Teams at Western Governors University

Leads clinical and field experience operations for health professions programs, including student placements, clinical partnerships, compliance, accreditation, staffing, budgets, and continuous improvement. Manages teams, policies, projects, and stakeholder relationships while improving student readiness, satisfaction, and success. Serves as a subject matter expert, resolves escalated concerns, aligns programs with regulatory requirements, and uses data-informed decisions to enhance clinical education services.

Conduct third-party, supplier, internal system, application, and project security risk assessments. Review evidence, perform OSINT research, analyze residual risk, recommend context-appropriate controls, advise remediation teams, manage policy exceptions, report key risk indicators, and communicate technical risks to stakeholders. Contribute to security policies, assessment methodologies, process improvements, and AI-enabled risk workflows.

Designs and leads scalable backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems using Java and Python. Partners with frontend, mobile, product, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver secure, reliable applications. Responsibilities include cloud-native development, database optimization, CI/CD, testing, observability, troubleshooting, technical strategy, mentoring, documentation, and platform modernization.