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!

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

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!