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 20 years experience in public relations and marketing, including 14 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/
Keri Del Vecchio Assistant Director of Web Services
Keri Del Vecchio joined the Office of Web Services in December 2010 as Assistant Director of Web Services. She graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in Information Management Technology in 2001. Del Vecchio has come to Canisius College from a local web design firm, where she helped local and national clients engage target audiences through a variety of online channels. She has hands-on expertise in search engine marketing, social marketing, email marketing and promotional design, and she knows that half the fun is seeing campaign results streaming in.
Keri’s five favorite Web sites:
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.newyorker.com
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
http://www.npr.org
Yewande Salako' 13
Yewande is a New Jersey native and 2011 graduate of Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ . Yewande earned her B.S. in Psychology as well as minors in Sociology and Biology. Yewande is currently a first year student in the College Student Personnel Administration (CSPA) program here at Canisius. In her spare time Yewande simply likes to read, watch TV, listen to many genes of music and work on her photography.
Wande’s five favorite Web sites:
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.eonline.com
http://www.chronicle.com/
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com