Joe LeCluyse

Joe brings diverse higher education administrative and technology experience, strong interpersonal skills, and a strong student development philosophy in providing strategy and software planning services for higher education clients. This experience is from more than 35 years in the higher education “industry” in student services administration, consulting services, and software development project management.

Prior to consulting, Joe served as Principal Functional Architect at Oracle USA for its student administrative system, leading the functional design efforts for the system, working closely with numerous, diverse higher education institutions in defining functional requirements and design, and continuing to work with those customers through implementation.

Joe has also held leadership positions over 16 years in administration at both the university and community college level.  Joe holds an MSE degree in Education and BSW in Social Welfare from the University of Kansas.  Joe will be the consulting lead for this engagement with UGA, and will coordinate efforts with the rest of the consulting team, provide methodology oversight and project management, and will be the primary consulting point of contact with the University.

Dave Becker

Dave has over fifteen years’ experience in higher education, specializing in the development, management and installation of administrative software solutions across finance and human capital management, student financial services, student services, research administration and analytics.  He also has experience working with a wide range of "add-on" solutions, such as eProcurement, talent management, and payment gateways.  Dave has worked with hundreds of higher education institutions providing consulting and advisory services, specifically in the areas of human resources and finance administration.

Dave is a certified public accountant, and an accomplished entrepreneur.  He has regularly participated and presented at conferences such as NACUBO, CUPA and EDUCAUSE.  Dave will be the functional consulting subject matter expert for this engagement with UGA, and his expertise will be specifically leveraged for the Assessing Options phase.

Matthew Coombs

Matthew Coombs has over 20 years’ experience in information technology, with 14 years concentrated on higher education technology solutions.  He specializes in defining technology needs for institutions moving to enterprise integration platforms.

Matthew currently acts as the Vice President of Information and Technology Resources at Hartnell College, overseeing all administrative systems and new technology advancement. Hartnell is a rising star in the California Higher Ed system, recognized for innovative business and science programs and honored to be a recipient of consecutive NASA and NSF grants.

Matthew also consults with organizations that anticipate a need for enterprise integration, enterprise business intelligence or enterprise system deployment. He currently serves on the PESC Board and is active in multiple open source projects, such as Kuali, Drupal and Sakai.  His previous experience in higher education technology includes roles as a solutions architect, product development, and director of infrastructure with major technology providers. As an experienced technical consultant, Matthew has helped hundreds of schools understand the benefit of deploying modern systems to leverage existing technology investments and streamline business processes.

Matt was part of the CPS team that completed the Student and Financial Aid assessment for UGA.  Matt will lend his expertise to UGA in the options comparison, development of technical requirements and assessment of technical readiness.