Advisory Board Members 2022-23

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Chair - Erin Livingston

Erin Livingston is the Global Enablement Manager of Adobe Field Engineering  at Adobe, where she is innovating new hire and solution enablement through automation and personalization. Erin has spent the past six years in program management leading global strategic initiatives to operationalize deliver, go to market, data and insights, and operations. She has overseen and launch Adobe Premier Support, a paid services offering that has evolved over the past three years.

Erin is customer focused and an operational leader with a proven record of success in executing strategic plans driven by executive vision quarter over quarter. Highly skilled in developing high-performing teams and collaborating cross-functionally to implement business initiatives, improve workflow efficiency, and decrease operating costs. Offer excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strategic alliances and motivate others throughout the project life cycle. Has over 15 years technical experience working at Bluehost, Utah Valley University and Ivanti (formerly LANDesk). Erin has BS degree from Utah Valley University in Technology Management with minors in Digital Media and Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

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LaMont Leavitt

LaMont Leavitt is the CEO of  InnoviHealth. He has gained extensive experience over 35 years as an information management specialist and computer technologist. He focuses on creating industry disruptive products and solutions. His industry experience includes building computer systems, networks, support, product delivery, and training testing and development teams in Hyderabad and Bangalore, India. He has also collaborated with development teams in Germany and the United States.

Since 2008, he began to focus on the healthcare industry, bringing FindACode.com, HCCCoder.com, ChiroCode.com, Codapedia.com, QPro.com, and Healthcare Administration Alliance (Healthadmin.org) to market.  These are all products of InnoviHealth. These dynamic, web-based products will continue to roll out new features and information, thereby simplifying and facilitating the services of coding and reimbursement professionals in the healthcare industry.

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Melissa Loble

Melissa Loble serves as Chief Customer Experience Officer for Instructure, where she drives the company-wide customer-centric focus at the company. Her role includes overseeing Instructure’s customer success, support, community and services organizations, which enable customers to successfully leverage Instructure’s solutions to create highly engaging and effective learning environments for their communities. She has spent 25+ years in the educational technology world, working for a number of technology suppliers and educational institutions in a variety of teaching and learning leadership capacities. 

Melisa has also taught throughout her career, starting as a high school social science teacher and most currently teaching courses that focus on managing technology for educational change and crafting innovative learning environments. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors for 1Edtech. Melissa earned her BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, her MA in educational policy from Teachers’ College, Columbia University, and an MBA in leadership from the Columbia Business School.

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Alex Macharia

Alex Macharia is a Sr. Business Analytics Leader at Ancestry, where he is focused on delivering actionable insights. Alex is a seasoned data-driven professional who is passionate about data and is hesitant about bias and missing data. He loves leading a data-centric team, is eager to solve business problems, iterating on Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics, building consumable visualizations, and providing insights to stakeholders. He believes in a few data mantras: data without context is not very useful, and excellent collaboration and curiosity foster an analytics super team culture. Alex is a UVU Technology Management program graduate and a member of the department's Adjunct Faculty.

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Ryan Mackerell

Ryan Mackerell is the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology for Ultradent Products Inc. in South Jordan, Utah. Ultradent is a leader in oral healthcare products with sales, manufacturing, and distribution operations around the globe. With almost 30 years of information technology experience, Mr. Mackerell has also worked in the Internet e-commerce and Internet service provider industries. Ryan has a B.S. in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University and an MBA from the University of Utah.

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Jared Stein

Jared is VP of Higher Education Strategy for Instructure, makers of Canvas, the open learning platform. In this role, Jared engages with higher ed leaders and practitioners at colleges and universities around the world to figure out how technology can help education tear down barriers, build up learners, and inspire innovators. Before joining Instructure, Jared worked in higher education as a leader in online and blended teaching and learning for over a decade, and is author of Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide, now in its second edition.

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David Trent

David Trent has been an Executive Vice President and COO at IMSAR LLC since 2016. Based in Springville Utah, IMSAR is a world leader in small, low cost, high performance multi-mode radar systems.  IMSAR radar systems are designed to integrate on manned and unmanned aircraft of all sizes.

Prior to working at IMSAR, David worked at Blendtec, Computrol and Wolf Electronix in various manufacturing and operations management positions. David was an original founder of Wolf Electronix and has had the opportunity to create multiple manufacturing factories from the ground up. David has extensive experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Quality systems, Engineering, and Corporate Leadership.

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