ITI Faculty and Advising

MS, software engineering, University of St. Thomas; BS, electronics engineering, University of Nebraska

Mr. Axberg has worked in many roles in telecommunications and information technology, from architecture to system administration. He has experience with virtualization and cloud services including VMware, Amazon Web Services, and Azure. He is a cloud architect at Optum Technology, leading a team of developers transitioning virtual desktop services to a hybrid cloud solution. Prior to that, he worked at CenturyLink in telecommunications engineering and operations deploying voice and data services, where he managed the transition of a national 8XX call routing platform from Sybase to MySQL. Mr. Axberg is currently pursuing a BA in English at St. Catherine University.

• INet 4031 – Introduction to Systems
• INet 4041 - Networking II: Emerging Technologies

MBA with emphasis in technology delivery and marketing, Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business; BS, management information systems, University of Wisconsin

Ben is a management consultant with extensive experience in project management in the construction, technology, government, and health care industries. Ben's goal in teaching is to give back to a profession he loves by sharing his experience and helping to develop our next generation of leaders.

• INET 3102 – Web Infrastructure
• INET 4082W − IT Infrastructure Projects and Processes
• INET 4083W – Systems II: Analysis and Design

MS, Data Science, Northwestern University; BS, Operations Management, University of Dayton

Tyler Deutsch is a data science leader at Procter & Gamble (P&G) where he leads teams of data scientists building marketing and retail models focused on the consumer. He has experience deploying machine learning and optimization models into highly scalable production cloud and big data architectures. His specialties include regression, classification, NLP, time series models, computer vision, optimization, and deep learning frameworks, leveraging the latest techniques in Python and R. Tyler is pleased to share with students his passion for consumer insights and enterprise scale algorithms.

INET 4061 – Data Science I: Fundamentals

DBA, business administration, Metropolitan State University; MS, management of technology, University of Minnesota; BS, mathematics/computer science, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 

Dr. Howey has worked in information technology and data management since 1975. At Univac Defense Systems (now Unisys), he developed software for real-time air traffic control and military command and control systems. Later, he was a data warehouse/business intelligence consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM, among others. Most recently, he worked in enterprise architecture, information architecture, data warehousing/business intelligence, and data governance at Target and UnitedHealth Group. He has taught courses at Augsburg University and the Carlson School of Management. He is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) and a Certified TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architect.

INet 4707 – Introduction to Databases

MS, software design and development (MSDD), University of Saint Thomas; BA, psychology, College of Saint Scholastica 

Scott Lee-Eichenwald has diverse professional experience in social sciences and medical technology, with over 20+ years with medical devices companies including Guidant, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and Smiths Medical. He also has experience providing enterprise interoperability software solutions for Infor's health care division. He has managed research and development and many global technology implementation projects. In addition, he has been teaching online for 15+ years. He is published in Healthcare Information Technology and received his Six Sigma Green Belt certification from the University of Saint Thomas in 2012. Scott holds an Information Systems Security Certificate from Colorado Technical University.

• HSM 4043 – Project and Program Management in Health Services Management
• HSM 4065 – Information Privacy and Security in Health Services Management
• INET 1001 – Survey of Information Technology
• INET 3011W – Social Impact of Information Technology
• INET 4051 – IT Infrastructure Operations

MBA, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; MA, information assurance and security, Capella University; BA, philosophy/logics, Brown University

As an enterprise architect leading architecture teams, Norman Owens has built cloud and security service solutions totaling over $648M since 2013 for the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Georgia and at the California State University system. Norman is currently a senior solution architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about enabling the new leaders of IT transformation to become tomorrow’s business disrupters. He challenges students to be the best predictors of the future by getting ready to make it and backs up this challenge with AWS-based hands-on labs in his classes.

• INET 4007 – Security II: Cyber Security
• INET 4709 – Data Management I: Fundamentals
• INET 4711 – Data Management II: Distributed Systems

BS, business administration, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

John Raabe currently leads the internal IT audit function at a major health care provider. Previously, he led IT systems administration staff, and he has designed and supported enterprise-class networks and systems. As a certified information systems auditor (CISA), he is particularly interested in IT controls, risk management, compliance, and network design and enterprise IT management issues. He also consults privately on system administration and network management.

• INET 4002 Foundations of Networking
• INET 4153 Introduction to Security: Policy and Regulation

MS, computer science, Union College; B., computer science, Union College

Jon Silverman’s main areas of interest are software engineering, scalable distributed systems, and analytics. After leaving college, he moved from Springfield, MA, to Minneapolis to join Honeywell’s Research Center. In 1989 he left Honeywell to join a venture capital-funded startup in the area of metropolitan area networks. Since then he has been working on communications systems for contact centers and massively scaled unified communications. Jon is currently Senior Director of Engineering at Avaya.

• INET 4121 – DevOps II: Development Strategies

MS, business analytics and BISyE, industrial and systems engineering, University of Minnesota

Kyle Stahl is a senior data science supervisor at Cargill Inc, where he leads a team of data science specialists in solving complex machine learning and optimization problems across the agriculture industry. He has applied advanced analytics techniques to various industry groups within Cargill, including global supply chain, animal growth modeling, biochemistry, sales, agronomy, and production scheduling. Kyle works across the entire machine learning process, from defining the problem and collecting data to integrating mathematical models into software and helping people adapt their business processes to new technology.

• INET 4062 – Data Science II: Advanced

MBA, Carlson School of Management; BS, business administration and computer information systems, Missouri State University

Nathan Tymeson has over 10 years experience in designing and building secure enterprise networks in corporate, Internet-facing, mobile, and extranet environments. He’s held roles ranging from tech support to network architecture, from network security to network manager--all within a variety of industries. A significant accomplishment of Nathan’s includes the design of complex wide area interconnect strategies for multinational corporations. He also has experience creating network and security strategies for manufacturing environments, network quality of service implementations, and mobile network design. He holds industry-recognized certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, and other vendor-neutral organizations.

• INET 4011 - Networking I: Networking Administration
• INET 4165 - Security I: Principles