Project Teams

Project Director

Steering Committee

Project Teams

Campus Interface Coordinators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Director

Lester K. Mathews
Assistant Vice President
The University of Tennessee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steering Committee

Neal Wormsley, Chair
Office of the Treasurer

Sylvia Davis
Administration and Finance

Ron Maples
Controller's Office

Lester K. Mathews
IRIS Administrative Support

Mark Paganelli
Audit Management Office

Butch Peccolo
Office of the Treasurer

Sara Phillips
Administration and Finance

Gary Rogers
Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 


ABAP Programming Team

Team Leader: Joel Reeves

Purpose: To provide the necessary programming support in areas such as converting from existing systems, creating interfaces to other related systems and addressing additional reporting needs.

Kevin Feeney
Administrative Applications

Roger Jarnigan
Administrative Applications

Sundar Krishnamoorthy
Administrative Applications

Charlie Malin
Administrative Applications

Gene Pafford
Administrative Applications

Teresa Simpson
Administrative Applications

Mark Thompson
Administrative Applications

Wayne Toppins
Administrative Applications

 
 

 

 

 

 

BASIS Programming Team

Team Leader: Mike McNeil

Purpose: To maintain the underlying technical infrastructure to support IRIS, both for hardware and software.

Sharon Davis
Computing Services

 

Dianne Ellis
Computing Services

 

Michael Fellers
Computing Services

 

Kent Galbraith
Computing Services

 

Larry Walker
Computing Services


 

 

 

 

 


Business Warehouse Team

Team Leader:  Bob Gissel

 

Purpose: To design and implement an accessible repository for historical and current financial and human resources information. Users will be able to use this information for specialized reporting and ad hoc queries.

David Goforth
IRIS Administrative Support

Denise (Dee) Haley
IRIS Administrative Support

Mozhgan Shahidi
IRIS Administrative Support


 

 

 

Campus Interface Coordinators

Team Leader:  Joel Reeves

Purpose:  To work within each campus/unit to insure that the electronic data currently flowing into the legacy data has been identified and the necessary modifications have been made to the systems that generate that data to interface with IRIS.  Additionally, the team is charged with the responsibility of identifying data that is contained within IRIS that must be extracted to accommodate campus unique applications.

Chattanooga: Richard Brown
Richard Gambrell
Knoxville: Ben Alford
Jeff Maples
Martin: Nancy Bacon
Shannon Burgin
Memphis: Charlie Brooks
Joanne Hadley
Space Institute: Peter Aamodt

 

 

 

 

Customer Support Team

Team Leader: Sheila McNeil

Purpose:  To support the IRIS community by providing design and delivery of training, help desk support, and access to the system.  Additionally, the team is charged with providing an authorization concept that provides good internal controls.

Debbi Exberger
IRIS Administrative Support

Jenifer Huey
IRIS Administrative Support

Jonathan Ruth
IRIS Administrative Support

Carol Welch-Swaggerty
IRIS Administrative Support

Dan Wilson
IRIS Administrative Support


 

 

 

 


Financial Team

Team Leader: Sally Townsend

Purpose: To identify the functionality of the current financial systems and to implement the same or improved functionality in the IRIS system. Financial systems include areas such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, budget, cash management, grants management, assets management (such as equipment and facilities) and purchasing.

Mark Hall
IRIS Administrative Support

Verna Howard
Controller's Office

Mary Carr
IRIS Administrative Support

Tim Mapes
Treasurer's Office

Ron Maples
Controller's Office

David Marks
IRIS Administrative Support

Laurie Rees
IRIS Administrative Support

Cindy Stockdale
Treasurer's Office

Bill Thompson
Controller's Office

Gail White
Controller's Office

 

 

 

 


Human Resources Team

Team Leaders:  Janet Smith

Purpose: To identify the functionality of the current human resources system and to implement the same or improved functionality in the IRIS system. Human resource systems include the areas such as recruiting and hiring, benefits, time management, payroll, retirement and training.

Bob Gissel
IRIS Administrative Support

Janice Hodge
IRIS Administrative Support

Allen Knight
IRIS Administrative Support

John Rich
IRIS Administrative Support

Richard Smith
IRIS Administrative Support

 

 

 

 

Project Management Team

Team Leader: Lester K. Mathews, IRIS Administrative Support

Purpose: To provide the project staff with the necessary tools to insure an efficient implementation of the new software.

Linda Newman
IRIS Administrative Support

 

 

 

Workflow Team

Team Leader: Jim Sauceman

Purpose: To develop and administer the SAP Workflow and Approval Routing System used by Security, Human Resources, and Financial transactions.