Leadership & Management
Leadership
Executive Director, OARnet
Pankaj Shah is the executive director of the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet). For more than 25 years he has committed himself to the IT infrastructure and broadband initiatives through work in private, public, research and education community, identifying trends in high-speed data...
Chief Technology Officer
Mark Fullmer serves as OARnet's chief technology officer. In this role, he oversees infrastructure maintenance and development and the implementation of new technologies for the entire network. Working with partners inside and outside of OARnet, Fullmer also directs hardware and fiber...
Chief Relationship Officer
In his role of Chief Relationship Officer, David Ginn cultivates and manages vendor and OARnet member relationships to support broadband expansion throughout Ohio.
Ginn is responsible for developing and marketing OARnet services to higher education, K-12, research, government and...
Management
Client Services Manager, State and Local Government
Letha Butcher manages OARnet's state and local government client services team, as well as OARnet's software division. Butcher works to develop partnerships between the organization, service providers and OARnet's clients, ensuring a consistent customer experience. She also works with the OARnet...
Interface and Applications Director
Originally serving as the e-services coordinator for OARnet, Rebecca quickly became the organization’s network and graphic designer. In this senior role, she designed and developed web tools and databases for staff and clients and developed informational pieces that appealed to both a technical...
Network Operations Manager
As network operations manager for OARnet, Gary Goettel ensures the daily performance and availability of OARnet’s network, including technical oversight of all hardware, software, communication links and monitoring programs. He leads a technical operations team, including the Support Center, and...
Cybersecurity Architect
Faaress Parham serves as OARnet's cybersecurity architect. In this role, he ensures the integrity of OARnet, Ohio’s statewide network backbone, to maintain the connectivity relied upon every day by the state’s higher education, K-12 education, state and local government, public broadcasting,...
Network Systems Engineering Manager
Steffan Pease began at OARnet as a network manager engineer in 2015 where he created tools and software for the monitoring and management of the OARnet network. He also developed applications to allow client insight into their connection with OARnet.
Currently serving as the network...
Tier 3 Provisioning Manager
Stephen Sizemore serves as lead engineer for the state government departments and agencies served by OARnet. He also oversees the Tier 3 engineering group.
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Administrative Manager
In her role as administrative manager, Kristen Weimar directs and coordinates the daily administrative activities of OARnet. She is responsible for project coordination, meeting and event planning, operations and internal communications. Weimar also works with the executive management team to...
Director of Networking
As the director of networking, Aaron Wise leads the engineering and network operations center teams and is responsible for the ongoing operation and...
OH-TECH Consortia Services
Senior Manager, Fiscal Operations; Business Office Manager
Justin Costa manages all fiscal and administrative activities for OH-TECH in his role as business manager. This includes providing financial analyses for the consortium, as well as its member organizations: OARnet, the Ohio Supercomputer Center, OhioLink and eStudent Services. He is a member of...
Communications Manager
John Strawn is the communications manager for the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH), the information and technology division of the Ohio Department of Higher Education. He provides overall leadership for communications, outreach, marketing and public relations for the consortium, which...
Senior Manager, Consortia Operations; Human Resources Administrator
Drew White oversees the support functions for the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH), including human resources, communications, facility operations and conference planning. In addition to his role as Human Resources Administrator for OH-TECH, Drew also serves as the director of human...
