Director Of Student Affairs

• Sep 2017 - Present

The Director collaborates with System Office staff and Student Affairs staff at the 13 colleges in the Colorado Community College System, and builds strategic partnerships with other institutions and the Colorado department of higher education. The Director is responsible for developing and interpreting System policies, procedures, and strategies that relate to student affairs and strategic enrollment management with a focus on equity, inclusion, and student success. The Director serves as a liaison between college staff and CCCS staff; and leads system wide initiatives related to admissions, recruitment, registration, advising, assessment, accessibility services, international student services, tutoring, career services, and other functional areas within student affairs throughout the system. The Director provides leadership and strategy in regards to the functionality and use of the student information system, degree audit system, EAB Navigate, and other technologies, procedures, and business processes that support student success. In addition, the Director co-chairs the data governance committee with the Director of Institutional Research and leads various task forces in relation to program approval and curriculum management. Show less

Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst & IT Supervisor

• Oct 2012 - Sep 2017

Centrally manage projects and project teams to facilitate the implementation and delivery of new products, upgrades, customizations, and changes necessary to support the growth of the student information system and student success initiatives across a system of 13 community colleges with over 140,000 students. Works as the main point of contact for the advising directors, registrars, recruitment directors, and admissions offices of all thirteen colleges to help identify priorities, develop business cases, determine project requirements, and implement solutions. Successfully managed the system wide EAB Student Success implementation, four system wide Banner Student upgrades, a re-implementation of the DegreeWorks Degree Audit system, an upgrade of the DegreeWorks degree audit system, and countless additional upgrades and custom solutions.As of October 2014, Lead/Supervise Quality Assurance team and Student PM team for Student, Financial Aid, and Student A/R overseeing IT projects, help desk tickets, process improvements, and training for Registrars, Financial Aid, Admissions, Academic Advising, and Student Accounts Receivable. Show less

Board Member

• Aug 2017 - Aug 2021

Senior Consultant - Higher Education

• Aug 2010 - Oct 2012

Lead functional consultant for the implementation of various student system modules at colleges and universities. Led a full system implementation of student finance and assisted with financial aid and admissions for a private institution consisting of a college of liberal arts and eight professional and health-science schools focusing on re-designing key business processes and developing custom solutions including financial and interfaces and custom anticipated aid. Focused on multiple custom refund processes, custom billing processes, custom academic program calculations, and tuition calculation for several hundred possible rates. Prior projects include a business process redesign and systems upgrade for a Community College system regarding their financial aid, scholarships, records, and continuing education (non-credit) divisions, while re-tuning their business processes to ensure student success. Show less

Senior Consultant - Higher Education and Healthcare

• Mar 2008 - Aug 2010

Functional consultant for US Higher Education Systems specifically focused on implementing best practices. Primary responsibilities include business process consulting, functional analyses, business process development and documentation, functional design documentation, and delivery of custom solutions. Developed and delivered a student financials and financial aid system with custom billing, multiple tuition calculation methods, and custom scholarship processes and financial aid integration for a 23 campus public university system with over 450,000 students. Lead consultant for the configuration of a custom implementation for a private school with over 130 campuses worldwide. Show less

Bursar

• Sep 2005 - Mar 2008

As Bursar, Michael managed daily operations of the office of the Bursar as well as AR/AP, payroll, parking operations, food services, motor pool, customer service, student billing, tuition assessment, third party billing, bookstore, cashiering, payment processing, departmental transactions and collections. Supervised staff in various departments and auxiliaries. Michael’s other duties included working with the foundation and office of financial aid and scholarships to establish new scholarship programs and manage scholarship funds and disbursement, member of strategic enrollment collaboration team, advisor to student government and several student organizations, and leader of the student success team managing cross training of front desk staff and cross functional student communications. Co-lead the formation of a new one-stop-shop. Served as interim Financial Aid director for three months while holding this position. Show less

Financial Aid Advisor

• May 2003 - Sep 2005

Michael worked with the Office of Financial Aid to test needs analysis, packaging, disbursement, and loan processing. Michael trained new staff in the functional areas of Financial Aid, provided oversight to student employees, and supervised the call center. Michael was selected to be part of the Freshman Team, a group of financial aid advisors specially selected to work with incoming students and their families to find out of the box solutions to help them make the right decisions regarding college costs. Show less

Proprietor - Consultant

• Aug 1995 - May 2003

Owned and operated a private consulting company. Clients included three departments at Colorado State University, Milan and Malara Law Offices, Adolphson and Peterson Construction, as well as several small businesses. Directly managed several sub contractors and lead multiple successful project implementation. Owned and operated a private consulting company. Clients included three departments at Colorado State University, Milan and Malara Law Offices, Adolphson and Peterson Construction, as well as several small businesses. Directly managed several sub contractors and lead multiple successful project implementation.

Accountant and DBA

• Jan 2002 - Aug 2002

Accounting Project as a sub contractor through another consulting firm that lead to a DBA and software development position within the company. Accounting Project as a sub contractor through another consulting firm that lead to a DBA and software development position within the company.

Systems Consultant

• May 1999 - Dec 2001

Consulting Assignment through MS Computing. Custom Systems Management: Michael contracted with three departments at Colorado State University to provide computer systems support, and manage a custom three tiered GL Interface application, as well as a proprietary HR and Benefits administration system. Michael deployed upgrades written by an internal programming team and trained staff in system use. Michael also managed Primary Domain Controllers, NT Server 4.0, as well as implementing packaged software for time management, room scheduling, and legal database access. His clients included the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President of Administration, and the Office of Human Resources. Show less

Director of Finance - ASCSU

• Jul 1999 - Jul 2000

Managed student fee income, performed purchasing and budgeting for student government, worked with fee funded areas to set fees and bring changes to student body, worked with student organizations, supervised 8 employees.