Systems Lead

Valerie Gunder

Building the systems that let one program run the same way at many sites.

Val has more than 25 years in information technology, training and program operations across tribal health, higher education and workforce development. She rose from help desk technician to Chief Information Officer at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Western Alaska. At Eleven Tenths she runs day-to-day operations for the AWS-funded Information Infrastructure Pre-Apprenticeship and builds the templates, courses and workflows behind it.

Where she has done the work

  • Chief Information Officer, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, after roles as Help Desk Technician, Training Coordinator, and Deputy and Acting CIO; directed a $6 million IT budget and 85 IT projects
  • Project Manager at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 2009 to 2012, running statewide IT and quality-improvement projects across a 229-member tribal health system
  • Instructional Designer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2006 to 2009, designing distance education courses and supporting faculty, staff and students on the learning management system
  • Runs the Eleven Tenths core team meeting cycle, from agendas and summaries to partner communications
Systems she runs
  • Asana The project template behind every I2PA cohort
  • Moodle Courses for program instructors
  • Google Workspace Company administration
Multi-site operations

From 48 village clinics to every I2PA cohort

In Western Alaska, Val upgraded telemedicine carts and led IT training across 48 remote village clinics while serving on the corporate leadership team of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation.

At Eleven Tenths she built the Asana project template that runs every Information Infrastructure Pre-Apprenticeship cohort. She also launched the cohort at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, handling everything from project setup and a seven-person task plan through enrollment and onboarding logistics.

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