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August 28, 2014 San Francisco I attended the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco where President Napolitano was a featured speaker. She emphasized the importance of basic research and higher education’s significant contributions to basic research. She also talked…
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August 5, 2014 UCSF I attended the annual UC Computing Services Conference held this year at UCSF, August 4-5, and also had the pleasure of presenting the UC IT Leadership Council’s Sautter Awards for Innovation in Information Technology. Be…
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July 31, 2014 UC Merced UC Merced CIO Ann Kovalchick invited me to join the Merced leadership in a briefing at Cisco to discuss developing a strategic direction for technology to align with UCM’s 2020 long-range plan. All UCM vice…
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Team: I’ve been asked by managers to elaborate and provide more context to my blog entry and talk about the specific approach to performance management. I am a strong proponent of performance management that is fair but, at the…
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June 13, 2014 UCLA I love my visits to UCLA because I always feel like I am the student, learning more about higher education. UCLA has long been a thought leader in student engagement and success, which is being enabled…
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May 6, 2014 Redwood City People ask me about the “vendor days” that I’ve been setting up. In the monthly Q&A I explained that large organizations usually have a set of vendors that are more strategically relevant in its long-term…
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April 29-30, 2014 CRESST Conference, Redondo Beach For 40 years, the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) and, more recently, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) have been at the forefront of…
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April 2014 Merced, San Francisco, Riverside, Santa Barbara I really enjoy visiting the campuses. It’s not just about being closer to students or what’s going on in the classroom. It’s about the energy there and what’s going on all around…
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March 2014 Healthcare Conferences Before joining UC, I worked in the healthcare industry, and spent more than a decade connected to the mission to help save and improve lives. Because UC has 5 medical centers, I stay engaged with developments…
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March 17, 2014 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory I spent the early part of the day with CIO Rosio Alvarez and her IT team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Rosio has been a faculty member, an advisor to the Secretary…
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