2023 CIO Excellence Award Winners
The CIO Excellence Award is presented by the CIO to acknowledge and celebrate the exceptional work of the OSU IT community within both central and distributed IT.
Alisha Brucker
Executive Assistant, UIT
Ben Wessel
Senior Director of IT, Finance & Administration
Casey Dinsmore
Research Systems Engineer, Digital Research Infrastructure
Chifundo Lemani
INTO IT Coordinator, UIT Customer Experience
Dylan Karambut
Telecom Info Tech, UIT Network & Telecom
Johan Reinalda
Director, UIT Network & Telecom
Jonathan Roster
Analyst Programmer, UIT Administrative Technologies
Kellie Walker
Data Product Manager, UIT Data Solutions
Mike Akey
Operating Network Systems Analyst, UIT Infrastructure
Nathan Power
Cloud Platform Analyst, UIT Infrastructure
Ramee Kelly
Strategic Efforts Coordinator, Office of the CIO
Tom Ordeman
Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager, Office of Information Security
Tyler Pruitt
Senior Network Engineer, UIT Network & Telecom
Jemin Kim
Student Technician, UIT Service Desk
Zach Bishop
IT Consultant, Finance & Administration
Polly Harrell
Director of Business Architecture, Finance & Administration
Devin Ascherl
IT Tech Coordinator, OSU-Cascades
David McMorries
Chief Information Security Officer, UIT
Ben Shields
Endpoint Management Team, UIT Office of Information Security
Andrew Struthers
IT Consultant, Recreational Sports
Jon Dorbolo
OCM and Training Manager, UIT Business Architecture
Marc Cholewczynski
Associate Director of Technical Servicies, Academic Technologies
Don DeMello
Associate Director of Classroom Technology Services, Academic Technologies
Brendan Brucker
Media Services Manager, Academic Technologies
Kent Kuo
Director, Administrative Technologies
Eddy Beamer
ERP Student Team, Administrative Technologies (not pictured)
Deb Maguire
Analyst Programmer, Administrative Technologies (not pictured)
Shari Tanguay
Analyst Programmer, Administrative Technologies (not pictured)
Matt Hansen
Associate Director, Digital Experience
Hector Trujillo
CRM Administrator & Developer, Digital Experience
CJ Keist
Enterprise HPC Cluster Ops, Digital Research Infrastructure
Sarah Payne
IT Strategic Communications Coordinator, UIT
Kirsten Peterson
Director, Service Desk
Jennifer Koehne
Procurement Contracts Officer, Division of Finance & Administration
Amy McLaughlin
Executive Director, Technical & Solutions Architecture
Joseph Duncan
On Prem + Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, Infrastructure
Thomas Olson
Senior Research Infrastructure Architect, CEOAS
Marjorie McLagan
Deputy CISO, UIT
Terralyn Vandetta
IT Director, College of Forestry
Alan Sprague
Engineer/Systems Administrator, College of Business
Doug Weir
Manager, Identity & Access Management
Tim Bateman
Manager, Network Operations Center
Lucas Friedrichsen
Service Delivery Team, UIT
Jonah Fenn
Web Developer, UIT Digital Experience
Gwen Malachias
Service Desk Student Team, UIT
Josh Zojonc
Enterprise Architect, UIT