Director for Special Projects
Office of the CIO
Katie Mankins joined UCSB in 2015 with over 25 years of management and technical experience. She sees her role as Director for Special Projects in the Office of the CIO as an opportunity to solve business problems, craft realistic solutions and deliver value to stakeholders across campus. She is well-versed in the practices that enable projects to deliver promised business value, and she has rich and deep expertise in business process improvement, project, program and portfolio management. Her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification reinforced her love of navigating deftly from big picture to details and back again, and helping engage people from a cross section of backgrounds to find common goals and reach mutual success. Katie has been an active promoter of the continuous improvement initiatives on campus, including administering Promapp (a process mapping tool), acting as co-lead for the implementation of Nintex Workflow Cloud (a workflow automation tool), and running the Lean Six Sigma training program.