Biography

Don Padgett is a Program Manager for strategic initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, where his key focus is supporting IT strategic planning, metrics and organizational development efforts. He has also served as project manager on the Central Data Center upgrade project.and co-lead in the design, roll out and implementation of the University's Campus Workstation Program (CWP). CWP with an annual budget of 1.9 million dollars provides over 5000 faculty and staff with renewable desktop workstations that allows them to keep pace with technology advancements. Don earned his degree in Education from the Ferris State University; prior to joining the University in 1996 he spent 20+ years in the IT industry holding a variety of positions including sales, sales management and District Product Manager for digital imaging and workflow

Retired from the University of Notre Dame in December of 2015