Matt Barnas
Title: Senior systems analyst, also known as "one of the Mac guys."
Responsibilities: Helping people on campus trouble-shoot problems
with Macintosh computers and peripherals.
Number of Macintosh computers on campus: 800 to 850.
Favorite part of the job: "Interacting with the people here, absolutely."
Most interesting part of the job: "What people can do to their
computers."
Qualifications: Barnas is an "Apple-certified technician" trained
at Apple Computer headquarters. "One part of the training was to take
apart a printer, mix up the pieces, then put it back together again."
Started at TSRI: 1997
Previous positions: Technical support for the healthcare giant
Boehringer Manheim and for the legendary musical group The Grateful Dead.
Biggest accomplishment to date: "Meeting my wife and getting married."
Wife: Tami Barnas, administrative specialist in to Executive Vice
President Douglas A. Bingham.
Story of meeting her: "Tami, who was then an admin in David Cheresh's
lab, was working on a grant application when her computer broke down.
She was er... very insistent that I retrieve her grant document. Luckily,
I was able to get it back for her!"
Extracurriculars: Brewing beer, gardening, jet skiing.
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