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Welcome UIS New Hires – November 2019 edition

The UIS team has new team members to welcome. Congratulations and welcome to these new staff members!

Name Position New, Transfer, Promotion Start Date Info
Drew Hitchcock Senior Financial Aid & Student Financials Business Systems Analyst New 7/8/2019

After spending 15 years working at the UCCS Financial Aid office, Drew has joined UIS as the Senior Financial Aid & Student Financials BSA. In his new role, Drew will support the CU Student IT Services team with Financial Aid and Student Financial applications, processes and services. He will gather business requirements, create functional design specifications, test plans and facilitate changes. He will also work closely with the application managers and developers to troubleshoot incidents, shepherd configuration and development.

Isabell Mischo Senior Payroll Business Systems Analyst New 7/8/2019

Isabell has joined UIS as a Senior Payroll BSA. In her new role, Isabell will support the HCM Systems team with the Payroll application, processes and services. She will gather business requirements, create functional design specifications, test plans and facilitate changes. She will also work closely with the application managers and developers to troubleshoot incidents, shepherd configuration and development.

Brian Schaeffer Degree Audit & ISSS Business Systems Analyst New 7/8/2019

After spending over a decade working at the Denver campus in the Registrar’s office, Brian has joined UIS as the Degree Audit and ISSS BSA. In his new role, Brian will support the CU Student IT Services team with the Degree Audit (uAchieve) and International Student/Scholar Management (Sunapsis) applications, processes and services. He will gather business requirements, create functional design specifications, test plans and facilitate changes. He will also work closely with the application managers and developers to troubleshoot incidents, shepherd configuration and development.

Kim Sethre Senior Student Records Business Systems Analyst New 7/8/2019

After spending over a decade working at the Denver campus, Kim has joined UIS as the Senior Student Records BSA. In her new role, Kim will support the CU Student IT Services team with the Campus Solutions and Student Records applications, processes and services. She will gather business requirements, create functional design specifications, test plans and facilitate changes. She will also work closely with the application managers and developers to troubleshoot incidents, shepherd configuration and development.

Sridevi Bankupalli Assistant Director of Finance Development New 7/15/2019

Sridevi has joined UIS as the Assistant Director of Finance Development. In her role on the Service Delivery team, she will manage the technical and functional oversight of the Finance PeopleSoft module. She will review, analyze maintenance and enhancement requests, and modifications. Sridevi will also work closely with the Finance Stakeholder groups and System HR to provide application support.

Faraz Ali Integrations Developer New 8/21/2019

Faraz worked for UIS as a student for the Integrations team and has since joined us as a full-time employee. In his new role, Faraz will be gathering requirements, designing and developing the Oracle Service Bus and PeopleSoft Internet Broker-based integrations. These integrations will service-enable the University's enterprise systems, provide a foundation for the development of composite and mash-up applications, and build service-based integrations to campus and departmental applications.

Madhurya Mohan IAM Support Specialist Student New 9/4/2019

Madhurya is joining UIS as a student for the Identity and Access Management team. In this role, she will support the provisioning of user access, troubleshoot access issues to external and internal customers, and assist with identity management data quality. She will also be documenting business processes, provisioning rules and workflows while identifying opportunities for improvement.

Vance Warnock Senior Data Warehouse Engineer New 9/30/2019

Vance has joined UIS as the Senior Data Warehouse Engineer. In his role on the IRM team, he will work closely with a variety of constituents from all four campuses and UIS as the Data Warehouse subject matter expert. He will use industry best practices to help the university make data driven decisions and support the university’s initiatives with data integrations, data analytics and business intelligence reporting. 

Paul Little Senior DevOps Engineer New 11/1/2019

Paul has joined UIS as the Senior DevOps Engineer after a couple of months of consulting for UIS. In his role, Paul will design, build, and maintain technical environments, support system rollouts, respond to and troubleshoot escalated operational issues while managing internal and external customer relationships within the application and middleware administration team. Paul will serve as a senior technical expert in the installation, configuration, upgrade and day-to-day operational support of a variety of applications and middleware technologies.

Steve Bonser ETL Developer New 11/1/2019

Steve has joined UIS as an Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Developer on the IRM team. In his role on the IRM team, he will support the university’s data warehouse, data integrations, data analytics, and business intelligence initiatives. In addition to development, his role includes requirement gathering, data profiling/analysis, data modeling, testing, deploying code, troubleshooting, production support, creating, and maintaining documentation.

Allmond McDermott Enterprise Data Architect New 11/15/2019

Allmond has joined UIS as the Enterprise Data Architect. In her new role, she will oversee data architecture for University services and applications as well as provide future-looking technical process guidance in the area of data architecture and management. This position performs a key management and thought leadership role in the areas of advanced data techniques, including data modeling, data access, data integration, data visualization, data discovery, statistical methods, database design, and implementation. She will often operate as an internal consultant to assist project technical and functional leads in design, approach, and tool selection for data-oriented projects.

The UIS team has promoted team members. Congratulations to these staff members!

Name Position New, Transfer, Promotion Start Date Info
Art Figel Director of Student IT Services Promoted 8/1/2019

Art Figel has been promoted from the Assistant Director of Student Services to the Director of Student IT Services. In this role, Art will collaborate with cross-campus representatives including the Registrars, Bursars, IT leaders and executive leadership to help drive CU’s student strategy to deliver university value. He will provide functional oversight for the University’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, u.Acheive Degree Audit, and peripheral applications related to the student system. As the director, he will support the delivery of strategic IT enabled business imperatives to achieve business goals.

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