David Morales is the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Technology at Western Governors University, where he is responsible for all technology aspects for the institution. He has more than 19 years of experience as a software engineer and technology leader. He has worked for different companies during his career, from a Research and Development center for NASA, litigation support, technology consulting firms to Retail Fortune 1. He is passionate about solving business problems with the right technology. He believes in empowering the people he works with while enabling them to innovate. 

Before WGU, David worked at Walmart for over 12 years, where he helped in many capacities. He helped build and lead their private and public cloud offerings for internal consumption and run the Store Associate technology. There he helped the team deliver several business initiatives, from robots scanning store inventory, to new labeling systems (including ESLs), to new Workforce Management ecosystems, to a variety of new mobile applications to help over 1 million associates at the stores, helping save the company millions of dollars by innovating and bringing better item availability at a lowest operational cost, always partnering with the business. David’s knowledge in cloud and software engineering are key to helping WGU be successful as we continue our journey of digital transformation. David has a broad architectural knowledge that spans many platforms, software and infrastructure/operations.