Tag Archives: Leadership Message

In the year since I introduced ITS’s five areas of focus, we’ve refined and made progress towards our goals—thanks to partnerships with many of you.

Our best is yet to come, and I have no doubt that working together as a community and supporting each other, we will make the U-M the leader in the appropriate use of technology among our peers and in the world.

It is an amazing time to be at the University of Michigan, with an abundance of opportunities to support and participate in important work at a local, national, and global scale.

The month of October presents us with regular opportunities to participate in activities that broaden our perspectives and contribute to the greater good. Leveraging diverse ideas and seeing a teacher in everyone is the secret to success, in my opinion.

Working as one Michigan IT community, we have accomplished a lot during the past year, and I know our best is yet to come. I am looking forward to an exciting year ahead!

In just a couple weeks, I will be celebrating my first full year as your VPIT-CIO. It is a pleasure to be part of the vibrant Michigan IT community and I look forward to the year ahead.

The goal to “improve the way we serve the U-M campus by providing proactive, laser-focused customer service” truly boils down to working with our customers to understand and help achieve their goals, and to tackle projects and problems with their needs in mind.

Our work in technology connects countless alumni, faculty, students, and staff studying, researching, and working abroad and at home. Working together as a Michigan IT community, we support the technology that fuels the U-M mission and Michigan spirit.

The core mission of the university—accomplished through teaching and learning, scientific publications, study of humanities, and more—is supported and enhanced by technology. Innovation by IT staff members is critical to the university’s mission of creating new knowledge, sharing knowledge, and archiving knowledge.

Massive amounts of data inform ground-breaking research and discovery, teaching and learning, and patient care each day. Our vision is for U-M to be an empowered community of data consumers who have on-demand, role-based access to enterprise data.

2019 is going to be an outstanding year for technology at U-M. I look forward to working with the entire Michigan IT community to progress toward our vision to be a leader in the appropriate use of technology among our peers and beyond.

Collaborations across our campuses can help magnify what can be accomplished in a single unit. Working together, we can collectively provide a frictionless, cohesive digital experience for students and our entire U-M community.

You have so much to contribute to the mission of the university. Working together, we will be a leader in the appropriate use of technology.

My vision is that U-M will be a leader in the appropriate use of technology among our peers and in the world. From your perspective, what can we do to be #1 on this list?