Mission Statement
TSMA is a student organization that brings together students, faculty and alumni/alumnae to develop skills and knowledge in the communication technology and regulation industries for now and after graduation. Activities TSMA sponsors are resume help, job placement assistance, field trips, service projects and guest speakers who cover a variety of topics. Twin highlights of being a member of TSMA are the networking capabilities between students and guest speakers and the hands-on experience from service projects.
Meetings: Tuesdays at 6:15 PM in RTCV 027
Field Trips:
A group of McClure School graduate and undergraduate students and faculty toured the Cleveland facilities of the FBI Headquarters, Time Warner Cable, Sprint/Nextel Switching Center, and WEWS TV-5 news September 16, 2011, during the fall quarter field trip. Hosted by the Telecommunication Systems Management Association (TSMA), organized by Professor John Hoag and assisted by alumni Mike Waterhouse BSC '01, the trip was invaluable to students who will soon be searching for a job.
A winter quarter 2012 tour is planned. For details and to reserve a spot on the bus, email ou.its.events@gmail.com.
Fall Quarter 2011-12 Speaker:
Steve Allen BSC '08 from Progressive Insurance in Cleveland Ohio spoke to TSMA about his experiences with Progressive Insurance and the intrinsic role Telecommunication plays within the organization at the Tuesday, September 20, TSMA meeting.
He offered insight on how he got to where he is today and and answered questions in regards to searching for a career in the ITS field.
Winter Quarter 2010-2011 Speakers:
ITS alum Jeff Chaddock spoke Wednesday, January 26, 7:00, in Bentley 236, on "Cents and Sensibillity."
According to ITS director Phil Campbell, "Jeff is an ITS alum, but makes his career as a financial advisor/planner. I heard him speak several years ago to the group and wished then that I'd heard him as I was graduating decades ago. His talk is geared toward students and about-to-be alums - definitely not intended for rich people who want to get richer. Practical stuff.
FYI: Jeff's generosity is why TSMA doesn't have to charge for food or run fund raising events. I'm sure you'll be glad you heard him."
C. Matthew Curtin, CISSP, Founder, Interhack Corporation, spoke to Professor Campbell's ITS 453 class and the TSMA student group on February 1, 6:00, in 129 Bentley. Matt Curtin is a Columbus-based technologist, writer, and entrepreneur. His work has helped to shape our understanding of the benefits and risks of living in a globally-connected world. He helped to develop the technical infrastructure for some of the earliest electronic commerce Web sites and to show others how to use technology such as network firewalls and cryptography to protect their data and their users.
During the Crypto Wars of the mid to late 1990s, Curtin was an integral part of a seminal distributed computing project that broke a message encrypted with the U.S. Government's Data Encryption Standard for the first time in open research, changing the tone of the debate in Congress over cryptographic policy and hastening the demise of the standard. The story of this work is the subject of his most recent book, Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard (Copernicus Books, 2005).
Curtin founded Interhack in 1997 as a research group that looked at the side-effects of using the Internet as a large-scale computing and communication platform. Interhack's Internet Privacy Project looked at the Internet infrastructure and how real systems used for online banking, navigation, advertising, and even enhanced DVD and CD content put unsuspecting consumers at risk. Results of this work were reported in the media worldwide and have served as foundation material for discussion in computer science programs throughout the United States and Europe. Curtin's previous book, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security (Apress, 2001) discusses these matters in detail.
In 2000, Curtin organized Interhack Corporation and its professional service practices in Forensic Computing and Information Assurance. Interhack's forensic computing practice and Curtin's expert opinion have been used to establish the leading case law on the application of Federal wiretap statutes to Web technology, In re Pharmatrak Privacy Litigation.
Curtin maintains a regular academic appointment as a Lecturer at The Ohio State University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, teaching a popular course in the use of the Lisp programming language. Additionally, he has guest lectured for the Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, Otterbein College, Franklin University, the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University.
Curtin chairs the Recruitment subcommittee of the Business Advisory Network that advises the Ohio Department of Education's standards for technology education in secondary and postsecondary schools throughout the state and is a member of the USENIX Association, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society.
Matt Christian '99, New Technology Planning Infrastructure Engineering with Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, OH, spoke to the TSMA student group Thursday, February 10, 6:00 pm in 027 RTVC on the following topics:
* Non-satellite wireless installed on the Nationwide Corporate Planes
* Telepresence - roadmap and integration with WebEx and Tanberg
* Industry Trends that Nationwide is seeing - Mobility
* Q&A
A social at Broneys followed.
