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Looking for Free Advice on Your Project?

We know how important it is to communicate with other IT professionals in Higher Ed. Whether you’re facing a difficult problem in your project or have some questions about a specific product, you can request free advice from an impartial peer. If you need a little more assistance, we have a number of experienced consultants that you can call to discuss your project challenges free of charge.

Take a look through our network of available Higher Ed IT peers and consultants, and feel free to contact us in the sidebar to request to speak with any of them. If we do not have the right person for you to speak to, let us know and we will find the right person to help.
Disclaimer: Please note that peers are not affiliated with Optimal Partners, however, some consultants may be. All are fellow Higher Ed professionals who have agreed to provide their advice. All peers and consultants have agreed to take one phone call, with any further communication at their discretion.
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    IT Project Manager

    Data Analysis Troubleshooting Research Program Management

    Chris is an IT Infrastructure Project Manager at the University of Massachusetts. He's currently working on the design and implementation of campus-wide building security along with managing the network, voice and cable TV physical infrastructure.

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    Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology

    Information Systems Integration IT Development Web Server Architecture & Administration SQL, PHP, HTML / CSS, JavaScript / JSON, ColdFusion

    Holger currently works as the interim CIO and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In the past, he has also worked as the director of IT Development and Integration, as well as the Assistant Director for Infrastructure Integration at the same university, where he received the Outstanding IT Service Award. His specialties include info… [More Info…]

    Peer

    Associate Systems Analyst

    University Advancement/Development systems University Mail Services Systems Business process modeling Advancement CRM

    Over the past four years, Mike has worked in higher education as a Project Manager/Analyst in a customer-facing role. During this time he has primarily focused his efforts on improving and optimizing technology solutions for our user-base. He has focused his career on becoming a generalist instead of specializing in one narrow skill set. In addition, he's been responsible for the day-to-day hea… [More Info…]

    Peer

    Former Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research Development at UMass Dartmouth

    Entrepreneurship Technology Transfer Program Management Business Development

    Lou is a highly motivated professional with more than 30 years of experience providing entrepreneurial expertise in both the private and public sectors. He’s skilled at managing technical and economic evaluations of new ventures and directing product development across a range of industries, and he’s been successful at negotiating purchase, sale and transportation contracts for new products… [More Info…]

    Peer

    Project Manager

    Agile Methodologies SDLC Software Project Management Business Analysis

    Greg has decades of management experience leading multimillion dollar projects. With a highly collaborative style, he brings the top people, process, and technology together to help organizations to deliver projects to a successful outcome. His tenure as a manager has been quite a learning experience. Brilliant teachers, other successful managers, entrepreneurs, cutting- edge engineers, and rea… [More Info…]

    Consultant

    Java/Redhat Engineer

    Wildfly/JBoss Applications Architecture Design Performance Tuning Hibernate Tuning MySQL/MariaDB/Percona

    With over five years of experience, Nicolas is a skilled software engineer. In the past, he's focused on code migrations and upgrades of Wildfly and Jboss environments, working mainly for Redhat.

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    Consultant

    Sr. IT Service Management Consultant

    Organizational Change Management DevOps & Agile IT Operations ITSM Strategy & Tools IT Governance

    Matt is an exceptionally customer focused executive with extensive enterprise IT strategy and operations experience. Strong technical and cultural leadership skills that can build or bring the team to support business goals. He has proven experience with highly scalable and durable infrastructures and applications, as well as demonstrated expertise in managing highly available and agile environ… [More Info…]

    Consultant

    Senior Project Manager

    Learning Management Systems Project Management Governance Standards End-User Adoption & Training Web Content Management Systems

    Alex is a customer-centric project manager and project management educator with more than 12 years of experience in enterprise systems integrations with responsibilities ranging from consulting, planning, and managing deployments to writing technical and functional requirements, testing customizations, delivering end-user training, and organizational change management plans. Experience applied … [More Info…]

    Consultant

    eLearning Specialist

    Learning Strategy and Planning Learning Management Systems Enterprise Level Training Solutions Instructional Design

    Glen has extensive background, experience, knowledge and education in eLearning. He has developed mission critical enterprise-level training solutions using open-source, proprietary and serious game-based learning technologies supporting more than a 1000 courses and very large user bases. He has developed frameworks and eLearning strategies that enhanced organizational knowledge and learning w… [More Info…]

    Consultant

    Web Designer & Developer / UI/UX Engineer

    PHP MySQL HTML5 CSS3

    Surya is highly skilled with nearly all stages of web development, including design, sketching/wireframing, front-end development, and back-end development. He is highly advanced with languages such as CSS3, HTML5, Jquery, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. He also has experience using APIs to build custom web solutions. Key projects include creating a project-tracking system for a marketing company i… [More Info…]

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