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