Paul W
Infrastructure Director at University of Minnesota, Research & Innovation Office (RIO)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPaul W is an experienced infrastructure leader with over a decade of operational and facilities management experience, now serving as Infrastructure Director in the University of Minnesota Research & Innovation Office. He has a proven record of driving transformational initiatives across academic health systems and large enterprise retail environments, aligning strategy, capital planning, and service delivery to measurable outcomes. Paul blends creative problem-solving with fiscal discipline, having led cross-functional teams, chaired advisory councils for biomedical facilities, and managed complex research clinic operations. His background spans frontline operations at Target through senior university roles, giving him a pragmatic perspective on scaling processes and optimizing stakeholder engagement. A lifelong learner with a talent for clarifying complexity, he excels in mission-driven settings where infrastructure decisions directly enable research and innovation. Based in Minneapolis, Paul brings a rare combination of hands-on operational experience and strategic leadership to institutional growth and facilities modernization.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at DePaul University
English
Github Skills (33)
readium10
dita9
blacklight8
navigator8
modularity8
epub8
ebook-reader6
swift5
discord-bot5
solr5
ios5
javascript3
data-model3
ansible-galaxy2
npmjs2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Minitex/mdl-solr-core
Nov 2020 - Apr 2024
Minnesota Digital Library Solr Core
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 5 months
digital-librarysolrsolr-core
Minitex/server_core
Oct 2017 - May 2020
Shared data model and utilities for Library Simplified server applications
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
connectorsimplifieddata-modelserver
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