Eric Zimmer
President & CEO at Zimmer Strategy
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolEric Zimmer is an executive leader and strategist who blends more than two decades of academic, nonprofit, and ecclesiastical leadership with hands-on financial and enrollment turnaround experience in higher education. As President of the University of Saint Francis he reversed enrollment declines, boosted endowment income by 53%, and generated consistent operating surpluses through strategic repositioning, program innovation, and disciplined cost management. He now leads Zimmer Strategy, advising organizations on negotiation, financial analysis, and systems transformation, drawing on prior roles at Notre Dame, Creighton, Georgetown, and the Holy See where he managed relations with 1,000+ anglophone institutions. A former Air Force chaplain and Jesuit turned diocesan priest, Dr. Zimmer combines spiritual leadership and public speaking with rigorous business analytics—a rare mix that informs his mission-driven decision making. He holds advanced degrees in communication, theology, and business, and is known for translating complex institutional histories into practical, sustainable plans.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at University of Detroit Jesuit High School and AcademyMA English Language & Literature, MA English Language & Literature at University of MinnesotaPhysics and Economics, Physics and Economics at University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Communication Theory, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Communication Theory at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of PennsylvaniaSTL Theology-Liturgy, STL Theology-Liturgy at Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara UniversityBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Loyola University New OrleansMBA Finance General, MBA Finance General at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessPh.D. Communication Theory, Ph.D. Communication Theory at University of Pennsylvania
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Nepali
Github Skills (4)
espn3
api2
wrapper2
nodejs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eazimmer/ratcamp
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
A local-hosted web app interconnected with other instances of the app via a back-end server facilitating data transfers.
Contributions:161 commits, 1 push in 21 days
instancesdata-transfershostedlocal-hostedtransfers
eazimmer/LoLGameStats-Prototype
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.