Data Center Services
Senior Director for Data Center Services - Richard Breen
Richard Breen is the Senior Director for Data Center Services in Networking Services & Information Technology (NSIT) at the University of Chicago and works in close collaboration with the senior leadership team of NSIT. In his role as Senior Director he oversees the multiple NSIT data centers/server room facilities; the clusters of Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX, Solaris, and Mainframe systems administrators and infrastructure; the storage (both SAN and Backup) system administrators and infrastructure; the MySQL, SQL and Oracle database administrators, and the Production Services staff.
Prior to taking this position in 2005, Richard was the Director of Financial and Human Resources Applications responsible for the majority of the administrative applications associated with the Comptroller's Office, Research Administration, and UHRM from 2000 to 2005. In previous roles at the University from 1980 to 2000 Richard was responsible for the core Comptroller's Office administrative applications including Financial Account, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Indirect Cost Reporting, and Payroll/Personnel. In addition he was a member of many teams dealing with the design and implementations of administrative applications across university administrative departments.
Prior to his employment at the University in 1980, Richard worked for a few companies in the business world designing, programming, project leading and managing administrative system applications and programming groups. He holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.
Assistant: Deborah Buckley | 773-702-2929
Last updated: 6/8/09