George Atala, a Senior Software Architect, joined the team on May 1st. He has extensive system architecture and design work experience, as well as experience in R&D efforts. George comes to us from The TJX Companies in Massachusetts where he worked as a lead architect & developer of store systems. Prior to that he was a senior consultant with the New York Stock Exchange. Other work has taken him to North Carolina and Toronto. George can be reached at g.atala@berkeley.edu .
Rachel Hollowgrass, a user experience (UX) developer, began work on Apr 23rd as the Kuali Student UX Lead working w/ the UX team. She will be collaborating closely w/ Berkeley's Fluid team members. Rachel comes to us from Stanford University where she served as a research software developer designing user interface templates. She also conducted usability testing in Chile and South Korea. Prior to that, Rachel was an Instructional Developer at the University of Texas, Austin and also worked as a software engineer at Apple. Rachel can be reached at rachel@media.berkeley.edu .
Sara Quigley Joins Berkeley's KS Team in April Sara Quigley, our new Business Analyst, brings a vast amount of expertise to the Kuali Student team. She comes to us from the Low Income Investment Fund in San Francisco where she served as an IT manager, Business Systems Analyst and a Database programmer. Prior to that, she worked with Working Assets as a Design/Requirements Analyst. Sara graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont and also served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.
Gary Struthers Joins Berkeley's KS Team in February Gary Struthers was recently hired as an application architect on the Kuali Student team. Before Berkeley, Gary was a bag carrying consultant flying out to Fortune 500 companies to create their business process management systems. This ran the gamut from understanding their existing processes to designing use cases, services, workflows, analytics, and building the initial software. Before that was a lot of dot com job hopping in Silicon Valley and SOMA. He wrote an email application for Prodigy, internet access for Apple's operating system and Netscape's browser, web apps for regional banks, an online recording studio that let people jam online, and unstructured text processing software used to analyze raw intelligence and for legal e-discovery.
James Dudek Joins Berkeley's KS Team in January Cal veteran James Dudek comes to us from the College of Letters and Science where he examined and documented every business process in the L&S advising office. James co-founded the campus-wide Business Process Analysis Working Group (BPAWG) - a community of practice which meets monthly on topics of interest for campus analysts and project managers. He also served on the Berkeley Initiative for Leadership in Diversity (BILD) as well as chaired the Chancellor's Staff Advisory Committee (CSAC). Prior to his work in L&S, James held posts of Academic Center Coordinator for the Office of Student Development, Manager of the Undergraduate English Major, and academic adviser in various other departments. In total, he brings nearly twenty years of experience to the team.
Kuali Student and Student Systems 2012
Student Systems 2012 is a campus-wide effort sponsored by Student Affairs (SA) and Information Services and Technology (IST). This multi-year project focuses on rethinking student service processes, integrating multiple systems, expanding communications with students and creating a student system user community with shared service values and IT standards.
Student Systems 2012 is grouped into three types of activities:
Maintaining the quality and integrity of legacy systems while replacement systems are being implemented
Developing next generation SOA infrastructure and new functional capabilities
Implementing new systems to that are student-centric, flexible and responsive to campus needs.
Kuali Student focuses on the 'development' activity within Student Systems 2012. Kuali Student consortium will develop and release general purpose web services that target specific student service capabilities at regular intervals. Once a set of web services is made available, Berkeley will be need to assemble a different 'implementation' team of subject matter experts and application developers to customize and implement the new capabilities to meet Berkeley's unique needs. Alternatively, Berkeley can implement Kuali compatible third party student service applications. For example, instead of waiting for KS to develop financial aid capabilities, Berkeley is moving ahead with implementing a vendor product called ProSAM.
The development and implementation phases of the Student Systems 2012 project will be lead by the Director of Student Service Systems. This new position will report to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and work closely with the CIO & Associate Vice Chancellor for IST, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Admissions & Enrollment, the Associate CIO of Student Affairs, the Student Systems Executive Governance Committee, students, faculty, and all levels of academic and administrative departmental staff and numerous committees that govern student service.
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