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EIS Director Joins the BYU-Hawaii Ohana

BYU–Hawaii welcomes a new director of enterprise information systems: Jeff Strain. Strain comes from the LDS Church Educational System, working there since February 2001. He started at LDS Business College where he worked with Oracle and PeopleSoft and helped organize and jump start a helpdesk. While at LDSBC, Strain served on several technical CES-wide committees. He continued his involvement on the committees but made the switch to BYU (Provo) in April 2005. There, Jeff helped in maturing their ERP system as well as their Linux environments. 

While serving on the CES Developers forum, Strain was able to visit Hawaii on several occasions. Through his visits, he was touched by the unique mission of this institution, and after furthering his education and receiving an MBA from BYU in 2011, Strain continued to look for ways to make the move to BYU–Hawaii. “We’re excited to have Jeff join our team,” says Kevin Schlag, the university information officer. “He brings a good range of experience from other CES institutions, and his technical expertise will help us all be rock solid with our systems and services.”

Strain comes to Hawaii with his wife and six children. “My family and I are excited at the opportunity to learn and serve in such a wonderful and unique environment that exists at BYU–Hawaii.”  

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