CAREER OVERVIEW: Twenty-five years of Public Higher Education Experience in Colorado:• Sixteen years managing the financial and administrative operations for a public university with multiple campuses, including a traditional academic campus and an academic health sciences center. The University of Colorado Denver has 13 schools and colleges on two campuses, offers more than 132 degree programs, has a combined institutional budget of over $1.3 billion in annual revenues, employs over 7,400 faculty & staff, and educates over 18,000 students and 900 medical residents.• Nine years of Colorado State Government financial management experience–higher education emphasis.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:• Key participant in the construction and financing of a new $1.1 billion academic health campus at former Fitzsimons Army Garrison along with the transition and physical move of a three million GSF academic health sciences campus from the city of Denver to its new home at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. • Key stakeholder in the consolidation of two programmatically and financially separate campuses, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the University of Colorado at Denver, into one University: the University of Colorado Denver, along with the successful reaccreditation of the two as one university in April 2011.• Lead in several financial negotiations, including 3 increases in the campus Federal Organized Research Facilities and Administration Rate.• Key constituent in the implementation of 3 major ERP systems (Finance, HR, Student Information)