Michael Gilmore
Academic Operations | Student Support | Process Design and Applied AI
Ruston, Louisiana | (318) 278-5824 | mwgil10@gmail.com | michaelgilmore.work
Professional profile
Higher-education operations professional supporting a college of roughly 1,100 students, along with its faculty, advisors, and administrators, across advising, registration, academic records, transfer credit, graduation readiness, and Workday Student processes. Combines direct student service with process design, records auditing, and workflow analysis, finding where institutional procedures break down and building clearer support structures, with a working approach drawn from human psychology, applied AI, and process design. Moving toward designing and building the tools and workflows that support this work, as the projects below show. The wider record, from logistics and warehouse operations to academic operations and self-directed technical and AI projects, is a repeated pattern of entering unfamiliar systems and reaching working competence.
Core competencies
Academic operations, undergraduate student support, Workday Student, registration troubleshooting, degree progress and graduation readiness, transfer credit evaluation, records auditing and data accuracy, process mapping and workflow analysis, policy interpretation, cross-functional coordination, AI-assisted research and data analysis, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace.
Professional experience
Louisiana Tech University, College of Education and Human Sciences
Undergraduate Support Specialist | Ruston, Louisiana | January 2019 to Present
Selected projects
- Workday Student Process Documentation
- Student Support Knowledge System
- Scholar / Engram
- AI Memory and Workflow Architecture
Education
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Summer 2026
Louisiana Delta Community College
Industrial Instrumentation Technology coursework, 2019 to 2020
Credentials and professional development
- Google AI series, seven credentials, June 2026
- Microsoft 365 Certification
- Workday Change Ambassador Course
- Office Support Civil Service Certification, 95 percent examination score
Award
University Senate Student Outreach Award, Louisiana Tech University, 2024.
Technical skills
Workday Student administrative systems, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, jamovi for statistical analysis, PsychoPy for behavioral experiment design, Adobe applications, CSS, Windows and Linux, spreadsheet analysis, AI-assisted research and data analysis, PC and hardware troubleshooting.
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