Summary
Carter Fifield is a technology leader with 11 years of experience at the University of Kentucky, currently serving as Director of Technology for the Human Development Institute where he builds roadmaps, governance, and accessibility-minded systems. He combines hands-on engineering—having designed and maintained 35+ websites, multiple e-commerce and e-learning platforms, and an iOS app—with strategic oversight of project design, staff, and institutional change control. Carter emphasizes customer experience, security risk mitigation, and agile responsiveness while partnering with program directors and principal investigators to align technical solutions with program needs. He has a practical background in CMS migrations, PaaS provisioning (cPanel, Plesk, Azure, DigitalOcean), and integrations that support statewide initiatives and grant-funded projects. Known for translating complex requirements into usable, accessible web systems, he also brings classroom-to-production perspective from his computer science studies.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Western Governors University