Vice President for Information Services & Chief Information Officer

• Nov 2022 - Present

Customer Success Manager

• Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

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Deputy CIO for Applications

• Jan 2020 - Jun 2022

• Responsible for 76 FTE and $5.2 million budget. • Managed portfolio of over 75 applications including PeopleSoft HCM, Campus Solutions Student system, Blackboard LMS, Perceptive Content, Office 365, IDM and Drupal-based CMS. • Developed remote work framework based on Agile principles for rapid switch to 100% work from home in response to Covid-19. • Developed and facilitated workshop for Senior IT leaders around “Making Work Visible”. • Responsible for 76 FTE and $5.2 million budget. • Managed portfolio of over 75 applications including PeopleSoft HCM, Campus Solutions Student system, Blackboard LMS, Perceptive Content, Office 365, IDM and Drupal-based CMS. • Developed remote work framework based on Agile principles for rapid switch to 100% work from home in response to Covid-19. • Developed and facilitated workshop for Senior IT leaders around “Making Work Visible”.

Special Assistant to the CIO

• Nov 2017 - Jan 2020

• Worked with unit Directors and OCIO staff to develop a university-wide strategic 3-year plan for central IT and distributed IT units, emphasizing coordination between units and streamlined user experience known as “OneIT”.• Led the development of an aggressive plan to migrate over one thousand on premise servers to Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service in a public cloud environment after a fire damaged the university’s primary data center.• Chair of Enterprise Systems Exploratory Task Force to consider options for replacement of critical business systems.• Elected to Faculty Senate by the General University Caucus in 2018.o Serving as member of Professional Staff Affairs (PSA) Committee.o Advisor to Faculty Senate Committee on Technology (FSCOT). Show less

Interim Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost for Information Technology Services

• Mar 2016 - Oct 2017

• Responsible for approximately 150 FTE, 150 student employees and $24.5 Million budget.• Led University IT units as Interim CIO through two significant base-budget call backs of 2.2% and 2.52% (respectively), totaling almost $1 million.• Oversaw completion of K-State’s Converged Infrastructure Project and subsequent service migration. o Implemented already-purchased, but not deployed, $5 Million VCE product to manage over 1,200 virtual hosts, including three ERP systems: PeopleSoft HR, Oracle E-business Suite Financials, and Oracle Campus Solutions Student System. o Developed architecture for network, storage, and compute resources, allowing all to be managed from centralized interface. o Designed and implemented protocols, allowing virtualized and bare metal systems to co-exist within a single hardware stack. • Collaborated with and advised members of the Executive Leadership including the University President, Provost, CFO, VP-HCS, Alumni Association, University Foundation, Intercollegiate Athletics, General Counsel & College Deans.• Merged application infrastructure and server technology teams, creating single unit focused on enterprise systems engineering.• Conducted searches at both local and national scale for several Director and Associate Director positions to serve in IT leadership roles. Show less

Director, Office of Mediated Education

• 2005 - Mar 2016

Managed several teams of IT professionals engaged in providing critical services including Enterprise Learning Management system, application development, Application Infrastructure and Service Delivery. Established interdisciplinary advisory groups including faculty staff and students to provide oversight of core IT services. Fostered the development of excellent IT teams through a period of substantial change.

Associate Director of Information Systems

• 2001 - 2005

Managed the creation and operation of the original online learning management system at K-State.* Implemented standard application development practices including software development lifecycle and software quality assurance practices. * Managed development of the DCE EIS system which consolidated the functions of several legacy systems including credit registration, course creation workflow and relationship management for distance students.

Information Systems Administrator

• 1997 - 2001

Managed a team of full-time and student programmers supporting web applications and general IT support for business operations. Managed a team of full-time and student programmers supporting web applications and general IT support for business operations.

Account Executive and On-air Talent

• 1991 - 1995

Advertising sales and marketing consultation for local and national businesses. Served as a DJ and on-air talent on KMKF 101.5 FM and KMAN 1350 AM radio stations. Responsibilities included commercial production, remote broadcasts for promotions and regular evening and weekend on-air shift work. Prepared news broadcasts, coordinated sports and music programming. Advertising sales and marketing consultation for local and national businesses. Served as a DJ and on-air talent on KMKF 101.5 FM and KMAN 1350 AM radio stations. Responsibilities included commercial production, remote broadcasts for promotions and regular evening and weekend on-air shift work. Prepared news broadcasts, coordinated sports and music programming.