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Meet the Team

Meet the teams supporting the Workday transition, which will transform how Miami University delivers essential business services and provide seamless end-to-end experiences for faculty, staff, and students.

Workday Student Team

Team Leads

  • Drew Davis: Student Core Workstream
  • Don Kidd: Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) Workstream
  • Amy Locke: Technical Reporting
  • Christy McClure: Organizational Change Management (OCM) Workstream
  • Bruce McGee: Student Financials Workstream
  • Bill Miley: Data Conversion
  • Leigh Mondello-Garrett and Heather Bechtol: Financial Aid Workstream
  • Ted Peters: Registration/Records Workstream
  • Dirk Tepe: Technical Workstream
  • Daryl Wright: Functional Reporting
  • Jessica Yeung: Recruiting and Admissions Workstream

Financial Aid

Leads
  • Beth Johnson: Compliance
Subject Matter Experts
  • Linsey Buehner
  • Brandi Lee
  • James Payne

Recruiting and Admission

  • Lindsay Marnell
  • Eric Secor: Regionals

Registration/Records

Leads
  • Becki Bleikamp: Academic Advising
  • Alicia Current: Records and Academic Foundation
  • Drew Davis: Student Core
  • Courtney Thompson: Curriculum
  • Liz Walsh-Trevino: Student Onboarding 
Subject Matter Experts
  • Tim Cameron
  • Amy Cockrell: International
  • Dan Darkow: Disabilities
  • Elizabeth Elam: Regionals
  • Joe Hawkins: Family Services
  • Matt Suber: Veterans
  • Chanelle White

Student Financials

Leads
  • Kriss Cassano: Tuition and Fees
  • Andrea Seward: Cashiering
  • Kim Engle: Collections
Subject Matter Experts
  • Sarah Mayer
  • Jeff Pidcock
  • Brian Woodruff

Technical Team

Leads
  • Tony Kinne: Security
  • Bryan Powell: Integration
Integration Team 
  • Colton Laker
  • Will Mundy
  • Swetha Sethumadhavan
  • Cecil Wilson
Reporting Team
  • Emmanuel Alhassan
  • Glenn Chundrlek
  • Gigi Cimmarusti
  • Liz Hooven
  • Michael Light
  • Jerry McMillen
  • Seth Meyer
  • Disha Nevagi
  • Chay Reigle
Reporting Subject Matter Experts
  • Lindsay Carpenter
  • Steve Graunke
  • Padma Patil
Data Conversion Subject Matter Experts
  • Kelly Donathan
  • Dean Harris
  • Gavin Hartzell
  • Joanna Kellogg
  • Priya Kodeboina
  • Brennan Reed
  • Emily Schmidt
  • Raja Thiruppathi 

Cross-Functional

  • Jon Cherry: Registration/Admissions Business Analyst
  • Fred Cook: Student Financials Business Analyst
  • Joe Mills: Financial Aid Business Analyst
  • Jeff Toaddy: External Systems Lead

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

  • Randy Hollowell: Communications Lead
  • Amy Newsom: Training Lead
  • Sarah Persinger: Subject Matter Expert

Workday Platform Team

Team Leads

  • Lindsay Carpenter: Business Reporting Workstream
  • David Ellis: Finance (FIN) Workstream
  • Ruth Groom: Human Capital Management (HCM) Workstream
  • Don Kidd: Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) Workstream
  • Sarah Persinger: Organizational Change Management (OCM) Workstream
  • Lisa Riendeau: Payroll (PAY) Workstream
  • Dirk Tepe: Technical (TECH) Workstream

Finance

Leads
  • Linda Manley: Grants
  • Jennifer Morrison: Accounting
  • Allen Sizemore: Procurement
  • Jenny Wethington: Accounts Payable

Subject Matter Experts

  • Lindsay Carpenter
  • Jeff Pidcock
  • Cody Powell
  • Cynthia Ripberger
  • Denny Sundermeier
  • Ben Taylor
  • Micki White
  • Qi Zhang

Human Capital Management

Leads
  • Gary Barnes: Compensation
  • Mike Savnik: Recruitment
  • Jeana Becker: Benefits
  • Melissa Wyatt: Talent
  • Jeff Shaver: Learning

Subject Matter Experts

  • Krista Clinebell
  • Dawn Fahner
  • Beth Matix
  • Bess Sprockett

Payroll

Leads

  • Lauran Franklin: Absence/Time Tracking

Subject Matter Experts

  • Irena Chushak

Technical Team

Leads

  • Liz Hooven: Prism
  • Tony Kinne: Security
  • Bill Miley: Data Conversion
  • Amy Locke: Technical Reporting
  • Bryan Powell: Integration

Analysts 

  • Fred Cook: Business
  • Kelly Donathan: Business

Data Conversion Developers

  • Dean Harris
  • Gavin Hartzell
  • Priya Kodeboina
  • Emily Schmidt
  • Raja Thiruppathi

Integration Developers

  • Jen Herman
  • Colton Laker
  • Will Mundy
  • Dan Murphy
  • Swetha Sethumadhavan
  • Chris Weitzel
  • Cecil Wilson

Reporting/Prism Developer

  • Emmanuel Alhassan
  • Jerry McMillen
  • Disha Nevagi
  • Seth Meyer

Scrum Masters

  • Joanna Kellogg
  • Guydon Sunde

Cross-Functional

Leads

  • Lindsay Carpenter: Business Reporting
  • Don Kidd: Testing

Subject Matter Experts

  • Padma Patil: Reporting
  • David Schaefer: Reporting

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

Leads
  • Brenda Curry: Training
  • Randy Hollowell: Communications

Coordinators

  • Amy Newsom: Training

Workday Leadership Team

Executive Sponsors

  • David Creamer
  • David Seidl
  • Liz Mullenix
  • Rachel Beech

Steering Committee

  • Brad Grimm
  • Brian Henebry
  • Duane Drake
  • Padma Patil
  • Scott Walter

Project Manager

  • Kent Covert

Contact the Workday Team

Miami University
501 E. High St.
Oxford, OH 45056