It is my pleasure to welcome Jacqueline Holman to the Stewardship & Donor Relations team as an Assistant Director, University Stewardship Initiatives. Jacqueline’s first day will be Monday, October 14th, and she will be the programmatic stewardship partner for the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the School of Architecture, the Debartolo Performing Arts Center, and Notre Dame Global.

Jacqueline is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing. She brings over 10 years of experience in donor relations and stewardship, including the execution of endowment and impact reporting and the organization of donor-centered events. Before joining the Notre Dame Stewardship and Donor Relations team, she served previously as the Stewardship and Donor Relations Coordinator at Ferris State University (MI) and the Assistant Director of Stewardship at Eckerd College (FL). We look forward to the wealth of experience that Jacqueline will bring to the position, which will serve both her and the University very well as a stewardship partner to our academic units.

Please join me in offering a warm welcome to Jacqueline Holman as she joins the University Relations family.

-Caitlin Hutchison

OIT has decided to roll back the Business Objects upgrade from this weekend due to issues with user access. Business Objects will be restored to the backups created just before Saturday’s upgrade. Any modifications made to reports or schedules since Saturday will need to be reapplied. The restoration process has started and is expected to take several hours to complete, during which Business Objects will remain offline.

Please note that reports scheduled to run between Saturday morning and today may rerun, resulting in duplicate reports this morning. You can ignore these duplicates.

Additionally, today’s Office Hours at 3:00pm and Wednesday’s Tech Talk Live at 1:30pm will be postponed.

Dear UR Family,

With great enthusiasm, I share that Sherri Wolf has joined the Southern Team as a Regional Director, effective September 30, 2024. We are excited that her creativity, dedication to the Notre Dame mission, and genuine care for the Notre Dame family will be expressed in new ways.

Sherri has been an incredible member of the Annual Giving Team, leading in several metrics, being an exemplary colleague, and of course, her leadership on Notre Dame Day! Sherri has years of experience in sales in several different industries, from tech to hospitality. We incredibly fortunate to have her working with families in Southwest Florida. Please join me in congratulating Sherri!

Best and Go Irish!

Tim

OIT Maintenance/Updates – Business Objects & Tableau 

On October 5th, the Office of Information Technologies will be performing maintenance on both Business Objects and Tableau.  Business Objects will be upgraded to version 4.3 and will have a significantly new look and feel, designed to simplify navigation and introduce additional features. The Tableau server will be upgraded to the latest version (2024.4.2) and will address several bugs which have been identified.

Look for more information on the Business Objects Upgrade and the new user interface next week.

Please join me in welcoming Scott Coppa (the “o” is short in Coppa – and in Scott, too, for that matter) as a Regional Director on the NY Metro team. Scott will handle a portfolio focusing primarily on western New York, with some assignments in the NYC metro area as well.

Scott is a graduate of Notre Dame (‘15) and was a recipient of the J. Sinnott Meyers Award for outstanding community service as a student. Scott also grew up locally, having graduated from South Bend St. Joe High School.

More recently, Scott served as Founder & CEO of Puente Desarollo Internacional, a global non-profit organization focused on utilizing data to improve international development outcomes. Puente’s aim is to “bridge” marginalized communities, nonprofits, and government entities to make international development more efficient and collaborative. (Oh, that’s right: As Spanish-speaking fans of Fr. Bob’s inaugural address already know, “puente” is the Spanish word for “bridge”). Scott’s work with Puente led him to be recognized among Alumni Association’s inaugural “Domer Dozen” cohort for his outstanding dedication to the tenets of NDAA’s mission.

Scott has also worked locally as a civic innovation consultant with EnFocus, and he served in the Peace Corps after graduation. Scott is fluent in Spanish, having lived in the Dominican Republic for much of the last decade. He now lives in South Bend with his wife, Crismary.

We could not be more excited to welcome Scott to the NY Metro team. Please be sure to say hello and give him a warm welcome.

Thanks!
Joe

Team,

Please join me in congratulating Katie O’Friel as she moves on from Prospect Management to the President’s Office in her new role as Advisor to Vice President and Chief of Staff Ann Firth.

Katie played an instrumental role over the last three years in the evolution of our Prospect Management Consulting team. As Senior Consultant for the Northwest region, she oversaw countless new-hire portfolios and RD transitions and served as a key strategic partner in evaluating portfolio health and annual planning for the region.

Katie also served as one of the team leads for our Incoming Parent review, streamlining processes to facilitate assignments as the number of identified leadership families increased nearly 140% since 2021. Her collaboration with key partners in Research, Special Events, Data Integrity, and the DC team is an example of cross-department partnership at its best.

Most importantly, Katie has been an exceptional teammate, mentor, friend, and guide to her fellow consultants, and played an indispensable role in the onboarding and integration of our recent hires (myself included). Katie’s mission-oriented, other-focused servant leadership will continue to serve Notre Dame well in her new role.

Katie’s final day is this coming Friday, September 27. Our Consultant job posting is now live on the ND Jobs website. Please contact me if you have interest or know of anyone who might have interest in joining our Consultant team.

Best,

JR

Dear Team,

Please join me in welcoming Myles Busby, who will serve as a Regional Director of Development on the Chicago Team! His first day is today, September 23rd.

Before he arrived at Notre Dame, Myles served as Founder and President of Soil, an organization based in southwestern Michigan aimed at helping young people obtain the proper resources for; educational development, mental & health awareness, and physical education.

Myles and his partner, Irma Ramirez, have three children, Leilani, Parker and Sebastian. They are excited to join the University Relations family. Please stop by and say hi when you see him around the office.

Thanks!

Ashley

Dear UR staff,

Please join me in thanking and congratulating Courtney. She will be pursuing a new career opportunity as social media manager at Family Entertainment TV, a South Bend-based broadcasting company with national and international reach. In her stead, she will leave a special mark on both me personally and on our organization!

In my 18 months working with Courtney, here is what I’ve had the privilege to learn:
Hitting publish, day in and day out, to an audience of over 100,000 — in digital spaces that often bring out the most extreme ends of the human condition — is intimidating. It would have most of us cowering in the closet at each click to publish. But Courtney has what I call nerves of steel. A trait that so many expert golfers share. She has an uncanny ability to perform with ultimate stoicism under pressure, scrutiny, and variable terrain.

Thank you, Courtney, for leading by example and teaching us to respond to fear with fierceness. And for giving me the humility to know I will never hack it as a golfer. Ever.

If you would like to extend your own thanks and congratulations to Courtney, please note that her last day with the NDAA will be Wednesday, Sept. 25. For any questions or concerns related to our digital channels, please reach out to me in the interim while we work to fill her big shoes.

Courtney, we wish you all the best in your role.
With gratitude,

Ti

Dear Colleagues,

I am both sad and excited to share the news that Kelly Woods will be leaving the Alumni Association and Notre Dame as she has accepted a new position as a Program Analyst with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in Washington, DC.

Kelly joined the NDAA as our Systems Specialist nearly two years ago after completing her Masters degree from BYU – starting with the NDAA the same week that the Fighting Irish played the Cougars in the Shamrock Series. During that time, Kelly has been instrumental in the administration of the myNotreDame platform, migration of our Tableau reporting to the university’s standard, the transition to Google Analytics GA4, supporting the NDAA’s reporting and data requests, and most recently, leading our FaithND transition project.

Kelly’s last day with us will be Friday, September 20, allowing her to enjoy one last set of Board Meetings, two Football Fridays, and of course the roll-out of our new FaithND in mid-September!

Please join me in congratulating Kelly as she prepares for her next chapter where we know she will continue to do great things as she continues her service – albeit now for a larger community.

John