The Information Technology and Management Faculty held their Spring 2018 faculty meeting at Lee Wing Wah in Chicago’s Chinatown on May 7, 2018. A highlight of the meeting was the awarding of the 2018 Jeffrey Kimont Memorial Teaching Award. Named in honor and memory of the first full-time ITM faculty member, the Jeffrey Kimont Memorial Teaching Award honors an outstanding adjunct faculty member. This year’s recipient is Vasilios “Billy” Pappademetriou. As the key instructor for ITM 301, Billy introduces every first-year ITM student into the fundamentals of not only hardware and operating systems but the IT profession as well.

Jeff Kimont was a founding faculty member in Information Technology and Management and shaped the application development curriculum of the program. A BSEE graduate of Midwest College of Engineering (now part of IIT and the foundation of the Rice Campus in Wheaton), Jeff earned his Master of Computer Science at North Central College and a Masters Certificate in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After retiring from Bell Labs, he became the first full-time faculty member in Information Technology and Management but later left that role to pursue a full-time career as a lead software developer. A jazz musician as well as a talented coder and teacher, Jeff was the father of four. He passed away due to cancer at the age of 58 in 2013.

Previous winners of the Jeffrey Kimont Memorial Teaching Award include Jason Lambert, Dennis Hood, and Shawn Davis. (Photo by Angie Jarka.)

Student Awards for Spring 2018 were presented at the ITM Student Awards Luncheon on May 7, 2018. The following awards were presented:

• Outstanding Master of Cyber Forensics and Security curriculum graduate: John Siergiej
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Computer & Information Security specialization graduate: Alexandre Florent Pierre Buisson-Chavot
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Data Management specialization graduate: Moein Mayeh
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Digital Systems Technology specialization graduate: Nour Al-Habash
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management IT Management & Entrepreneurship specialization graduate: Gabriel Garcia Ardiles
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Information Technology Infrastructure specialization graduate: Mohnish Anand
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Management Information Systems specialization graduate: Sumit Anand Asati
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Software Development specialization graduate: Harsh Jagdishkumar Patel
• Outstanding Master of Information Technology and Management Web Design & App Development specialization graduate: Christopher Montufar
• Outstanding Bachelor of Information Technology and Management First Year Student: Zachary Fleck
• Outstanding Bachelor of Information Technology and Management graduate completing the transfer curriculum: Jaina Parekh
• Outstanding Bachelor of Information Technology and Management graduate completing the First Year Student curriculum: Daniel Kolodziej

Congratulations to these outstanding graduates. The awardees received a framed certificate and a medallion to be worn with their cap and gown at commencement.