Our Team

Deborah Streeter

Deborah Streeter is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell. Entrepreneurship and small business management are the focus of Streeter's teaching, research, and outreach activities. She specializes in teaching business planning, decision analysis, and small business management. Streeter was awarded the 2001 CALS National Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and University Teaching, and was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in 2000. She also received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and the Innovative Teaching Award in 1996. Streeter's research interests include: models of entrepreneurship education, the role of entrepreneurship and small business in economic development with special focus on information technology and market coordination, evaluation of collaborative approaches to small business training, and the relationship between scientific R&D and market research/strategy and the effectiveness of business training and planning for start-ups. As director of the Entrepreneurship Education and Outreach Program (EEO), she contributes to the extension functions of the college through programs related to business planning for agricultural and food-related enterprises. The eClips collection represents a major project of Streeter's -- the development of educational materials built on a database of digital video interviews with entrepreneurs from across the country. The video material is cut into clips by topic and used in a multi-media format to teach entrepreneurship and small business management. Streeter holds a M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is a member of a university wide program in entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program (EPE).

Kirsten Barker, Content Manager and Jack-of-all-Trades

Kirsten Barker has worked with Deborah Streeter since the first days of eClips. Barker was heavily involved in the initial design of the first website and has subsequently focused her efforts on management of the site�s ever-growing content. In addition to content, Barker has begun to work on reaching out to eClips users to better understand their wants and needs. Prior to her involvement on eClips, Kirsten Barker was Chief Information Officer for NSF International. In that position, she led the company's Information Technology Department which had responsibility for all corporate software/web development, network/telecom/hardware infrastructure and helpdesk support and training. Her other experience includes being a Senior Director at a healthcare software company and progressive positions as a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Kirsten Barker holds a B.S. (1992) from Cornell University and a M.S. (1997) from Johns Hopkins University.

D. Jamie Kalousdian, Manager of Media Production and all-around media junkie

Jamie coordinates the efforts of the Media lab as well as creating new web content for educators. He has a particular interest in the content as he has been dubbed both an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur having a small company of his own and pushing the envelope of "employee" at Cornell. He came to Ithaca to help Cornell with academic video streaming and found a wonderful home with eClips. Jamie has a B.A. in Radio and Television Broadcasting. He produced corporate as well as broadcast video for 15 years prior to joining Cornell.

Media Lab

Manuel Lora

Manuel produces the high quality interviews and related content for eClips. He is responsible for hundreds of cases and thousands of clips. Manuel's passions include photography and enthusiast of "Austrian Economics". Manuel has a B.A. in Mass Communications. He worked in broadcasting in New Orleans prior to Katrina and through a series of events he landed in Ithaca with us at eClips.

Mann Library Programming Staff

Jonathan Corson-Rikert

Jon Corson-Rikert has been a programmer and project leader in Information Technology Services at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library since 2001, working on projects including the VIVO virtual life sciences library (http://vivo.library.cornell.edu), CUGIR (the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository, http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu), and eClips (http://eclips.cornell.edu), Cornell's collection of digital video clips on entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Mann Library, he worked as research administrator for the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell, programmed geographic software at the Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, and developed early digital cartography applications at the Dane County Regional Planning Commission in Wisconsin.

John Cline

John Cline is a programmer/analyst at Cornell's Mann Library. John has been with Mann Library since the winter of 2001. He enjoys trying to come up with things to put into his bio. John has a B.S. in Computer Science from Binghamton University.
The Mann Library Programmers helped to add a valuable 'library' twist to the database design and has helped focus the content metadata. Without the library'support and expertise, this project wouldn't have the robust search and other incredible features that they continually provide us.

DCAPS Web Designer

Melissa Kou

Melissa Kuo is a Web Development Specialist in the Digital Media Group, Cornell University Library. She helped shape the look of the current interface. Seasoned users can thank Melissa and Jon Corson-Rikert's team for the wonderfully useable new interface that has made eClips so... well "useable".