Tech Revealed

Barry's guest for this episode is Maysoon Eshelman. Maysoon is the Executive Director of Campus IT Partnerships (CITP), creating and fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, innovation, and value across the University of Arizona. Maysoon relies on proactive business relationship management for building trust and improving partnerships across the university, which is at the core of a...

Barry's guest for this episode is Darcy Van Patten, the University of Arizona’s Chief Technology Officer. Darcy is responsible for enabling high-quality digital experiences in support of day-to-day productivity and collaboration, learning, support services, digital engagement, administrative services, and student services. Her University of Arizona portfolio includes the departments of Admini...

Barry's guest for this episode is Wendy Epley. Wendy is a Principal Analyst in the Information Security Office—Government, Risk, and Compliance team. In her role, she oversees information security in contracting. This means that if a unit needs help understanding risks in a third-party agreement, Wendy will help them analyze the risks so they can make a risk-informed decision. Wendy has a Bac...

Barry's guest for this episode is Jeff Kohler. Jeff is the Associate Athletic Director, of IT and HR Integration for Arizona Athletics.  In his role, Jeff oversees the IT team, a web team, and the creative services team. The creative service team oversees broadcasting. Jeff and his team exercise masterful skill in integrating an array of technologies into the production of live-action sports...

Barry's guest for this episode is Ian MacSpadden Chief Technology Officer at  Arizona Public Media. Ian has leveraged his facility design experience for the University’s public media sector for the last ten years.  At Arizona Public Media (AZPM), he leads the team that has designed their greenfield IP-based TV, radio, and streaming facility that broke ground in January 2024. The facility is d...

Barry's guest for this episode is Lanita Collette. Lanita is the University of Arizona’s Deputy Chief Information Officer. As the University’s Deputy CIO, Lanita leads multiple teams providing efficient, secure, and robust technology services that are the critical foundation for enabling teaching, research, and the service mission of the University. She has been with the University of Arizona...

Barry's guest in this episode is Tim Nitz. Tim is the Assistant Director of Campus IT Partnerships, managing a team of Senior Implementation Analysts, supporting campus-wide IT improvement initiatives that impact tens of thousands of users. In 2021 he won the University of Arizona Team Award for Excellence for his work building information systems and processes that helped keep the University...

Barry's guest for this episode is Tyson Korhonan. Tyson is the lead workstation endpoint management architect at the University of Arizona.  Born and raised just blocks from the University, he secured a job in 2004 as a desktop support student worker within the Financial Services Office.  Tyson progressively increased his scope of duties and responsibilities, culminating in directing all aspe...

Barry's guest for this episode is Teddy Lopez, Application Development Manager in Administrative Technologies at the University of Arizona, who oversees the UAccess Employee, EDGE Learning, and UAlert technical support teams. She is a Tucson native and a University of Arizona Alumni.  Her master's degree is in Human Resources & Consulting from ASU.  She has worked at the university f...

Barry’s guest for this episode is Steve Machtley. Steve is the Assistant Dean for Information Technology Services with the College of Health Sciences at the University of Arizona. In this role, he is responsible for designing and implementing the new college’s IT ecosystem from the ground up. Having started as a student worker, Steve now has over 20 years of experience leading technology services...

Barry's guest for this episode is Nikolas Hodge, Interim Senior Director and Enterprise Architect for Foundational Technologies at the University. As the Interim Senior Director, Nikolas supports teams driving process, innovation, and quality delivery in the realms of service management and identity and access management. I also have had the joy of teaching UNIV101 and 301 courses for the Off...

Barry's guest in this episode is Daniel Mayhew. Daniel is the Director of Information Technology for Business Affairs Shared Services, a division of Business Affairs Technology Services. He began his career at the University of Arizona in 2006 at the CatCard office as an electronic field services technician tasked with maintaining and repairing the chip readers across campus. After taking adv...

Barry's guest for this episode is Gary Winham. Gary is a senior identity developer at Cirrus Identity, which he joined upon retiring from the University of Arizona in 2023 after 28 years of service. A "builder" who is passionate about developing elegant solutions to challenging problems, Gary has over 3 decades of experience in higher education information technology -- including so...

Barry's guest for this episode is Cameron Green. Cameron is the Acting Director of Campus Web Services at the University of Arizona, where he oversees the strategy, development, and maintenance of the university's vast digital presence. With a focus on user experience, web accessibility, and scalable web solutions, Cameron plays a key role in ensuring the university's web platforms...

Barry’s guest for this episode is Tim Schwab, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Arizona. Tim  has been with the university since March 2018. He served as Executive Director of Administrative Technologies, overseeing applications such as HCM, financials, research, contract management, document storage, and EDGE Learning, among others. In his role as CISO, Tim is dedicated to d...

Barry's guest for this episode is Michael Griffith, who is the Director of Digital Initiatives at the College of Education. In this role, Michael designs technology-driven learning solutions that enhance student engagement and outcomes across online and hybrid courses. He combines a decade in broadcast television with a background in web development to create instructional (and fun!) learning...

Barry's guest for this episode is Meredith Aronson. Meredith is the Director of Customer Relationship Management & Digital Experience Services at the University of Arizona.  She guides product vision and engagement and offers service leadership to the agile and innovative Trellis team to accomplish these goals.   Using a diversity of experiences in corporate, startup, research, and govern...

Barry's guest for this episode is Mandi Cross. Mandi is the university's Cloud team lead. She has 20 years of experience in higher education IT, working her way up from a starting role with student desktop support, into systems administration, service desk management, and now leading a team of Cloud engineers and architects at UArizona. Mandi has a bachelors degree in Near Eastern Studie...

Today's Guest is Paul Reeves. Paul is a Cloud Consulting Solutions Engineer at Splunk, supporting communications, technology, media, and gaming customers He focuses on helping customers get the most value from Splunk Cloud Platform and major cloud services providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP.  Prior to working at Splunk, Paul worked at the University of Arizona for 12 years, most recently lead...

Today's guest is Mark Fischer, Mark is an application architect at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Mark has over two decades of experience in the technology space, starting with a foundation in early web applications, through the Web 2.0 craze, and on to today's API and microservices driven architectures. Along the way he's been bringing automation, creativity, and edu...

Today's guest is Brett Bendickson. Brett is an Enterprise Architect in Digital Experience Technologies at the University of Arizona. He considers his role as that of a developer with a strong emphasis on integration. Brett has a long history with the University beginning as a student worker who created the university’s first official web homepage (UAInfo). He also was the principal developer...

Today's guest is Doug Hester. Doug is the University of Arizona’s Business Intelligence Architect and he leads the UAIR Systems Architecture & Security team. In 2008 he selected as the technical lead supporting the university's central Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) system and since 2015, is the UAIR BI Architect. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering...

Today's guest is Jessica DeStefano Woodworth. Jessica is the Microsoft Technologies Architect team lead for the University of Arizona. She started her journey at the University in the fall of 1996 as student in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, majoring in Anthropology.  She was so excited to return to the UofA in the spring of 2006 as a full time employee on the Windows Systems...