Some Career Highlights
Linfield University
- Led a team through the build out of a new campus in Portland OR. Linfield purchased a campus and from June 2020 to December 2020 my team would build out new infrastructure to meet the needs of our growing School of Nursing. I gained support and approval from the VP of Finance for a new plan for the installation of new fiber, switches, servers, Wi-Fi, and upgrades to 7 of the 10 classrooms. I arrived just in time to ensure the project was completed on time for a February start of term.
- Led my team through a fiber reroute project to prepare for a new Science Building.
- Worked with my team to complete the roll out Multi-Factor Authentication to all staff, faculty, and students.
- Implemented a policy that provided laptops to all staff and faculty. As part of this project my team moved forward with device encryption and started a project to implement Intune.
- Created a data protection policy and MFA policy as part of a renewed cyber security plan.
- Incorporated the HECVAT (Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit) as part of the onboarding of any new cloud services.
- Implemented VOIP Zoom Phones on the McMinnville and Portland campuses.
- Completed a reorganization of Information Technology Services department.
- Was part of the committee to rename a private road in honor of the Tribal people who thrived on the lands before Linfield. The committee worked with a representative from Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde who eventually decided on Lakamas Lane.
- Launched new emergency notification system. Moved from Blackboard Connect to RAVE.
- Negotiated a new Blackboard Learn (LMS) contract. Saw a reduction in cost and migrated to the cloud version.
- Completed a Cybersecurity review in November of 2022. This will set the stage for new projects around privileged access management and the creation or adoption of a security operations center.
University of Portland
Creation of a student run multimedia design studio – On The Bluff Studios (OTBS) was created by Samuel Williams (Director of Academic Technology Services and Innovation) and UP alumni Nick Huey (class of 2017) as a way to meet the growing demand for quality academic multimedia assets. The studio was a part of a case study from Kaltura Inc.
Culturally Competent Palliative Care – Collaborated with Familias en Acción to create fully online training for Nurses and Doctors on the inclusive way to deliver palliative care to the LatinX community. Was recognized at the 2014 Latino Health Equity Conference for my support of Familias en Acción and this groundbreaking work.
Digital Badges in Higher Education – Created a fully online self-paced professional development portal at the University of Portland. One of the first courses was “Micro-Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Practice” for the School of Nursing. We used Credly.com as the badging authority. As of 1/10/2019 5,644 badges have been issued on Credly.com. More badges have been issued within the Moodle Learning Management System.
Ignite Grants for Campus Impact – Co-created the faculty Ignite grants and organized them under the Office of the Provost. This was a collaboration between the Provost, Academic Technology, and the Office of Development. The goals of Ignite are to: Advance pedagogy and promote faculty collaboration, Foster innovative ideas that can be scaled and/or be competitive for external funding and transform the learning experience for all students.
Untethered Lecture Capture Project – Create an innovation project with Dr. Lorretta Krautscheid (University of Portland School of Nursing). At its core, ULC combined two pre-existing ideas—that a teacher can move freely about the classroom while using instructional media to teach (“untethered”) and that instruction is recorded and made available for students to review afterward (“lecture capture”).
- 2017/28 ULC Project By the Numbers
- 27 University of Portland faculty members representing nine different disciplines.
- 17 official ULC project faculty members plus two academic technology support staff.
- 1,006 students taught via ULC instructional strategies during fall 2017 (n=338) and spring 2018 (n=668)
- 776 Lecture Capture video assets created during fall 2017 (n=231) and spring 2018 (n=545)
- 16,330 Lecture Capture video views during fall 2017 (n=5,665) and spring 2018 (n=10,665)
Internationalization of Education: Visited the University of Portland Salzburg Center in Austria. During two visits I collaborated with Center Director to improve the technology infrastructure and provide on-site professional development for faculty. Created an innovation project with Dr. René Horcicka to bring his human geography course online.
Virtual Classroom Project – The Virtual Classroom project came out of a need to better define the technology for synchronous at distance teaching and learning at the University of Portland. The project is made up of 11 faculty representing 8 academic units. The project will be completed during the summer of 2020.
Dexheimer Leadership Fellow – This starts as a professional development program that then works into a mentorship program. After completing the initial training, I was paired with 4 University of Portland students to mentor them as they participated in leadership curriculum. I helped the students as they explored 3 leadership habits over 3 seven-week sessions. This was a rewarding experience that reinforced my own leadership practices.
