David Bean
Waterloo,Ontario
Summary
Over 20 years of experience in technology management, leading teams and driving digital transformation at the University of Waterloo. With a degree in computer science, core skills include cross-functional team leadership, project management, and strategic planning, along with expertise in software development and technology integration.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Director – Systems, Technology & Analytics
Office of the Registrar
08.2018 - 12.2022
- Responsible for a team of 20 direct and indirect reports across Registrar business-systems portfolios supporting: student awards and financial aid, records, admissions, and marketing & undergraduate recruitment
- Provided leadership and coaching to move the Student Information System cross-functional team into agile methodology and toolset
- Served as Product Owner for the Student Information System rapid delivery project stream, meeting with campus stakeholders to understand needs and advocate for development resources
- Support the day-to-day technology needs of the office for 130 staff
- Member of the Administrative Information Governance sub-committee and involved in establishing data governance policies and practices within the Registrar's office
- Lead and direct the teams responsible for functional support for platforms: Quest, Academic Calendar Management System, infoSilem Suite, onBase, myCreds, SuiteCRM and Student Information System security.
Associate Director, Systems
Center for Extended Learning
09.2008 - 08.2018
- Involved in technology development, acquisition and governance related to online learning systems at the University of Waterloo
- 11 direct reports across: web application development, system administration, Student Information System data analyst, software quality assurance, client service, business analyst, UX specialist, IT support, including 1 co-op each term
- Managed the department’s technology environment for over 80 staff and an annual technology budget of approximately $100,000
- Involved in multiple RFP and contract negotiations, including Privacy and Security Impact Assessment reviews and renewals
- Learning Management System - system administrator for all of UW campus
- Practiced both Agile and Waterfall project management approaches and have led many software development projects of varying scope for students, staff and instructors, including: course gamification, data analysis services, process automation, website management, and integrations with the SIS, LMS, CMS and other UW systems
- Established formal change management policies
- Chair of 4 department committees
- Actively tracked initiatives affecting EdTech at UW, including: AODA, Policy 46, GDPR, ITIL, UW’s BIA process, IMS protocols, PCI-DSS, Analytics, OER.
Manager, Information Systems
Distance and Continuing Education
05.2006 - 09.2008
- 3 direct reports
- Focused on growing the software development team within Distance and Continuing Education
- Technical liaison between Distance and Continuing Education and Information Systems and Technology as well as Centre for Teaching Excellence
- Support the hardware/software environment for over 35 staff
- Implemented ecommerce system CRM for Continuing Education
- Developed digital student assignment management system
- Technical lead for UW’s learning object repository
- Implemented Career Development eManual.
Systems Integration Specialist - Learning Systems Internet Software and Database Developer, Lead Computer Programmer for UWone
LT3 Centre University of Waterloo
08.2002 - 05.2006
- Technical advisor and technical requirements design for the WCKER partnership with Oxford University’s Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) group
- Technical lead for UW-ACE Innovations, reporting to the UW-ACE Steering Committee, and project manager for ePortfolio initiative, and Workflow management
- Supervise and direct 5 University of Waterloo co-ops and one grad student
- Responsible for the management and migration of system data between learning management environments
- Designed and developed SPSS data conversion utilities for producing Learning Impact Studies for the Teaching Based Research Group
- Co-developer on the eduSource IMS Learning Design project, a project focused on developing a Java based API for IMS Learning Design XML
- Design and development of software to work with Dublin Core and IMS Metadata and Content Packaging
- System designer and lead developer for the University of Waterloo's Learning Management System (UWone)
- Technical lead investigator for learning protocols: ADL-SCORM, IMS, IEEE: LTSC
- And lead analyst for the integration of Apple Canada's: Apple Learnware Initiative (ALI) with the eduSource communication layer (ECL)
- Designer/developer for MOT+ eduSource IMS Learning Design.
Founder, CTO, Software Developer & Project Manager
We-Create Inc.
02.1999 - 12.2002
- As a founder, I was involved in all aspects of the corporate start-up and management including: financing, marketing, resource & strategic planning, legal matters, human resources, and the overall business development & direction
- Successfully planned and secured first and second stage financing through the development of a viable business plan
- Technical coordinator and project manager for a variety of government, corporate and non-profit proposals and projects
- Chief Architect and Lead System Designer of the Community Engagement Software framework
- Designed and maintained a proprietary corporate Intranet for tracking projects, budget projections, and KPI monitoring.
Multimedia Courseware Developer
LT3 Centre University of Waterloo
05.2000 - 08.2001
- Responsible for the design of a fluid user interface for an instructor’s database to profile learners in order to design better educational multimedia applications
- The system was designed to tie an HTML / Flash front end to an existing set of MS Access databases via Cold Fusion.
Education
Bachelor Computing - Human Computer Interaction And Remote Databases
University of Guelph
GuelphSkills
- Over 15 years of people, team, and project & operations management in the context of education technology systems
- 4 years in the Product Owner role for the campus Student Information System in the Registrar's office
- 12 years of experience in Learning Management System administration
- Involved in multiple projects requiring procurement and information risk assessments within the Registrar's office
- Background in technical, analytical, problem solving, process and systems improvement
- Excellent leadership, teamwork, communication and change management skills
- Involved in campus data governance activities
- Involved in Strategic Planning for the department
Professionaldevelopmentactivities
- University of Waterloo, Leadership Certificate
- University of Waterloo, Process Mapping
- University of Waterloo, Leadership for results
- ITIL Foundations certificate
- UW Arts 303: 3D Gaming for Course pedagogical and project management
- University of Waterloo: Instructional Design
- University of Waterloo: Project Management applied tools and techniques
- Open2Study: Strategic Management
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Limited Working
Timeline
Director – Systems, Technology & Analytics
Office of the Registrar
08.2018 - 12.2022
Associate Director, Systems
Center for Extended Learning
09.2008 - 08.2018
Manager, Information Systems
Distance and Continuing Education
05.2006 - 09.2008
Systems Integration Specialist - Learning Systems Internet Software and Database Developer, Lead Computer Programmer for UWone
LT3 Centre University of Waterloo
08.2002 - 05.2006
Multimedia Courseware Developer
LT3 Centre University of Waterloo
05.2000 - 08.2001
Founder, CTO, Software Developer & Project Manager
We-Create Inc.
02.1999 - 12.2002
Bachelor Computing - Human Computer Interaction And Remote Databases
University of Guelph
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