Virtual (Zoom)
Thursday, April 14th, 5:00-6:45pm
TechFest is an annual forum hosted by the Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies. Join industry leaders at the forefront of implementing customer relationship management (CRM) systems for business strategy and operations. Explore what it means for your career.
Students:
You can register at: https://go.umd.edu/techfest-register until April 14th, 4:00pm. (Registration with UMD email address required to attend).
If you heard about this event from multiple courses, you can only earn participation credit toward one course.
Jill Fernald, Director, Technology Enablement, KPMG LLP
Jill Fernald, leads KPMG's Federal Salesforce practice. She is responsible for Federal client CRM solution delivery oversight, technical staff development, business development, and relationship management with Salesforce partner representatives. Prior to KPMG, Jill served in IT consulting leadership roles in Northern Virginia at Acumen Solutions/Salesforce, TASC, Booz Allen Hamilton and CGI Federal. She received her BS Decision Information Sciences from UMD Smith and a MS Information Technology from George Mason University. She holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certified PMP, Change Management Practitioner, and Salesforce Certified Consultant. In her spare time, Jill chairs the UMD Parent and Family Council, is an avid University of Maryland college sports fan, and enjoys spending time with her UMD Alum husband and sons; a UMD Public Health grad ’20 and a graduating senior UMD Supply Chain Management/OMBA ’22. Go Terps!
Corey Harrison, Managing Director, Microsoft Cloud Applications, Protiviti
Corey Harrison is Protiviti’s Microsoft Cloud Applications Practice lead working with clients on the strategy, deployment and adoption of Microsoft Cloud applications and custom solutions. From D365 CE to M365 and the E5 security suite of applications, the practice has a high focus on data privacy compliance, UX/UI redesign, migrations, process automation and much more serving national and global organizations in financial services, legal, public sector, manufacturing and the insurance industries.
Erica McNaughton, Senior Associate, KPMG LLP
Erica McNaughton is the UMD University Recruiter for KPMG with a history of working in the public accounting industry. Erica joined KPMG’s University Talent Acquisition team in December 2021, where she focuses on recruiting future talent for KPMG from the University of Maryland and other schools in the DMV area. Prior to joining the UTA team, Erica spent two and a half years working in KPMG’s Federal Audit practice, supporting clients primarily in the defense and energy sectors. Erica completed the CPA exam and has her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Accounting from the University of Alabama.
Acknowledgement of the judges from KPMG:
Brian Frey, Senior Associate, Audit
Erica McNaughton, Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition, University Talent Acquisition
Sharita Ray, IT Advisor Senior Associate
Yannis Shafi, Advisory Associate, Federal Finance Transformation
Austin Wickham, Associate, Deal Advisory & Strategy
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Acknowledgement of the Graduate Student mentors:
Shu-Ping (Zoe) Chen: MSBA
Emma Owusu Darkwa: MSBA
Wei-Yu (Wendy) Jen: MSBA
Wang-Han (Josh) Li: MSIS
Fabienne Yang: MSIS
Po-Han (Ray) Yen: MSBA