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Tech RevealedEpisode 21: Maysoon EshelmanBarry's guest for this episode is Maysoon Eshelman. Maysoon is the Executive Director of Campus IT Partnerships (CITP), creating and fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, innovation, and value across the University of Arizona. Maysoon relies on proactive business relationship management for building trust and improving partnerships across the university, which is at the core of a business-driven service delivery strategy. Over the past twenty-four years, she has held several leadership positions within the IT community on the University of Arizona (UA) campus that were direct IT campus initiatives as well as those that created a community among IT...
2025-01-2727 minTech RevealedEpisode 19: Darcy Van PattenBarry's guest for this episode is Darcy Van Patten, the University of Arizona’s Chief Technology Officer. Darcy is responsible for enabling high-quality digital experiences in support of day-to-day productivity and collaboration, learning, support services, digital engagement, administrative services, and student services. Her University of Arizona portfolio includes the departments of Administrative Technologies, Digital Experience Technologies, and Student and Academic Technologies. Darcy leads through the lens of innovating the business through technology enablement and human-centered collaborative problem solving – always with an eye toward creating the most valuable outcomes in support of the University’s mission and delivering a high-quality digita...
2025-01-2529 minTech RevealedEpisode 18: Wendy EpleyBarry's guest for this episode is Wendy Epley. Wendy is a Principal Analyst in the Information Security Office—Government, Risk, and Compliance team. In her role, she oversees information security in contracting. This means that if a unit needs help understanding risks in a third-party agreement, Wendy will help them analyze the risks so they can make a risk-informed decision. Wendy has a Bachelor of Science degree in Global Business and a Master of Science degree in Regulatory Trade Compliance. She also has several certifications in export controls and CMMC.
2025-01-1722 minTech RevealedEpisode 23: Jeff KohlerBarry's guest for this episode is Jeff Kohler. Jeff is the Associate Athletic Director, of IT and HR Integration for Arizona Athletics. In his role, Jeff oversees the IT team, a web team, and the creative services team. The creative service team oversees broadcasting. Jeff and his team exercise masterful skill in integrating an array of technologies into the production of live-action sports at the University of Arizona.
2025-01-1738 minTech RevealedEpisode 17: Ian MacSpaddenBarry's guest for this episode is Ian MacSpadden Chief Technology Officer at Arizona Public Media. Ian has leveraged his facility design experience for the University’s public media sector for the last ten years. At Arizona Public Media (AZPM), he leads the team that has designed their greenfield IP-based TV, radio, and streaming facility that broke ground in January 2024. The facility is designed to be a sharable model for public media with the implementation of VR studios, SMPTE 2110 video routing and impactful spaces for community engagement. At AZPBS he helped launch the first PBS station in ATSC 3.0 through a partn...
2025-01-1621 minTech RevealedEpisode 20: Lanita ColletteBarry's guest for this episode is Lanita Collette. Lanita is the University of Arizona’s Deputy Chief Information Officer. As the University’s Deputy CIO, Lanita leads multiple teams providing efficient, secure, and robust technology services that are the critical foundation for enabling teaching, research, and the service mission of the University. She has been with the University of Arizona since 2017, first as the Chief Information Security Officer, and was appointed to Deputy CIO in September 2019. From December of 2023 until July of 2024 Collette served as Acting CIO.
2025-01-1327 minTech RevealedEpisode 22: Tim NitzBarry's guest in this episode is Tim Nitz. Tim is the Assistant Director of Campus IT Partnerships, managing a team of Senior Implementation Analysts, supporting campus-wide IT improvement initiatives that impact tens of thousands of users. In 2021 he won the University of Arizona Team Award for Excellence for his work building information systems and processes that helped keep the University operational during the COVID crisis. His passion is creating order out of chaos, improving the lives of end users, and creating well-oiled solutions that increase quality, lower costs, improve efficiency, and make all stakeholders happier. Tim developed, owned and...
2025-01-1325 minTech RevealedEpisode 15: Tyson KorhonenBarry's guest for this episode is Tyson Korhonan. Tyson is the lead workstation endpoint management architect at the University of Arizona. Born and raised just blocks from the University, he secured a job in 2004 as a desktop support student worker within the Financial Services Office. Tyson progressively increased his scope of duties and responsibilities, culminating in directing all aspects of information technology for multiple business affairs divisions. In 2021, an opportunity to switch gears and deep dive into building a university-scale workstation endpoint management system was too enticing to pass up. Today, he continues to dedicate his time and effort to b...
2024-12-1822 minTech RevealedEpisode 16: Teddy LopezBarry's guest for this episode is Teddy Lopez, Application Development Manager in Administrative Technologies at the University of Arizona, who oversees the UAccess Employee, EDGE Learning, and UAlert technical support teams. She is a Tucson native and a University of Arizona Alumni. Her master's degree is in Human Resources & Consulting from ASU. She has worked at the university for 26 years in various roles until joining UITS with the Mosaic project.
2024-12-1820 minTech RevealedEpisode 14 Steve MachtleyBarry’s guest for this episode is Steve Machtley. Steve is the Assistant Dean for Information Technology Services with the College of Health Sciences at the University of Arizona. In this role, he is responsible for designing and implementing the new college’s IT ecosystem from the ground up. Having started as a student worker, Steve now has over 20 years of experience leading technology services in support of health education, research, and innovation for numerous colleges in the University of Arizona Health Sciences.
2024-12-1220 minTech RevealedEpisode 13: Nikolas HodgeBarry's guest for this episode is Nikolas Hodge, Interim Senior Director and Enterprise Architect for Foundational Technologies at the University.As the Interim Senior Director, Nikolas supports teams driving process, innovation, and quality delivery in the realms of service management and identity and access management. I also have had the joy of teaching UNIV101 and 301 courses for the Office of General Education for the last three years. I have been with the university for almost 19 years, serving in various IT and non-IT roles on campus. My educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in History from Kansas...
2024-12-0634 minTech RevealedEpisode 12: Daniel MayhewBarry's guest in this episode is Daniel Mayhew. Daniel is the Director of Information Technology for Business Affairs Shared Services, a division of Business Affairs Technology Services. He began his career at the University of Arizona in 2006 at the CatCard office as an electronic field services technician tasked with maintaining and repairing the chip readers across campus. After taking advantage of learning opportunities provided by the University of Arizona, Daniel joined the Financial Services IT team as desktop support. Soon after, he moved to the Systems and Infrastructure team, eventually leading the Systems and Application Development teams, and finally...
2024-11-1839 minTech RevealedEpisode 11: Gary WindhamBarry's guest for this episode is Gary Winham. Gary is a senior identity developer at Cirrus Identity, which he joined upon retiring from the University of Arizona in 2023 after 28 years of service. A "builder" who is passionate about developing elegant solutions to challenging problems, Gary has over 3 decades of experience in higher education information technology -- including software development, enterprise systems architecture, identity and access management, and cloud technologies. During his tenure at the University, he played a key role in architecting and managing several foundational IT services, including UA NetID/NetID+, WebAuth, Shibboleth, EDS, and Grouper.
2024-10-3043 minTech RevealedEpisode 10: Cameron GreenBarry's guest for this episode is Cameron Green. Cameron is the Acting Director of Campus Web Services at the University of Arizona, where he oversees the strategy, development, and maintenance of the university's vast digital presence. With a focus on user experience, web accessibility, and scalable web solutions, Cameron plays a key role in ensuring the university's web platforms effectively serve students, staff, and faculty. With a strong background in both leadership and technology, he contributes to shaping the university's digital landscape, creating a unified web experience, and fostering innovation in higher education technology.
2024-10-1538 minTech RevealedEpisode 9: Tim SchwabBarry’s guest for this episode is Tim Schwab, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Arizona. Tim has been with the university since March 2018. He served as Executive Director of Administrative Technologies, overseeing applications such as HCM, financials, research, contract management, document storage, and EDGE Learning, among others. In his role as CISO, Tim is dedicated to developing and leading the university's information security program, safeguarding its assets, applications, systems, and technology while driving business advancement.
2024-09-3023 minTech RevealedEpisode 8: Michael GriffithBarry's guest for this episode is Michael Griffith, who is the Director of Digital Initiatives at the College of Education. In this role, Michael designs technology-driven learning solutions that enhance student engagement and outcomes across online and hybrid courses. He combines a decade in broadcast television with a background in web development to create instructional (and fun!) learning modules. Michael has taught undergraduate courses in Web Development and Human-Computer Interaction, and he is passionate about teaching robotics and programming to K-12 teachers as part of the STEMAZing program at the Pima County School Superintendent’s office. His work fosters eq...
2024-09-1633 minTech RevealedEpisode 7: Meredith AronsonBarry's guest for this episode is Meredith Aronson. Meredith is the Director of Customer Relationship Management & Digital Experience Services at the University of Arizona. She guides product vision and engagement and offers service leadership to the agile and innovative Trellis team to accomplish these goals. Using a diversity of experiences in corporate, startup, research, and government contexts, she has crafted a career following her deep curiosity for people, technology, and big hairy problems. She was only peripherally in IT until 2014, when she joined the UA to help develop and implement enterprise software, ultimately joining the nascent Trellis team in 2018. She...
2024-08-2835 minTech RevealedEpisode 6: Mandi CrossBarry's guest for this episode is Mandi Cross. Mandi is the university's Cloud team lead. She has 20 years of experience in higher education IT, working her way up from a starting role with student desktop support, into systems administration, service desk management, and now leading a team of Cloud engineers and architects at UArizona. Mandi has a bachelors degree in Near Eastern Studies and is currently studying addiction psychology, showing no matter how varied your interest or educational background, you can always use it in IT.
2024-05-1625 minTech RevealedEpisode 4: Paul ReevesToday's Guest is Paul Reeves. Paul is a Cloud Consulting Solutions Engineer at Splunk, supporting communications, technology, media, and gaming customers He focuses on helping customers get the most value from Splunk Cloud Platform and major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Prior to working at Splunk, Paul worked at the University of Arizona for 12 years, most recently leading the Security Engineering team in the Information Security Office. He also holds three technology-related degrees from the University.
2024-04-2428 minTech RevealedEpisode 5: Mark FischerToday's guest is Mark Fischer, Mark is an application architect at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Mark has over two decades of experience in the technology space, starting with a foundation in early web applications, through the Web 2.0 craze, and on to today's API and microservices driven architectures. Along the way he's been bringing automation, creativity, and education to the infrastructure side of things. He has been leading the University's central Identity Architecture team since 2019. He is also a part-time instructor in the University's Computer Science department, teaching Web Programming and Cloud Computing to the next generation.
2024-04-1134 minTech RevealedEpisode 3: Brett BendicksonToday's guest is Brett Bendickson. Brett is an Enterprise Architect in Digital Experience Technologies at the University of Arizona. He considers his role as that of a developer with a strong emphasis on integration. Brett has a long history with the University beginning as a student worker who created the university’s first official web homepage (UAInfo). He also was the principal developer of the precursor to UAccess Student, Student Link. Now, a 28-year veteran of University Information Technology Services, Brett is sought after for his ability to bring teams together and find solutions to application integration needs.
2024-04-1125 minTech RevealedEpisode 2: Doug HesterToday's guest is Doug Hester. Doug is the University of Arizona’s Business Intelligence Architect and he leads the UAIR Systems Architecture & Security team. In 2008 he selected as the technical lead supporting the university's central Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) system and since 2015, is the UAIR BI Architect. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering and has worked in IT at the University of Arizona since 1997. Doug has presented on data warehousing and business intelligence topics at national conferences and for other university leaders. He occasionally consults for other higher education business intelligence and institutional research depar...
2024-02-1637 minTech RevealedEpisode 1: Jessica DeStefano WoodworthToday's guest is Jessica DeStefano Woodworth. Jessica is the Microsoft Technologies Architect team lead for the University of Arizona. She started her journey at the University in the fall of 1996 as student in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, majoring in Anthropology. She was so excited to return to the UofA in the spring of 2006 as a full time employee on the Windows Systems Administration team in the CCIT department ( now called University information Technology Services). Over her nearly 18 years with the university, she has had the opportunity to learn, grow and expand her role and scope to w...
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