Chuck Pustelnik '91, MS '04
Director of Web Services

Chuck Pustelnik was named Director of Web Services in May 2006.  Prior to that position, he was Web editor and has been at Canisius since July 2000.  He has more than 15 years experience in public relations and marketing, including nine years of building and maintaining Web sites.  Prior to Canisius, Pustelnik worked at Villa Maria College, the Greater Buffalo Chapter of the American Red Cross and Artpark.

In 2006, Pustelnik's work on the redesign of the college's Web site earned an award of excellence from the Jesuit Advancement Administrators (JAA).  That same year, the redesign project also garnered a Bronze Excalibur Award from the Buffalo/Niagara Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).  In 2002, Pustelnik's work on a redesign and re-launch of the college's Web site earned a Gold Excalibur Award from the PRSA Buffalo/Niagara Chapter and a top ranking in 2001 and 2006 by the Red Dot Group, an independent Web site research team, which ranked the Canisius Web site first among 2,000 colleges and universities. 

He has taken part in panel presentations on Web design at JAA conferences at Georgetown University and at St. Louis University.  In April 2004, he conducted a presentation entitled "Making a Great College Web Site: What it Takes" to faculty and staff at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH.  In October 2004, Pustelnik presented a seminar entitled "Letting the Inmates Think They Run the Asylum: How to Empower Your Campus with a Content Management System and Still Maintain Control of Your Web site" at the E-Recruitment Mastery Workshop in New Orleans, LA presented by LiquidMatrix/Datatel and Noel-Levitz.

He was the recipient of the 2004 George M. Martin Advancement Award in Canisius' college relations division.  Pustelnik holds a MS in organizational communication and development (2004), and a BA in communication and English (1991) from Canisius. 

Chuck's five favorite Web sites (besides this one):

http://www.googoodolls.com
http://www.norahjones.com
http://www.skyy.com
http://www.nll.com
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/

Suzanne Crean
Assistant Web editor

Suzanne Crean joined the Web team as assistant Web editor in August 2005.  She worked on the award winning redesign of the college’s Web site.

A Buffalo native, she earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University at Buffalo.  After completing coursework toward a master’s degree in print journalism from Boston University, Crean landed her first newspaper job at The Salem News. Her first assignment at the daily paper was writing obituaries. Eventually, she was promoted to community editor, a position that allowed her to write features and news stories.

In 2004, Crean completed her thesis which consisted of a series of first person columns and articles related to her experience training for and competing in her first triathlon.  She earned an MS from BU the following year. After living in Washington State’s Puget Sound region for a short time, she returned to Western New York missing the family, friends and food in her hometown.

Suzanne’s favorite Web sites:

http://www.coolmompicks.com/
http://www.buffalorising.com/
http://www.oprah.com
http://www.target.com