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Christine Seedholm Galvin is a seasoned Technical and medical Recruiter for clients in New England. She hails from Bridgewater, MA (yes where University and prison are!). Before she was in HR, Christine worked at Boston University in the student employment office. As the program coordinator she was responsible for all of the interviewing, hiring, scheduling, training and overall supervision of all the work-study students in the office.

Christine graduated from Suffolk University with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, a major which she has clearly put to very good use. She lives in the Waltham area with her husband, dog and two kitties. An avid (and at times obnoxious), Red Sox fan; Christine catches as many games as she possibly can. She is a student of Shaolin Kempo Karate and loves to cook, eat and sing in the car with the music up loud enough that nobody can hear her.

Guest blogger, Chris Russell is a technology executive based in New England with 20+ years experience in driving success. Chris is currently Vice President of Sales and Service at Optiant, Inc. a Best-of-Breed leader in inventory optimization & supply chain design. Chris is an avid runner as can be seen at his website runrunlive.com and can be reached at cyktrussell@yahoo.com.

As CTO of CareerBuilder.com, guest blogger Eric Presley is responsible for overseeing the strategic technology initiatives and critical execution of the technology infrastructure.

Before joining the CareerBuilder.com team, Presley was the Vice President of Technology at Headhunter.net, where he was responsible for software development including the Headhunter platform, integrated financial systems and EIS systems based on an advanced data warehouse. In this capacity, Presley also performed the functions of the chief architect of the website.

Prior to joining Headhunter, Presley held a number of technology positions - including Senior Consultant and System Architect - at Advance Technology Corp., a technology solutions provider. While at ATC, Eric oversaw the re-architecting of the DNA platform used in Telco proactive maintenance. Other successful initiatives included the production of a GPS -based vehicle monitoring system and an enterprise-integrated technician dispatching system.

Earlier in his career, Presley was a Lead Developer at Northern Telecom Ltd., a global communications networking company. At Northern Telecom, he performed key development of software controlling subsystems within the BNR switch architecture.

Kara Wallace is a forward-thinking marketing and communications leader who has spent her 12-year career creating winning strategies for business-to-business sales organizations. Kara leads Hudson's North America marketing team by serving as a strong partner with both operations and sales management to achieve short-term goals while developing longer-term strategy.

Kara began her career at an accounting staffing and recruitment firm before serving in communications management for a Fortune 500 company where she established a global PR function.

Kara has volunteered on boards and committees for professional associations such as the Institute of Management Accountants (Minneapolis Chapter), Push Institute, Advertising Federation of Minnesota, International Association of Business Communicators, and the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. She serves as a guest speaker on topics including professional services marketing and developing professional networks. Kara holds a BS in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota, and is completing her MBA degree program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Sarah is a senior technology manager at InmanTechnologyIT with extensive experience in all aspects of Information Technology for financial services, as well as biotechnology, government and higher education. PMP and CISA-certified, she has a broad background in developing and implementing major application systems, financial and technology operations, client services and risk management. Sarah's areas of expertise include equity and fixed income trading and analytics systems, risk management, compliance, accounting and performance analytics systems. She has significant experience in data center management on a wide variety of platforms and technologies, including expertise in data security, disaster recovery and high availability, risk management, control policy and program/project implementation.

Previously, Mrs. Cortes served as senior vice president and head of Disaster Recovery at Putnam Investments until parent company Marsh & McLennan's data center collapsed due to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Iron Mountain played a critical role in Marsh & McLennan's remarkable recovery, driving thousands of magnetic tapes across the country while airlines were grounded.

Sarah is a member of the AIM Advisory Board on Data Privacy Laws to the Massachusetts Legislature, as well as numerous other leading technology organizations, including:

• NE Technical Professionals Group
• Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
• ISACA
• PMI - Project Management Institute

Sarah is a graduate of Harvard University where she studied applied mathematics, romance languages and literatures. You can read her other technology columns at Inman Technology IT. Also, you can contact Mrs. Cortes at sarah_cortes@inmantechnologyIT.com or follow @SecuritySources on Twitter.

Guest blogger, Susan Hilty has a unique background of Retail Store Management progressing into IT Project/Program Management. Hilty has an extensive background in management and IT infrastructure including Operations, Data Centers, MS Windows servers and computers. She specializes in Project Recovery and Organization. Susan has her PMP certification and has received certifications in Microsoft, Novell, and the Project Management Institute as well as accounting, computer business systems and computer network engineering.
A proven manager who grew with the industry, Hilty has held titles such as Regional Office and Training Supervisor, Retail Store Manager, IT Director, Network Administrator, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Global Regional Theater Lead and Project Engineer. In 2006 Susan started her own consulting company, SLT Concepts, Inc, and has teamed up with IBM, Dimension Data, Cisco, Dow Chemical and Baxter. Most recently Susan is working with Hudson IT at Mayer Brown, Chicago.