DMS alum leaves UTS to head educational program for SanDisk

Director of mobile computing and DMS alumna, Jennifer Moore-Evans, has decided to step away from her position at DU in order to move forward with her passion for developing educational learning tools. Moore-Evans finished out her 11 years with University Technology Services on November 12. On November 15, she will be starting a new position as Executive Director of Educational Technology at SanDisk, based out of Sunnyvale, California.

While working with SanDisk, Moore-Evans will expand on a technology infrastructure codenamed "BookLocker", which she helped pioneer at DU's College of Law last year. SanDisk will be working with local, state, federal and international governments, educational institutions, entertainment organizations and digital content providers in order to develop learning through the use and integration of Flash Drives. "It's very technical, but I'm excited," said Moore-Evans.

BookLocker utilizes second-generation beta Flash Drives from SanDisk, and infrastructure technology from MDRM, in order to provide students with an opportunity to access secure content, such as texts and images in digital form on a USB device that fit in the palm of their hands. The second-generation mini-USB drives are equipped with a local CPU, and data storage technology created by MDRM, which allows separate public and private partitions in order to have encrypted space for copyrighted digital content, and separate space for public documents that the user can have full access to for personal document storage. The encrypted space is controlled by MDRM's platform, which prevents any copyrighted documents from being transferred to a local hard drive or copied in any way. BookLocker allows books to be downloaded to a PC or Smartphone and viewed without third party software or other installations.

While Moore-Evans will be focusing on the educational aspect of technology development at SanDisk, she will have direct input with other categories of focus for similar products, including medical records, entertainment and leisure.

"This is an amazing multi-platform, multi-function device," said Moore-Evans. "There are plans to have it work with television, cell phones, PDAs and within the next six months, Mac and Linux platforms."

Moore-Evans came to DU in 1993 to work in the faculty computing lab. In 1997 she took the position as Director of Mobile Computing and met Jeff Rutenbeck soon after, which immediately sparked her interest in DMS. One year later Moore-Evans entered into the DMS program to get her M.A. Moore-Evans said she already had the necessary technical background, so she focused on core MBA classes at the Daniels College of Business. "The art classes kicked my butt," said Moore-Evans. "Sometimes I would be in tears, but I have a high regard for designers because that has never been me."

"I am such a geek," said Moore-Evans in response to whether she prefers the educational aspect, or the technical side of her position with UTS. "I still like hacking around, and I've always thought it's amazing what you can see when you poke around on your neighborhood broadband connection and in the registry of a machine."

Since her involvement with DU in 1993, Moore-Evans has helped Vice Chancellor of UTS, Ken Stafford implement the laptop initiative at DU, which helped bring DU's technology standards to where they are today. "The laptop initiative was something we had to do at DU because we knew it was the wave of the future." Moore-Evans said that DU is such a different place, and that she has seen great things happen since she's been involved with the University. "It's been an amazing ride."