{"id":17013,"date":"2019-12-16T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=17013&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=17013"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:10","slug":"message-from-the-vpit-cio-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/16\/message-from-the-vpit-cio-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the VPIT-CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"A headshot of Ravi Pendse, U-M VPIT-CIO\" class=\"wp-image-8430\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings, everyone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope you enjoyed the Michigan IT Symposium as much as I did! I was humbled by the knowledge, experience, and passion for supporting the University of Michigan. I am grateful for each and every person who planned, volunteered, presented, and attended\u2014you help make Michigan IT a vibrant and collaborative community!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to the symposium co-chairs, Andrea Bolash and Michael Warden, for reminding us that we do not need a symposium to make connections with each other, but reserving time each November to gather as a community together sure helps. Our challenge now is to take the incredible energy from the event and sustain it through the year ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking back over the past year, I am grateful for the incredible work you continue to do everyday. We made great progress working as a collaborative Michigan IT community. We also have opportunities and challenges ahead of us in 2020, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How do we handle storage for the university? <\/li><li>Are we doing everything we can to enhance data-informed decision making? <\/li><li>How do we make sure we are listening to our researchers and providing them with the technology and support they need to do their ground-breaking research? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else can we accomplish by working as one Michigan IT community, focused on our users? I am interested in hearing your thoughts on how I can help you succeed in the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 University of Michigan the leader in the appropriate use of technology among our peers and in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope you have a restful winter break with your loved ones. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravi Pendse PhD<br>Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer<br>University of Michigan<br>rpendse@umich.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":8430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,73],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-cio","tag-leadership-message"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-400x266.jpg",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes.jpg",1200,800,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RaviPendse-WebRes-400x266.jpg",376,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ravi Pendse","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/rpendse\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"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.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17084,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions\/17084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}