Develops and drives strategic policies when selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Develops overall institutional IT strategy and provides leadership for the development and implementation of UCR-wide IT policies. Initiates and ensures improvement of processes. Promotes effective campus-wide policies to ensure the efficacy, reliability, security, and interoperability of systems. Chairs a variety of governance committees (administrative, faculty, and student related) that provide guidance on IT priorities and IT investments, participates in UC systemwide committees.
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10 |
Oversees through department managers, adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans and performance requirements.
- Oversee an operating budget of $29 million and manage ~140 FTEs that support the business operations and research of UCR. Provide Guidance and Oversight to the Following Functional Areas: 1) Enterprise Infrastructure, 2) Information Security, 3) Enterprise and Student Information Systems, 4) Service Assessment & Promotion, and 5) Finance and Administration. Create a high performance team, ensuring information and ideas flow freely across teams and empowering team members to pursue excellence and innovation.
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10 |
Leads other senior managers to establish campus strategic plans and objectives.
- Strategy and Vision: Responsible for planning for and aligning campus IT and communication resources in support of the University's teaching, research, and public service missions. Enables utilization of IT as a core, transformative resource facilitating and supporting innovative pedagogy and enhanced student success, improved collaboration and communications, leading edge research and knowledge creation, effective outreach and public service, and efficient administrative operations.
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10 |
Plans, designs and implements Information Systems programs and establishes direction, policies and procedures for divisions.
- Business Operations: Responsible for the successful deployment and management of various ERP systems, including financial (Oracle / People Soft), student (Banner), Human Resources (People Soft), and other systems (e.g. Cognos). Additionally, responsible for deploying/supporting 100+ campus online transaction processing systems (cloud, vendor, and custom developed).
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10 |
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Infrastructures, Communications, Security, Policy and Middleware: Plan, lead and ensure appropriate infrastructures (e.g. network, telephone, data center, etc.), communications services and technologies (e.g. collaboration, e-mail, etc.), cybersecurity programs and tools, and middleware (e.g. service originated architecture) are robustly available to ensure support of UCR's teaching, research, and business systems, tools, and services.
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10 |
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Research Cyberinfrastructures: Guide the creation and maintenance of a suite of cyberinfrastructures and services for researchers and campus labs / facilities. These cyberinfrastructures include a robust and sophisticated data network, physical co-location facilities for computer and storage systems, a wide range of computational, analytical, and data management tools.
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10 |
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Teaching and Learning: Guide instructional and classroom teams and technologies in support of active, participative learning, leading to increased student engagement, and student success. Instructional technologies include a comprehensive array of classroom multimedia equipment and "just in time" physical and online support to 90+ general assignment classrooms, and a common, robustly featured learning / course management system. Effectively partner with academic leadership and faculty to address the technological needs of pedagogy and research, including exploring innovative modes of investment in shared research technologies.
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10 |
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Leads change management by modifying and altering existing procedures and methods.
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5 |
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Oversees through subordinate managers the analysis of the needs of functional departments and helps to establish priorities for feasibility studies and systems design and implementation to develop new and/or modify information processing systems.
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5 |
Coordinates with functional departments involved in system requirements, techniques, and controls.
- Regularly consults with senior management on matters of significance.
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5 |
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Directs and controls the activities of a broad organizational department through several subordinate managers having overall responsibility for functional programs.
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5 |
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Interacts with senior management on controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers.
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5 |
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Serve as a collaborative member of the campus leadership team, and advise the Provost and Chancellor on a wide range of issues related to the University's operation.
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5 |
