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Washington, Dc, Us

New Haven, Ct, Us

* Sets the direction for ongoing digital accessibility efforts at Yale University.* Leads a team of software engineers and specialists to provide accessibility remediation, consultation, training and support, following WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508 and usability best practices.* Establish front-end standards for Yale developers and lead the development and support of Yale's design system.* Work with product teams to leverage design system assets and accessibility testing into the product/software development lifecycle.* Partner with Procurement and those purchasing software to ensure vendors and contractors are held to strong accessibility standards.* Work with the wider Yale community of website owners in maintaining accessible websites within CMS environments and vendor platforms, including Drupal and WordPress.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Provide vision, strategy and leadership for information technologies in support of the school’s mission. Participate as an active member of the Administrative Leadership Team with primary responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating technology strategy, projects and support.* Advised academic leadership on a host of policy issues, ranging from privacy and security regulations to admissions and academic rules (FERPA, HIPAA, Title IV, state authorization, Title IX, Section 504/ADA accessibility compliance, research compliance/IRB/OMB financial requirements).* Oversaw budgets supporting operations and instructional technologies. Consistently ended each fiscal year under budget, while greatly expanding services with no significant budget increases.* Reorganized a team of 15 staff members to better align team functions with the organization’s needs, and implemented project management, service management, and documentation systems to vastly improve insight into the department's performance.* Led the formation of a new instructional design department to support new online programs and enhanced digital education capabilities. Resulted in moving the school from a #24 ranking to #3 in US News & World Report ranking of online graduate nursing programs, and from #3 to #1 in the overall ranking of nursing graduate programs.* Led the implementation of a constituent relationship management system (CRM), helping move the school’s admissions department from inconsistent processes to data driven workflows, increasing predictability of enrollment projections.* Recognized unsustainable initiatives (particularly in the area of custom software development), and took the steps necessary to leverage more sustainable solutions and processes.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Provided overall IT leadership for the School of Nursing. Led expanded use of computing technology in support of operations. Led the transition of distance education delivery from video conferencing to new emerging Internet solutions. Security officer for the school.* Led the design and implementation of all audiovisual and computing systems for the IUSON Resource Center for Innovation in Clinical Nursing Education, a state-of-the-art simulation facility.* Worked with the CIO of the School of Medicine to create the IU Information Protection for Privacy and Security Oversight Committee, which worked to bring central IT research technologies in compliance with federal regulations affecting health research.* Collaborated with technology transfer to commercialize IUSON learning products. This included licensing access to IUSON online courses to hospitals and health education providers.* Influenced central IT groups to create or improve central systems to meet unique needs of a professional school. Examples included Oncourse (LMS), OneStart (portal), Central Authentication System (SSO), a PCI DSS compliant solution for online credit transactions, interfaces into the university data warehouse, infrastructure for video and web conferencing, and improving the usability of high performance computing systems and storage for nursing research use.* Developed creative computing security solutions (including complex IPSEC security configurations) that resulted in the school consistently outperforming the rest of the organization in response to network attacks.* Developed high performing web-based applications to automate important business processes, including an online admissions application and a non-credit web site and registration system.

Bm, Mat, Music, Education And Computer Science, Graduated With High Distinction

Ms, Music Technology/Multimedia Development