IST Building is an underground, bottom-up, grass-roots organization that serves as a platform for members of the IST community to voice their opinions, thoughts, and ideas. You could say that IST Building is a combination of IST2U and MIST. Through independent “citizen journalism” the site aims to provide immediate and newsworthy content. As a student owned and driven organization, IST Building fosters an environment that connects, strengthens, and expands the IST community. Our forum and blog incubate ideas through discussion and discourse with the purpose of improving the College of IST.

At IST Building, technology is the enabler. IST Building staff strive to find (or develop) plug-ins, widgets, and features that make the website more interactive and effective.

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IST Building is co-edited by Daehee Park (Sophomore, SRA), Caroline Furey (Junior, SRA), and Matt Maisel (Freshman, SRA/IST).

Daehee Park (Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief)

Daehee Park is a junior in Security & Risk Analysis. Daehee’s interests are in entrepreneurship, blogging, and internet marketing. He leads marketing and sales for Meezik, a social application development company. When Daehee is not working or going to school, he enjoys spending quality time with his wife and daughter. You can follow Daehee’s Twitter or subscribe to his FriendFeed. Contact Daehee directly at daehee@istbuilding.com.

Caroline Furey (Co-founder)

Caroline Furey is a junior majoring in Security & Risk Analysis with a minor in Information Sciences and Technology. She created the Security & Risk Analysis Club, a professional IST student organization, this past spring with another student and serves as a Co-President. Caroline is active in many other organizations within the College of IST and Penn State including Women in IST as the Service & Technology Education Chair, IST Student Government and the Penn State Lion Support Help & Crisis Hotline as a trained volunteer. In her free time, Caroline enjoys reading, technology blogs, movies, running, and meeting new people. Contact Caroline directly at caroline@istbuilding.com.

Matt Maisel (Co-founder & Analyst)

Matt Maisel is a sophomore that is pursuing concurrent majors in Information Sciences & Technology and Security & Risk Analysis. He is currently the Director of Web Content for the SRA Club. Matt’s interests include intelligence & security analysis, entrepreneurship, early adoption of technology, social media, SEM, and freestyle skiing. He is the author of Maiselog, a personal blog. Contact Matt directly at matt@istbuilding.com. Follow him on Twitter or FriendFeed .

David Adewumi (Writer)

David is the Product Architect for a startup funded by LaunchBox. David has helped deliver drinkable water solutions to villages in the Amazon Rainforest, been a missionary to slums of Nairobi, an airborne infantrymen in the US army offered an appointment to West Point, a journalist with his college newspaper, and most recently a contributing writer with VentureBeat, a major Silicon Valley Technology blog. David is fluent in Spanish and English.

Brian Reitz (Writer)

I’m a freshman student of the College of IST, SRA and IST major. I went to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Information, Society, and Technology in 2006. I’m always interested in helping the next “killer app” so if you’ve got one let me get credit for it.

If you would like to contact IST Building with suggestions, comments, corrections, or errors, please email editor@istbuilding.com