Paula Young, Founder and President of Governet
Paula Young is the founder and President of Governet.
Paula founded Nevada Contractors Registry, the predecessor company to Governet in 1986. Her original idea was to pioneer the concept of distributing aggregated databases from many local and state government agencies through a single point of access on a network. The success of this idea resulted in the first state wide network and database serving many of the State of Nevada’s cities, counties and state agencies. The name of the company was changed to Governet when current CEO George Tamas joined the Leadership Team.
The vision of Governet is to: “serve the curriculum management needs of institutions of higher learning, and ultimately, their faculty, staff and students”. They do this through their primary solution called CurricUNET. This solution permits post-secondary institutes to manage their curriculum processes through a web-based system. CurricUNET can be used to manage curriculum from different campuses, state/province wide or through a worldwide network. They also over services to help in institutional planning, curriculum review and process re engineering. We use CurricUNET at SAIT polytechnic to manage the curriculum changes and to store and manage course outlines from eight different schools or departments.
Paula Young has extensive management experience as an entrepreneur as CEO of Blue Mountain Energy Inc., a women owned business recognized as one of Nevada’s top 100 Business from Diversity.com. She has spoken numerous times to government and general audiences on becoming a woman owned business. Other members of the leadership Team include:
George Tamas, CEO: more than 30 years’ experience in top management positions for computer software and service organizations. After starting his first company he has led multiple organizations in technology management consulting, software development, networking and outsourcing.
Nancy Howard, COO: 25 years’ experience working with local governments and non-profit agencies with responsibilities of legislative advocacy, financial accounting, administrative business operations and personnel/human resources.
Steven Thyberg, Vice President Business Development: Steven has risen through the ranks of Governet as a Computer Software Engineer. He is the designer and developer of the company’s flagship product, CurricUNET.
Todd Anderson, Vice President Technology: Todd is a computer information systems specialist and was one of the company’s top software developers. He has a combination of attention to detail and the ability to manage complex projects which lead to his appointment as the company’s Vice President of Technology.
The Governet leadership team has a well-balanced group of individuals with experience in areas critical for the company’s success: management, software and technology development, business operations, entrepreneurship and an understanding for the need to manage curriculum processes for post-secondary institutes. Paula Young has surrounded herself with people with the business, technical, management and financial skills to allow her idea from over 25 years ago to happen, resulting in successful business venture.
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kstackhouse 9:24 am on September 27, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This is an interesting concept. I have participated in the writing of two course curricula over the past two years. I just completed piloting one last spring and presented in the summer to new teachers. As I was an active participant I am not sure if the upper-ups were using anything like this to coordinate and manage the work being done by those of us that were working on the courses. It seems that this would be of benefit…what are the costs?
Doug Connery 8:39 pm on September 27, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Ken:
I am not sure of the costs, it is managed at the institutional level. We have been using it for 5 years. The service was acquired to replace to two outdated in-house systems: one to manage curriculum changes and one to house course outlines. We now have a reliable archive of old course outlines and we can track exactly what changes have been made by who and over the years that follow our curriculum change processes and procedures.
Doug.
kstackhouse 7:16 pm on September 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Very interesting. Thanks for responding. I wonder if this would be a benefit for the projects I was working on. Who knows maybe the coordinators were using something like this and we weren’t aware of it? I am curious to find out now.
Ken