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Melissa has the privilege of leading the Messaging and Collaboration team at Arizona State University. My team provides support for Microsoft O365, Google, Zoom, and Slack Enterprise Grid to all of the ASU community.
Tina Thorstenson is Deputy CIO and Chief Information Security Officer at Arizona State University responsible for IT Governance, Policy, and Information Security. She leads IT alignment and enhancement activities across ASU, supporting a variety of activities designed to accelerate support for innovation, improve agility, provide relevant policies and standards, drive operational excellence, and improve transparency. Tina has spent the majority of her career aligning technology to the mission and goals of higher education institutions. She has significant experience aligning to institutional goals, implementing necessary technology services and solutions to meet the growing needs of ASU.
As the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the University Design Institute at ASU, Cary López is passionate about co-creating organizational processes, structures, and cultures that allow for people to flourish in their workplaces. Whether through strategic planning efforts, organizational change initiatives, or designing group facilitation and team processes, she works with people to transform their organization. While her career journey has been a somewhat winding path – including everything from helping startups launch to auditing public companies and running a large HR department – the core of her passion has remained the same: to work with the people of an organization to create a positive culture, where all members can flourish and thrive. She is one of the co-creators of the ASU Spark Method, a problem-solving method designed to help teams move from issue to action. When she’s not at work, she’s chasing her two young kiddos around, completing a PhD program in Communication, and sharing all of the craziness that is their life with her husband.
Christine Whitney Sanchez is a social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, and architect of large-scale transformation. She has worked across five continents to build the capacity for mindful leadership, strategic collaboration and thriving organizations and communities.
As the Chief Culture Officer for the University Technology Office, she collaboratively designs and advances an integrated approach to the development of UTO’s values-led organizational culture. To enhance ASU’s local impact and social embeddedness, she actively works within and beyond ASU to co-develop solutions to the critical social, cultural and environmental issues facing 21stcentury Arizona.
Integrating her experience as a psychotherapist, Christine focuses on leadership from the inside-out. Taking a holistic approach to change, she engages the whole system to build on strengths and create the conditions for success.
Christine has guided tens of thousands of stakeholders to resolve thorny issues and generate new opportunities. She has trained thousands of change leaders around the globe in strength-based approaches to leadership and organization development. She has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world. And that is what brings her joy.
Jess Evans holds a Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems from Kent State University, and a Ph.D. in Management (Designing Sustainable Systems) from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Her efforts to advance the mission of the university are bolstered by her extensive experience in the realms of finance/insurance, consulting, education/healthcare, and executive acumen.
One of Ms. Evans’ research areas is the development of successful and competent IT executives, and how to guarantee effectiveness and credibility amongst IT leaders through fostering attributes of emotional and social skills with blended technical knowledge.
Presented by: Samantha Becker, Erin Morrow & Christina Ngo
In her role at ASU, Samantha leads a creative agency-style team at the University Technology Office (UTO), focused on bolstering community engagement, storytelling and strategic communications. Over the past year, she has helped UTO amplify their vision and voice through a defined narrative. She is also the Project Director for CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation -- a project dedicated to tapping into global perspectives and research on the emergent and long-standing themes impacting schools. Samantha has been in a committed relationship with digital communications for most of her career. For 7 years she served as the Senior Director at the New Media Consortium, where she led the Horizon Project and served as the lead writer for the Horizon Report series, which examined technology uptake in various learning sectors and garnered a readership of four million. She recently wrapped up a stint as Futurist in Residence at Penn State University and currently manages ASU’s global community of practice called ShapingEDU -- education changemakers shaping the future of learning in the digital age.
Erin Morrow is the UTO Events Coordinator. In this role, she works extensively on planning, coordinating, organizing, staffing and supervising events sponsored by the UTO. She has over 10 years experience in running events for many years both personally and professionally. Erin has coordinated live and digitally immersive events ranging from intimate gatherings to large conferences. She holds a degree in Tourism, Marketing and Event Management from Arizona State University.
Christina Ngo joins the Office of Applied Innovation as a 2019-2020 University Innovation Fellow with over eight years of experience in education as a K-12 teacher and higher education administrator. Christina’s work focuses on advancing the mission of the New American University by evaluating university-wide social embeddedness efforts and initiatives. Her fellowship portfolio includes working on the university-wide adoption of Collaboratory at ASU, a digital platform that allows users to capture the variety of ways ASU staff and faculty are partnering with over 2,0000 individual community partners and organizations to collaboratively address challenges. The platform serves as a connector between different ASU units and community partners. Christina also oversees the planning and execution of the annual ASU Social Embeddedness Network Conference, a convening of staff, faculty and community partners building connections and sharing best practices for working together and advancing ASU as a socially embedded institution.
Kyle Bowen is Executive Director of Learning Experience at Arizona State University, where he leads university efforts for effective uses of technology for teaching and learning. Kyle oversees a portfolio of services including digital platforms, instructional design, and learning spaces that support learner-centered approaches. Formerly the director of Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State, and director of informatics at Purdue University, he is experienced in shaping institutional strategies to advance student success through scaling new and innovative technologies. Kyle is an entrepreneur, teacher, and frequent speaker on the role of technology in learning, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
John Rome is 25+ year employee of Arizona State University (ASU) and an experienced IT leader, educator, consultant, technologist and innovator John is a pioneer of data warehousing in higher education, building ASU’s data warehouse in the early 1990’s. He is also an instructor in the ASU W.P. Carey School of Business. His areas of expertise include information technology strategy, analytics/business intelligence, data governance, big data, public cloud development and deployment, and most recently, voice-enabled interfaces. He is also the recipient of two ASU President’s Innovation Awards.
