C964 Course Faculty#
The capstone was designed to showcase knowledge and skills accumulated throughout the BSCS degree program. Helping you integrate your accumulative expertise into a passing capstone is the primary responsibility of your assigned C964 course instructor. They will actively monitor your progress and offer one-on-one advice. They will discuss your progress, help you find answers to content questions, and give you tools to navigate the capstone successfully. Throughout your engagement with this course, it is expected that you continue communicating with your program mentor. Your program mentor will help you set weekly study goals, recommend specific learning materials, and tell you what to expect in this course and how it aligns with your program’s competencies.
If your assigned course instructor is out of the office, you should contact ugcapstoneit@wgu.edu. Whether emailing ugcapstoneit@wgu.edu or your CI directly, always practice professional communication:
Use your WGU email (we may not receive emails from outside WGU).
Provide a subject, your capstone course (we support all IT college capstones), and your program mentor’s name (if not in your signature).
Clearly state your questions or requests.
Candice Allen#
Candice Allen has worked for WGU for over ten years. Before coming to WGU she taught a mixture of IT fundamental courses and business courses at post-secondary colleges in Northwest Indiana and online. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and has two master’s degrees (IDOL and MSIS). She attended Capella University and AIU to obtain her master’s degree. Currently, she is a course instructor for the College of IT.
Jim Ashe#
Dr. James Ashe is a dedicated maths, computer science, and statistics teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching in an online, large university, small college, HBCU, and community college setting. In 2016 he joined WGU to help students in the newly created Math Center. In 2018 Jim joined IT to contribute to the new Computer Science program. Currently, he supports the IT, data analytics, and computer science capstone. Though his research studied abstract objects, experimentation, creating examples, and producing necessitated a lot of coding. It was here that he developed a love for programming and computer science. He has a Ph.D. and MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee and a BS in history with a minor in art from East Tennessee State University. Jim and his wife reside in Asheville, NC, with their four children, four cats, a dog, and an undetermined number of chickens. In his nonexistent spare time, he enjoys reading and kayaking.
Charlie Paddock#
Dr. Charles Paddock received his BS in Business from the University of New Orleans. Following a tour of duty in the Air Force, he returned to school and received his MBA concentrating in Systems and Operations Management and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, both from the University of Houston. Charles previously taught at Arizona State University and The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and worked in the Research Centers of both Universities as a consultant to their corporate members. Charles joined WGU in February of 2006 and now lives in Salt Lake City, UT.