Sheetal Ghadse 
Sheetal Ghadse is an Integration Developer at Amherst College. She has worked in the IT private sector for over nine years as a Java programmer and integration developer, and five years in Higher Education. At Amherst, she co-led the integration team for the Workday Student implementation project and played an essential role in Workday platform implementation. She is certified Workday Pro - Integrations Administration.

Marion Cronin 
Marion Cronin is the Assistant Director for Enterprise Solutions and Reporting at Amherst College. She was the reporting lead and data conversion team member in the Workday implementation project at Amherst College.  She also has over 28 years of experience working in IT in Higher Education.

Rachael Coombes 
Rachael Coombes is the Associate Director for Institutional Research at Wellesley College. She supports the institutional usage of data across the college by developing, delivering, and supporting strategic and ad hoc dashboards and reports used for analysis, decision-making, and external reporting. Rachael has been involved in student data analytics since she joined Wellesley College as an administrative assistant in 2013. After being a pilot user for the
college’s newly launched analytics system, she was hired as the Business Intelligence Specialist in Library & Technology Services (LTS) in 2015. She made the move from LTS to the Office of Institutional Research in 2022, just as Wellesley went live with Discovery Boards.

Sam Donnan

Sam Donnan is a seasoned information and business systems professional with over two decades of experience driving technology-enabled transformation within enterprise environments. Since 2015, Sam has served as a Principal Enterprise Architect at Workday, where she focuses on introducing customers and prospects to the power of Workday’s technology!

Criss Laidlaw
I currently serve as the Director of Administrative Information Services at Williams College.  The AIS team supports the core administrative applications at Williams, including Workday Financials, Workday HCM, and PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.  We’re currently implementing
Workday Student.  We use SnapLogic as our iPaaS.   I served on the Higher Education User Group (HEUG) Board for two elected terms and for two
years as an appointed member, completing my service in 2019.  I was also an early member of the HEUG TAG (Technical Advisory Group) and ultimately spent 6 years on the TAG, serving as chair twice. I helped write several TAG white papers, including Effective ERP Practices for the Small Institution (2008), A Deliberate Approach for Leveraging Applications Unlimited (2007) and Moving from PeopleSoft to Fusion (2006). 

Andre Birenzi 
Enterprise Systems Team, which is comprised of two groups: 
1. Workday ERP Services, which manages and coordinates Workday administration and campus-wide support 
2. Integrations & Application Services, which oversees system integrations and third-party application support and database administration. 
He led his team through Bowdoin’s Workday Financial Management (FIN) implementation, which went live in January 2024, adaptive planning and the Workday Student implementation, which launched in 2025.

Julia Keller
Julia is the Director, Enterprise Data & Integration Services at Smith College. Smith College went live with the Workday platform (FIN and HCM) in 2019 and with Student in 2021. Smith implemented SnapLogic as an iPaaS in 2017, ahead of our Workday implementation, and an enterprise integration strategy, and the formation of a dedicated team was a key part of our success.

Kevin Kane 
Kevin is currently the Director of Enterprise Systems at Wesleyan University. His team supports enterprise applications across Wesleyan, including Workday Financials, Workday HCM, PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, and Salesforce. Wesleyan is currently implementing Workday Student with a projected Go-Live in March 2026. Kevin is currently serving his first term as a member of the NERCOMP board.

Amy Schack
Amy Schack currently serves as the Professional Development and Member Relations Manager for the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP).  In this role, she works directly with professional development organizers to plan and execute workshops and webinars, as well as the Board of Trustees to advance the mission and vision of the organization. She is also the Co-Chair of the Professional Development Committee, the NERCOMP Annual Conference, and the Mentorship Program Development Task Force. 

Before joining NERCOMP, Amy worked as the Director of Residential Life at several colleges and universities in New York.  Amy holds a Master of Science in Education with a concentration in Counseling from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Eastern Connecticut State University.  She is also a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy.