David Hannum is a Meigs County native. He graduated from Eastern High

School in Meigs County in 1976, and graduated from Lipscomb University in

Nashville, Tennessee with a B.S. in Business Management and a Minor in

Economics in 1982. After eleven years out of the area working mostly in

Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, David came back to Appalachia,

home sweet home, in 1993. In March of 1998, he accepted a position as a Web

Analyst/Programmer at Ohio University, and today he is the Lead web

programmer for Computer Services Administrative Systems. Since 1997, David

has owned his own web development company called Skyward Internet

Technology. Skyward offers design, development and web consulting to small

to medium size businesses in Southeast Ohio and Western West Virginia. At

Ohio University, one of David's main job functions is to keep the web team

in Administrative Systems abreast of the latest trends and technologies in

the Internet world. As a natural result of the tremendous amount of web

technology reading that he does, David is very up-to-date on where the

Internet is heading. He has given presentations at web conferences and here

in Ohio and at the University of Indiana. He currently is the manager of

the local Southeast Ohio Macromedia User Group (formerly the Mid-Ohio Valley

ColdFusion User Group) and he attends Developers Conferences each year as

well as taking advanced training. Currently, David is functioning as the

Technical Lead for the implementation Ohio University's enterprise wide

Content Managent System installation.