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Career path at Bellevue College: Senior Systems Engineer, 2017; Systems Engineering Manager, 2020; Director of Technology Support Services, 2026.

Michael Cody Rodefer

Director of Technology Support Services Bellevue College ITS

MBA · CISSP · PMP · SHRM-SCP · ITIL 4

Callicles told Socrates that the good life is appetite without limit, always more and always bigger. Socrates called that a leaky jar you can pour into forever and never fill, and that was never what I wanted. What I want is to grow with my team and with this college, because in a place built around learning, IT is the work I would choose anyway.

An empty boat can collide with yours and stir no anger — it's the man at the oars we curse. So I empty the boat: no ego to steer around, no one to blame, only the river and the work. — after Zhuangzi · 莊子, the empty vessel (虛舟)

// certifications and certificates [6]

// education [2]

MBA

Information Technology Management · Western Governors University

Bachelor's

Double major · Computer Science & Mathematics · Maryville College

HONORSMagna Cum Laude MINORSEnglish, Japanese AWARDJerry L. Pietenpol CS Award

// selected work

ctcLink security automation

Bellevue College

I designed and built an automated security-deprovisioning system for ctcLink, the PeopleSoft ERP shared across Washington's 34 community and technical colleges, spanning all three pillars: HCM, Finance, and Campus Solutions, including Campus Solutions SACR row-level security, grants security, and procurement authorizations. I automated the deterministic steps and deliberately gated the high-consequence ones behind human review, automating what was safe and keeping a person where judgment was required.

Intune campus deployment

Bellevue College

I led the modernization of roughly 3,000 endpoints from legacy SCCM to a unified Intune platform, standardizing configuration, compliance, and application delivery across the college. I built the rollout on device-based self-deploying enrollment and staged it in rings for a controlled transition, and I folded BitLocker in at scale so a lost device stays a hardware matter rather than a data exposure. The support technicians were trained before the rollout began and have handled device targeting since.

Teams telephony migration

Bellevue College

I led the college's migration from an AudioCodes system with Polycom desk phones to Microsoft Teams telephony as both project lead and technical lead. I stood up a new AudioCodes Session Border Controller for Direct Routing, built the call queues and pickup groups in Microsoft 365 through PowerShell, and handled the Zoom Rooms and Teams Rooms builds for classrooms and conference spaces. Queue administration sits with the Senior Systems Administrator now.

Canvas LMS

Bellevue College

I built the college's Canvas escalation practice as its Tier-4 engineer, onboarding and training the administrators who now run the platform day to day. Working with a business analyst, I redesigned issue triage so instructor problems route correctly on first touch, bringing misroutes down and keeping upper-tier tickets from aging. Today the Canvas team owns triage and administration, and I serve alongside the Director of Integration as one of two executive escalation points, engaged only for institution-wide incidents.

PLC backups & 2D imagers

Denso

I partnered with production and maintenance teams to integrate plant-floor operational technology with IT: a centralized, networked system for PLC backups and remote deployment, paired with automated 2D imagers that read part marks directly in place of manual entry. Deployments that once required a technician on the floor now complete remotely in minutes, and the work paid for itself within the fiscal year. The maintenance crews have run it themselves since handoff.

Also built: a solo SFTP and DFS deployment pipeline for our developers, still in production.

// focus

project management ITSM / ITIL maturity · incident, change, problem enterprise applications · ctcLink / PeopleSoft security IT / OT integration security governance identity & cloud · Intune / Entra ID Canvas LMS UC & telephony accessibility · WCAG / WAVE Tableau & operational reporting budget & procurement SLA & service delivery team leadership
Bloom where you are planted — and when you can't bloom, send the roots down deeper. — Watanabe Kazuko, 置かれた場所で咲きなさい ("Bloom Where You Are Planted")

— after W. B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (opens in a new tab)