Tami Aders, Executive Director
Tami Aders is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office, which serves as a resource to university leaders through the management of complex projects with university-wide scope and impact. Previously, Tami led the Oregon State Lottery's Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) for five and a half years. She has over 10 years of experience providing strategic leadership, backed by over 15 years of portfolio, program, and project management experience.
Tami has worked in organizations from an established $12B public trust and sales agency, to a nationally recognized health plan, to a startup third-party administrator. In addition, she has experience managing project portfolio budgets totaling in excess of $100M, managing nationally distributed teams, building out EPMO’s from the ground up, and developing and delivering strategic road maps.
Tami received a bachelor’s degree in education from Western Oregon University. She also received certifications in both Portfolio Management and Project Management from the Project Management Institute.
Danny Hough, Associate Director
Danny Hough serves as the Associate Director in the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office. He manages a variety of technical and strategic projects as part of his portfolio in addition to supporting strategic and development efforts within the project management teams at OSU. Danny joined OSU in 2009 and served in several functional-tech and managerial roles in the Controller's Unit within the Division of Finance and Administration prior to joining the EPPMO in 2021. He holds both a BA in Business Management and an MBA from Oregon State University.
Kirsten Bradley, Project Manager
Kirsten Bradley is a Project Manager in the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office. She provides project management support and guidance for a variety of technical and strategic projects working to advance OSU strategic priorities. Prior to joining OSU in 2021, she worked at US Bank as a Project Manager for their Contact Center team. Kirsten holds a BS in Technology Project Management from Davenport University.
Trent Guan, Project Manager
As an IT project manager, Trent Guan provides program and project management support to campus partners working to advance the university's IT strategic priorities. Trent is the contact for obtaining the latest status about the Identity system project, Endpoint management project and other initiatives in the Smart Access Program. Trent joined the EPPMO team in 2022 and currently serves as the Smart Access Program manager. Prior to this Trent worked as an IT manager, IT project manager, and in various IT positions for DuPont and other multinational companies for over 15 years.
Tracy Oulman, Project Manager
As a Project Manager for the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office, Tracy Oulman provides project management guidance and support to campus partners working to advance the university's strategic priorities. Tracy has more than 20 years of experience providing project management, change management, and stakeholder engagement planning and is committed to helping others collaborate, engage, and move ideas into meaningful outcomes. Prior to joining Oregon State University in 2022, she worked for the University of Utah, State of Montana, and the City of Corvallis and spent several years as a management consultant.
Shain Panzeri, Project Manager
Shain Panzeri is a project manager in the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office providing project management for a variety of OSU strategic priorities. Shain has more than 15 years of administrative experience in higher education. He joined OSU in 2011 and prior to joining the EPPMO office in 2022, he worked in an enrollment management leadership role as part of the INTO OSU public-private partnership for 10 years where he successfully lead a variety of strategic initiatives. He holds an MA in International Education from SIT Graduate Institute.
Diana Lindsley, Project Manager
Diana Lindsley has over 20 years experience as an IT Project Manager in various industries including transportation, dental software, web design, product management, customer management, and education. In addition, Diana was an internal auditor for about 15 years in additional industries including banking and both Washington and Oregon state governments and held her CISA certification. She joined OSU UIT in 2011 as one of the first official project managers. She has worked on many significant projects over her tenure at OSU, including development of the CORE Reporting system, BennyBuy, DUO implementation and others. Diana officially retired in 2020, only to stay on on a part-time basis for a year to assist with some additional projects. After a year of full retirement, she became bored and came back to OSU again to join the EPPMO.
Manmeet Singh Khetarpal, Business Analyst
Manmeet Singh Khetarpal joined OSU in 2022 and works as a Business Analyst in the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office. He is currently engaged in the Identity Systems and Governance, Student CRM and PPM projects. Prior to joining OSU, Manmeet worked in India and Australia on Automation Technology and Master Data Management projects as a Business Analyst. He also has project management experience working for the world's largest oil refinery. He holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and M.Eng in Operations from the University of Technology Sydney.
Erik Calbreath, Business Analyst
Erik Calbreath is a Business Analyst in the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office supporting the Data & Integration Hub project. Prior to joining OSU in late 2022, Erik worked at a leading national geospatial service provider as a Senior Enterprise Systems Consultant supporting many enterprise process improvement, systems implementation, and business intelligence reporting and analytics initiatives. Erik holds a B.A. in Physics from California State University, Stanislaus.
