Two New Faces in IT: Michael North and Thomas Howell

The Library IT Division grew by two on April 11th, when Michael North (photo on left) started as an Enterprise System Analyst/Programmer and Thomas Howell (photo on right) joined as a Lead Web Developer/Systems Engineer.

Michael came to us from Kansas State University, where he has worked for the past 10 years, starting with a job as a Serials Acquisitions Cataloger. He has a solid background with the Voyager system, Oracle, SFX and VERDE.. Before working in the library, Michael was also a Navy nuclear reactor operator and nuclear power plant supervisor. Michael can be reached at m-north@northwestern.edu or at 1-6577

Thomas Howell is taking over Steve DiDomenico's former duties in IT. Thomas came to us from the corporate sector, where he was formerly a lead IT architect for Conseco Inc., an insurance, investment and lending company. He has previously worked as an applications infrastructure engineer, open systems engineer, and network engineer. Thomas has a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Thomas can be reached at t-howell@northwestern.edu or at 7-7918.

Stu Baker,
Acting Associate University Librarian for Information Technology

(Photos by Mary Bradley)