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Tomas Castrejon

Faculty Member	Digital Forensics Degree
Pronouns	He/Him/His
Education	Champlain College, Master of Science; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Bachelor of Science
Areas of Expertise	Cybersecurity Cybercrime Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Contact	Miller Center at Lakeside Avenue Campus, Box 38

Biography

Tomas currently works for a large Financial Institution, where he has held several leadership roles in Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Security Operations, Privacy, Cybercrime, and Identity and Access Management. Tomas also served as the Minneapolis Cybersecurity leader for PwC and as the National Digital Forensics Practice Leader for Deloitte. Tomas earned an MS degree in Digital Forensics Management and an MS in Legal Studies, with a concentration in cybersecurity, compliance, and privacy.

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Jane Catton Beattie

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Education	Quinnipiac University, Master of Organizational Management; University of Ottawa, Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Hawthorne University, Master of Health Services Administration
Areas of Expertise	Nursing/clinical operations, quality improvement and health care system transformation. Strategic planning, program planning, service line development and execution. Health Care Reform, Transitions of Care, Team Building

Biography

As a native of Canada, Ms. Catton moved to Vermont in 1992 and brings over 35 years of health care and administrative experience. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree as well as two Master’s degrees; one in Health Care Administration and one in Organizational Leadership. She is a Board Certified Nurse Executive and holds additional certification in Health Care Quality.
Ms. Catton’s previous work experience has included senior leadership positions in health care in both Canada and United States. She has worked in a variety of hospital, academic and community based health care settings, both as a registered nurse in Critical Care and Oncology, and as an administrative leader. She served as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans Vermont where she held progressive leadership roles over the span of 13 years. Currently she serves as the CEO of Age Well, Vermont’s largest designated Area Agency on Aging.
Ms. Catton has been active in supporting local health care partnerships and organizations, including advancing health reform initiatives through the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) within her local Health Service Area. She is passionate about opportunities to build collaborations that support primary community based care models, through transitions of care and coordination systems, which support our population health goals for our communities.
Ms. Catton lives in St. Albans with her husband and two dogs. She enjoys traveling, cycling the rail trails of Vermont and spending time with their 5 children; 2 who live locally and 3 who live out of state.

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Niels Caul

Faculty Member	Dublin
Pronouns	He/Him/His
Areas of Expertise	Irish Studies, James Joyce, Literary Modernism, Victorian to Modern Literature, Print Culture late nineteenth early twentieth-century Irish history Irish Modernism, Literary Realism, Literary Naturalism, Irish Folklore

Biography

Dr. Niels Caul graduated with a PhD from University College Dublin in 2022. He has previously presented papers at the James Joyce Symposia in Dublin and Trieste, the James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome and the 2021 International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. He has curated literary exhibitions for Museum of Literature Ireland and more recently “Revolutionary Dublin’s Literary Networks: C.P. Curran, Helen Laird and James Joyce’s Ulysses” for University College Dublin Special Collections.

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Wei Kian Chen

Additional Roles	Professor
Faculty Member	Computer Science & Innovation Degree  Game Programming Degree  Undeclared – Information Technology & Sciences
Pronouns	He/Him/His
Education	University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Doctor of Philosophy; University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Bachelor of Science; University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Master of Science
Areas of Expertise	Data Mining Database, Algorithms Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition Polyglot
Contact	West 203 Email Me

Biography

Wei Kian Chen received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1996, 1998, and 2005, respectively.

His research interests are Association Mining, Classification, Data Mining, Database, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Software Engineering and others.

He is an active member of ACM, IEEE, SIGCSE and CCSC. In addition, he is also a member of the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines (Upsilon Phi Epsilon) and the Honor Society for International Scholars (Phi Beta Delta).

Distinctions & Awards

2020 Edward R. Lyman Professorship

Publications & Abstracts

• Predictive high-level feature representation based on dictionary learning
• Applying software engineering in CS1

Professional & Academic Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Special Interest Group Computer Science Education
• Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing & Information Disciplines
  
• Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars

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Adrian Cloete

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Education	Université de Montréal, PhD; Columbia University, Master of Science; University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts

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Kelli-Jo Cloutier

Faculty Member	Business Administration Degree
Pronouns	She/Her/Hers
Areas of Expertise	Accounting Taxation Audit
Connect Online	LinkedIn
Contact	Remote

Biography

Kelli-Jo holds a B.S. Accounting from Champlain College, a MS Accounting from Southern New Hampshire University. Kelli-Jo joins us with experience in public accounting including individual and business tax along with 12 years in the Insurance industry. Kelli-Jo is an adjunct Professor of Accounting at Champlain College. She lives in Addison, VT.

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Frank Codey

Pronouns	He/Him/His
Areas of Expertise	Finance and Securities Markets Data Analytics

Biography

Frank is the Chief Operating Officer and a Portfolio Manager at ClearShares LLC, an SEC registered Investment Advisor. He spent 21 years at Bear Stearns & Co. running the Fixed Income Prime Brokerage business, and then ran the combined businesses of each firm during the merger with JP Morgan. After leaving JP Morgan, Frank was the Chief Operating Officer at Equinox Funds Management, an advisor to alternative strategy mutual funds, and was President of their distribution broker-dealer, Equinox Group Distributors. As an independent consultant, Frank has advised global banks, broker-dealers, RIAs, and technology service companies in the areas of clearing and operations, business acceleration, and data analytics. Frank has developed and distributed several financial technology applications and tools associated with fixed income trading services, sales segmentation and distribution, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Frank holds a BS in Business with a Finance concentration from Boston University, and a Master of Science in Analytics degree from Villanova University.

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Annemarie Conlon

Faculty Member	Social Work Degree
Education	The University of Texas at Austin, Doctor of Philosophy; Pace University, Master of Business Administration; University of Houston, Master of Social Work; New York University, Bachelor of Arts
Areas of Expertise	Autism Spectrum Aging Health Care/Oncology Social Work
Connect Online	LinkedIn

Biography

Dr. Annemarie Conlon teaches social work foundation courses. She is a licensed clinical therapist specializing in anxiety-related disorders. Her experience includes working at MD Anderson Cancer Center, providing family-centered counseling to people diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. She has also spent one year as a pre-dissertation intern with Dr. Jimmie Holland at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Annemarie received the American Cancer Society Grant in Clinical Oncology Social Work as a doctoral student and was a Hartford Pre-dissertation Awardee, Cohort III. Before coming to Vermont, she was the social work lead on three federal and foundation grants centering on the interprofessional education of students, faculty, and health care providers who attend to the health care needs of older adults. Annemarie got her start in health care as a graduate intern at Legacy Community Health in Houston, Texas, where she worked with people diagnosed with HIV.

Before entering the health field, Annemarie spent over a decade at American Express in New York City, where she held positions of increasing responsibility. These included the titles of pricing analyst, financial analyst, sr. financial analyst, financial systems lead, and manager of international business development. She worked with a multi-disciplinary team in that position to develop the American Express Card as a franchise in emerging overseas markets.

Distinctions & Awards

Francine Page Excellence in Teaching Award (2023)

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Christine Cooper

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Education	University of Memphis, Master of Fine Arts; The University of Texas at Austin, PhD; University of Memphis, Master of Arts; Oral Roberts University, Bachelor of Arts

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Miguel Corona

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Contact	Remote Email Me

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Amanda Crispel

Faculty Member	Game Design Degree
Pronouns	She/Her/Hers
Education	Goddard College, Master of Fine Arts; University of California-Davis, Bachelor of Science
Areas of Expertise	Game Systems Design Game Design for serious games
Connect Online	LinkedIn
Contact	Center for Communication and Creative Media

Biography

Amanda is a Professor of Game Design, and the former Acting Dean of the Division of Communication and Creative Media, the former Chair of the Game Studio. She has been a faculty member of Champlain College since 2005, and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art focused on games as a persuasive communication medium.

Amanda Crispel is a veteran of the game industry. She has worked for companies such as Brøderbund Software, Mattel, Lego, Leapfrog, The Learning Company and Nickelodeon, and she specializes in serious games and interactive media intended to have a positive impact on the player. She has also worked on several research grants creating serious games. Some topics include the prevention of sexual harassment and violence in high school and college environments, and nutritional education for K-12 students.

What are your hobbies?

Dragonboat Paddling, Woodworking, Skiing

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

Being on Lake Champlain, or enjoying a beautiful evening at a lake shore eatery.

Professional/ Scholastic Affiliations

https://www.igdafoundation.org/

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Jenelle Davis

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Education	George Washington University, Master of Science; Georgia State University, Bachelor of Business Admin

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Ines de Haro

Faculty Member	Core Curriculum  General Education
Pronouns	She/Her/Hers
Areas of Expertise	Food history of 20th and 21st century wartime eras in Spain, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the U.S. Spanish restaurants to classes about the many histories of food and farming Spanish Civil War dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975)
Contact	Aiken 100

Biography

Inés Luisa de Haro was born in Madrid, Spain, and is passionate about all things Spanish food and history. Inés greatly enjoys teaching in the Core Division by encouraging diverse perspectives in her classes, which strive to engage students in pragmatic discourse. Her Core classes seek to invite differing thoughts to flourish in respectful and professional academic environments. Inés is a Champlain College alumni from the Education and Humanities Department (now the School of Social Innovation), has worked professionally in the educational field in Vermont since 2019, and graduated with her Master’s in History from The University of Vermont in 2023.

Distinctions & Awards

Connor Glassett Spirit of Adventure Award – Education & Human Studies Division Wide Award – Champlain College 2020

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
• Fascism in Spain 1923-1977 by Stanley G. Payne

Favorite Quote

“Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.”

—Rita Pierson

Curriculum Vitae

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Allison Dean

Pronouns	She/Her/Hers
Education	University of Vermont, Master of Science; University of Vermont, Bachelor of Science
Areas of Expertise	Human Anatomy and Physiology Health and Nutrition

Biography

Allison has always loved science and began working in the field as a lab technician at the Vermont Cancer Center, shortly after her graduation from UVM. One of the things she loved about her position was the opportunity to work with students, which encouraged her to begin teaching. Since her teaching career began, Allison has been teaching a variety of science courses, including Human Anatomy and Physiology, Nutrition, and Intro to Forensic Science. What Allison most loves about teaching is the challenge to meet the needs of all students in an environment that is constantly changing. Allison is passionate about creating learning environments that support student learning, are inclusive and engaging, are safe learning spaces where students can feel comfortable asking questions and that help students to push past barrier and their fear of science courses. Although she has high expectations for students in their educational journeys, she works hard to develop courses that help students to apply what they learn and help them to discover how important science is to their everyday lives.

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Robert DeCarlo

Faculty Member	Champlain College Online
Education	Utica College, Master of Science; SUNY-IT Utica/Rome, Bachelor of Resource Studies; Sage Graduate School, Master of Business Administration; SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome, Bachelor of Science

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