Dawn Roarty brings more than 30 years of project and change management experience to her role as executive director of gift and data services at the University of California, Davis. She led the design and implementation of business intelligence solutions in support of UC Davis' first comprehensive fundraising campaign, and is poised to lead her team through the next campaign. She has driven the adoption of many innovative approaches to the business of advancement services, including the implementation of Agile and KANBAN to gift and donor record processing.

Roarty served as project manager for the centralized gift processing system (GREAT) which earned four CASE Circle of Excellence awards in a single year, including Grand Gold and Platinum. She brings this passion for efficiency to her gift processing team and fosters an environment that encourages openness and continuous improvement. She has served on the faculty for several of CASE's Gift Processing and Donor Records Workshops.

She holds a bachelor's degree from UC Davis, a master's degree in business administration from San Francisco State, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and SCRUM master.