Bob Ferrara is Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Communications and Alumni Relations for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Student Life (DSL). In this capacity, he works extensively with the MIT Alumni Association and a broad cross section of MIT alumni. Prior to 2004, Bob was Director of Information Technology Delivery in the Information Services & Technology department. Bob came back to his alma mater to MIT in 1996 after almost twenty years with Raytheon Company in a variety of information technology and engineering positions, where he had responsibility for IT operations in several states for the defense divisions. Ferrara and his wife live in Acton. courtesy