Project Staff and Responsibilities

Currently, CAIS project team members are contained in the password protected project page located at http://cais.cus.edu/council/deploy/ and are updated as needed.

Zoila "Zo" Davis

General Manager, Professional Services

30 years of higher education experience

18.5 years with SCT

General Manager for Professional Services for 12 years

Responsible for all SCT accounts in 15 Central states, Puerto Rico and Latin America

Involved in Project Planning and Resource Coordination for over 60 projects

Rita Blackwell

Region Manager, Professional Services
Engagement Manager
SCT Contract Administrator

20 years higher education experience

Director of Development prior to SCT

12 years with SCT

Region Manager for 4.5 years

Responsible for SCT accounts in 7 states in the Central Region

Involved in Project Planning and Resource Coordination for over 40 projects

Paul Setze

SCT Project Manager

Jack Lemon

SCT Technical Manager

30 years of Data Processing experience (20 years as Director)

Experienced in major hardware and software conversions

2 years as Technical Project Manager with SCT

Involved in 3 large projects and several smaller ones with SCT

Area of Responsibility

Overall Project Guidance

Zo Davis

SCT General Manager, Professional Services

CAIS Council

Provides review and direction for overall project

Zo assists in the design of the implementation project and is ultimately responsible for any issues that are not resolved at the level of the project leadership.

The CAIS Council is comprised of one representative from each participating institution. The Council reviews and provides guidance to the project in general. The Council makes policy decisions and participates in the process of "signing off" on the completion of the project.

Contract Administration
Coordination of Services

Rita Blackwell

Region Manager, Professional Services
Engagement Manager
SCT Contract Administrator

Alan Borcherding

BHE/CUS Contract Administrator
Communications leader

Based on input from the council and project managers, Alan and Rita resolve contract issues and sign off on the completion of each phase of the project.

Rita coordinates the use of SCT personnel across the organization as they are needed.

Alan leads website and email communications regarding the project.

System-wide Project Management

Paul Setze

SCT Project Manager

Scotti Hermansen

CAIS Project Manager

Kathy Roberson

CAIS Assistant Project Manager

Paul and Scotti take responsibility for developing and updating the planning tools, and make certain that all parts of the project are moving forward on schedule.

System-wide Prototype development

Jack Lemon

SCT Technical Manager

Prototype Process Teams

Expert users from the campuses

Jack works with five teams of expert users, one team for each area of the SCT software, to set up the basic configuration of the software. After this general setup, the software is sent to each campus for installation and further configuration to meet local needs. Jack also provides guidance on hardware and networking setup.