Summary
William Ballard is a retired Associate Vice President with over four decades at the University of Vermont overseeing complex, city-like campus infrastructure, 10 operating units, 535 staff and a $75M+ budget. He combined operational leadership in facilities, public safety and auxiliary services with emergency management duties, serving as the university’s Emergency Management Director and advising the student-run rescue ambulance. An educator as well as an administrator, he taught graduate courses in financial planning and supervised interns across decades, bringing an organizational-change MBA and Harvard executive training to practical campus resilience work. Now based in Hilton Head Island, he’s pursuing retirement projects that deepen his long-standing interest in emergency management and business continuity, blending hands-on incident experience with institutional strategy.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at University of Vermont
Professional Certificate, Institute for Educational Management, Professional Certificate, Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University Graduate School of Education
MBA, with concentration in organizational change, MBA, with concentration in organizational change at UVM Graduate College
AS, Business Administration, AS, Business Administration at Mitchell College