2013 Annual Conference — October 6-9No Longer for Profit: How My Eight Years Supporting For-Profit Companies Prepared Me For Higher Ed
Ballroom
When Tom Tostanoski left college, he started doing technical support for a number of large for-profit corporations, including IBM, Apple, Time Warner Cable and AT&T. He then found himself at Texas State University, supporting educational products and no longer hearing about bottom lines. In fact, Tostanoski has barely heard the word "business" in the last year and a half. How does the corporate world prepare one for training professors on Wordpress? It actually has informed Tostanoski's day to day outlook greatly. His poster presents a series of ideas he's had that shows how he's adjusted to academia and what knowledge from his past employment he uses to enrich Texas State.
Presenter
Tom Tostanoski
USC-I, Texas State University
Tom Tostanoski describes himself as a "technical support rockstar," having provided support for RailEurope, Time Warner Cable, Apple, AT&T Wi-Fi Services, and clients of IBM and Unisys. He's now supporting educational software at rapidly growing Texas State University. In addition to the Magnolia-based Gato CMS and Wordpress, he supports a pair of video products as well.
