San Antonio 🎙️ Episodes

196
Feb. 27, 2025

#196: Building Cyber Warriors: UTSA's SOC & Elastic's AI Secret Sauce [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring:

Kendra Ketchum, Vice President for Information Management and Technology and CIO at the University of Texas, San Antonio


Jared Pane, Director of Solutions Architecture at Elastic



Episode Highlights:

Leadership Philosophy & Team Building

Discover Kendra's transformative "humble, hungry, and kind" leadership philosophy that's reshaping technical teams at UTSA


Why Kendra actively avoids hiring "brilliant jerks" who might be technically strong but ultimately damage team cultu...
194
Feb. 12, 2025

#194: How Clackamas CC Protected 10,000 Students + [Case Study] Texas A&M's Digital Transformation with Omnissa

Featuring:

Saby Waraich, CIO/CISO, Clackamas Community College


Wayne Bridges, Senior Solutions Engineer, Omnissa



In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Clackamas CC executed a 72-hour ransomware response protecting 10,000 students using out-of-band communication and multi-agency coordination


How Texas A&M transformed their digital experience from 15+ logins to a unified portal while preserving school-specific branding


The CARES framework (Communication, Adapt, Relationships, Empowerme...