Chief Information Officer
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) reports to the Vice President for Administration and oversees information technology at The University of Chicago. The CIO deals with IT-related issues ranging from policy and resource allocation to protocol and organization, and represents the University's information-technology interests regionally and nationally. Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT), the University's principal information-technology organization, reports to the CIO.
NSIT services include most of the telephony and voice services, data networking and network services (such as electronic mail), instructional computing, mainframe computing and server management, core central administrative systems ranging from registration to finance, large-scale and cross-project research computing, central user support, and information-technology resale on campus. (Several other IT organizations - for example, those responsible for certain library systems, for most hospital and medical systems, and for information technology in several Schools and Divisions - report elsewhere.) The Chief Information Officer reviews all major information-technology procurement.
NSIT comprises five overlapping substantive areas, each managed by a team of Directors led by a Senior Director. Three of these areas focus on services: Academic Technologies (Chad Kainz), Administrative Systems (David Trevvett), and General Services (Greg Anderson). The other two focus on infrastructure: Networking (Anita Nikolich), and Data Center (Rich Breen). The portfolios of two other Senior Directors, Integration (Tom Barton) and Client Relations (Chad Kainz), cut across the substantive areas. An Executive Director (Alex Henson), the several Directors within each area, and the Chief Information Officer round out the Directors Group in NSIT. The Directors Group in NSIT plus the three score of managers and specialists who oversee day-to-day operations across the enterprise constitute the NSIT Thursday Group.
Last updated: 8/21/09