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Eric Dover is the Executive Director of Experience Center and Learning Space Services for the University Technology Office. Within this area, Eric’s responsibilities include overseeing the 24x7x365 Experience Center that is the tier-1 front door to many university services such as IT, parking services, financial aid, general questions, and many more. Eric is also responsible for overseeing the day to day operations of all of the centrally managed physical university technology classrooms, general use computing labs, and assisting with the development of next-generation physical learning spaces. Eric also oversees an Instructional Design and Training team that provides training and resources for UTO systems and services that the university community engages in. Eric has over 18 years of higher education information technology experience that ranges from tier-1 assistance to tier-3 enterprise systems development and support.
Melissa has the privilege of leading the Messaging and Collaboration team at Arizona State University. My team provides support for Microsoft O365, Google, Zoom, and Slack Enterprise Grid to all of the ASU community.
Tina Thorstenson is Deputy CIO and Chief Information Security Officer at Arizona State University responsible for IT Governance, Policy, and Information Security. She leads IT alignment and enhancement activities across ASU, supporting a variety of activities designed to accelerate support for innovation, improve agility, provide relevant policies and standards, drive operational excellence, and improve transparency. Tina has spent the majority of her career aligning technology to the mission and goals of higher education institutions. She has significant experience aligning to institutional goals, implementing necessary technology services and solutions to meet the growing needs of ASU.
Christine Whitney Sanchez is a social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, and architect of large-scale transformation. She has worked across five continents to build the capacity for mindful leadership, strategic collaboration and thriving organizations and communities.
As the Chief Culture Officer for the University Technology Office, she collaboratively designs and advances an integrated approach to the development of UTO’s values-led organizational culture. To enhance ASU’s local impact and social embeddedness, she actively works within and beyond ASU to co-develop solutions to the critical social, cultural and environmental issues facing 21stcentury Arizona.
Integrating her experience as a psychotherapist, Christine focuses on leadership from the inside-out. Taking a holistic approach to change, she engages the whole system to build on strengths and create the conditions for success.
Christine has guided tens of thousands of stakeholders to resolve thorny issues and generate new opportunities. She has trained thousands of change leaders around the globe in strength-based approaches to leadership and organization development. She has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world. And that is what brings her joy.
John Rome is 25+ year employee of Arizona State University (ASU) and an experienced IT leader, educator, consultant, technologist and innovator John is a pioneer of data warehousing in higher education, building ASU’s data warehouse in the early 1990’s. He is also an instructor in the ASU W.P. Carey School of Business. His areas of expertise include information technology strategy, analytics/business intelligence, data governance, big data, public cloud development and deployment, and most recently, voice-enabled interfaces. He is also the recipient of two ASU President’s Innovation Awards.
Nathan is a 20+ year member of the technology team at Arizona State University where he is currently an Executive Director. For his third degree at ASU he is currently a graduate student in the School for the Future of Innovation in society.
As the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the University Design Institute at ASU, Cary López is passionate about co-creating organizational processes, structures, and cultures that allow for people to flourish in their workplaces. Whether through strategic planning efforts, organizational change initiatives, or designing group facilitation and team processes, she works with people to transform their organization. While her career journey has been a somewhat winding path – including everything from helping startups launch to auditing public companies and running a large HR department – the core of her passion has remained the same: to work with the people of an organization to create a positive culture, where all members can flourish and thrive. She is one of the co-creators of the ASU Spark Method, a problem-solving method designed to help teams move from issue to action. When she’s not at work, she’s chasing her two young kiddos around, completing a PhD program in Communication, and sharing all of the craziness that is their life with her husband.
