CA Technologies Celebrates Community Manager Appreciation Day

Chris Hackett, Principal, Customer Programs, manages a number of communities, including those for CA Clarity, CA Wily, CA NetQoS, and CA eHealth and CA Spectrum, our largest and most active community about service assurance.

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Susan Krupski, Communities Coordinator, who’s been with CA Technologies for 6 years and with the Communities team for 3, is responsible for coordinating all of the regional activity in North America for our in-person user groups. She is a key operations person for enabling community management at CA Technologies.

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Abdel Laabi, Principal, Customer Programs/EMEA Liaison, is a 17-year CA Technologies veteran who’s been with Communities for 2 years. “We use community meetings to encourage people to not be shy and contribute to the success of their community. We remind that it's their community and we are there just to help & support them.” Abdel’s development plans, awareness campaigns in local languages and events management efforts have resulted in huge spikes for EMEA user group membership levels and participation.

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Suzanne Macaluso, Principal Business Analyst, joined the Communities team in 2010 but has 21 years of experience at CA Technologies. “Integrity is the primary ingredient and from watching the interaction on the boards, I see our customers getting value from participating and getting a sense of the human touch behind the products, which is something we can easily miss in these days of technology.”

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Rob Rachlin, Principal, Customer Programs, joined CA Technologies 8 years ago as a support engineer and worked in many different support roles, including Senior and Principal level Engineer, as well as Support Delivery Manager, prior to moving to his community management role in 2009. Rob’s community management duties range from security, recovery, client, service, and modeling management groups.

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Chris Short, Principal, Customer Programs, has 14 years with CA Technologies and 2 with the Communities. What he says about his user groups: “The come up with innovative solutions you wouldn’t think would be possible.” Chris manages a variety of communities about issues such as CA Gen (Edge), CA IDMS (IUA) and CA Datacom (CADRE) that relate to mainframe systems.

Twitter: CA_ChrisShort

Derek Stevens, a recent graduate of Dowling College, has been since 2010 the community manager for Cloud Commons, a site dedicated to advancing the understanding, development and adoption of cloud computing.

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J.J. Lovett, Manager, CA Support, has been with CA Technologies for six years, 5 of those with Communities. He runs the CA Community Advisory Council, a private 200-member strong group of all of CA Technologies global community board officers and regional user group presidents.

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