Ben Beachy Email & Phone Number

Millersburg, Oh, Us

Charm, Oh

Harrisonburg Va

Six hours of teaching load annually is included in my position. Engaging with students in the classroom informs my administrative decision making and grounds me in the core mission of the university.Courses taught:- CIS 251 - Management Information SystemsA survey of information systems for aspiring business leaders; required for undergraduate business majors.- CS 270 - Databases and Application DevelopmentAn introduction to SQL databases, normal form, and web application programming.

Harrisonburg Va

In 2014 I was promoted to be the senior IT officer at EMU, leading a high-functioning centralized IT department serving the needs of a growing campus focused on recruiting and retaining students in a competitive higher education environment. We provide outstanding service and consistent performance while we drive toward efficiency.- Led a seventeen-member centralized IT department with an annual budget of $2 million.- Partnered with our Business faculty to introduce digital inking to our classrooms, improving interactivity and student engagement.- Integrated three new admissions search tools with our SIS while saving 19% annually in support costs by outsourcing upgrades and focusing staff on information integration and business intelligence.- Reduced annual telecom spend by 15% while increasing internet bandwidth fivefold through an innovative infrastructure strategy.- Led the department to consistent 97%-plus satisfaction rates among faculty, staff and students with user support and training on annual departmental survey.- Led migration to a IT new support and project management solution, improving customer service, cost transparency, and peer benchmarking.- Convened and led the institutional Data Quality Task Force, improving inter-departmental coordination, control, and application of institutional data.- At the president’s request, served on institutional committees including:- - Strategic Planning Council, including work on EMU’s 2015-2020 strategic plan.- - Crisis Management Preparedness Team, rewriting EMU’s emergency response plan.- - Institutional Effectiveness Committee, focused on annual department reports and accreditation.- - University Review Board, responding to Title IX complaints.- - Library Committee, developing library resources for the 21st century.

Harrisonburg Va

Led a team of eight responsible for servers and systems, data centers, telecommunications, web development, learning management systems, disaster recovery, and IT security.- Managed the $500 000 annual Technology Systems budget.- Developed equipment life-cycle planning documents, providing budget predictions for future capital spending.- Led the campus evaluation of and transition to Google Suite for Education, including training, email migration, and policy development.- Led deployment of a new enterprise backup system, enhancing reliability and disaster recovery.

Grew a team of programmers from 2.5 to 4 FTE. The team supported operations of the EMU web servers and created custom web applications for EMU departments and workgroups.- Led the campus learning management system evaluation and our migration to Moodle.- Deployed, configured, customized and maintained the institution's first campus portal, with a result used by the vendor as a model of excellence.- Chaired the Web Work Team, a cross-functional group with members from the Information Systems and Marketing & Communications departments.- At the president's request, participated in the accreditation-driven Institutional Effectiveness Committee and Quality Enhancement Program Implementation Team.- Guided team through the transition from Perl and PHP to Ruby on Rails and ASP.Net (JICS platform), and from Linux to Windows Server.

- Implemented the first Windows remote desktop system at the institution.- Built a bespoke web application to streamline email system migration.

Lakeland, Florida Area

Managed Internet and technology support non-profit startup, providing services for six non-profit organizations.- Provided on-site and phone support of networks, applications and computer systems for over 30 non-profit groups.

Maintained records of meetings to determine the allocation of $155,000 dollars over an 8100 square mile region in southern Colorado.- Assisted with the planning and execution of three projects, each funded by a $15,000 sub-grant.

Installed and maintained a fifteen node LAN providing file sharing, Internet and shared-printer services.- Trained coworkers to use the LAN and provided support for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and LAN file-sharing.- Provided hardware repair and application support services to eight non-profit customers and many individuals.

Mba

B.S., Computer Science, Biblical Studies

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Gospel Choir, Academic Support Center volunteer of the year.