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IT Alliance

The IT Alliance is an advisory group to the College of Business made up of senior information technology executives who advise the Computer Information Systems and Computer Science faculty and students.

Purposes:

  1. To provide a channel of communication between the information sciences faculty and students and the information technology professional practitioners.
  2. To participate with and provide counsel to the information sciences programs regarding objectives, strategies, goals, curriculum development, problems, and opportunities.
  3. To promote and participate in appropriate business-faculty-student interaction activities and programs. 
  4. To assist with the placement of graduates.
  5. To assist with intern/co-op placement.
  6. To support and assist the information sciences programs in the development of various forms of financial resources.

By-Laws:

2026-2027 Members

Chair

Abram Devonshire
Senior Manager, IT Quality and Performance Analytics
Deaconess Health System

Immediate Past Chair

Ryan Parmenter
VP and CIO
Atlas World Group

Ex-Officio Members

Eric Reffett, BOA Chair
CFO
ePackage Supply

Brian McGuire
Associate Dean
Professor of Accounting
Romain College of Business
University of Southern Indiana

Sudesh Mujumdar
Dean
Romain College of Business
University of Southern Indiana

Nicholas Rhew
Chair of Management and Information Sciences
Associate Professor of Management
University of Southern Indiana

Members

Jamie Bass
CEO
Gravicom LLC

Dan Cundiff
Vice President, Cloud and Platform Engineering
Cencora

Abram Devonshire - Chair
Senior Manager, IT Quality and Performance Analytics
Deaconess Health System

Scott Franzel
Senior Vice President of Technology
OFS

Jeff Gorman
President
Keller Schroeder & Associates

Philip Hannah
VP Senior Managing Director Product Engineering
OneMain Financial

Chad Harter
CIO
Jasper Group

Joe Heerdink
CTO
Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation

Thomas Jung
Head of Developer Advocacy
SAP

Jake Killian
Director of ERP Technology
OFS

Kenny Klein
CTO
Deaconess Health System, Inc.

John Knight
IT Audit Supervisor
Old National Bank

Alan Letterman - Retired
VP, Intelligent Manufacturing and Cloud
Berry Global

Andrew Melchiors
Vice President of Information Technology
United Companies

Sean Murray
Director of Technology and Transformation
Koch, LLC

Ryan Parmenter
VP and CIO
Atlas World Group

Kelly Reisinger 
SVP, Digital Transformation Officer
German American

Austin Siders
CIO
University of Southern Indiana

2022-04-29 Spring Meeting

2021-12-10 Fall Meeting

2021-04-30 Spring Meeting

2020-12-04 Fall Meeting

2020 Spring - no meeting due to Covid-19

2019-12-04 Fall Meeting

2019-04-24 Spring Meeting

2018-12-05 Fall Meeting

2018-04-25 Spring Meeting

2017-12-06 Fall Meeting

2017-04-26 Spring Meeting

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Romain College of Business

(812) 464-1718