Michael Cassar

Biography

As a digital transformation information technology and cyber security leader with my progressive leadership experience aligning complex technological strategies with the goals of large organizations, generating strategic insights based on knowledge of the customer's (i.e., students, faculty, and staff) technology landscape, engagement experience, and proactive collaboration with the customer, internal organizations teams, and academic-industry leaders, to conduct forecasting and develop recommendations for a digital transformation. Challenging faculty to consider alternative educational models to meet their curriculum and institutional needs and adapts plans to insights. Orchestrating technology teams to gather information, collaborate on project deliverables, and identify potential risks to budget and resources, bringing in experts in the educational industry to deliver insights to address the broader challenges for the customer and provide online/hybrid educational solutions and applying expertise in cloud technology platforms (i.e., Citrix, VMWare, and Microsoft Azure) and maturity to build digital transformation strategy with organizational executives that align to educational outcomes of the institution.

EDUCAUSE Presentations