1. Role of IT in management Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy jeyak7@gmail.com jeyv@utdallas.edu

2. Agenda Who am I? Historical snippets Typical IT infrastructure Typical manager Q&A

3. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal Dad was a school teacher B.E. (ECE) in CEG Guindy, Anna University – 1986-90 UNIX System Software Engineer, HCL Limited, Chennai, 1990-91 MS Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), 1991-94

4. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal … Telecom Software Engineer, Northern Telecom, Dallas, 1994-97 Ph.D. Computer Science (part-time), University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), 1994-99 Technical Lead, Samsung Telecom, 1997-2010 Got married in 1998 Adjunct Faculty, UTD CS department, 1999-2002 Online Adjunct Faculty in several online universities from 2000

5. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal … Adjunct Faculty, Southern Methodist University, 2010 Sr. Lecturer (full-time), UTD Computer Science, 2010-present 2 daughters: Nila (8) and Chinmayee (4) Passionate about teaching – happy to share ideas to improve teaching quality in colleges Challenging teaching environment in US

6. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Summary 18 years experience as Software Engineer 12 years of teaching experience (mostly online)

7. Historical snippets Manager used to print all emails Most companies: 99% paperless offices now. Software: Standalone applications  Enterprise bundles Custom install  intranet based Build your own  Buy Networked environment Desktops  Laptops  Smartphones

8. Typical IT infrastructure Security Gateway Email server VPN server Intranet S1S2S3 DB Laptop Smart-phone Internet

9. Remote Access Direct access to email Email push to smart-phones Highly secure using VPN technology Different settings for work hours vs. personal hours

10. Typical IT manager Process management: approvals Monitoring: trend reports Convenience: – does not want to login to several apps : Single sign-on – Dash board: one page to see status summary Security Delegation of authority

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12. Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex

13. Thanks for listening! Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy jeyak7@gmail.com jeyv@utdallas.edu