ITAC December 8, 2016 Michael Leary Assistant IT Director – Enterprise Strategies Mitch Wittneben Assistant IT Director – End User Services

Academic Program 25 x 25 Initiative (Enhancing Quality, Excellence and Retention) College Station Engineering Academies Qatar Graduate Distance Education TAMUG McAllen Engineering Innovation Center AggiE_Challenge Aggies Invent Capstone Projects Competitions Hyperloop XPrize Zachry Engineering Education Complex

Research Combined $276M in CoE/TEES combined research expenditures (FY15) Research Areas Advanced Manufacturing / System Informatics AR/MR/VR Biomechanical, Bioinformatics, Biorobotics Energy (Fossil, Non-fossil, Management) Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing Nano/Smart Materials Smart Systems (Energy Grids, Parking, Transportation, Vehicle) Global Partnerships

Shared Service Efforts Centralized Divisions Business Services Communications IT Non Centralized Divisions Advising Facilities IT as a Consultant IMS / PAT -- Business Services Laserfiche – HR, Payroll, Tenure & Promotion SharePoint – EPO Administration  WordPress – Centers, Faculty Research

Team Organization 38 Full-time Staff 77 Student Technicians Projects Application Development – Meghan Southerland End User Services – Mitch Wittneben Enterprise Strategies – Michael Leary Infrastructure – Jason Demshar Research – Brad Goodman Security – Bill Hobson Titles / Expectations / Career Paths Team Maturation

IT Strategy Take advantage of shared services Develop industry partnerships Specialize where it makes sense Simplify Services Consolidate efforts Participate As we move forward as a centralized organization, we are addressing the challenges by using shared services first and specializing in areas unique to the college. 

Collaboration Efforts TAMU System SOC WebEx Syncplicity Duo Committees Vendor Relationships Wayfinding Technology with HP and Aruba Cloud Services with Microsoft and Amazon Absolute software TAMU IT VMWare ServiceNow Bomgar Identity Management Exchange Office 365 Google Apps Networking Campus Community Viewfinity LaserFiche EIS Open Access Labs Chef Print Stations Accessibility

IT Projects Infrastructure End User Support Storage consolidation Data center consolidation Virtual desktop infrastructure Azure Implementation Operations  Security And Compliance DFARS Internal audit Export Control Asset tracking Accessibility Guidelines and policies Education effort Faculty assistance End User Support  Bomgar training ServiceNow training Purchasing  Research  HPC  Computational Scientist  Virtual Reality  BYOD Support Microsoft Surface Membership Computrace Engineering Academies Application Development  Sharepoint WordPress Custom Applications Application Technologies  Absolute  AppSense  Centrify  Cylance  KACE  Sophos  WordPress  WSUS  Business Intelligence  Cloud Enterprise Technologies  AWS  Azure  Storage  Crashplan  Isilon  VDI  Citrix  VMWare 

IT Outlook Become agile Decision making from data Establishment of functional teams Develop service portfolio Break fix to Consultant Foster support