Category Archives: METS

Shawn DeAntonio joined the Media and Educational Technology Services (METS) team in late 2014 as our senior audio-visual systems engineer.  Shawn replaces Sarah Bearse, who left the METS team in late January for a position at Google.

Shawn DeAntonio, our new senior audio-visual engineer

Shawn will be working on designing, building and supporting audio/video technology for the School.  He comes to us after more then a decade with Rule Broadcast Systems, a local AV design/build company, where he was director of integration services.

While Shawn is new to this role at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, he has worked on projects at the school for years, including the Leadership Studio and the Distance Teaching and Learning Room in the lower level of the Kresge Building.

Shawn’s first project was updating the audio-visual in our largest computer laboratory, Kresge LL6.  Kresge LL6 reopened on January 26th.

Please join us in welcoming Shawn to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lucy Killewo, Instructional Technologist

Lucy Killewo has joined the Department of Information Technology as a contract instructional technologist for the Media and Educational Technology Services (METS) team.

Lucy comes to us from the Judge Group and has hit the ground running supporting our students and professors in their use of iSites and Canvas.

Lucy has been using various learning management systems over the past few years both as a student and a technician at KCMC College in Tanzania, and recently at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she earned a master’s degree in information sciences and technology with a focus on human computer interaction (HCI) and eLearning.  Lucy has also presented and been published describing her experience introducing an LMS at medical schools.

Lucy is expected to be with METS through early 2015.

Please join us in welcoming Lucy to the Harvard School of Public Health!

Dr. Ritam Chowdhury has joined the Media and Educational Technology Services (METS) team as a statistical consultant for SAS and STATA.  This is a role that has been evolving as we try our best to respond to the needs of our students.  Ritam is a SM1 student in the Department of Biostatistics, and he already holds multiple degrees including a M.B.B.S. (MD), MPH and PhD.

Ritam is also working on the HSPH Student Government as the representative from the Department of Biostatistics.

Dr. Ritam Chowdhury, statistical consultant and student in the Department of Biostatistics

Ritam holds office hours on most Friday’s outside the METS dugout in Kresge LL15, and also works with students by appointment.

If students would like help with SAS or STATA, they can contact Ritam at sashelp@hsph.harvard.edu, or statahelp@hsph.harvard.edu

Please join us in welcoming Ritam to the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Information Technology.

The HSPH Department of Information Technology welcomes new hire Kevin Brunswick. Kevin joins the Media and Educational Technology Services (METS) team as an educational video production specialist.

Kevin Brunswick, educational video production specialist

Kevin joins us after working the past six years as an independent audio and video producer. He has worked for a variety of clients for documentary, industrial, corporate and live events.  Kevin worked with production companies Jamtron and Beryllium and traveled to Scotland, Ireland, China, and Spain with creative staff from inside the travel and education company EF Tours. Kevin has also produced outreach videos for the Harvard Graduate School of Education and flipped classroom video for Suffolk University Law School.

Kevin brings many years of experience with audio-visual technology to HSPH.  Prior to embarking on his freelance production career, Kevin managed operations for the sales division of Rule Boston Camera, where he acquired AV equipment installation experience.

Kevin is a graduate of Boston University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in communications with a focus on film production.

Please join us in welcoming Kevin to our technical staff and to the HSPH community!

Interesting fact:
Kevin is the technical director for a WBUR radio program, podcast, and live event called You’re the Expert where a panel of comedians guess what an academic studies.   It’s educational and it’s fun!

We are pleased to welcome Cassandra Depietro to the Department of Information Technology. Cassie began a summer internship on June 4 working for the Media and Educational Technology Services (METS) team.

She is currently a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying applied mathematics where she maintains an impressive 3.7 GPA. In 2013, she completed her bachelor of science in mathematics at Fairfield University where she was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society.

She will assist the METS team in preparing for our migration from iSites to Canvas learning management system as well with testing statistical software within our virtual desktop infrastructure environment.

Previously, Cassie has worked as a teaching assistant at UMass, a research assistant at Fairfield, and a math tutor at Mathnasium Learning Center. She has also studied abroad at Regent’s American College in London.

Please join us in welcoming Cassie to the Harvard School of Public Health!