Ann Kovalchick Email Address

Media Analyst

The UC Merced Centers provide an integral link to the university, extending its mission to serve the educational needs of residents throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Services such as undergraduate admissions information, summer courses for UC students, professional development, teacher training, and workshops for educators are offered at the centers. Office space and meeting facilities also are available for rent.

I think ethnographically and knit together the interpersonal, social, and organizational dynamics necessary to guide culture change, align operational and strategic capacity, and enable scalable and sustainable innovation adoption. Experienced in: • Applying principles of change management, systems thinking, and organizational design and learning to lead team and organizational transformation and modernization. • Ability to balance risk and action under crisis conditions and emergent change. • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills anchored in a design-thinking approach to managing complexity for impact and execution. • Use of ethnographic research methodologies to support technology adoption and implementation. • Strong analytical focus and proven ability to align operational and strategic management priorities. • Creating and defining processes, capabilities, and metrics around operational effectiveness and service delivery that align to strategic outcomes. • Managing a portfolio of projects and driving the process from identification of ideas, user requirements, and potential solutions, to the design and implementation of product and service innovations. • Application of instructional design principles and frameworks to craft and launch educational and curricular programs, courses, and workshops. • Effective organizational communication to foster product and service adoption, engagement, and culture change.