Please join Gayleen Gray, AVP and CTO on Friday March 16th at 1:30 p.m. for the IT Town Hall in the Concert Hall in L.R. Wilson Hall. […]
Month: January 2018
Book-a-week challenge (Week 3)
I learned it isn’t always easy to read a book a week … I didn’t finish a book this week! In fact, I have two books on the go (OK, I am being defensive here) as I am reading Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian and also listening to an audiobook in the car called Life […]
AVP & CTO update: Jan 29, 2018
I attended the Garter Higher Ed CIO workshop, went to Cafe X sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering with Dr. Houda ElMaraghy, met with our IT counterparts at the McMaster Innovation Park to exchange information about our technology infrastructure and support for the building and its tenants and toured the CanmetMATERIALS building at MIP. […]
Book-a-week challenge (week 2)
Book 2: “Behold the Dreamers” by Imbolo Mbue, a novel. I really enjoyed it. The author is from Cameroon, and the story is touted as a “dissection of the American dream”. I also finished book 3 – let’s call it a bonus book – Race Against the Machine, by McAfee and Brynjolfsson. I will confess I […]
AVP & CTO update: Jan 22, 2018
What I learned last week: number of buildings in the planning and execution phase as the result of two interactions with Kevin Beatty, Director of Student Housing and Conference Services, met with the MacDrive Steering Committee and attended two IT Governance committees […]
Book-a-week challenge (week 1)
I am happy to report that I finished my first book in my ‘one book a week’ resolution: The Agenda Mover by Samuel B. Bacharach. It was recommended by Ted Dodds, the current interim CIO at UofG, and recently retired CIO from Cornell. The book provides a workflow for implementing an idea/project/idea/commitment. It talks mostly […]
AVP & CTO update: Jan 15, 2018
There is a new Microsoft Licensing model coming! Listened in on an interesting conversations among the Council members to do with liberal arts programming in the Socrates Project, started initial conversations about data governance, capabilities vision, met with Chris Heysel, the Director of Nuclear Facilities about improved network security to meet some of their licensing requirements. I will co-facilitate the EDUCAUSE New IT Manager program this spring with a colleague from Illinois State University. […]
AVP & CTO update: Jan 8, 2018
Happy New Year! I will be participating in a number of vendor-related calls with the Ontario CIOs to discuss changes to the Ontario Microsoft license agreement, with Spyglass, Ubiquiti, and The Delivery Group. I will meet with Kevin Nye, the chair of the Audit Committee and an external member of our Board of Governors. […]