Presenter Type: 2019 Speakers

Nagreen, Sara

Sara Nagreen

Credentials: (She/Her)

Email: nagreen@math.wisc.edu

Address:
Math Department
IT Manager

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Biography

Sara Nagreen has been with the UW for 25 years. She has been working to improve the IT community for many years as part of the IT Connects group, both in IT mentoring and in the IT Professionals group. She continues to serve on several departmental, college and university committees to emphasize IT participation in shared governance, and distributed IT professional’s place at the table.

2023 Session

IT Awards

2020 Session

IT Communities of Practice – Forum

2019 Sessions

Is it up?: a campus solution for backup monitoring
Building an IT Community

Nelson, Joe

Joe Nelson

Email: joe.nelson@wisc.edu

Address:
Office of Data Management & Analytics Services (ODMAS)

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2019 Session

RADAR: Finding Data at UW-Madison

Biography

Joe Nelson is a Business Intelligence Developer in the Office of Data Management and Analytics Services, where he plays a pivotal role in the development of institutional analytical applications. Reporting to the Chief Data Officer, Joe is responsible for carrying out Tableau and web development activities to support UW-Madison, transforming business requirements into optimal analytical solutions. Joe also assists in providing application administration support to our BI applications.

Parter, David

David Parter

Credentials: (He/Him)

Email: dparter@cs.wisc.edu

Address:
Computer Science (CS) Department
IT Director

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Biography

David is the IT Director for the Department of Computer Sciences and the Computer Systems Lab. The CSL provides IT services for the Computer Sciences Department and the Statistics Department, the new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS), and for some affiliated programs.

In addition to leading the CSL, David has been an active participant in campus IT activities including serving on the IT Policy Planning and Analysis Team (PAT), several policy drafting and development teams, co-chairing MIST (Madison Information Security Team) and serving on the MIST Executive committee, L&S Technical Leadership Committee and various other project or topic teams. David was a founder of the IT Professionals Conference and co-chair of the first three conferences. Previously, David served as program chair of the LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference and on multiple program committees, and on the board of related professional associations.

David has also been an Academic Staff Assembly representative or alternate for several terms, and is a graduate of the ITLP/MOR leadership program.

Outside of work, David is a hockey referee and player and a private pilot.

2022 Sessions

Resources for (New and Existing) UW-Madison IT Professionals
IT Careers Panel

2021 Session

IT Policy Bootcamp – Live Session

2020 Session

Extending Mulifactor Authentication to the Desktop and Network

2019 Session

Continuous Integration: Experience with CI quality tools and gitlab (and a demo of sonarqube)

Petro, Andrew

Andrew Petro

Credentials: (He/Him)

Email: andrew.petro@wisc.edu

Address:
School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH)
Software Developer

Biography

Andrew Petro is a Software Developer in the School of Medicine and Public Health. Andrew previously served at UW-Madison in the Division of Information Technology, primarily working on MyUW. Andrew started understanding Git better after learning about Jujutsu VCS and suggests you try it too, so we can nerd out about it together.

2026 Sessions

What Even is Technical Debt?
Appreciating jj-vcs

2025 Session

Flash Talks

2023 Session

Agile On The Ground

2021 Session

AWS DynamoDB via Clojure

2019 Session

Clojure for the win

Poser, Chris

Chris Poser

Credentials: (He/Him)

Email: crposer@wisc.edu

Address:
Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
User Services
IT Manager

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Biography

Chris has been with DoIT since he was a student employee in 2001. He has spent his tenure within the User Services Departmental Support team filling a variety of roles including time spent within the group office team, leading the PC and Mac repair team, and leading the desktop support team providing DoIT’s internal IT support. Chris is currently the manager of the Departmental Support Secure Endpoint and Application Management (SEAM) team. SEAM is responsible for providing endpoint management support for 7,000 computer systems across campus, administers and secures systems in the campus critical infrastructure environments, runs the campus pay-for-print service (GoPrint), the campus Event Management Service (EMS) and also provides OS Deployment and Managed Security Layer services for many campus partners.

Chris enjoys spending time with family, watching films, cooking, reading, playing games, and other entertaining, pleasantly generic activities.

2023 Session

Gap to the Future: Conducting a Gap Analysis to Identify Team Specific DEIB Strategies

2022 Session

Resources for (New and Existing) UW-Madison IT Professionals

2021 Session

What on Earth is $acronym_of_campus_IT_unit?

Scheide, Leah

Leah Scheide

Email: leah.scheide@wisc.edu

Address:
Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
Service Coordinator

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Biography

Leah Scheide is a UW-Madison alum who first started working at DoIT as an undergrad with the Help Desk, during which time she began to help create and maintain content for the UW KnowledgeBase. Following graduation, she joined the KB team and eventually moved into the role of KnowledgeBase Service Lead. Through her time at DoIT, she has developed a passion for the intersection between service design, user experience, and product development.

2025 Session

Redesigning Without Disruption: Transforming UW–Madison’s KnowledgeBase Editor

2019 Session

Building an IT Community

Schultz, David

David Schultz

Credentials: (He/Him)

Email: david.schultz@icecube.wisc.edu

Address:
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (IceCube/WIPAC)
Research CyberInfrastructure Manager

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Biography

David Schultz received a M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a Research Cyberinfrastruture Manager at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), where he’s worked for 12 years. He works primarily on middleware to enable science, focusing on high throughput computing and data management.

2022 Session

Demystifying OAuth2 Login Flows

2022 Session

Web Testing with Cypress

2020 Session

Pre-Exascale Cloud Burst

2019 Session

Access control using JWT across multiple services

Schwanke, Marsha

Marsha Schwanke

Email: msschwan@syr.edu

Address:
Syracuse University
Burton Blatt Institute (BBI)

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2019 Session

Web Accessibility Jeopardy

Biography

Marsha Schwanke develops web projects, online training, and accessible materials for a grant-funded regional center of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University. Her focus is maximizing access and usability based on “best practices” and established guidelines, such as the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Ms. Schwanke has a Bachelors in Therapeutic Recreation from Ohio University and a Masters in Information Technology from American Intercontinental University. She is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) and has over 30 years experience as a manager, practitioner, and volunteer working with children and adults with disabilities in hospital, long-term care, and community settings. She has authored and facilitated numerous presentations and trainings on disability awareness, web access, and assistive technology.

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