DIT Org Chart (UMD Faculty/Staff Google Login Required)
Jeffrey Hollingsworth
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Melissa Dressler
Executive Assistant
Marcio A. Oliveira
Assistant Vice President
Academic Technology & Innovation
Gerry Sneeringer
Director and Chief Information Security Officer
University IT Security
Axel Persaud
Executive Director
Enterprise Engineering
Meredith Lee
Director
Business Support Services
Tripti Sinha
Assistant Vice President
Chief Technology Officer
Joseph Drasin
Senior Director
Enterprise Planning and Continuous Improvement
Academic Technology & Innovation
John Burke
Director
Learning Technology Strategy
Jeanne Gregor
Director
Community Support & Outreach
Megan Masters, Ph.D.
Director
Academic Technology Experience
Deborah Mateik
Director
Learning Technology Design
Enterprise Engineering & Operations
Mark Addy
Director
Platform Services
Ardy Azarsa
Director
Network and Infrastructure Services
LaTanya Felder
Director
Enterprise Data Services
Scott Gibson
Director
Software Engineering
Emery Rudolph
Director
Mainframe, Storage, and Application Services
Jeffrey Hollingsworth
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Jeff provides overall leadership for IT strategy, infrastructure, and services for Maryland's flagship campus in College Park through his leadership of DIT and participation in the president’s cabinet.
Melissa Dressler
Executive Assistant
Melissa is the central point of contact for the executive leadership of DIT. She assists with meeting coordination, information distribution, and general administrative support.
Marcio A. Oliveira
Assistant Vice President
Academic Technology & Innovation
Marcio A. Oliveira is the Assistant Vice President for Academic Technology and Innovation within the Division of Information Technology and also the Executive Director of the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center within the Division of Academic Affairs. In both of these roles, he fosters effective, engaging, efficient, and equitable teaching and learning by guiding strategic institutional vision, pace, and priorities. Dr. Oliveira has been at UMD since 2004. His scholarship and teaching focus on cognitive and motor neuroscience. He is currently responsible for implementing innovative technology-enhanced pedagogical practices and collaborative learning environments and for encouraging educational innovation and experiential learning, all to foster student success.
Gerry Sneeringer
Chief Information Security Officer
University IT Security
Gerry leads IT security activities, including incident management and response, compliance coordination, awareness and acceptable use policy enforcement, and security policy development.
Axel Persaud
Executive Director
Enterprise Engineering
Axel leads the business operations of DIT as well as its activities related to platform, data, and application administration; software engineering; infrastructure services engineering; university decision support; and infrastructure operations and field support.
Meredith Lee
Director
Business Support Services
Meredith leads the Business Support Services area and is responsible for DIT's major administrative functions. The functions reporting into this office include Human Resources, Finance, Software Licensing, Contract Management, Procurement, and the Office of Service Strategy, which includes Project Management and Ideation.
Tripti Sinha
Assistant Vice President
Chief Technology Officer
Tripti leads Advanced Cyber infrastructure and Internet Global Services, which encompasses Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), high-performance computing services, and UMD's global DNS Root service operations of D-root. She is also co-chair of the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC), an advisory committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Joseph Drasin
Senior Director
Enterprise Planning and Continuous Improvement
Joseph leads the strategic effort to assess and improve UMD’s administrative and academic processes with a focus on how they relate to the underpinning information technology systems towards the goal of enhancing the experience of students, faculty, and staff.
John Burke
Director
Learning Technology Strategy
John leads the Learning Technology Strategy team, which is responsible for planning, implementation, and assessment of UMD educational technology solutions. The team conducts research and leads initiatives to identify emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices appropriate to the university's academic environment and technology infrastructure. The team also provides full-service video production and multimedia development, classroom audio visual technology design, and other experimental technology for classrooms and virtual learning environments.
Jeanne Gregor
Director
Community Support and Outreach
Jeanne leads the Community Support & Outreach team, DIT’s major customer-facing support services: the call center, the walk-in support center, classroom support, desktop support, knowledge management, and the Terrapin Tech Store.
Megan Masters, Ph.D.
Director
Academic Technology Experience
As the Director of Academic Technology Experience, Megan provides leadership and management of enterprise-wide initiatives related to student, faculty, and staff experiences with technologies. She uses a quantitative, program evaluation-based approach to provide evidence-based insights, guidance, and recommendations concerning the use and efficacy of DIT systems and services.
Deborah Mateik
Director
Learning Technology Design
Deb leads a team of learning technology designers to support the creation and deployment of innovative and effective learning experiences for University of Maryland students. Deb and her team consult with faculty on design strategies to facilitate active learning and the selection of pedagogically appropriate instructional technology tools.
Mark Addy
Director
Platform Services
Mark leads the Platform Services group, which is responsible for the design, implementation, and operational management of both cloud and on-premises server and service hosting. Platform Services manages and supports many of the underlying systems and services that support UMD collaboration, academic, and business functions. The team is also responsible for desktop computing and application delivery.
Ardy Azarsa
Director
Network and Infrastructure Services
Ardy leads the Network and Infrastructure Services organization providing build and operational support for the campus network infrastructure, classroom AV systems, in-building network cabling infrastructure, data center facilities management, telecommunication closets, outside network cable plant, data center monitoring, mainframe production services, voice and data support services, and warehouse management of all related networking equipment inventory.
LaTanya Felder
Director
Enterprise Data Services
Tanya leads the Enterprise Data Services group, which is responsible for the design, development, administration and day-to-day operations of the university's critical database resources. The range of services includes ETL development and maintenance, data warehouse development, database administration, database access requests and account management. The team also provides support for UMD enterprise reporting tools.
Scott Gibson
Director
Software Engineering
Scott leads the Enterprise Software Engineering unit, which provides support, implementation, and integration services for the university's enterprise resource planning systems and related software solutions.
Emery Rudolph
Director
Mainframe, Storage and Application Services
As Director of the Mainframe, Storage, and Application Services unit, Emery provides leadership to system analysts and managers with purview over day-to-day operational support for the Division of Information Technologies server and cloud infrastructure running critical university services, including UNIX/Linux, Windows, mainframe, SQL database technologies and production control services.