About DISC

Data Innovations, Systems, and Cloud (DISC) partners with campus and the health system to drive institutional excellence at U-M by delivering data that enables leaders to use their expertise to make strategic data-driven decisions. The team, with a vision of a data-as-a-service delivery model is delving into a deeper role in learning analytics, creating executive dashboards, and investigating a data virtualization platform.

Our Staff

  • Martin Sager, Director IS Operations
  • Cameron Watkins, Executive Assistant

    Data Integration, API Management

    • Kranthi Bandaru, Manager
    • Jeanette Balaze
    • Phoebe Chao
    • Jane Chou
    • Peggy Lai
    • Roderick Means
    • Yonghee Stevens
    • Derrick Tietz

    Data Coordination

    • Mandie Chapman, Manager
    • Jamie Davis
    • Bryan Hartman
    • Lauren Hodapp
    • Jeffrey Jenkins
    • Haripriya Mahadevan
    • Julie Martinez
    • John Moje
    • Samuel Owen

    Business Intelligence & Data Science

    • Patrick Franklin, Manager
    • Payal Dangi
    • Christopher Gardner
    • Phillip Kocher
    • Sally Luoma
    • Srinivas Perumandla
    • Matthew Pickus
    • Chris Rowland
    • Leticia Valdez
    • Carrie West

    Database Administration

    • Kranthi Bandaru, Manager
    • Kunal Bansal
    • Kris Carlson
    • Kasthuri Ilankamban
    • Gurleen Kaur
    • Clement Kibuh
    • Kristin Kovarik
    • Dave McLaughlin
    • Michael Wilson
    • Qinsheng Zhu

    Web Hosting

    • Mark Montague, Manager
    • Rick Carter
    • Jeffrey Cousineau
    • Benjamin Fairfield
    • Kelly Stam
    • Tony Winkler

        DevOps

        • Erik Schwartz

        Storage Engineering

        • Karl Lewis, Manager
        • Brian Brichta
        • Phil Jessel
        • Rodney Johnson
        • Nancy Medd
        • Nick Reid
        • Daniel Shepard

        Core Applications

        • Ali Berry, Supervisor
        • Rob Carleski
        • Matthew Deeds
        • Neda Gholizadeh
        • Zeke Henderson

        Containers & Automation

        • Bryan Wilkerson
        • Chris Kretler

        Virtualization & Cloud

        • Stephen Kolasa, Supervisor
        • Matthew Chess
        • Susan Chua
        • Kyle Espinoza
        • Jamie Laundree
        • Kenny Moore
        • Adam Robinson

        Linux OS Support

        • Mark Irwin, Supervisor
        • Roger Facer
        • Carlos Olivas
        • Brian Rahn

        Windows OS Support

        • Brandon Swickerath, Supervisor
        • Paul Hanadel
        • Brian Miller
        • Dan Powell