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The well qualified IST faculty is dedicated to the success of each and every student. Students benefit from the small class sizes of 15 – 25 students. Most of the full-time and the entire adjunct faculty have extensive experience in Information Technology and provide students real-world examples in addition to regular course material.
Gilbert Armour, Associate Professor IST
Office: Business Science M223
Phone: 540 857-6347
E-mail: garmour@virginiawestern.edu
BS Computer Science, University of New Mexico
MS Computer Science, George Washington University
Microsoft Certified Application Developer - .NET
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician – Windows XP
Microsoft Certified System Administrator on Windows 2003
Microsoft Certified System Engineer on Windows 2003
Professor Armour retired from the US Air Force as an Information Systems Officer performing a wide range of jobs including programming on mainframe computers, running the base computer center, bringing PCs to use on the base, and the Information Operations Manager for the base. After retirement, Professor Armour provided academic computer support for Hollins University providing professors with desktop PCs and managing the open computer labs on campus. He then spent several years as a Certified Novell Engineer and Microsoft Certified System Engineer for a local consulting company. Professor Armour joined Virginia Western Community College in 1998; the first 6 years were spent in Technical Support Services providing academic and PeopleSoft support for the college before transferring to the IST department as a full-time faculty member.
Class Focus: ITD 136, ITE 115, ITN 101, ITN 114, ITN 115, ITN 116, ITN 117, ITP 100, ITP 112, ITP 212, ITP 215, ITP 244
Calvin Scott Cassell, Assistant Professor IST
Office: Business Science M227
Phone: 540 857-6272
E-mail: ccassell@virginiawestern.edu
BS Computer Science, VPI&SU
MS Information Technology, VPI&SU
Microsoft Certified System Engineer on Windows 2000
Certified Technical Trainer
Professor Cassell performed IT Management in local government for 12 years. He then started and ran a local network consulting and training company for 10 years before joining Virginia Western Community College in 2007.
Class Focus: CSC201, CSC202, ITD130 (ITD136), ITD250, ITD251, ITN114, ITN115, ITN116, ITP120, ITP100
Kim Ellis, Associate Professor IST, ITE 115 Coordinator and ITE Seminar Coordinator
Office: Business Science M322
Phone: 540 857-7264
E-mail: kellis@virginiawestern.edu
AAS Information Technology, Virginia Western Community Colllege
BBA, Roanoke College
MALS, Hollins University
Professor Ellis started out in the computer industry working as a sales representative for the Microsoft Corporation. Even though it was her dream career at the time, Kim decided she was ready to make a change, and get off the road. Kim transitioned her sales career into a software training career, teaching the Microsoft applications to local corporate customers. Kim also started working for Virginia Western Community College as a seminar instructor, training VWCC corporate customers the Microsoft applications. A natural transition took place as Kim moved from training customers to teaching students. Kim is now the Coordinator of the ITE 115 classes and the ITE Seminars, and teaches ITE 115 and ITE 102 classes. Kim enjoys spending as much time as possible with her husband and family which includes her two beautiful nieces. Two other family members that hold a very special place in her heart are her Rottweiler's Harley and Sawyer. Sawyer is the newest addition; he is 3 years old, and was adopted from a rescue organization.
Class focus: ITE 115, ITE 102
Jeffery Scott, Assistant Professor IST
Office: Business Science M222
Phone: 540 904-1703
E-mail: jscott@virginiawestern.edu
BS, Liberty University
MA, Hollins University
HDI Certified Support Center Analyst
W3Schools Certified HTML Developer
Professor Scott joined Virginia Western Community College in a full time capacity starting in 2007. Jeff taught classes and seminars part-time since January 2000. He previously worked at a medical billing company providing IT services ranging from: desktop support, server installation & maintenance, web page development, software development, and network implementation for local and wide area networks. His teaching focuses on all aspects of web design including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and general design concepts. Jeff also is involved in the help desk and networking classes. Jeff lives in Roanoke with his wife and daughter and when he doesn’t have a notebook computer clutched in his hands, he enjoys playing guitar (not very good), attending his daughter’s swim meets, a little XBOX here and there, tweets on twitter at jeffscott 72, collecting funny t-shirts, playing with new iPhone applications, and wishing he had the latest Apple notebook (every time a new model comes out).
Class Focus: ITD 110, ITD 210, ITE 115, ITN 101
Dr. Diane D Wolff, Professor IST
Office: Business Science M224
Phone: 540 857-6214
E-mail: dwolff@virginiawestern.edu
BA Chemistry,University of Northern Iowa
PhD Analytical Chemistry, Arizona State University
MALS and CAS, Hollins University
CIW certified in Foundations, Site Designer, Perl, Networking, PHP, JavaScript, Database Specialist, and E-Commerce Designer
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Certified Web Component Developer
Dr. Wolff spent a previous life as a chemist. Diane got her PhD from Arizona State University working with a NASA Geochemist analyzing moon rocks. She taught Analytical Chemistry at the University of Arizona and the University of California San Diego while her husband finished his anesthesiology residency. They moved to the Virginia area where Diane taught at Ferrum College before joining the faculty at Virginia Western in 1999. Diane’ s teaching focuses on courses in database, Java, PHP, and E-Commerce. Diane resides with her husband on a 45 acre mountaintop with her two dozen parrots and spends her spare time with her passions of baseball (Go Cubs!), overseas travel (recent trips include Brazil, Costa Rica, Australia, and Peru), in country travel in the family private plane, and horticulture (with 45 acres, she can plant forever!).
Class Focus: ITP120, ITP220, ITP246, ITP248, ITD136, ITD110, ITD120, ITD 250
