Sara Deschner, an IT instructor in the College of Business and Economics, has joined iCIT as Assistant Director of Instructional Facilities. Sara has been working in iCIT this summer on an interim basis managing the General Access labs and instructional facilities summer projects.
Prior to UW-Whitewater, Sara worked as an IT manager at Pentair, Inc. (formerly Sta-Rite Industries), where she provided strategic and technical direction to operations, LAN/WAN and Web groups. Since joining UW-Whitewater as a lecturer in 2006, she also has worked for iCIT during summers and during the academic year on special projects related to labs and technology infrastructure.
As Assistant Director of Instructional Facilities, Sara will be responsible for state-of-the-art design, engineering and daily operation of teaching and learning facilities at UW-Whitewater. Her primary responsibilities will include coordinating classroom facilities design and department computer lab technology deployment, as well as planning and management of the GA computing labs. Sara will supervise the GA student lab manager, and will manage staff who support the A/V of high-tech classrooms and computing labs. She will report to Elena Pokot, CIO.
In addition to these responsibilities, Sara is leading the second phase of the desktop virtualization project, to make lab software readily accessible to students outside of lab facilities. Sara will continue to teach her Learning Community, Technically Speaking, this year, and will continue to support the CyberGirlz camp as needed during her transition.
Sara’s new office is in the iCIT Administrative suite, L2009. Please join us in welcoming Sara to the iCIT team!