WWT Public Sector
Education
Education
Now more than ever, educational institutions—from K-12 through all tiers of higher education—are seeking more effective ways to engage with their students and faculty to enhance the overall campus and constituent experience.
WWT can help with this ever-evolving approach to learning. We work with institutions to develop creative solutions that deliver more innovative digital services. WWT brings the tools and expertise to help educational institutions focus on student success in the classroom and beyond. From strengthening academic networks and delivering high-quality, personalized experiences, to expanding access to university resources regardless of location, all while maintaining the highest levels of security and compliance. Our deep bench of education technology experts combined with our best-of-breed solution partnerships provide educators and institutions with solutions ranging from secure and collaborative remote learning to human capital innovation using enormous volumes of contextually rich data to achieve greater student outcomes on campus and beyond.
Security Transformation
Security Transformation
As the technical and digital maturity of the population continues to grow, the pressures and expectations for academic institutions to modernize their infrastructure are only increasing, particularly with the growing necessity to transition from on campus to online. With these rapid changes also comes growing uncertainty surrounding overall student security. WWT offers a range of security-related services designed to help ensure student and institutional data protection. We address a breadth of related needs, including security tools assessment, security architectures, identity access management, risk and compliance, and executive-level visualizations.
Digital and Business Transformation
Digital and Business Transformation
Students increasingly expect their academic institution to offer cutting-edge capabilities and resources. WWT helps education deliver on that expectation, enhancing the student and campus experience by leveraging the most critical of innovative use cases including next-generation workforce, Internet of Things (IoT), business analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Distance Learning
Distance Learning
Thoughtful, informed IT solutions can have a dramatic impact on educational organizations, helping them optimize resources, conserve costs and drive student success. WWT brings a long track record of helping institutions provide the tools and infrastructure to help students thrive. Every environment is different, so solutions address everything from remote learning and collaboration to data analytics to network and physical security solutions.
Multicloud Architecture
Multicloud Architecture
Gain access to WWT’s mission-tested cloud expertise for help with your institution’s cloud application readiness and migration services strategy, and graduate to highly productive and secure cloud data management that can be readily accessed and wholly trusted by student and faculty alike. WWT also has a wide array of partnerships and certifications with industry-leading infrastructure solutions to help your institution design, develop implement and manage an efficient and cost-effective hybrid cloud platform. Our experience spans design to deployment and through the evolution of a multicloud strategy, on premise and off, as well as storage and data management solutions.
Education Contracts
WWT helps with both the technology and the means to get it; we hold dozens of procurement contract vehicles in states across the country. Our educational contract vehicles save money and simplify the entire IT procurement process for K–12 school districts and higher education institutions alike.
Our People: Ready to deliver mission-based outcomes
Collaborating with WWT means working with senior-level staff members who offer a hybrid of government and high-tech expertise from both the public and private sectors. Our team provides the skills and leadership necessary to identify the right technological solutions and ensure a seamless implementation and management across the agency.
Shawn Rodriguez
Vice President, State & Local Government and Education
Shawn leads the development and execution of all go-to-market strategies and activities including field sales hiring and enablement, integrated field marketing, contract capture, vertical business development, partner and solution execution, and overall growth.
Prior to joining WWT, Shawn served in similar leadership capacities at Forescout Technologies and Splunk. He started his sales career in various sales and leadership positions, all state & local government and education focused.
Chris Bradford
Director, US SLED Strategy and Partner Innovation
Chris engages with clients and technology alliance partnerships on strategy and innovation to develop and deliver solutions that are tailor-made for digital transformation in government and education. He also leads WWT’s awareness and branding within SLED industry advocacy organizations in order to integrate solutions that align with the executive priorities of WWT’s government agencies and education entities.
Prior to joining WWT, Bradford worked in a similar capacity for Splunk, where he served as their SLED partner sales leader for the US SLED market.
John Evans
Chief Technology Advisor (CTA)
John engages with clients on strategy, innovation and transformation to develop and deliver solutions that are tailor-made for business in government and education. He is focused on achieving tangible operational and business outcomes for WWT’s customers at enterprise scale.
Prior to joining WWT, Evans served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the State of Maryland, where he helped lead statewide technology and security initiatives. Evans brings over 15 years of technology expertise with extensive experience with security, cloud, and mission critical applications with a primary focus on the SLED market.
Matthew Jenkins
Area Vice President, SLED West
Matthew is responsible for the development and execution of all go-to-market plans including sales team hiring and development, marketing and events, contract capture, business development and vertical solutions.
Prior to joining WWT, Matthew spent 15 years at Cisco Systems in leadership positions in both systems engineering and enterprise account management.
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If you wish to learn more, visit our global headquarters in St. Louis, MO, and tour the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), or our Washington, D.C. Innovation Center, or get to know our digital platform.
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