Provides leadership to the Digital Transformation, Office of Digital Accessibility, and Campus Applications teams. Regularly leads projects of university-wide importance and contributes to the overall strategic goals of the university, as these projects may carry substantial consequences or implications of success or failure. Utilizing an exceptional degree of autonomy, ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness; regularly resolves complex issues where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation without precedent and/or structure while exercising judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

1. Responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership of the cybersecurity program overseeing the planning, execution, budget, delivery of program objectives, and providing guidance, support, and effective collaboration ensuring the center stays on track.2. Provide overall leadership for the internship program, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives supporting High Impact Practices. 3. Collaborate with industry partners to apply solutions in real-world scenarios.4. Provide leadership in the integration of technology-related topics and align technology initiatives with overall organizational goals and objectives.5. Engage with the Executive Sponsors and stakeholders at various levels to gather requirements, address concerns, and ensure alignment with program goals.6. Monitor the quality of deliverables, ensuring they meet established standards and align with program objectives.

Responsible for the development and realization of the emergence of Digital Transformation strategies, which entail leveraging digital technologies to establish fresh processes, reshape existing ones, and enhance customer experiences to align with the evolving business requirements; Leading, developing and building out a smart campus technology architecture and digital campus, providing immersive and automated services for an increasingly mobile campus community and workforce; as a strategic leader, Fostering seamless interactions between vendors, business partners, and the University to create a digital environment that enhances security, supports integrated learning experiences, and streamlines student services; Providing directions and manage the Digital Transformation and Data Integration, Campus Applications, and User Experience and teams; and, regularly manages and leads projects of university-wide importance and contributes to the overall strategic goals of the university, focusing on the next-generation connected campus.

The Digital Transformation and Innovation Officer and Coordinator of Technology Experiences and Internships will proactively support a culture of innovation, advance technology innovation and lead the development, integration, and management of digital transformation programs at Fresno State. Key responsibilities include prioritizing strategic advancements in processes and uses of technology; and, collaborating with campus constituents and technology teams to identify strategic needs and explore solutions for real challenges and problems. The role involves leading efforts to provide students with practical opportunities using technology and innovation to support high-impact, team-based, experiential learning experiences to advance student success.

Act as a technology and innovation evangelist within the campus IT community creating sustainable and innovative solutions to solve real problems, challenges, and needs in all areas at Fresno State. Drive the Innovation Maturity rollout, Development and implementation of the Innovation Technologies, and Lead Disruptive Innovation initiatives as needed.Engagement with key stakeholders to identify and understand opportunities for IT technology innovation with significant impacts to the university’s core missions; Construct an innovation pipeline to track these opportunities, technologies and trends; Rapidly evaluate the viability and potential of identified technologies; Work with the wider IT Technology Office function to understand the impact of these new technologies on technology strategy, IT roadmaps, and business unit plans; Communicate activity, opportunities, insight, successes and failures as a result of the company’s innovation activities and research to the wider IT community.

Serves as a senior level Information Technology (IT) technical expert leading teams and architecture efforts of Fresno State Academic Technology Innovations and facilitating the collaborations with students, faculty, and campus leaderships on delivering and integrating new academic technology services and enterprise applications to the campus for teaching and learning focused on student success.Selected achievements include the following● Leading architecture and implementation efforts of Fresno's Academic Technologies and beyond, such as continue re-innovation of Learning Platform and Services and e-Portfolio system for life-long learning.● Re-innovated and re-designed the current campus Video Streaming and Media Management System with: Close Caption; fully Responsive design and Accessible in mind; adopting new HTTP Live Stream technology and Wowza Streaming system for both Desktop and Mobile Devices.● Technical lead of the initial rollout and continue technology innovations and strategical support of the Fresno State DISCOVERe programs.● Establish Academic Technologies deployment and project development cycle and executive plan, including initiation of the sandbox projects to continue collaborating with faculty and students on new innovative technologies and pedagogical possibilities● Coordinate and lead the current campus Outcomes Assessment development and piloting the Academic Data Repository and Predictive Analytics with Big Data approach and cloud based solutions.

Oversees and provides leadership for the effective use of the campus LMS as well as the implementation of ancillary tools used to support and enhance the LMS, troubleshoots problems related to use of the LMS, integration with campus student information and identity systems, and works with campus and system-side resource to resolve issues; lead the technology support effort of Fresno State-Title V program on Faculty Development and Support for Distributed Web-Based Education and Direct Support for Underserved Rural Students.Selected achievements include the following:● Leading architecture design and technical implementation of the first Fresno State LMS (Blackboard) campus-wide deployment and integration of SIS & other campus IT services● Research, develop and implement innovative technological services to respond to campus academic technology needs.● Lead the software/application/migration effort, working closely with a team of campus technology staff and management to close out Fresno's Bb ASP system and migrate tens of thousands of users and thousands of courses from Bb ASP (currently called Managed Hosting) to a home Campus Hosted system — all in summer 2008● Developed and Implemented the first campus-wide MoD and Live streaming video system with Apple Quicktime technology with H.264 video standard.● Co-lead on the Web Based Single Sign On solution - CAS.● Develop online learning and collaboration solutions and technology support for Title V programs● Research and lead Pilots of next generation Learning Management System and Learning Content Management system (ePortfolio) systems.

★ Promoted to Expert (Senior/Lead) classification on Oct 1999. ★ Apply a broad range of technical expertise across the IT system lifecycle to define, acquire, and validate large-scale systems to meet the mission and business needs of Madden Library. Lead and participate in Library systems and network design and implementation efforts. Administrate ALIS (Automated Library Information System - GEAC Library Online Catalog and Patron Management system) and integration of campus student information (SIMS/R) and Identity systems. Selected achievements include the following● Led the migration and administration of the Library catalog system to new Digital Unix and Universal Multivalue database system (Geac platform); Unix and Database Administrator. ● Coordinate the technical support and development effort of the first Web-based online public access catalog and online e-resources to provide easier and remote access to research materials; Implemented SIS integration of student records (SIS - Pre and Post Peoplesoft); Implemented the Single Sign On with campus LDAP integration
● Led Fresno State technical effort of California State System wide Z.3950, Union Catalog (Pharos), and eReserve/ILL implementations● Led the technical development effort of the first Library Website; Established the first Library Intranet system for web-based online ticketing system (Systems Office) document sharing and project management● Infrastructure: Led the implementation effort of converted Library network from serial (UB) based to fully Ethernet; Converted terminals to Windows based web workstation; Rolled out out the first campus Windows Terminal Server (WTS) implementation for Library Web based Catalog workstations (pre-VDI); Co-lead on the first campus Wifi (Aironet and Portable computing devices (Handheld by HP) pilot implementation in Library; Implement and manage the Library Windows Domains; implemented the first library internet-ready computer labs.