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Executive Director, Enterprise Administrative Systems

Targeted resume for Villanova University Executive Director, Enterprise Administrative Systems — emphasizing enterprise platform leadership, higher education depth, and long-term operational stewardship.

Joe Adair

jadair06@gmail.com | 610-715-9791

Professional Summary

Enterprise software leader with 20+ years of experience designing, building, and sustaining mission-critical application platforms across higher education, research, and healthcare. At Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, directed the architecture, development, and long-term stewardship of a portfolio of enterprise systems supporting academic operations, sponsored research administration, faculty services, and student workflows — including a unified internal enterprise platform that has operated continuously for more than 16 years. Combines strategic platform ownership with deep technical delivery experience across the full software development lifecycle, cloud infrastructure, data integration, stakeholder alignment, and team leadership. Familiar with Ellucian Banner as an end user and for data export integration supporting university operational workflows. Committed to institutional reliability, platform governance, and delivering systems that the people depending on them can trust.

Core Competencies

Professional Experience

Drexel University, College of Computing and Informatics — Philadelphia, PA

Associate Director of Platform and Software Development | June 2023 – Present

Direct platform strategy, architecture, SDLC governance, and lifecycle stewardship for a portfolio of enterprise software systems serving academic operations, research administration, faculty services, and student workflows across the College of Computing and Informatics.
Own end-to-end responsibility for the CCI Apps Enterprise Platform — a unified internal administrative system supporting sponsored research proposal intake, course assistant administration, faculty travel, scheduling, and operational workflows — active for more than 16 years and currently running multiple concurrent workstreams.
The CCI Apps Proposal Tracking workstream has managed approximately 1,745 sponsored research proposals across roughly 10 years, supporting more than 100 submissions annually.
Oversee production infrastructure and operations across Proxmox-hosted application and database servers, AWS cloud environments, and Railway containerized deployment pipelines supporting multiple live systems.
Partner with department leadership, faculty, researchers, and administrative stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize delivery, and ensure enterprise systems remain reliable, maintainable, and aligned with institutional priorities.
Lead team recruiting, co-op program coordination, onboarding, performance management, and professional development for software engineers and student technical staff.
Manage technical program planning, milestone tracking, vendor relationships, and operational continuity across concurrent active systems.

Senior Software Developer | 2014 – June 2023

Served as principal architect and lead developer during the largest expansion of the College’s internal enterprise software portfolio, growing it from isolated departmental tools to an integrated operational platform.
Led the architectural decision to consolidate multiple standalone .NET administrative systems into a unified Python/Django enterprise platform — a migration driven by team sustainability, shared component reuse, and long-term maintainability of institutional software.
Integrated Banner data exports into CCI Apps internal workflows to support academic operations and student management data pipelines.
Architected and delivered the ACE Clinical Research Platform, a multi-institutional clinical system supporting autism screening and assessment across approximately 2,500 users, 30 provider offices, and 40+ digitized forms for a Drexel, University of Connecticut, and UC Davis collaboration. Operated actively for five years before grant conclusion.
Led technical delivery and backend architecture for the TYS medication adherence platform, a sponsored research engagement with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), combining Django REST APIs with a native Android client.
Built SOEACE, a literacy assessment platform supporting district administration, passage delivery, automated scoring, and review analytics for the Drexel School of Education — currently positioned for commercialization by university stakeholders.
Negotiated sponsored research contracts, developed cost proposals, and managed milestone reporting for multi-year grant engagements with university and hospital partners.
Designed, deployed, and administered AWS EC2 and RDS MySQL production environments with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines supporting research-critical applications requiring high availability and auditability.
Maintained IRB compliance responsibilities across multi-site clinical research platforms, coordinating technical architecture decisions with institutional review requirements.

Web Services Architect | 2009 – 2014

Managed the College’s public web presence and delivered custom application development for departmental and administrative needs.
Established the architectural patterns, delivery practices, and stakeholder relationships that formed the foundation for the College’s enterprise software function.
Developed early internal tools and data integrations that introduced systematic software lifecycle practices to the College’s technical operations.

Pennoni Associates — Philadelphia, PA

IT Specialist | 2003 – 2009

Developed ETL pipelines to extract, normalize, and migrate organizational data from legacy FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and SQL Server systems into BST, an enterprise business management platform, as part of a multi-year enterprise system consolidation.
Built database-driven applications supporting proposal development, business development operations, and enterprise reporting across multiple departments.
Partnered directly with business stakeholders to maintain operational continuity, support user adoption, and improve reporting and data quality during enterprise system transition.

Additional Leadership

Adjunct Faculty, Drexel University (2021 – Present): Teaching five courses in database administration, computing, and security — INFO 101 (Introduction to Computing and Security Technology), INFO 210 (Database Management Systems), INFO 315 (Advanced Database Management Systems), INFO 365 (Database Administration I), and INFO 366 (Database Administration II) — bringing enterprise systems and security experience directly into classroom instruction.
Mentorship and Developer Pipeline: Mentored software engineering co-ops, student workers, and early-career developers through structured onboarding and direct project work. Program alumni placed at Google, Comcast, Penn Medicine, and Drexel University.
Research Co-authorship: Co-author, HIVE-4-MAT: Advancing the Ontology Infrastructure for Materials Science, Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2020), Springer CCIS 1355. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_28

Education

Drexel University — Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Science, Computer Security and Technology | 2020