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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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. 

7. 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

8. 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 

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