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Cayuse Champion Spotlight: Charlie Resare

By Simon Helton posted 02-01-2023 15:18

  

The Cayuse community is thrilled to shine its Champion Spotlight on @Charlie Resare, Senior Director, Research Grants & Finance at Providence St. Joseph Health. Keep reading below to get to know Charlie better.

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How do you interact with Cayuse products on a daily basis?
At Providence, we currently use 424 (now called Proposals), and SP, to manage the pre-award and certain aspect of post-award for our external Grants and Federal Contracts Portfolio. For better or worse, I don’t go into the system myself that often as I have other folks smarter than I that manage the day to day pre- or post-award functions. When I’m interacting with our Cayuse system, it’s usually because we have an abnormal situation that needs special consideration, or (and this is more often) I’m going into the system to find information on one of our proposals. Cayuse does a nice job of helping us manage and maintain supporting documentation in this area.

What do you like to do outside of work?
I’m real big on family and the outdoors. I spend most of my time with my wife and two kids, either going on adventures (like fishing), or playing boardgames (when the weather is rainy, which is often in Portland, OR). Outside of those activities, I tend to read a lot, my guilty pleasure is sci-fi novels, which is part of the reason I like the research field so much!

What do you see as the hottest trends in research today?
I think it’s leveraging big data. We have so much information and data available these days, and our rate of generating data has been growing so fast. I think we’ll see more research in that area leveraging ever-increasing data sets to drive new hypotheses and/or validate them into theories.

What do you consider most promising in the era of big data?
I think quantum computing is going to be a very promising avenue in leveraging and managing big data in the very near future.

How can an organization stay relevant five years from now?
Someone smarter than I once said what never changes is that things will always change. If you want to stay relevant as an organization, you have to keep pushing to be better, stay agile, and be conservatively proactive in leveraging opportunities that come your way. Sometimes that also means making your own opportunities.

What app would be hard for you to live without?
My email. It’s so ingrained in both my work and personal life I don’t know how I’d function without it.

If you could meet any historical figure, who would you choose and why?
Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, supposed pharaoh that commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza. I want to know why the Egyptians built the pyramids, how they built the pyramids, and why a lot of their symbolism matches up with the Mayan Culture that was entirely separate.

Thank you, Charlie, for being a Cayuse Champion and sharing your thoughts!​​​​​​​

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