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Modernization Program

Program Leadership

Program Team

This team includes several key leaders spanning multiple functions across WVU who will apply their knowledge and familiarity with their area’s stakeholders, systems and practices to ensure the program’s success.

  • James Gorman
    Modernization Program Director and Workday Business Modernization Project Director
  • Kristin Floyd
    Portfolio Management Lead
  • Todd Witter
    Technical Lead
  • Neeley Clelland
    Talent and Culture Lead
  • Lisa Sharpe
    Finance Lead
  • Lisa Evans
    Organizational Change Management Lead
  • Vicki Smith
    Communications Lead
  • Karen Brock
    Project Specialist
  • Joy Edwards
    WRAP-IRB Lead
  • Amanda Cole
    Student Experience Lead

Governance/Engagement

The Modernation Program interacts and engages with various groups in the university. Refer to more details below.
The WVU Modernization Program Governance and Engagement Structure aims to foster timely, consistent, inclusive and transparent information sharing amongst all levels of leadership, stakeholders and the WVU community. The structure will allow for two-way dialogue and feedback among the program and our constituents, increase awareness about the program, and enable accountability and decision-making at the workstream and steering committee levels.

Executive Sponsors

  • Mark Gavin, Vice Provost
  • Barb Weiss, Interim Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Program Steering Committee

  • Mario Barge, Vice President of Talent and Culture (Co-Chair)
  • Ming Lei, Interim Vice President for Research
  • Katie Stores, Associate Vice President for Research
  • Amanda Cole, Executive Director for Revenue and Administration, Enrollment Management
  • Evan Widders, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • Jeff Pratt, Assistant Vice President/Chief Procurement Officer
  • Joy Edwards, Conflict of Interest Director, Research Office
  • Heather Richardson, Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing
  • Phil Stasko, Interim CIO & Executive Director of Product Management, ITS
  • James Gorman, Modernization Program Director
  • Joshua Imes, University Registrar
  • Jerry Wallace, President, WVU Potomac State
  • Tamara Smith, Vice President Academic Affairs, WVU Tech
  • Amanda DeBastiani, Assistant Vice President Academic Affairs