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Staff

Last updated: 5/5/2026

The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) is part of the Office of Research. ORIS accelerates research and advances innovation by delivering analysis, automation and on-demand information through a seamless research administration experience.

Mari Ostendorf, Vice Provost for Research

Reporting to the Vice Provost for Research

Jim Kresl, Assistant Vice Provost & Director of ORIS

Reporting to the Assistant Vice Provost & Director of ORIS

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Robin Hendricks, Administrator

Diego Bartholomew, Associate Director, IT Operations

Sudha Bhoomireddy, IT Applications Manager

Javascript (Frontend/Full Stack)

    • Caleb DelVillar-Fox, Frontend Engineer
    • Scarlett Saegebarth, Frontend Engineer
    • Sirisha Konyala, Full Stack Engineer
    • Chris Tybur, Full Stack Engineer

.Net/C# (Backend)

    • John Migas, Backend Engineer
    • Josh Weiner, Backend Engineer
    • Tim Yeung, Backend Engineer
    • Laura Dong, Backend Engineer
    • Michael Surface, Backend Engineer

Sheri Leigh, IT Services Manager

Data (SQL)

    • Randall Sewell, Data Engineering, DWBI
    • Steve Wort, Data Engineer, DBA
    • Open Position, DBA Engineer (Temporary), REQ-0000130441

Integrations (Java)

    • Neil Walton, Integrations Engineer
    • Bex Ungplyakul, Integrations Engineer

Quality

    • Hamid Alakbarov, SDET
    • James Waters, Test

Infrastructure, AWS and End Device

    • Thomas Hathaway, Cloud Engineer
    • Brian Golden, End Device Specialist
    • Mike Walker, End Device Specialist

Jody Tate, Assistant Director, Engineering & Operations

    • Laura Cecil, Frontend Lead
    • Ryan Becker, AWS Cloud Lead
    • Dave Bucholtz, Data Engineering Lead
    • Dan Huang, Net Lead
    • Megha Ramawat, Integration Lead

Breona Gutschmidt, Assistant Director, Customer Experience

    • Kim Halstead, Communication Specialist
    • Emily Elliott, Web Analyst
    • Anatoliy Klots, Trainer

CX Support

    • Crystal Bishop, CX Support Manager
      • Johnny Anthony, CX Support Lead
      • Clayton, CX Support
      • Maureen Stockman, CX Support

Aron Knapp, Assistant Director, Research Integrations & Insights

  • Phoi Trinh, Analyst

Judy Chung, Assistant Director, Research Administration Systems

Adriaan Dippenaar, BA/UX Manager

    • Vicki Paulus, Business Analyst
    • Lisa Cominetti, Business Analyst
    • Adam Yahyaoui, Business Analyst
    • Baludu Nusum, Business Analyst
    • Stacey Berglind, UX Design
    • Tucker Fitzgerald, UX Design

Suzanne May, Agile PMO Manager

  • Jill Thompson, Project Manager
  • Sophia Dobe, Project Manager

Chris Carlson, Solutions Architect, Research Compliance

Rick Fenger, Assistant Director and Chief Data Strategist

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