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CampusWorks (CWI) is an information technology (IT) management and strategic planning services firm specializing exclusively in higher education with IT executives and staff who have accumulated substantial experiences working in (and for) higher education for more than twenty-five years. The members of the CWI Senior Leadership Team have well-established reputations and are deemed authorities among their peers.
These individuals are dedicated to supporting higher education’s planning and information technology management initiatives and have demonstrated their ability to resolve many of the toughest problems and issues facing the leadership in institutions of higher education. The members of the CampusWorks Senior Leadership Team listed below have earned national reputations through their hard work and significant information technology planning and management responsibilities over the past twenty-five years.
Lawrence Schoenberg, PhD is a member of the CampusWorks’ Senior Leadership Team and is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Services Architect with CampusWorks Inc. Larry is responsible for all CampusWorks’ strategic planning and client services throughout North America.
Larry is the founder and former CEO of AGS Computers, Inc., the $1 billion NY Stock Exchange computer services and software company that merged with NYNEX and Merisel, Inc. Larry has been an industry leader for over 30 years and holds an MBA from Wharton and received an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College in 1999.
Larry is heavily involved in non-profit and philanthropic work. He is the Dickinson College Chairman for the Development and College Relations Committee and member of the Executive Committee of the Board. Larry is the current chair of the University of Pennsylvania Library's Board of Overseers and has supported the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, a digital library providing virtual facsimiles of rare books (http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/index.cfm). He is a former trustee for both the Saint Barnabas Medical Corporation and the New Jersey Community Foundation and is also a trustee of the Charles Babbage Institute and the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Larry is the former Chairman of the Board of the Information Technologies Association of America (ITAA), formerly ADAPSO. He has also held numerous directorships including Merisel, Inc., Government Technology Services, Inc., SunGard Data Services, Inc., Cellular Technical Services Corp., Systems Center, Inc, a division of Sterling Software, Inc., SoftSwitch, Inc. a division of IBM Corp., Penn America Group, Inc., and NYNEX Worldwide Services, a division of BellAtlantic Inc. Larry is also a former Director of Technology Specialists Inc. (TSI)/Collegis Corporation.
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Dale Jarrell is a member of the CampusWorks’ Senior Leadership Team, and serves as a CampusWorks Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Senior IT Executive. Dale is known both as a hands-on technologist and a senior-level VP with CWI. He performs on specific projects for CampusWorks’ clients using his great strength and experience with complicated enhancement projects including administrative systems, network/infrastructure and instructional technology initiatives. Another responsibility entails his General Management role where he has oversight responsibility for client satisfaction for several of CampusWorks’ clients.
Dale has been responsible for the CTO leadership for all IT staff resources, instructional technology initiatives and project management for a major ERP implementation involving all Student, Finance and Human Resource applications, using the Oracle database platform. Under his leadership, CampusWorks clients have successfully implemented new “Emerging Technologies” including developing robust enrollment management, portal, web and identity management technologies to support learner centered applications and secure network and infrastructure services. Included within the new technology implemented is a robust Identity Management roll-out.
Dale has also been responsible to lead the implementation of portal, identity management, and 24x7 support models. Dale has had responsibility for a number of administrative systems planning and management assignments for CWI client institutions including being the interim CTO at a number of CampusWorks client sites. Dale also led the CWI project delivery team at Red Deer College that performed the initial thorough review of the College’s instructional technology, network and security infrastructure, and ERP system, to address short term and long term performance of all College-wide technology enhancements and future directions. For Assiniboine Community College in Manitoba, he is responsible for technology leadership and the planning and implementation of enhancements to the College’s administrative system.
Dale served previously as Chief Information Officer for the Minnesota State College and University System (MnSCU), which is the fifth largest higher education system in the United States, supporting over thirty-five institutions (seven universities, ten technical colleges, nine community colleges, and eleven Comprehensive Colleges). He managed a department of 102 professionals and an annual budget of $16 million. At the direction of the State legislature, Dale provided the leadership in converting thirteen information systems and three wide area networks into a single integrated information system and network infrastructure serving all MnSCU institutions. He was successful in integrating the requirements of diverse institutions into a single “origin of services” model.
At the MnSCU, Dale’s responsibilities included all major aspects of the IT enterprise (academic labs/computer centers, administrative information systems, telecommunication and local/wide area networking). In addition, Dale has 20 years of IT leadership experience in working with a number of colleges and universities in Colorado, Ohio, and Minnesota. In these positions, Dale was responsible for all new instructional and administrative infrastructure activities, with a special focus on strategic and tactical planning. Through his efforts, each college successfully replaced obsolete technology with new technology, and reorganized the IT organization to better utilize new emerging technologies.
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Raymond Neff, ScD is a member of the CampusWorks’ Senior Leadership Team, and serves as a CampusWorks Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chair of CWI’s Emerging Technologies Best Practices Group. Ray specializes in leading Emerging Technologies and Technology Enhancement projects at CWI client sites. He also has provided IT leadership for numerous IT assessments, planning and the implementation of complex PeopleSoft, Datatel and Banner ERP software projects. In addition to his leadership role with Emerging Technologies projects, Ray has led a number of technology planning and ERP enhancement projects for such CWI clients as the Houston Community College System, TX; Grand Rapids Community College, MI; Metropolitan Community College, MO; Elgin Community College, IL; and Middlesex Community College, MA.
Ray is currently serving as the CampusWorks Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Grand Rapids Community College, MI. In this capacity, Ray successfully led the development of a comprehensive tactical plan entitled, “Tactical Plan for Integrating Technology into the College’s Teaching and Learning Mission”, which served as the basis for obtaining a $1 Million grant from the CampusEAI/Portal Consortium.
Ray has over 30 years experience in higher education information technology. As the former Chief Information Officer with Case Western Reserve University, Ray was responsible for setting the strategic direction of the University's information resources. He was the President's chief advisor in formulating policy for the University with respect to both information technology and libraries; his responsibilities also encompassed instructional technologies, the PeopleSoft administrative information system platform and areas such as advanced digital library technologies, IT security, disaster recovery, quality assurance, and all facets of telecommunications infrastructure.
Prior to his work at Case Western Reserve, Ray was the Assistant Vice Chancellor and CTO at the University of California-Berkeley and also had held positions of responsibility at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He also held faculty positions at each of these institutions. Ray has a broad portfolio that covers both centralized and decentralized information technology and related activities in all departments and centers for both the academic and administrative areas. His responsibilities have included budgets, planning, management of data, voice and video network services, user services, data center operations, and systems administration with respect to information technology and PeopleSoft enterprise-wide administrative systems.
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Darrow Neves, PhD is a member of the CampusWorks’ Senior Leadership Team and serves as a CampusWorks Vice President of Operations, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Chair of CWI’s Best Practices Board. In his work with CWI, Darrow is responsible for providing corporate technical services to clients and assistance with comprehensive IT operations audits, Emerging Technologies strategic and tactical planning, hardware architecture/network infrastructure planning and technical implementation of voice, data and video networks, as well as large-scale administrative computing applications such as Datatel, PeopleSoft, and SCT Banner.
Currently, Darrow is co-chair of CWI’s Best Practices Board responsible for performing comprehensive planning assessments throughout North America. Darrow also provides tactical and strategic planning initiatives for client colleges including ERP systems, identity management/portal/web and advancing technology in core teaching and learning applications. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Neves led several major ERP implementation and enhancement projects and is a recognized expert in this area.
Darrow has also been instrumental in several CWI - ERP maximization and enhancement projects including the Houston Community College System, TX; Grand Rapids Community College, MI; Bunker Hill Community College, MA; Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, CA; Elgin Community College, IL; Middlesex Community College, MA; Nassau Community College, NY and Northern Essex Community College, MA.
At Middlesex, where Darrow served as CTO, he was responsible for managing a robust ERP operation and had oversight responsibility for all information technology initiatives – including policy development (a new Acceptable Use Policy), deployment of an innovative tiered Help Desk, a new wireless network and a new technology replacement program (quite a feat with Massachusetts’ tight budget). Darrow’s overall achievements at Middlesex are aptly commended in the recent commendation letters written by Middlesex Community College President, Dr. Carole Cowan, Vice-President/CFO Jay Linnehan, and Vice-President of Enrollment Services, Dr. Lois Alves.
Darrow’s previous experience includes assignments at Miami University, where Darrow served as the Administrative Systems Project Officer for a successful implementation of all of the ERP modules, Datamart and Campus Pipeline web portal. In this project Darrow was responsible for the technical architecture of the project, the transition from mainframe to a distributed architecture and the University’s successful completion of the enhancement of all ERP modules.
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Ben J. Tuchi, PhD is a member of the CampusWorks’ Senior Leadership Team, and serves as a CampusWorks General Manager and Senior IT Executive for Business Process Design. Ben directs all business process design projects throughout North America for CampusWorks and provides project oversight for these projects. Ben has over 30 years experience with institutions of higher learning. Among the institutions where Ben had worked in senior and Cabinet-level posts are the University of Pittsburgh, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University.
Ben is involved with CampusWorks business process consulting and management assignments nationwide. Prior to joining CampusWorks, Ben spent his entire work life with colleges and universities, with teaching roles at five institutions and major management responsibilities at four. Ben has worked with many CWI clients throughout the country assisting with IT operations audits, IT strategic planning, business process design and disaster recovery plans.
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