What Happened?
Ithaca, NY-based Cornell University Retired Thomas Dodds as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate majors, graduate, undergraduate and advanced degrees, and continuing education and outreach programs. Cornell has seven undergraduate colleges; a graduate school; professional-degree schools in business management, medicine, law, and veterinary medicine; and affiliated faculty units. Cornell University was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, New York.
About the Person
Thomas Dodds , also known as Ted, is Cornell`s Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technologies. He arrived at Cornell in January 2011 to advance the university`s strategic goals through sound information technology investments. As CIO, he has responsibility for the entire IT@Cornell community including both the central organization and the distributed IT Service Groups (in collaboration with other executives.) Ted is pursuing strategies to achieve scale economies in the delivery of utility IT services in order to make increased investments in academic technologies. Ted most recently served at the University of British Columbia, initially as Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President for Information Technology and then as Vice Provost for Information Technology. There his focus on strategic and long-range planning enabled progress in the key areas of IT funding, governance, security, and service management. Ted`s information technology experience includes six years as Director of Computing Services at University of Windsor. While there, he earned an M.B.A. with a focus on internet commerce and banking. He completed a B.A. in computer science and psychology at the University of Guelph where he also launched his IT career in academia and ultimately led the Academic and Application Services operation. From 2009 to 2012 Ted served as an elected member of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors and functioned as its chair in 2010. He formerly served on the boards of the Kuali Foundation, CANARIE (Canada`ÂÂs advanced networking organization) and BCNet (a regional research networking organization).
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