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Darren Holland - Project Sponsor

Darren is the Vice President of Student & Learning Support Portfolio and is the sponsor of the SIMS Project.

For further information on Darren please refer to his biography.

Heidi Zukauskas - Administrative Officer

Heidi is the Administrative Officer for the Project Office and provides administrative support across the Project Office and for the SIMS Project.

Heidi's contact details are available on the Contact Us page.

Troy Severino - Implementation Manager

Troy is responsible for delivery of the project within agreed timeframes. He is responsible for planning and execution of the project and reporting the project status to the Steering Committee. Troy also manages risks and issues associated with the project and has task management responsibility for University staff working on the configuration of the system.

Troy can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 9316 or via email t.severino@ballarat.edu.au.

Keli MacRae - Change Manager

Keli will lead the change management activities of the project. This will involve communicating the impacts and consequences of the project to the University community, ensuring stakeholder engagement and providing strategic assistance to impacted areas on changed business processes. Keli will also be responsible for the development of training programs for the University, ensuring that system users are trained appropriately before the system is deployed.

Keli can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 9592 or via email k.macrae@ballarat.edu.au.

Helen Sutton - Senior Business Analyst

The Senior Analyst (Applications) is responsible for the oversight of the analysis, design and preparation of specifications for the Student Information Management Systems (SIMS) by:

  • Analysing business needs and processes for student management within the University, and providing advice on business processes and business process re-engineering;
  • Overseeing the development and implementation of the specified functionality for the student management system for the Higher Education Division of the University;
  • Redesign of business processes for the student system to meet the strategic and administrative needs of the University.

Helen can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6182 or via email h.sutton@ballarat.edu.au.

Yasna Macola - Testing Manager

As the Testing Manager, Yasna will manage and provide oversight to all the testing activities for the SIMS project. In her role she will:

  • Create a test strategy to plan and implement the testing phases of the project including, functional, integration, user acceptance, stress and performance testing;
  • Develop, document, design, and evaluate test processes to implement a UB project wide testing approach;
  • Train relevant staff on Testing processes;
  • Liase with the development team and project leader to communicate test findings and coordinate test approval for go/no go decisions prior to a production release.

Yasna can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6185 via email y.macola@ballarat.edu.au.

Michelle Nesci - Business Analyst Student Recruitment and Admissions

Michelle is a graduate of UB and her role in the project is as Business Analyst for Recruitment and Admissions. She will cover the student life-cycle from prospective student to the point where the student is accepted into a University program (course).

Michelle can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6183 or via email m.nesci@ballarat.edu.au.

Louise Busija - Business Analyst Student Records and Graduations

Louise's role involves researching and defining the requirements of the University in the areas of:

  • Student Bio-Demographic Data
  • Student Enrolments
  • Academic Progression
  • Student Results
  • Graduations.

Louise can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 9299 or via email l.busija@ballarat.edu.au.

Nick Balkin - Conversion Analyst

Nick's role in the Project is Conversion Analyst. Nick will be looking at mapping the migration of data from our varied existing systems to Campus Solutions. This will involve data cleansing and fixing as required, along with some configuration of the system.

Nick can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6186 or via email n.balkin@ballarat.edu.au.

Sasank Vemana - Analyst Programmer

Sasank's role as Analyst Programmer sees him responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining extensions of functionality and complex interfaces between new systems and database applications in line with user requirements, to support the University of Ballarat’s implementation of Oracle PeopleSoft’s Campus Solutions as its Student Information Management System for Higher Education.

Sasank can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6193 or via email s.vemana@ballarat.edu.au.

Natalie Burdett - Test Analyst

Natalie’s role as a Test Analyst with the Project Office Test Team will be to understand, document and execute testing tasks related to Enrolments and Admissions in Campus Solutions, as well as becoming familiar with Campus Community and documenting testing activities for this area. She will also become proficient in the automated testing tool Quality Centre.

Natalie can be contacted by calling +61 3 5327 6195 or via email n.burdett@ballarat.edu.au.

Project Team Office

The Project Team is located on the Lower Ground Floor E Building, Mt Helen Campus. For location details, please view the attached map at the Mt Helen Campus Map.

Student Services Team Leaders

Section Team Leader Email
Mt Helen Student Administration (Higher Education) Lou Benson lou.benson@ballarat.edu.au
Student Recruitment Emma Sbardella e.sbardella@ballarat.edu.au
Student Development and Support Services Jeannie King j.king@ballarat.edu.au
Call Centre Kate Lamb k.lamb@ballarat.edu.au
Western Campuses Student Administration (TAFE) Sharron Watson-Ross s.watson-ross@ballarat.edu.au
SMB Student Administration (TAFE) Karen Garratt k.garratt@ballarat.edu.au

School Administrative Managers (SAM) Contacts

School SAM or representative Email
Arts Academy Joy Rothwell j.rothwell@ballarat.edu.au
Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities Irene Keating i.keating@ballarat.edu.au
Business Monika Heim m.heim@ballarat.edu.au
Education Melanie Coffey m.coffey@ballarat.edu.au
Human Movement and Sport Sciences Gayle Richards g.richards@ballarat.edu.au
Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences Belinda Wallesz b.wallesz@ballarat.edu.au
Julie Howes j.howes@ballarat.edu.au
Theresa Watson t.watson@ballarat.edu.au
Kym Haymes k.haymes@ballarat.edu.au
Nursing Helen Ryan h.ryan@ballarat.edu.au
Science and Engineering Sharyn Crawford s.crawford@ballarat.edu.au

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