John Kinsella Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Provide leadership, planning and development in support of the creation of the STELAR Center (http://stthomas.edu/stelar)• Research, recommend, develop and support technology utilized in teaching and learning at St. Thomas. • Leverage the utilization of data analytics in the decision-making process and in support of policy development. • Co-lead the STELAR communication team, including redesigning and the STELAR public website and development of the STELAR OneStThomas site.• Lead the planning and administration of our training and events catalog.• Responsible for the administration of a number of key instructional and university systems including: The video hosting platform (Panopto), Survey platform (Qualtrics), Plagiarism Detection platform (Vericite), e-Portfolio platform (Portfolium), and serve as the backup LMS administrator for Canvas focusing on data analytics and API development. • Serve on the Accessibility Policy committee and manage video captioning for the university.• Member of the inaugural cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program at the University of St. Thomas

• Liaison between my customers - academic departments - and my department - Information Resources and Technologies for issues and escalations.• Served as local Blackboard/UST central systems expert to assigned departments.• Provided direct support to Academic departments as well as serve as third tier support and development for Macintosh platform.• Provided consultative services to assigned departments in support of their mission to develop and deliver quality instruction to students.• Provided on-site training to assigned departments as well as to stakeholders across the university covering a large variety of technologies and systems.• Planned, supported and maintained departmental labs including developing unique automation solutions• Anticipated academic departmental needs by building relationships with key stakeholders and staying current on industry trends.• Served as a team representative on numerous division project teams.• Served as a Macintosh expert within our division including application testing and solution building.

• Created and found sales opportunities.• Conducted sales and technical presentations of Apple Computer technology, as well as demonstrate use and integration with current technology.• Provided technical support to customers and third party products from Haddock.• Provided weekly reports of my activities including contacts, successes, and plans for the coming week.• Planned and coordinated presentations and customer calls.• Spend time learning and extending my knowledge of all aspects of technology.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Engineering: Technology Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication And Media Studies