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Contact Ash Siebecker www.linkedin.com/in/ CTO at Ascend Learning ashleysiebecker (LinkedIn) Olathe, Kansas, United States Top Skills Experience Automation Ascend Learning HP-UX 10 years 5 months Perl CTO May 2018 - Present (6 years 7 months) Certifications Leawood, KS Becoming an AI-First Product Leader As Ascend Learning’s Chief Technology Officer, Ash Siebecker is responsible Generative AI for Business Leaders for innovative strategy designed to mature our technology foundation with a Leading with a Digital Mindset in the Age of AI focus on customer delight, efficiency and security. Before joining the senior leadership team as CTO, Ash spent almost four years as Ascend Learning’s Vice President of Software Engineering for the Clinical Healthcare business. In that position, Ash played a crucial leadership role in helping drive both ATI Nursing and National Healthcareer Association’s architecture and platform strategy, designing and deploying platform and product enhancements, and working with teams to deliver an ever-higher level of innovation for ATI and NHA customers. Ash brings to his role 20 years of software engineering experience, with a combination of experience in the healthcare information technology (IT) industries and high-volume manufacturing. He previously spent time at Euronet leading the Americas and Australia SW Engineering organization. Prior to that he spent several years at Cerner Corporation, one of the nation’s leading healthcare IT companies, where he managed several software engineering organizations delivering a variety of solutions, both enterprise and client-facing. Ash also spent nearly seven years at Motorola/Freescale semiconductor. During much of his time there, he led the computer integrated manufacturing department at one of Motorola’s premier semiconductor fabrication facilities. Vice President Of Software Engineering July 2014 - Present (10 years 5 months) Leawood, KS • Responsible for Design, Development, and Support of all products for 2 SaaS platforms generating over $160M in revenue and used by 1M+ end-users. (www.atitesting.com, www.nhanow.com) Page 1 of 4

• Directly manage an organization of 61 Software Engineers, Development Managers, and Platform Analysts that focus primarily on product innovation and development. • Led a major transformation in development practices at Ascend, implementing a SW Engineering best practices approach in an environment that was in need of a major transformation. Improved release quality, efficiency, and time to market substantially through this exercise. This process transformation is in the process of being adopted across Ascend in other engineering organizations as best practice. • Drive DevOps adoption and best practices across the organization including projects to adopt build and deployment automation and continuous integration. • Research and adopt new tools to improve monitoring of systems, testing automation, development automation, and load and performance testing capabilities. • Leading a major platform re-architecture effort for the Clinical Health platforms, migrating from a legacy platform to a new micro-service based architecture. The first phase of this is complete with 700,000 students moved to a new student portal. • Continue to drive efficiency in the development organization with goals to achieve 10% productivity improvements in 2017. • Work with directly with CEO and Business Unit leaders on key technical decisions, product/project status updates, and overall roadmap progress. • Work directly with CTO, CIO, and Chief Architect on organizational strategies. This includes key platform, technology stack, and infrastructure decisions. • Travel to customer locations as needed to meet with CIO’s and Nursing Department Heads at educational institutions as needed. epay, a Euronet Worldwide Company Director Of Software Engineering November 2012 - July 2014 (1 year 9 months) Leawood, KS • Implemented a best practices SW Engineering methodology into an environment will minimal controls and minimal investment planning. • Responsible for Design, Development, PMO, and Support of all components of the epay platform transaction processing platform. • Responsible for the management of Euronet’s Kansas City datacenter. This included all HW purchases, datacenter site management, and access. • Developed the regions strategic roadmap for the epay platform, this included consolidation initiatives as well as driving best practices across the region. Page 2 of 4

Cerner Corporation Director July 2006 - November 2012 (6 years 5 months) Director Of Application Development 2006-Present Held multiple positions of progressive leadership responsibilities in Cerner’s Internal Application Development organization. Entered Cerner in 2006 as a Sr. Team Leader for one application development team and through progressive promotions and increases in responsibility am currently leading an organization of 120 associates. Responsibilities include: • Responsible for Design, Development, PMO, and Support for Cerner’s core Enterprise Solutions. This includes Service, Sales, CRM, www.cerner.com, SOA, Sharepoint, Business Intelligence, and several in-house developed solutions. • Responsibilities also include support and development for several system management and Monitoring solutions, including Server, Network, and Storage monitoring as well as Asset Management, System Management, CMDB, Service Management and ITBM solutions. • Drove the design and development of an Agile development process for the organizations SW development teams. Currently running 2 development teams on pure Agile, and the remaining in a ‘Waterscrumfall’ type of approach. The SW Development process will support both approaches, and has been audited for ISO 9001 compliance. • Responsible for Portfolio Management for all Application Development requests across the corporation. • Drive recruiting and staffing with HR for all development group positions. • Responsible for developing organizational structure that aligns with strategic roadmaps. • Responsible for the organizations capital and expense plans, managing approximately $20M in capital spend annually. Freescale Semiconductor Service Delivery Manager/Site IT Manager 2002 - 2006 (4 years) Chandler, AZ Service Delivery Manager/Site IT Manager 2000-2006 Held various positions of progressive responsibility in Motorola/Freescale from entry level SW Engineer position coming out of college up to Site IT/CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) manager. This was all at Freescale’s Chandler, AZ 200mm semiconductor factory. Responsibilities included: • Leading the team to a benchmark year in 2004 for uptime. Page 3 of 4

• Responsible for 4 SW engineering teams that covered Manufacturing Execution Systems, Equipment Integration, Data Analysis and Statistical Process Control, and Reporting. • Managed Portfolio Management processes for all SW development requests. • Responsible for IT Service Delivery for entire site, this includes application and infrastructure availability, sustaining activities, and work request and project delivery. • Responsible for site BIA and DRP. • Responsible for ensuring all site systems and accounts maintain SOX compliance. • Responsible for expanding 24X7 support helpdesk from providing just US factory support to providing support to all US factories, factories in Malaysia, and factories in China. This project also included expanding the helpdesk team to include resources in Malaysia. Motorola Software Engineer 1999 - 2002 (3 years) Chandler, AZ Responsible for the Manufacturing User Interface. This included development in C++, ksh, csh, Perl, and Tcl/Tk. Delivered several releases with new functionality as well as deploying version upgrades. Education Western International University M.S., Information Technology · (2001 - 2003) Kansas State University B.S., Information Systems · (1997 - 1999) Kansas Wesleyan University B.S., Physics · (1991 - 1996) Page 4 of 4