Leadership Team
The Financial Systems Modernization Leadership Team is responsible for the day-to-day oversight and leadership of the project. Each team member manages one or more workstreams (subprojects), ensuring they are achieved on time and in collaboration with all other workstreams. The leadership team reports directly to Mark Schulz in his role as the Project Manager for the overall modernization project.
David Gutierrez
Director, System Enterprise Applications—Business Intelligence
Lallah Howard
Senior Director, System Enterprise Applications
Scott Johns
Software Applications Developer IV, FAMIS Services
Marc Moore
Director, Enterprise Software Initiatives
Mark Schulz
Deputy Chief Information Officer, System Enterprise Applications
Terry Tatum
Executive Director, Office of Information Technology
Executive Sponsors
Role
The Executive Sponsors are the voice of the project. They provide the key message to our members on the business reason we are doing this project. Our primary sponsors, Joseph Duron and Mark Stone will be key to ensuring our members embrace the change and understand the impact.
Responsibilities
Each of our Executive Sponsors are actively engaged in the project and committed to it’s success. The executive sponsors:
- Participate in periodic meetings
- Provide feedback and guidance on high level decisions and issues
- Provide advice and direction on training and communications
- Provide advice and direction on Phase III – Modernization plans
- Establish a commitment to change management
- Actively advocate for the project
- Clearly articulate the business case for the project
- Present updates at strategic meetings
- Present at other functions across the System
- Review and sign high level communications to be broadly distributed across the A&M System
Cynthia Carter-Horn
Senior Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer, Prairie View A&M University
Lori Beaty
Vice President for Finance and Administration, Tarleton State University
Bea Blomquist
Business Coordinator for President and Provost, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Todd Lutz
Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Joseph Dunn
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Texas A&M Engineering
Chesney Cote (Ex Officio)
Internal Audit, The Texas A&M University System
Joseph Duron
Executive Director-Budget and Accounting, The Texas A&M University System
John McCall
Associate Vice President and Controller, Texas A&M University
Vic Seidel
Associate Vice President and Controller, Texas A&M AgriLife
Annette Shenkir
Associate Vice President-Research, Texas A&M University
Mark Stone
Chief Information Officer, The Texas A&M University System
Project Team
The Texas A&M University System
Edward Bodiford
Software Applications Developer
Dan Hargrove
Assistant Director, Office of Information Technology
Scott Johns
Software Applications Developer
Dwayne Kessner
Assistant Director, Office of Information Technology
Kristin McCarty
Software Applications Developer
Alicia Meza
Software Applications Developer
Rick Nace
Database Administrator
Gregory Nolen
Software Applications Developer
Jesse Olivarez
Software Applications Developer
Susan Pate
IT Manager
Gene Wisniewski
Software Applications Developer
AFR Project Team
Brad Berryman
Project Manager, Excel Global Partners
Jun Binghay
Black Diamond
Tracy Crowley
Associate Director-Financial Reporting, The Texas A&M University System
Teresa Edwards
Controller, The Texas A&M University System
Damaris Estrella
Excel Global Partners
Lallah Howard
Senior Director, The Texas A&M University System
Jason Kaber
Director, Black Diamond
Kathleen Kissam
Vice President-Managing Director of CPM Solutions, Excel Global Partners
Mark Schulz
Deputy Chief Information Officer, The Texas A&M University System
John Sheldon
President, Excel Global Partners
Rob Snelson
Manager, Black Diamond
Joe Tomlin
Director, Black Diamond
Adam Velas
Senior Financial Systems Consultant, Excel Global Partners
Jiying Yu
Financial Analyst, The Texas A&M University System