Our Charge

The Cloud Center of Excellence Governance Group was charged by Vice President and CIO Bernard Gulacheck to to ensure the sustainability of the institution’s infrastructure needs by driving cloud adoption and building alignment among University of Minnesota people, skills, processes, and tools.

Membership

Name COE role Title Department
Doug Finley Co-chair Cloud CoE Governance and Service Owner, Storage and Hosting Services Office of Information Technology
Jeremiah Hackler Co-Chair Cloud CoE Governance and Manager, Infrastructure and Production Office of Information Technology
Connie Buechele Member IT Director Carlson School of Management and Law School
Jason Davis Member IT Director University of Minnesota - Duluth
Colin DeLong Member Director University Data and Institutional Reporting
Kellie Greaves Member Business Relationship Manager, Organizational Change Management Office of Information Technology
Cody Hanson Member IT Director University Libraries
Mark Hove Member IT Manager Carlson School of Management and Law School
Nathan Kufner Member Sr. IT Director Office of Information Technology
CJ Loosbrock Member Business Relationship Manager Office of Information Technology
Benjamin Lynch Member Associate Director for Scientific computing Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Ingrid Nuttall Member Director Academic Support Resources
Derek Meier Member Solutions Architect, Infrastructure and Production Office of Information Technology
Colby Reese Member Senior Director, Health Sciences Technology Office of Information Technology
Amy Schult Member Director University Data Governance, Enterprise Data Management and Reporting
Natascha Shawver Member Security Architect, University Information Security Office of Information Technology
Kyle Weeks Member Cloud Architect Office of Information Technology

 

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