Greetings all,
We on the CC PAG hope your winter is going well, and that we will see you at Alliance 2014 in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada!
We’re also pleased to announce the election results for 2014, and welcome our new PAG members – please see the new member bios below.
Don’t forget to complete your conference agenda in advance by going to the Alliance main page, click “Register Today,” and “View Your Registration Details” under “Already Registered.” Go to the “Agenda” tab to sign up for sessions, and make sure to join us for Campus Community Birds of a Feather and Campus Community Community.
All best and see you in Vegas!
The Campus Community PAG
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New Regular Members with a three year term:
Eimear Nelis
Dr. Eimear Nelis has been Security Lead for PS Campus Solutions (branded Qsis) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, since 2010 and is also a senior member of the Qsis Systems and Support team, responsible for user support as well as operational maintenance of the system and change/configuration management. She also has many years’ experience in post-Doctoral research in Higher Education sector and is an experienced peer-reviewed author and editor.
Max Herman
Max is a business analyst at the University of Minnesota, assigned to Campus Community as well as Student Records. He has worked at the University since 2011, and prior to that worked elsewhere in higher education since 2003. Max is familiar with many areas of Campus Solutions, having worked on implementations and in operations for several years, on both PeopleSoft and other academic software systems. He holds an MS degree in IT project management. Current duties center work on the upgrade from CS 8.9 to CS 9.x, which is being conducted along with the CS/HCM Split. This is Max’s second year on the CC PAG, having served last year as an Associate Member.
Stephen Brawn
I am a Senior Systems Analyst Programmer at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. I have worked at Northwestern for just under three years as a developer for the Admissions, Campus Community and Student Records modules of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. During this time I have worked on many development projects including a printable photo roster, a self-service emergency information collection project, an emergency information mobile app project for Deans-On-Call, and I am currently working on two new application interfaces using file parser and AAWS. I have also been heavily involved in technical production support and maintenance tasks for the Admissions, Campus Community, and Student Records modules and have been leading admissions and campus community related technical support and maintenance tasks for the last year and a half. At Northwestern, I am also a member of a web developers accessibility working group which helps to ensure that our web sites, software, and vendor products are as accessible as possible for people with disabilities. Previous to working at Northwestern, I was a PeopleSoft developer at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Pennsylvania and did large development projects in the PeopleSoft HRMS product as part of a harmonization initiative to bring all of the sectors within the company into one HR enterprise product.
New Associate Members with a one year term:
Brenda McCue
Brenda McCue is a Systems Analyst at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario where she has worked for 24 years. She was the technical lead for the implementation of PeopleSoft at Fleming in 2006 and continues to be involved in all projects related to the improvement and maintenance of their PeopleSoft environment in the areas of HR, Finance and Student. She has been on the CC PAG as Track Chair, was part of the Product Enhancement Tracker (PET) group and this year continues on the CC PAG as an associate member.
Mark Messing
My experience with PeopleSoft started back in 1994 when I was on the initial search committee and then implementation team in the private sector when we implemented HRMS v3.0. We went through a double upgrade to v5.0 two years later. Then in 1997, we upgraded to v7.0. I left the company to work for a smaller company, but that lasted a year. Then I moved to another large company that was running PS v7.5. I worked there for 18 months, and left to work at another smaller company where I served on another search committee and implementation team to implement Oracle HRMS. After 18 months, I was laid off and then found a job at Boise State University where we were on v8.0 when I joined. We went live with PS v9.0 in 2008. Last February -- 2013, we completed an 18 month v9.0 refresh project, where we reviewed every business process and every customization to take advantage of vanilla functionality and removing customization where possible. We removed approx 65% of the customization we had within the system. I continue to be the CC Lead and Data Steward for Campus Community.