Monday, July 23 2:45 – 3:45 Joyce Lopes http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5ZQ65DL
Monday, July 30 2:45 – 3:45 Douglas Vinzant http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/55LG37W
Wednesday, Aug. 1 2:45 – 3:45 Cleve McDaniel http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KKKKKYQ
Joyce Lopes, currently the Chief Business Officer for Western Placer Unified School District, began her career in Europe working for the University of Maryland, European Division. A desire to develop her financial skills led her back to the United States to become a Certified Public Accountant and obtain her Masters in Business Administration. She has a certificate from the Chief Business Officer Leadership Institute sponsored by the California Association of School Business Officers (CASBO). She is one of less than 200 individuals to attain this certification. She is a trained consultant for interest-based negotiations. In that consulting capacity, she helps educational organizations develop collaborative processes and build strong teams operating in an environment of trust and support. Lopes has a 30-year year career in the education industry. Her experience with public and private universities in the U.S. and overseas includes the University of Maryland, California State University Sacramento, and Sierra Community College. During her career, she has helped develop and implement several strategic plans, achieved fiscal independence from the county office of education, and helped develop a formulaic approach to budget allocation.
Dr. Douglas Vinzant began working July 1 for the Pappas Group, a leading national consulting organization specializing in work with higher education clients. Previously he served as Vice President for Administration at the University of Wyoming from 2009 through 2012. As Vice President for Administration, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the University and Deputy Treasurer to the Board of Trustees. He managed the units supporting operating and capital budgeting, institutional analysis, debt management and treasury operations, procurement, accounting and payroll, facilities planning and construction management, physical plant, campus police and auxiliary enterprises (bookstore and parking). Prior to the University of Wyoming, he was employed in senior administrative roles at the University of Illinois from 2002 to 2009, including Associate Vice President for Planning and Budget (2002-2007) and Senior Associate Vice President for Planning and Administration (2007-2009). While at the U of Illinois, he led a major university-wide strategic planning initiative, was executive sponsor of the design, development, and deployment of the enterprise data warehouse as well as managing the ongoing operations of budgeting, institutional analysis, human resources, the consortium of academic and research libraries in Illinois, and enterprise administrative computing. From 1995 to 2002, he worked at Arizona State University Main Campus as Director of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, overseeing strategic planning, institutional analysis, and enterprise data warehouse operations. He also served as special assistant to the President on work related to the Governor’s Task Force on Higher Education.
Dr. Olin ‘Cleve’ McDaniel has nearly 30 years of experience in higher education, including positions as vice president or vice chancellor at multiple institutions. Prior to his current position as Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration at the American University of Sharjah, Dr. McDaniel was Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Operations Officer at the Desert Research Institute of Nevada for over six years. While there, he also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Desert Research Parks, Ltd. Other similar positions before the Desert Research Institute include Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at the Colorado Springs campus of the University of Colorado, Vice President for Administrative Affairs at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois and Vice President for Administrative Services at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Prior to his tenure at Lincoln, Dr. McDaniel was Senior Associate for Planning and Policy Studies with the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education in Jefferson City, Missouri. Dr. McDaniel is also a founding partner of the Educational Consulting Foundation, a non-profit consulting group dedicated to assisting higher education institutions with their institutional and information technology strategic planning and budgeting and with organizational structures and governance. Institutions for which he has consulted include the California State University at Bakersfield, the El Paso Community College System, New Mexico State University, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Texas at El Paso and a variety of other higher education and non-profit organizations.