Joe Newton Named Director of Information Technology
二五年十月七日
05-223
Charles Harmon Director of University Relations, Sementha Mathews Manager of Public Information and Media Relations
Joe Newton Named Director of Information Technology
Valdosta State University President Ronald M. Zaccari已经
announced the appointment of Joseph Allen Newton, III as Valdosta
State's Director of Information Technology (IT), effective on
二五年十一月一日. Newton has been serving as the university's
interim director of IT since October 2002.
As interim director, and while concurrently serving as the
assistant director of Micro-Computing and Systems Services since
July 2002, Newton has been responsible for IT and its 25 employees,
the support of student information, Email, Web, and PC and
Fileserver Systems across 校园 with a $3 million budget.
Some of Newton's major contributions to bet365亚洲官网 include the expansion
of student employment in IT from 5 to 35 student workers; addition
of seven full-time staff positions in the division and support of
seven new positions across the 校园, successful reconfiguration
of IT budgets; procurement of IT assets for the 校园 totaling an
average of $3 million per year; expansion of computing facilities
by establishing new server rooms in the •奥德姆库; management of
the project to develop the strategic planning database application
which won a University System of Georgia Best Practice Award and
enters it fourth year of development and use; coordination of the
Institutional Data Warehouse initiative; co-chairing the ID Change
Taskforce that converted institutional identification numbers from
social security numbers to a unique institutional identification
number, as well as an extensive list of other
成就.
Newton continues to spearhead the IT concerns at the university,
appeasing faculty, staff, students and parents with a display of
professionalism and clear communication of actions.
Newton said his focus for IT in the next three to five years will
be on improving on-line instruction, upgrading the network
infrastructure for reliability and Voice over IP and conferencing,
implementing information security best practices, addressing
staffing needs, engaging entire 校园 in IT planning, planning for
the health sciences complex at north 校园 and planning for a new
技术中心. Other items on his list include improving
self-service via web, cell-phone, and PDAs, and implementing
document workflow, imaging, and digital signatures across the
校园. Newton graduated from Valdosta State College in 1992 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. He is expected to graduate
with his Master of Public 政府 degree in fall 2006, which
he said will provide him the "theoretical and technical
underpinning for the management skills and experience" he acquired
as interim director.
Newton is a member of the Administrative Committee for Information
Technology for the University System of Georgia. 他目前
serving on the following bet365亚洲官网 committees: chair, Administrative
Council Technology Committee; co-chair, Banner Project Team; chair,
Student Technology Fee Action Committee; ex-officio, Faculty Senate
Technology Committee. Newton was also a member of the Master
Planning Committee in 2003-2004 and co-chair of the ID Change
特遣部队2004 - 2005.
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