Meet the Faculty
Grant Kirby - Program Director Information Technology
OIT Portland West
AmberGlen
20175 NW AmberGlen Ct, Suite 100
Beaverton, OR 97006
Tel: Appointments: 503-821-1275; Direct Line: 503-821-1273
Fax: 503-533-5190
E-mail: grant.kirby@oit.edu
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Biography: Grant is a 1987 Computer Science graduate of Oregon Institute of Technology, worked in the high-tech industry for 16 years before returning to OIT/Portland as the IT Program Director. His industry career included stints as a network engineer and technical marketing engineer at Intel, and product marketing for home networking, DSL and broadband. He holds an MBA from the University of Oregon.
Michael Kirshner DDS, MPH - Program Director Health Informatics
OIT Portland East
7726 SE Harmony Road
Portland, OR 97222
Tel: Appointments: 503-821-1250; Direct Line: 503-821-1249
Fax: 503-786-5040
E-mail: michael.kirshner@oit.edu
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Biography: Dr. Michael Kirshner has over 30 years of health care and information systems experience. Michael founded and became president of Health Select, a health communications company that developed computer aided information and decision support systems. Michael was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, where he conducted and published health services and medical informatics research. Previously, Dr. Kirshner was the Assistant Director of Medical Informatics for Kaiser Permanente Northwest.
Dr. Kirshner holds a doctoral degree in Dental Surgery from the University of Southern California, a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington, and a graduate certificate in Medical Informatics from Oregon Health and Science University.
John Cooper MBI - Adjunct Faculty
Providence Health Systems
E-mail: john.cooper@oit.edu
Biography:
* More than 20 years in software, IT, and telecom projects, in implementation, development, and technical support.
* Strongest concentration in the database and data warehousing worlds, including employment with database vendors Oracle and Sybase.
* Significant recent concentration in healthcare applications, including certification in EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, expertise with Epic's Clarity database, and experience with GE Centricity EMR.
* Graduate degree in Medical Informatics, including a teaching assistant position in databases, and an internship researching the design of a clinical data warehouse.
Michael Callaghan - Adjunct Faculty
Mt. Hood Community College
E-mail: callaghm@mhcc.edu
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Wendell Cockrell - Adjunct Faculty
E-mail: wendellc@earthlink.net
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Sean Hefty - Adjunct Faculty
Software Engineer
Intel Corporation
E-mail: sean.hefty@intel.com
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Biography: B.S. in Computer Science and Math from Purdue. M.S. from Arizona State. Software developer with Intel since 1993 where he currently is the Linux driver developer and co-maintainer of the Infiniband networking stack.
Michael Hoffman - Adjunct Faculty
Senior Firmware Quality Engineer
Hewlett Packard
E-mail: michael.hoffman@oit.edu
Web: http://home.comcast.net/~oit_hoffman
Biography: Michael graduated from Oregon Tech in 1989 with a BS in Computer Systems Engineering Technology. He has worked for various hi-tech companies, focusing on software/firmware development for communications, factory automation, manufacturing, and embedded systems. Currently Michael is a networking technologies firmware quality engineer for Hewlett-Packard Company. He has been teaching as an adjunct instructor for OIT since 1996. Michael is also a member of the OIT's CSET department Industry Advisory Board.
Linda Rudawitz - Adjunct Faculty
Energy Trust of Oregon
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Karl H. Schultz - Adjunct Faculty
President
Schultz Associates
E-mail: karlschult@aol.com
Tel: 503-625-1135
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Christian Stephens - Adjunct Faculty
Manager, Technical Communications
Captaris, Inc.
E-mail: christian.stephens@oit.edu
Bob Zahrowski - Adjunct Faculty
E-mail: bzahrowski@aol.com
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Biography: Bob Zahrowski has 25+ years of experience in management consulting, organizational development, coordination and facilitation of solutions to complex issues, and Senior Management coaching. He is involved in the participation and facilitation of the development of Strategic and Marketing Plans, Economic Development Plans and process redesign. Bob has an M.Ed., and a Ed.D. (ABD) from Oregon State University. He has been an adjunct for OIT/Portland for nearly two years.