Joyce Beck - eightytwenty.com

Joyce Beck

Campus Webmaster, Fairleigh Dickinson University
President, The Boulevard Group, Inc.
co-instructor of 90 hour webmaster certificate training
co-author of eightytwenty.com
over twenty years of data processing experience
freelance instructor
beck@eightytwenty.com

President, The Boulevard Group

In 2000, Joyce Beck formed The Boulevard Group, a web site consulting firm.

The Boulevard Group provides a variety of web consulting services including web site design, construction and hosting; web site critiques; customized employee training.

Campus Webmaster, Fairleigh Dickinson University

In 2001, after several years as an Adjunct Instructor at FDU, Joyce Beck joined the University as Campus Webmaster for the College at Florham, Madison, NJ. She continues in her instructional role for the Webmaster Skills Certification training offered by the University.

Center for Information Age Technology

Beck was co-author and instructor of the 3-month, 90-hour webmaster training course. Responsibilities included classroom instruction and updating the course content.

As CIAT's Webmaster, Beck was responsible for the design, HTML authoring, maintenance and management of CIAT's web site.

Joyce Beck has worked with clients in each of CIAT's four major service sectors during her eleven years with CIAT. Clients include government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and small businesses.

For six years, Beck served as primary analyst for CIAT's projects with the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She assisted the Commission in identifying appropriate adaptive technology for computer use by the visually impaired, and trained the Commission's staff and clients in use of computer aids for word processing and other office functions.

Beck's responsibilities also included systems analysis and technical assistance to state and local governments. In this capacity Beck has developed master plans for computerization and office automation systems.

Beck played a lead role in the planning of six consecutive annual New Jersey Software Industry Fast Track (NJ SwIFT) Conferences.

Beck developed administrative computing courses and trained NJ university employees in Financial Records and other systems. Beck prepared and conducted other seminars on computerization as well, including courses on Windows and Windows applications and courses for municipal clerk and municipal budget staffs, and contributed to CIAT publications. Beck has served on the university Committee on the Handicapped, the Committee on Computing Services, the Committee on Employee Training, and the League of Municipalities Task Force on Computerization.

Ogilvy & Mather

Prior to joining the Center for Information Age Technology, Beck spent three years at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, as the Office Systems Project Manager. Beck was responsible for developing and implementing an office automation plan to convert from a handful of personal computers to an agency-wide, multi-function, office automation system.

Austin Information Systems

Beck developed her expertise in systems implementation, office automation and training during her five and a half years with Austin Information Systems, a division of the Austin Company, a design, engineering and construction firm.

Beck began as a Programmer/Analyst on a computer-generated imaging system targeted for the flight simulation market. She proved to be an effective liaison between the end-user community and applications development. This combination of systems and people knowledge made her the ideal candidate for managing the division's beta-test of word processing in the company.

Lockheed Electronics Company

During her year and a half at Lockheed Electronics Company, Beck worked as a Scientific Programmer on an Air Traffic Control System. Beck wrote in assembly language for Lockheed's real-time minicomputer. Applications included device handlers, communication subsystems and radar scope display.