Carrie Groff joined the MAX team in May of 2022 as the Communications, Marketing and Administrative Coordinator. Groff’s core responsibilities include event planning for national and regional conferences, and communications and content creation for newsletters, press releases, and the MAX website. She is also responsible for the coordination of major projects as well as daily office management. In addition, she will be working with the Director of Q-labs to help establish the administrative infrastructure for this new unit. Groff also serves as the assistant to Tripti Sinha, MAX’s Executive Director and AVP/Chief Technology Officer of the Division of Information Technology at UMD. Groff received her B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and Management from Salisbury University in 1997.