Who We Are
Bill Dennen
Web Technologist
Email: dennen_bill@wheatoncollege.edu
Phone: (508) 286-3744
Profile: Somehow, what started out as a part-time job as an undergraduate in college has turned into a 20-year career of supporting the use of technology in higher education. Bill remembers the first time he received a URL via email and wondered “what do I do with it?” and he has been focused on and fascinated by the web ever since. Prior to Wheaton, Bill worked at Brown University and Colby College. Before entering the real world, Bill earned a BA from Trinity College in Hartford and an MA from SUNY at Stony Brook. Outside of work, Bill is an avid Red Sox fan and enjoys traveling to sunny, warm destinations with his family.
Colleen Wheeler
Assistant Director
Email: cwheeler@wheatoncollege.edu
Phone: 508.286.3923
Profile: Colleen serves as Assistant Director for the college's Web Strategy team. As a former member of Wheaton's Library and Information Services division and IT&S department, her responsibilities have included organizational and professional development, strategic technology advancement, technology education, and outreach efforts such as Our Community Learning Garden, the Kaleidoscope newsletter, the "Slide Heard Round the World", and the Composers of Internet2. She's active contributor to Wheaton's partner organizations, and serves on the Board of Trustees for the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) and the Advisory Board for the Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows Program. She is a 2004 Frye Institute Fellow, a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and an experienced project facilitator and coach. Colleen is a trombonist, conductor, composer, and former middle and high school music teacher, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Arts in Music/Trombone from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
David Caldwell
Director
Email: dcaldwell@wheatoncollege.edu
Phone: 508.286.3403
Profile: This web team thing is Dave's fault. Ever since he saw Mosaic, sometime in the last millennium, he's been trying to help the college figure out all the ways it should use the Web. Over the years he served Wheaton as Director of Administrative Information Services and Director of Information Technologies & Services. Along the way he has worked with many others to replace all of our administrative systems, network the campus, build a phone system and create a web site. As Director of Institutional Research he created the college's fact book, helped create the faculty salary plan and built many of the college's planning models. Now, many committees, teams and meetings later, he's the director of the Web Strategy Team. The president and our compatriots in Communications and LIS are squarely behind this initiative, and many people around campus have helped shape the college's web plans, but you shouldn't blame them. Whether you want to join up, you have a suggestion or you just want someone to complain to, email Dave. In former lives Dave studied mathematics, sold adding machines, played the carillon, built musical instruments and ran a small library. In spite of all indications that it's hopeless, he persists in attempting to play the tuba. (And greatly appreciates the forbearance of his wife and their pussycat.) And, ever since he learned that it was a crime to predict the future without a license, he has wanted to become a licensed fortuneteller in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
