
and out-bound community relations events, developed a Partners in Education
program in which high school seniors could attend ITT and get up to four
free classes and launched an Explorers Post for visual communications and
game design. She also designs and delivers motivational presentations. Prior
to ITT Tech she spent 18 years in the performance motivation industry
working with Fortune 500 companies.
Karen Little
Karen Little is a professional with 20+ years
experience in application development, project management, project and
application portfolio management, and people management in a broad range of
industries and hardware/software platforms, with a focus on custom
application development, package implementations and process improvement
initiatives. Over the course of her career she has been certified in project
management (PMP), IT processes (ITIL) , business analysis (CBAP), Scrum (CSM)
and has achieved vendor certifications such as Microsoft Certified
Professional (MCP). She is heavily involved in the local chapter of the
Project Management Institute (PMI) and contributed to the Business Analyst
Book of Knowledge v2.0 from the International Institute of Business
Analysts.