2018 Session

Title: Fast 5 Project Management Tips for Non-project Managers
Description:
5 quick tips to project management for non-project managers will include simple tips to create consistent communication, status, tracking, transparency, and success for your projects.

Biography

Tony Johnson is a Project Manager with the Project Management Office at the University of Wisconsin –Madison. Prior to joining the PMO in December 2017, Tony served a Project Manager for 15 years at Lands’ End Inc. Tony has successfully led both strategic and infrastructure projects for multiple divisions of the business. His experience includes leading the execution of numerous multi-million dollar program launches for business to business engagements. Throughout the years, Tony has often been requested to help with troubled projects in need of remediation.

Biography

Jess Jones is a user experience analyst at DoIT, working with partners within DoIT and across campus to help them understand and meet the needs of students, faculty, staff, and other users. In 2016, she co-founded the Better by Design conference and workshop series at UW-Madison, with the goal of bringing together design-minded people to explore new ideas and skills with major design influencers from Google, the New York Times, U.S. Digital Service, Minecraft, and more. She holds a Master’s of Science in Human Computer Interaction from DePaul University and a B.A. in Journalism from UW-Madison.

2019 Session

SPRINT! Tackle big problems in a week

2018 Session

Low-Effort, and effective UX techniques for busy technologists

Biography

Justin works for the School of Medicine and Public Health.

2018 Session

Title: Augmented and Mixed Reality Development with the Microsoft HoloLens
Co-Presenters: Mark Field, Mike Tessmer
Description:
Mixed Reality through the Microsoft HoloLens (Google/Youtube it!) allows collaborative interaction with virtual objects integrated into our physical world.
Imagine wearing mixed reality goggles that allow students or researchers to see one another, see their physical environment, but also view and interact with the same virtual objects.
Imagine:

1. Examining a virtual 3D cadaver in the middle of a conference room that we can all walk around, collaboratively dissect, and discuss. Later at night, you study using the same virtual tools and body in your living room.
2. Simulating the real-time mixing of 3 different liquids into a virtual, 10x scale beaker allowing dozens of us to view and alter the experiment, adding a fourth or fifth liquid or solution on demand, exploring the impact at the particle level.
3. Viewing all the plumbing, electrical, and ductwork behind all the walls of the room you are in, or augmenting the existing room with an additional wall/door to simulate what a remodel might look like.
4. Modeling an approaching wall cloud with tornadic capabilities in a conference room, with a virtual scaled landscape on the floor.

We’ll demo the Microsoft HoloLens, demo our proof of concept application built for medical physicists in the School of Medicine and Public Health, explain the software development process, brainstorm campus applications, and provide an opportunity for participants to try out the product as time allows.

Biography

Software Developer, Project Manager, and HoloLens Geek – Web and Mobile Solutions (WaMS) at DoIT

Biography

Paul is the Chief Information Officer for the City of Madison, WI. This centralized IT organization provides IT applications development, infrastructure and support services for all city agencies. Previous positions include serving as CIO for the WI State Dept. of Revenue, CIO for the WI State Dept. of Commerce and IT management positions at the City of Milwaukee. In addition, Paul has held executive positions with several technology companies.

Biography

Nuwan Kumarasiri is a Senior Systems Developer with DoIT. He has experience developing software for wide variety of domains such as Health Insurance, Retail, MiddleWare etc..He enjoys working with distributed systems, low-latency systems and data intensive computations.

2019 Session

Lessons Learned from Writing a Large Go Program

2018 Session

Title: Don’t Panic! Success is a bigger target than you think
Co-Presenters: Robert Merrill, Tamra Dagnon
Description:
Someone has handed you a project—actually just an idea and a deadline—and you’re not really a project manager or business analyst. How can you set everyone up for success, without losing your minds in the process? This panel discussion with two BAs and a PM from the CIO’s Office PMO will leave with you some essential concepts and pro tips to help you get from almost zero information to a scope, some high-level requirements, and a realistic budget and schedule that tilt the odds of success
in your favor.
Key Session Takeaways:

• Success – What is the real problem or opportunity?
• Scope – Agreeing on what we’re not doing (and doing)
• Requirements – Understanding and describing possible solution capabilities
• Estimating – effort, budget, schedule, and what if it won’t fit?

Biography

Shannon Larson began her first career as a Technical Process Engineer in the foundry business before
she even graduated from UW-Madison in 2005. After various roles in a variety of industries, she ended
up as a Project Manager in early 2008 in large-scale manufacturing. Exasperated on multiple fronts by
the manufacturing industry, Shannon made the switch to IT project management in 2010 and never
looked back, working as a project and program manager in the private sector before joining the UWMadison
Project Management Office in 2013. Shannon’s pragmatic, lightweight, flexible approach has
helped her lead a number of teams to success, including the separation of the UW System Network
and WiscNet in 2015. Shannon is now a Senior Project Manager.

2018 Session

Title: How to manage your Windows 10 desktop upgrades with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Description:
SCCM provides several ways you can manage your Windows 10 infrastructure. Discover alternatives to Windows’ Long Term Servicing Branch and become the master of when and how your machines upgrade to the newest version of Windows.

Biography

Charlie Maurice is a Windows Systems Engineer with the College of Engineering. He runs the campus System Center Configuration Manager user group, and is involved with a number of campus projects. Some will recognize him as the guy who always says “Don’t use the LTSB!” on techpartners. In his spare time, he enjoys pinball and restomodding his 1975 corvette.

2018 Session

Title: The IT Project Intake Process – Enabling Collaboration Across Campus
Co-Presenters: Alan Silver, Steve Devoti
This session will with start with a brief overview of the process that was rolled out last October and share statistics to show how the process is working.
We will also go into more detail about what actually happens when a project is submitted and what interesting things have been learned by having projects reviewed by others.
We will describe some of the projects that have been successes, how we were able to match up people with software and vice versa and how it helped with creating some broader discussions of solutions.

Biography

Dawn McCauley is the Executive Director of the IT Center of Excellence for UW-Madison.
She began her career at Maytag leading a variety of ERP implementations, she also worked with Amtrak where she helped their procurement organization establish strategic performance metrics and spend analytics. The last 10 years have been with the State of Wisconsin, with a portion of that time spent at the University of Wisconsin on the HRS PeopleSoft implementation then with the State as the Executive Director of the STAR Program Office.

Biography

Don works for the School of Medicine and Public Health.