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Jeffrey Hollingsworth
Interim Chief Information Officer
Melissa Dressler
Coordinator
Marcio A. Oliveira
Assistant Vice President
Academic Technology & Innovation
Gerry Sneeringer
Director and Chief Information Security Officer
University IT Security
Axel Persaud
Acting Executive Director
Enterprise Engineering
Meredith Lee
Director
Business Support Services
Tripti Sinha
Assistant Vice President
Chief Technology Officer
Joseph Drasin
Director
University Process Innovation
Academic Technology & Innovation
John Burke
Director
Learning Technology Strategy
William Burns
Director
Research Technology
Chip Denman
Director
Client Support
Jeanne Gregor
Director
Community Support & Outreach
Megan Masters
Director
Academic Technology Experience
Deborah Mateik
Director
Learning Technology Design
Enterprise Engineering, Business & Strategy Services
Ardy Azarsa
Director
Infrastructure Operations and Field Support
Michael Brown
Director
University Decision Support
Scott Gibson
Director
Software Engineering
Axel Persaud
Director
Infrastructure Services Engineering
Emery Rudolph
Director
Platform, Data, and Application Administration
Jeffrey Hollingsworth
Interim 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
Coordinator
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 leads the Academic Technology & Innovation area and is responsible for driving the UMD processes that establish the vision, pace, and priorities for learning and research technology resources. He is also responsible for DIT's community support services, marketing and communications, and IT systems analytics.
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
Acting 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
Director
University Process Innovation
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
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.
William Burns
Director
Research Technology
Bill leads DIT's efforts in support of UMD's research mission, with offerings ranging from scientific computing consultation to hosting research systems in DIT data centers. His team bridges the resources of DIT to the needs of the university's researchers
Chip Denman
Director
IT Service Management
Chip leads efforts to improve our delivery of services through the use of efficient and effective processes and tools. This includes responsibility for the support site (itsc.umd.edu), which includes the Service Catalog and IT Library, and the technology that enables them.
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
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.
Ardy Azarsa
Director
Infrastructure Operations and Field Support
Ardy leads the Infrastructure Operations & Field Support 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.
Michael Brown
Director
University Process Innovation
Michael leads the University Decision Support area and is responsible for the technical services to support the data warehouse, enterprise reporting platforms, and data administration.
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
Data, and Application Administration
As Director of the Platform, Database & Application Administration unit (PDAA), 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.