MSIT Faculty

MSIT Program Director - Jennifer Kramer-McKibben
Jen McKibben is a co-owner of 4Web, Inc, and previously freelanced in the web design field under her own company, Focused Consulting LLC. She specializes in front-end design of websites, including information architecture, usability, and implementation. At the Graduate Center, Jen teaches courses in conceptual web design, technical fluency, open source content management systems, and web standards.  She also runs the New England Adobe User Group (www.neaug.org). She earned a B.S. in biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.S. in Internet Strategy Management at the Marlboro College Graduate Center. She is most recently an Adobe Dreamweaver 8 Certified Developer.

Barb Ackemann
As a public school teacher and librarian, Barb has been involved with the web for over 10 years.  A 2006 MSIT graduate of Marlboro College Graduate Center, she now runs her own web development company, IrisLines, LLC.   She helps her clients understand how they can use the web as more than a brochure and develops static as well as content management driven websites. At the Grad Center she teaches the Designing with Web Standards class.

Steve Fadden - BSMIS / MSM Program
Steve holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology (Human Factors) with over 15 years of experience conducting cognitive psychology and human performance research and analysis. Research and applied interests include usability, human computer interaction, universal design, the role of attention and perception in training and performance, and the design of complex systems that promote positive user experience. His industry and consulting experience includes developing training and evaluating human performance in complex and high-risk domains, including aviation, financial management, safety and security, and intelligence analysis. Steve has worked for companies including Lockheed Martin, Intel, PeopleSoft, and Booz Allen
Hamilton, and currently serves as Director of the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training. He has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in Human Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Project Management, Learning Disabilities, and the use of eye movement measures in research and design.

Lisa Sieverts
Lisa Sieverts is Business and Projects Manager at 4Web, Inc. a Keene, NH-based web development firm. She is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), a global leader in the development of standards for the practice of  project management. Prior to 4Web, she ran Facilitated Change, an independent project management consulting company.  She worked for Hewlett-Packard in California and Idaho from 1990-2002.
M.B.A. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.

Jill Hart
With more then two decades of experience spanning Marketing, Training, Technology and Project Management, Jill has been influencing change in organizations for most of her professional career.
Her involvement in the development and implementation of enterprise wide technology solutions fueled her passion surrounding the principles of learning and Human Computer Interaction. As a result she successfully pioneered corporate technology training programs that supported the unique characteristics of the adult learner. Her experiences have also lead her to establish two evolving companies: Brain Logic, whose mission is to provide businesses and non-profits marketing direction to succeed in the marketplace and Open Sesame Designs, focused on delivering easy to use, and accessible, technology solutions.
Jill earned her Masters of Teaching with Technologies and Masters of Science in Management from the Marlboro Graduate Center. She is currently the President of the Monadnock Chapter PMI and is a Project Manager focused on managing an application development project in the insurance industry.

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