MBA

Ipanema, Ideas and Innovations

Big news! #MBALife has wrapped up! I ended my 2+ year long adventure with a trip (for class) to Brazil. We visited São Paulo and Rio de Janiero, which of course included some delicious coconut water on the beaches of Ipanema!

Ipanema

And then in May I graduated with my masters. No big.

GradCap

And now it’s back to #WorkLife in the OCIO (and sometimes ODEE!)

In the OCIO, we’re currently working on a neat project called ImproveIT. It lets any employee submit an idea for an improvement or a new service. The suggestions help us do our work more efficiently and/or improve the customer experience. So many win-wins! And it keeps employees engaged, letting them know they really CAN make things better for everyone just by speaking up. I’m pretty excited to be a part of this effort.

In the ODEE side of the house, it’s all about Canvas! We’re shaking up how we run our LMS (learning management system, for long), and we’re using a new, innovative platform that is preferred by students and instructors alike. Canvas is user-friendly, has an app, creates a calendar that syncs all your assignments, has an app, gives faculty more freedom to be creative with their teaching, oh, and did I mention it has an app? You can also create a panda avatar to upload as your profile picture, because, why not?

To learn even more about Canvas, I’m heading on a trip with my ODEE compadres. Stay tuned for #pandamonium from Camp Canvas in July! It’s gonna be #Kumbayaweome!

Puppies!

This post is all about puppies.

On Instagram, I noticed our top photo based on likes involved a puppy who happened to stroll into BuckeyeBar. So I thought, why not use adorable puppies to promote our other awesome services, like BuckeyeBox? And thus started a series of photos involving Lemmy and Rey, two adorable foster puppies (now adopted!) playing in our physical BuckeyeBox box!

Group projects are much easier when you collaborate in the cloud! #BuckeyeBox #Teamwork #dogsofinstagram

A photo posted by Office of the CIO (@techohiostate) on

#MBALife is full of puppies too. Now that I am done with class (let me repeat that, I am DONE WITH CLASS!!!), my own pup at home has been enjoying my company and (mostly) undivided attention. There are belly rubs and naps on the couch and patio outings! There’s even more time to play with his #bff Gus who lives one building over.

Here is post-MBA Rax, guiding my hand towards his belly for pets:

Rax paw-edit

Stay tuned for more adventures in RandiLand, including my excursion to Brazil, orientation preparation, the ImproveIT program, culture team endeavors…and who knows what else #WorkLife will have in store for me as 2016 progresses!

Boots

Boots-crop

These boots were made for walkin’!

Just a quick recap of my August show: everything went well! The audience loved it and no one was seriously injured! Always a win.

It’s officially fall which means it’s officially boot season which means my dance show photo is a great segue into what’s going on in the OCIO this fall semester…

  • We offered Student Advantage (aka free Microsoft) to all students. Yay!
  • BuckeyeBox now has unlimited storage and a larger max file size. Yay!
  • We’re asking students how we can improve wireless using an Instagram contest. Neato!
  • ODEE is working on a video to show how easy Top Hat is (the tool that lets students use their smartphones to answer poll questions in class, record attendance, etc). Super cool!
  • We just had our combined Staff Appreciation “picnic” today. A Rock, Paper, Scissors champ received a trophy. Huh? Yep.

As for the part of me wearing the MBA hat, this semester is allllllll math. You down with NPV? Yeah, you know me!

That’s all for now! Time to root through my closet in search of more boots!