Our People

All SMPH Informatics and IT Staff

Mohammad Akanda

Position title: Data Scientist

Email: makanda@medicine.wisc.edu

Sheri Alexander

Position title: Manager, Process Management

Email: salexander2@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-8442

Samantha Anderson

Position title: Business Systems Analyst

Email: anderson86@wisc.edu

Ivan Andrewjeski

Position title: Systems Engineer III - Lead

Email: andrewjeski@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 261-1539

Jeff Baltus

Position title: Data Scientist

Email: jeff.baltus@fammed.wisc.edu

Steve Behring

Position title: Cybersecurity Engineer & Architect

Email: steven.behring@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-3972

David Berg

Position title: Data Analyst

Email: dberg8@wisc.edu

Alex Binder

Position title: CREW Data Scientist II

Email: atbinder@wisc.edu

Erin Boysen

Position title: CTMS Application Administrator

Email: emboysen@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-8347

Marc Buehler

Position title: Manager, Research Applications

Email: mbuehler2@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-7810

Katie Butzen

Position title: Academic Application Administrator

Email: kbutzen@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-1792

Thomas Callaci

Position title: Honest Broker/Data Security Officer

Email: callaci@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-5251

Joe Cavanaugh

Position title: Informatics Project Manager

Email: joe.cavanaugh@wisc.edu

Melissa Chan

Position title: Data Visualizations Developer

Email: melissa.chan@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-5043

Brent Clark

Position title: Interface Engineer

Email: brent.clark@wisc.edu

Thom Cleary

Position title: Network Security Analyst, Network Security

Email: thom.cleary@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-0474

Mike Collins

Position title: Senior IT Director - Research Computing

Email: macollins6@wisc.edu

Byron Crites

Position title: Research Data Scientist

Email: bcrites@wisc.edu

Brian Davidson

Position title: CTMS Application Administrator

Email: btdavidson@wisc.edu

Christina Denson

Position title: IT Project Manager I

Email: cdenson@wisc.edu

Amy Diestler

Position title: Manager, SMPH Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Email: adiestler@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-4623

Brian Digate

Position title: AV Technician III

Email: badigate@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-6007

Alexa Dorman

Position title: Teach, Learn & Tech Specialist II

Email: ajdorman@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-6866

Nolan Edwards

Position title: Help Desk Specialist

Email: nmedwards3@wisc.edu

Jacob Elfert

Position title: QA Specialist

Email: elfert@wisc.edu

Warren Emery

Position title: Sr. Financial & IT Analyst

Email: warren.emery@wisc.edu

Oliver Eng

Position title: Data Engineer

Email: oeng@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 720-6248

Lucas Gallagher

Position title: DevOps Cloud Engineer

Email: lgallagher7@wisc.edu

Ilsa Gaulke

Position title: Training Specialist

Email: ilsa.gaulke@wisc.edu

Adrian Gay

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: adriang@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-7779

Cathy Gilligan

Position title: Senior Applications Developer, Application Development

Email: gilligan@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-8137

Greta Grannan-Rubenstein

Position title: Administrative Data Analyst

Email: greta.grannanrubenstein@wisc.edu

Patrick Greischar

Position title: Data Scientist III

Email: greischar@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 720-6146

Kristjan Gudjonsson

Position title: Dev Ops Engineer

Email: kristjan.gudjonsson@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-7595

Chris Hanson

Position title: Instructional Technology Consultant, Educational Technology

Email: cdhanson@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-0909

Grant Hellenbrand

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: ghellenbran2@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-4018

Jim Helwig

Position title: Manager, Application Development

Email: jim.helwig@wisc.edu

Chris Henson

Position title: Education Data Reporting Specialist

Email: cahenson2@wisc.edu

Molly Houston

Position title: Business Systems Analyst I

Email: molly.lumley@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-4910

Bailey Howington

Position title: Business Systems Analyst II

Email: howington@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-9499

Tim Jensen

Position title: Teach, Learn & Tech Specialist II

Email: timjensen@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-1882

August Jirovec

Position title: AV Technician III

Email: jirovec@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-0532

Jerry Johnson

Position title: Information Security Analyst

Email: jjohnson244@wisc.edu

Preethy Kaprakattu

Position title: Educational Application Developer and Consultant, Application Development

Email: preethy.kaprakattu@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-2526

Carissa Kinnart

Position title: Student - Desktop Support Team

Email: ckinnart@wisc.edu

Ben Korab

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: bkorab@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-2442

Jeff Korab

Position title: Senior IT Director - Information Technology

Email: jeffrey.korab@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 261-1933

Ben Krueger

Position title: AV Technician III

Email: bakrueger2@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 261-1935

Adam Kusmirek

Position title: REDCap Innovations Engineer

Email: akusmirek@wisc.edu

Brian Kyle

Position title: HPC Engineer

Email: brian.kyle@wisc.edu

George LaLuzerne

Position title: Senior BI/Analytics Platform Admin

Email: glaluzerne@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-9946

Eric Lenters

Position title: Network Security Manager

Email: lenters@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-9976

Jarrett Liddicoat

Position title: Manager, Classroom and AV Services

Email: jarrett.liddicoat@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-8153

Dave Lyons

Position title: DevOps Engineer III

Email: dmlyons2@wisc.edu

Jomol Mathew

Position title: Associate Dean for Informatics and Information Technology for SMPH

Email: jomol.mathew@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-4101

Gabe McMahan

Position title: Manager, Data Engineering

Email: gmcmahan@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 720-6771

Deb McNally

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: deb.mcnally@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-1021

Brianna Miller

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: bcmiller6@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-5874

Dave Munz

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: demunz@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-5680

Mariné Nalbandyan

Position title: Data Scientist III (real-world studies)

Email: nalbandyan@wisc.edu

Carter Olson

Position title: Academic Application Administrator

Email: colson43@wisc.edu

Mitch Perzichilli

Position title: Data Integration and Warehouse Engineer

Email: perzichilli@wisc.edu

Andrea Pitkus

Position title: Ontologist

Email: pitkus@wisc.edu

Josh Richards

Position title: Student - Desktop Support Team

Email: jrichards23@wisc.edu

John Rineck

Position title: DevSecOps Engineer

Email: jrineck@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-9330

Nathan Roth

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: ntroth@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-4891

Tyler Schultz

Position title: Director, Shared Services IT

Email: tyler.schultz@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-8627

Michael Semanik

Position title: Health Link Innovations

Email: semanik@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Anoop Sendamarai

Position title: Data Scientist III

Email: sendamarai@wisc.edu

Tapan Shah

Position title: Manager, Application Support

Email: tapan.shah@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-2991

Laura Sharp

Position title: Administrative Assistant Director

Email: ladick@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-6834

Curt Shomberg

Position title: Manager, User Services

Email: curt.shomberg@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-7773

Amy Siedschlag

Position title: Manager, REDCap

Email: asiedschlag@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-3804

Jeremy Simkins

Position title: Business Systems Analyst

Email: jsimkins@wisc.edu

Kristin Simon

Position title: Manager, Educational Technology

Email: kristin.simon@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-7745

Sweta Singh

Position title: CREW Data Scientist

Email: ssingh224@wisc.edu

Mary Beth Sperl

Position title: User Support Specialist III

Email: mbsperl@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-8693

Shannon Stiles

Position title: Data Scientist II

Email: sstiles@wisc.edu

Jeannine Strunk

Position title: Programmer Analyst - Research

Email: jstrunk@wisc.edu

Patti Thompson

Position title: Lead Instructional Space Coordinator - SMPH Room Reservations

Email: patti.thompson@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-8472

Becky Torrisi

Position title: Information Processing Consultant, Application Development

Email: btorrisi@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-0794

Mark Waltz

Position title: Manager, Infrastructure and Data Commons

Email: mwaltz@wisc.edu

Isaac Way

Position title: Systems Engineer III

Email: iway@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-7230

Yonghe Yan

Position title: Data Engineer

Email: yan27@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-5856

Amanda Young

Position title: REDCap Application Administrator

Email: aryoung4@wisc.edu

Julie Zachman

Position title: Information Processing Consultant, Application Development

Email: jczachman@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-2915

Nick Ziel

Position title: Network Administrator I

Email: ziel@wisc.edu