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Tacoma, Wa, Us

Claremont, California, Ca, Us

Oversaw all day-to-day IT operations for Pomona College, a residential liberal arts institution located in Claremont, California. With a technology budget of over $9 million and a full-time staff of 40 with more than 50 students, provided leadership for all aspects of information technology. Select recent projects included:• In response to the significant challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, led Pomona College’s extensive efforts to support students, faculty, and staff through this significant disruption. • In an effort to promote much needed diversity awareness in the academic IT community, was appointed as an inaugural member of Educause’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Committee.• To empower the effective use of technology at the Claremont Consortium, conceived of and co-founded a new IT collaborative governance structure for the Claremont Colleges. • In recognition of efforts to facilitate consortia collaboration, elected to be ITSC's first Vice-Chair, Chair-elect in 2016.• To reach the maximize full potential of the Claremont Colleges’ investment in administrative systems, was elected to be the Claremont Consortium’s first Chair of the Workday Governance Committee (WGC) for a term of two years. • To enhance Pomona competitiveness for the best students and faculty, launched a High-Performance Computing (HPC) initiative. • As part of a business continuity and risk management strategy, created a comprehensive cloud transition plan to move the institution from a traditional place-based infrastructure to one that was largely hosted in the cloud while also saving the college extensive financial resources. • In order to address and mitigate ever increasing electronic security risks, completely reengineered the college’s security program to bring the institution into Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 compliance while also maintaining academic freedom.

Tacoma, Wa, Us

With a technology budget of over $6 million and a staff of 35 full-time team members and over 60 students, provided leadership for all aspect of information technology. Signature projects include:• Led a successful two-year project to replace the university’s legacy administrative system with Oracle’s PeopleSoft enterprise system. This project was delivered on-time and on-budget with no significant disruption of university operations. • Established a Project Management Office (PMO) for the IT department. As one of the few of its type in a small liberal arts college, the PMO has been instrumental in planning and coordinating technology projects across campus. • As part of a follow-on project, migrated the Admission system from a problematic third-party system to a hybrid solution with close integration to PeopleSoft. The resulting real-time system, combined with specialized pages for admitted students in the Portal, yielded more deposits on the first day than had been the case for three weeks under previous systems.• In close collaboration with Pomona College, deployed a ground-breaking disaster recovery partnership that will protect both institutions in the event of an emergency. • With the goal of unifying and streamlining support, merged the Service Desk, Educational Technology, and Multimedia units into a unified team under the direction of a single leader. The resulting cross-team collaboration yielded a dramatic improvement in campus service satisfaction. • As part of a green computing initiative, replaced individual servers with high-density, virtual server technology resulting in electricity usage being cut in half while, at the same time, providing far more capability and flexibility to the institution.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Set the IT direction for and managed all aspects of the academic, communication and administrative operations of Oglethorpe University, a residential liberal arts institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. Significant achievements include:• Lead a team that provided all aspects of computing relating to support, network management, software development, multimedia, print, telecom and Internet for the university, including strategic planning and budget management for computing services, database access, distance learning, administrative operations, telecommunications, educational technology and web development.• Established departmental and project budgets to provide the school's 2,000-member user community with the best current technology and user support while minimizing costs.• Redesigned and consolidated the university's technology infrastructure into a modern, integrated environment, resulting in significant service improvements while providing the university with substantial operational cost savings.• Through intensive project management and reorganization of the administrative systems team, rescued a failing, expensive Datatel administrative system implementation and turned it into a functional asset to the university.• Implemented a cost-effective “bulk order” strategy with Dell that saved the university over $500 per purchased desktop while keeping the school technologically up-to-date. Larger savings were generated through completely rebuilding the university’s photocopy operations in a way that was designed to provide convenient, secure printing without the need for a personal printer.• Reorganized the traditional "deskside" support models with automated tools to improve desktop maintenance while containing costs in an increasingly tight technology labor market.• Completely replaced and rebuilt the university’s telecommunications and cable infrastructures to bring both up to modern standards while saving the university approximately $500,000.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Created and taught the required core classes for Emory’s Public Health Informatics Program, one of the very first programs of its type in the country. Through two semesters of Info 500 and 501, taught students Management in Information Systems (MIS) within a public health context.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

While the Chief Information Officer of the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University, • Key participant in generating large technology-based education and research grants, which resulted in funding of approximately $10,000,000 in projects. • Co-founded and designed the Public Health Employment Connection (PHEC), the first and, to this day, largest public health jobs database in the world.• Co-founded and designed the technology behind the Graduate Certificate in Public Health which eventually became the school’s Executive Masters in Public Health, Emory’s first distance learning program.• Co-founded and chaired the Academic and Research Technology Committee (ATRC) whose mission was to bring collaboration and synergy between Emory’s various school-based CIOs and the central IT organization. • As chair of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security committee, turned the technical requirements of HIPAA into an opportunity to create new procedures that were both effective and flexible while saving resources. These designs and procedures, first implemented at the RSPH, were then emulated throughout the rest of the academic side of the WHSC as the institution moved forward to meet HIPAA requirements.• Lead a staff of over 25 direct reports and over 50 indirect school computing professionals that provided all aspects of computing for the RSPH including future planning and budget management for electronic mail, computing services, database access, client/server technology, distance learning and web development.• Oversaw the development of Emory’s first high-performance, compute cluster environment based on open standards.• Established departmental and project budgets, totaling over $6 million per year, to provide the school's 3,500-member user community the best current technology, support and future-oriented development while minimizing costs.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

In addition to running all aspects of Nursing School technology, • Managed the Y2K update and conversion for the school’s information technology infrastructure, software and systems. • Point person for the technology design and build-out of the school’s new state-of-the-art facility which opened successfully in 2001.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

While director of Information Technology Services at Emory University’s School of Law,• Founded the Law School’s first IT department.• Created the Federal Courts Finder, the first and, at the time, largest public domain publisher of court opinions in the United States.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Finance

Ba, Double Major - History & Political Science