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Facing pressure to innovate, campus IT leaders must first navigate a growing list of improvement priorities and routine, yet time-consuming, operational tasks. But many lack the key personnel or expertise they need to do this, making it difficult to set aside time needed for meaningful innovation.

Create the space you need to innovate

Apogee provides immediate help to campus IT leaders struggling with staff or expertise challenges. Apogee Professional Services offer:

  • Networking and IT assessments to help define and prioritize for repair critical gaps in infrastructure, processes, or tools 
  • Executive Advisory Services for IT strategy development, planning, budgeting, and short-term guidance of in-house resources to achieve operational steady state
  • Project-based engagements to resolve specific operational or systems issues
  • Staff augmentation to immediately address gaps in in-house expertise or staffing

Following more than two decades of exclusive service to higher education, Apogee collaborates with your IT team to unlock time for in-house staff, reset strategic priorities, and chart a new path to organizational growth and innovation.

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Lead your campus IT transformation

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Executive Advisory Services

Embeds seasoned higher ed operations and technology officers within university leadership teams to lead the transformation of campus IT

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Cloud and Security Assessments

Evaluation of your campus cloud and security environment, including backup, disaster recovery, information security, and potential cloud migration opportunities

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Holistic IT and Network Assessments

A complete review of your existing IT infrastructure and network with a robust set of best practice recommendations to optimize performance and reliability

How Executive Advisory Services Work

Apogee Executive Advisors are experienced chief information officers (CIO), chief technology officers (CTO), and chief information security officers (CISO) who have years of higher ed cabinet-level leadership experience and are ready to serve as full-time or fractional leaders or to be rapidly deployed under high-demand periods.

Apogee executives provide formal IT infrastructure and cybersecurity assessments and a review of campus abilities over weeks of remote and on-premises observations. Every engagement is tailored for your institution and has a well-documented scope of work to govern the engagement. Actionable strategic and tactical plans can be delivered for the following disciplines:

  • Strategic Technology Plan
  • Business and IT Resilience Planning
  • Cybersecurity Controls and Audit
  • Cybersecurity Program
  • IT Management and Operations
  • Financial Capacities Discovery
  • IT Staffing Organization and Sizing Needs Analysis
  • IT Coaching and Professional Development Pathways
  • IT Infrastructure Analysis and Planning
  • IT Governance, Compliance, and Internal Policy Development (includes compliance with federal, state, and contractual cybersecurity obligations, such as GLBA, HIPAA, FERPA, PCI-DSS; privacy policies and compliance, such as GDPR, FPRA, CDPR)
  • Technology and Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Management
  • IT Budget Analysis and Preparation
  • IT Leadership Succession Planning
  • Cabinet Leadership Strategies and Methodologies

Meet the Apogee Executive Advisors

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David Hinson

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Jacob Picart

Jacob Picart

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Mike Rose

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Dave Fuhrmann

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“At the end of the day, when you’re working in an institution of higher education, you want to get those students walking across the stage with a degree, becoming alumni, becoming productive members of their communities. We want to deliver the technology that can support that mission. It’s listening to them to see what part of the puzzle higher ed is missing. Sometimes it’s operational talent. Sometimes it’s strategy. And sometimes it’s a mixture of the two.”

David Hinson, Apogee Campus CIO
Interim CIO, Missouri Western State University

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Managed Network Services

Core, wired, and wireless infrastructure, network access control (NAC), next-gen firewall with VPN, and existing network support and monitoring

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Cloud Professional Services

Cloud Services

Our suite of cloud services, including migration, managed applications, disaster recovery, and more helps campus IT teams create new avenues for operational efficiency, cost-savings, and innovation

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Managed IT Services

A comprehensive suite of services, including ERP and LMS sync, managed infrastructure, endpoint, active directory, Office 365 & Google Workspace, and IT service desk

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Security Services

In close collaboration with your IT team, our security experts assess security risk and help you protect critical student and research data while minimizing the impact of cyberattack.

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IT Service Desk with Apogee

Remote 24/7 support, management, tracking, and monthly reporting of all IT tickets

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