iCIT Divisional Meeting Recap: Where, Who, What, How

iCIT held it’s biannual divisional meeting on Wednesday, May 2 in the Fern Young Terrace. CIO Elena Pokot described the challenge of balancing the daily urgency of customer and system support with the bigger picture of enabling students for a future of exponential change. Faced with this daily challenge, she offered a “path to the the future” for iCIT:

  • Our Roadmap: Where We Are Going
  • Our Organizational Struture and Culture: Who We Are
  • Our Projects and Initiatives: What We Do
  • Our Processes: How We Do It

During the course of the meeting, several iCIT team members provided updates on projects that are moving the organization and the UWW campus forward. A number of individuals were also recognized for their recent accomplishments.

An online version of the divisional meeting powerpoint presentation is available at http://geturl.uww.edu/8a.

Open Position for Enterprise Systems Engineer

iCIT is now recruiting for an Enterprise Systems Engineer. This position will be responsible for deploying and maintaining a storage environment as well as providing primary and backup expertise for a number of other enterprise systems. The full position description is available online at http://www.uww.edu/adminaff/hr/employmt/class.htm#ISTECH. If you know anyone who would be a good match for this position, please let them know about the opportunity.

This position developed after we were unable to recruit a person with substantial experience in storage architecture. In order to meet our timeline goals for the storage project, we changed our approach. Now we are looking for a person with a solid background in enterprise system management (storage experience is a plus, but not a requirement). Our plan is to use external expertise to help design the storage architecture and provide knowledge transfer to this position.

Open Position for Director of Application Development and Project Management

Recruitment has begun for a Director of Application Development and Project Management. This position will provide leadership, management and guidance to the application development team, manage planning and execution of large, complex information technology projects and foster a project management methodology and culture on campus. The full position description is available online at http://www.uww.edu/adminaff/hr/employmt/asnt.htm#app_manager. If you know anyone who would be a good match for this position, please let them know about the opportunity.

Two important considerations led to the creation of this Director position. After Kent Steinike left his position for personal reasons, there was a crucial need to continue the progress in developing a project management culture that he had begun. In a short time, Kent helped establish project management awareness and methodology for campus IT initiatives. The new director position will continue this direction.

Additionally, Theresa Parker expressed a desire to pursue other interests related to application development. iCIT customers continually bring new needs and requests for functionality to the application group. Theresa would like to direct her energies and experience toward understanding our customers’ business needs and processes and leveraging the existing functionality of our ERP system.

The Director of Application Development and Project Management position is important to the mission of iCIT, and we are counting on your feedback during the search process.

iCIT Divisional Meeting – Wednesday, May 2

The next iCIT Divisional Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2 from 1:00-3:30pm in the Fern Young Terrace. The event will provide an update on the progress of iCIT as a whole, update specific projects and initiatives, and provide a look at what’s next for iCIT. The event will be added to your Outlook Calendar. Please plan to attend. Refreshments will be served.