McCoy Digital exists to close the gap between technology and business success through its 4-part distinctives:1. Assess - Evaluate alignment of technology to business strategy2. Plan - Formulate meaningful strategic plans3. Lead - Provide short-term (fractional, transitional or interim) leadership4. Learn - Mentor, coach and develop executive digital/IT thought leaders

Cabinet-level position responsible for IT strategic leadership across the University of North Texas System – a three-university system with more than 50,000 students, more than 4,000 employees and annual budget over $2B.• Directly and indirectly led an enterprise and distributed team of 350+ with total annual expenditures of $75+M• Delivered an enterprise service portfolio including data centers, virtualized servers and storage, networking, telephony, cyber security, IT compliance, PeopleSoft ERP, database administration, web, application development, identity and access management, desktop administration, Office 365, help desk, and over 1000 academic applications on premise and cloud-based• Led technology transition to remote and hybrid learning/workforce during pandemic• Developed a 3-year, full implementation plan for migration from on-premise servers, storage and ERP delivery to cloud (AWS) solutions• Reduced IT costs by over $6M without service reduction

Cabinet-level position administering the $1B campus budget with more than 1200 employees reporting under supervised units of IT, HR, Finance, Police, Facilities, Procurement, and Budget and Planning. • Represented the university for ERP (Workday) selection, implementation partner (Deloitte), development of system-wide ERP policies, and project planning - a migration of Finance, HCM and Student Information System• Led efforts to develop shared services for enterprise and distributed unit• Identified $10M in savings through changes in procurement practice • Increased budget reserves by $80+M• Oversaw capital facilities expenditures of more than $350M including Student Success Center, Hunt Baseball Development Center, stadium expansion, sorority houses, etc.

Responsible for IT strategic leadership for the UA campus - enterprise and distributed units totaling 250+ staff with annual expenditures of $45+M, delivering an enterprise service portfolio including cyber security, data centers, virtualized servers and storage, networking, telephony, desktop administration, Microsoft 365, web, mobility, directory services, ERP (PeopleSoft), database and application development, classrooms/labs serving more than 30,000 students, 4000 employees and more than 30,000 devices.• Achieved the original five-point charge to the CIO: (1) create a campus-wide IT environment (“One Team”), (2) become more efficient in the use of technology, (3) establish an environment with mature processes, (4) modernize the IT environment to become more competitive nationally, and (5) lead within the UA system.• Completed a three-year, 26-project campus-wide initiative (“Achieve IT”) to address fundamental technology needs for strategic process, shared services, infrastructure, enterprise services and security.• Established campus-wide virtualization services consolidating servers and launching a multi-year VDI initiative to transform the student experience. • Represented the campus in a system-wide project to replace the ERP systems (Finance, HCM, Student) across the 13 institutions and 7 affiliates of the system. • Deployed unified communications using Microsoft Teams replacing outdated telephone system with more than 9000 endpoints, while replacing all 6000+ WiFi access points and most switches.• Initiated campus-wide shared services for help desk, classroom technology, desktop support, software distribution/licensing, printing, and student labs.• Initiated core processes for project management, enterprise architecture, and business analysis, workplan development, and project budgeting.

Course: ISYS2013 - Business Information SystemsThis course presents the fundamentals of business information systems (IS) topics essential to today's business graduate. Applied areas of business will be used to provide the context for the IS topics, business applications, and management challenges. The broad objective of this course is to present students with a business and information systems framework that will allow them to envision how business decisions are enabled and empowered by information systems and technology.

Cabinet-level position responsible for strategic IT leadership across the Metro State University campus. The enterprise IT unit of 35 staff with a $10M budget supported ~18,000 users with 2500+ devices across 4 major campuses and more than 18 locations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.• Delivered an enterprise service portfolio including networking, telephony, classroom/labs, databases, web, application development, printing, desktops & devices, server infrastructure, file storage, email, mobility, directory services, and ERP support.• Successfully led a campus-wide change initiative to modernize the entire IT infrastructure and platform during first year as CIO. Completed all projects of the initiative on-time, under budget, and exceeding expectations from all stakeholders. Received the Metromorphosis Award “for flexibility, creativity, patience, perseverance, and good humor in the midst of change”. • Increased from 20% to 100% classrooms outfitted with technology.• Restructured the customer service model, establishing metrics and procedures for services; earned a 96% customer rating during first year of implementation.• Initiated a strategic plan to reshape IT services, focused on demand and utilizing shared and cloud services.• Defined and implemented a new budget framework that carefully plans and projects costs for a multi-year horizon, allowing institutional leadership to budget more efficiently.• Working closely with the system CIO, transformed the 31-member CIO Council to develop and nurture a culture of shared understanding and mutual respect.

Cabinet-level position that provides: (1) executive IT leadership for system, (2) oversight for the 31 CIOs of the universities and colleges in the MnSCU system, (3) oversees the 168 staff, $40M IT operations of the system office providing system-wide services including ERP, Learning Management, Wide-Area Network, IT security, and academic technologies.MnSCU is a system of 31 public colleges and universities with 54 campuses in 47 communities throughout the state of Minnesota, serving over 430,000 degree and non-degree seeking students annually with an annual operating budget exceeding $2B. • Restructured system-wide IT Governance• Initiated five system-wide projects (1) single tenancy Office 365, (2) share software distributions, (3) shared help desk, (4) shared data centers, and (5) implement common networks throughout all colleges, universities, and the system office• Completed the IT Service Delivery Strategy, a strategy for shared IT services• Successfully relocated the enterprise data center to a tier-3 data center, co-located with state government• Completed enterprise access management campus conversions• Implemented a vulnerability management plan throughout all campuses

Reporting to the Dean of Engineering, the Director provides leadership in three key areas: (1) serves as a member of the Dean’s Executive Council to provide college-wide guidance on information technology in instruction, research, outreach, and administration, (2) leads the Engineering Computing Roundtable, a group representing the eight departments of the college, and (3) manages the staff and resources of Engineering Computing Support Services. The Director is responsible for leadership of an environment with more than 3000 systems, 60 student labs, 15000 accounts, and 50TB of file storage, providing a full range of services including desktop and server support, NAS/file servers, MS-Exchange, IIS/Apache, MS/MySql, SharePoint, print, Terminal Services, HPCC, business and engineering applications, and many other services on Windows, Linux and UNIX-variant platforms.• Partnered with the campus CIO to initiate projects for a singular campus email environment, campus file storage, virtual server/desktop environments, shared software distribution, and shared desktop management services. • Successfully implemented the "Seamless IT Initiative" integrating IT functions of eight departments into one framework for account management, email, file storage, 60+ labs, over 3000 desktops, help desk services, printing, backups, databases, and other services. Awarded the Deans' Leadership Award "For proactive leadership in the college". • Organized campus-wide collaborative efforts to share services, purchases, support techniques, professional development, and discussion of campus-wide IT issues and services. Organized a first-ever campus-wide IT gathering.• Redesigned the student fee allocation model to improve collaboration and increase accountability for instructional computing hardware, software, and services. Saved over $400,000 on software licenses the first year.

Reporting to the Department Chair, the Manager provides leadership in two key areas: (1) serves as a member of the department’s IT advisory team to provide departmental guidance on instructional and research computing, and (2) manages the staff and resources of the department’s Systems Support Team (SST). The manager is responsible for directing support for all aspects of UNIX and Windows NT system administration including NFS, NIS, DNS, user account management, backups, printers, peripheral configuration, system build, software installation, electronic mail, security, etc.Major Accomplishments:• Served as first "IT Manager" supporting the department, defining vision and strategy and supporting all aspects of computing and networking for education and research.• Transitioned the department from mini-computing to workstation and PC computing.• Co-sponsored annual grants from Hewlett-Packard averaging $750,000 per year.• Worked with Secret Service and Department of Justice to investigate and apprehend a nation-wide "hacker" community (June - October 1992).• Implemented one of the first 100 web servers in the world.

Provide tactical and operational support of the UNIX infrastructure for the Cooperative Extension System of Indiana.• Implemented the nation’s first Cooperative Extension Service UNIX WAN across 99 county and 5 district Extension sites in Indiana supporting more than 1000 users.• Designed and programmed an information delivery system over low-speed networks that resembles today’s world-wide-web.• Developed the national Hay Locator Database for the USDA during the 1988 drought allowing farmers to trade resources throughout the Midwest. • Taught short-courses in the use of systems and applications.• Participated in forensics work with the Morris Worm. • Administered system support including user account management, NFS/RFS, backups, system builds, software installation, troubleshooting, kernel tuning, device configuration, UUCP, security, and sendmail configuration.

Designed, implemented, and analyzed research experiments; trained graduate students in the use of High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS).