Contributors
Robert Allen
Senior Software Engineering Director
Robert Allen has found that technology is constantly evolving and it is very easy to become consumed by it. In over 20 years of developing software he has learned that technology for technology's sake is like junk food...exciting but empty. If it doesn't provide a practical solution to a problem the investment in new technology is a waste. Not that he thinks we should accept the status quo. Sometimes you have to set aside the folklore and traditions to move forward. This is the exciting part of his work at Innovative, leveraging the past while keeping an open mind about the future. If anything describes his career it is the advice given early in his career, and which is summed up nicely on many Bay Area bumper stickers: Question Authority!
Alan Dyck
Product Manager
Alan Dyck was called a "Renaissance Man" by his high school principal, but prefers to call himself "a jack of all trades and master of none." With a degree in graphic design, he made a career in software development. Never content to over-specialize, he developed multimedia educational products, enterprise web applications, and games. Moving on, he served as a project manager and systems analyst. What ties it all together? For him, it's all about communication. Start with great ideas. Then communicate them clearly. When he is not helping libraries communicate through their web catalogs, you will find him coaching youth soccer or capturing stories in photography and video.
Sandy Hurd
Director of Strategic Markets
Sandy Hurd has extensive experience in the library industry and has helped to bring to market numerous resource management and content delivery products for top information industry companies. Before joining Innovative in 2003, she held senior positions at Northern Light Technology, EBSCO Information Services, and The H.W. Wilson Company. Sandy has served on the editorial board of Serials Review (since 1996) and has spoken frequently on EDI, the serials world, web portals, and ERM. Recently, she coordinated Taiga Forum events and joined NASIG's Program Planning Committee.
Topics: Standards, eResources, Electronic Resource Management, Academic Libraries
Bob McQuillan
Senior Product Manager
Bob McQuillan remembers working in an academic library many years ago when the brand new computer terminal blinked its clumsy green cursor for the first time. The digitization of the analog library world had slowly begun, and so had some exciting new technologies that led him over the next two decades into senior product management and marketing roles at various information technology and computer graphics companies in his native San Francisco Bay Area. At one point he took a bird’s eye view to share his industry insights as an executive editor and analyst for Penton Media covering digital media technologies. His favorite role by far is working with eProducts at Innovative Interfaces where he is able to leverage his passions for libraries, media and technology to help customers build a better digital library.
Spenser the Marketing Guy
Marketing Specialist
Spenser Thompson has an MLIS and has worked in academic and special libraries in California. He also has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Religion) and Antioch University (Psychology). Spenser is originally from Hollywood where his father made a living making music for recording artists, TV commercials and film.
Topics: Events, promotions, news from Innovative libraries, product news, and marketing libraries.
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