Elizabeth A. Tashiro

~ CORE BELIEF ~ A successful technology strategy is centered around user education and advocacy. ~ STRENGTHS ~ Mining the talents and experiences of multi-cultural, diverse teams to find innovative solutions to our users most pressing challenges. Building strong relationships rooted in trust, credibility, and accountability with team, customers, peers and business leaders. Crafting compelling business cases and establishing coalitions of support for critical, innovative initiatives. Using customer/user insights to devise highly effective data protection strategies that reduce business risk. ~ PROFESSIONAL AWARDS ~ 2025 CUIMC Luminary Employee Recognition Award 2019 Columbia University Public Health Excellence in Executive Leadership Award 2016 Columbia University Medical Center (CUIMC) Baton Award for Teamwork & Collaboration ~ NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS ~ Designed a new endpoint supply chain to cut costs, speed fulfillment and reduce theft for 24 Africa country offices. Reorganized CUIMC Web operations/team to stabilize and grow this revenue-generating business; Increased revenue by 11% and reduced project turnaround times by 20%. Wrote the IT and Operations plan for the School’s Covid-19 response. Launched innovative Ronin research computing platform at to help researchers more easily leverage cloud-based high performance computing resources. Migrated school's data assets and applications to cloud hosts and SAAS providers to enhance reliability, accessibility and scaleability. ~ TOOLS & SOLUTIONS ~ Windows InTune, Jamf, SCCM, PDQ Ronin, AWS HPC Service Now Virtual Assistant, Walk-up Experience, Analytics ~ CERTIFICATIONS ~ ITI L Basics SANS Security Project Management