OIT shifting resources to ESUP

(Edited 6/25 to correct/add list of names)

ESUP received some welcomed news from their partners in the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Additional resources are on their way to help the program. 

ESUP OIT team member Jim Nolan says the shift is necessary. “We have more complexity at this stage of our plan with the creation of many new environments...as things wind down on the production side and ramp up on the ESUP side, there will be a natural progression of staff to ESUP to perform this work and gradually transition to support the new systems.”

The following OIT staff joining the program include:

• Reporting - Alex Dean, Derek Widner, Fadwa Wazwaz, Lakshmi Meka, Suzanne Raph, and Joe Sullivan
• Provisioning - Cathy Erickson, Carol Singleton, and Michele Berner
• Infrastructure - Marianna Dobkina, Kim Laabs, Thomas Callaghan, Alec Abasov, and Dan Stout
• Application Development - John Colosey, Jake Gage, and Chris Crosby-Schmidt
• Testing - Todd Nielsen
• Enhanced User Support - Sarah Patterson
• Infrastructure - Clark Johnson
• Portal - Jordan Slominski

ESUP’s Executive Program Director Dennis Wenzel appreciated the extra hands. “Our ongoing partnership with OIT and the other University work streams is critical to ESUP’s success. We are pleased to welcome this talented group of UMN staff to our team.”