New Staff at USENIX

The small (average under 5'4") but energetic staff at USENIX has welcomed several additions lately. We'd like to introduce you to:

Gale Berkowitz. Before coming to the USENIX Association, Gale was on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. While her professional training is in public health research and epidemiology, she has long been interested in innovations in technology. In spite of her own experience with UNIX in the early '80s (which drove her to purchase her first Macintosh six months later) and her brother-in-law's opinion that UNIX was a gift from the devil (though both admitted that it has improved immeasurably since then), she accepted her new position as Deputy Executive Director of USENIX without hesitation. As the DED, Gale will manage the day-to-day operations of the Executive Office, finances, and the Good Works and student programs, and will provide support to SAGE. She can also sometimes be found doing light housework around the office.

Bleu Castañeda. USENIX Administrative Assistant Bleu comes to us with a background in retail/customer service. She says she moved to San Francisco to study film production at the Academy of Art, but her apparent urge to visit every coffee shop in the world makes one wonder . . .

Cami Edwards. Southern California born and raised, USENIX Administrative Assistant Cami graduated with a B.A. in history from Cal State Long Beach. She's been on the Internet for close to five years and professes a fascination with all things UNIX and geeky. She can often be found dancing to techno or house.

Jane-Ellen Long. JE has combined computers and publishing throughout her working life, although her heart remains in Victorian England. She came to us from the University of California Press, where she served as Director of Information Systems. In her younger years she worked variously as production editor, copy editor, typesetting shop manager, even association conference manager. How old is she? You figure it out: she still has a punched card for a PDP-10. As Publications Director at USENIX, JE manages the Web site and print and online production of the conference proceedings, and serves as Managing Editor of ;login:.

Jennifer Radtke. Jennifer was drafted to work at USENIX by the new Publications Director, Jane-Ellen Long, for whom she had worked at the University of California Press, doing computer support and Web design. Her time at USENIX is mostly filled with creating and editing pages for the USENIX Web site. Her time away from USENIX is filled with surfing, playing electric violin, and dyeing her hair purple.