Weinberg College IT News, Winter 2019
Director's note
We have several exciting updates to share in this newsletter, as well as a retrospective look back at our efforts in 2018. Looking forward, I remain very excited about our ongoing work to integrate our IT support operations with Northwestern IT. This project is being carried out with the main goal of improving the overall service provided to our community. This will also provide my team with new opportunities to focus on how we can better engage and support the College community.
In team news, I am very pleased to announce that Matthew Carroll will be joining our team as our new IT Platforms Lead on April 1. This revised role is focused on providing the platforms that support application development, web infrastructure, and other systems to meet the teaching, research, and administrative needs of the College.
Many of you may know Matthew Carroll from his time at Weinberg College. For those that do not, Matthew joins us with twenty-plus years of IT experience in higher education here at Northwestern and prior to that with the University of Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee). More recently, Matthew has served as the IT lead and senior developer/analyst at The Graduate School, overseeing all aspects of IT for this unit. Matthew has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Northwestern University.
I hope you find this newsletter helpful to you. As always we are open to any suggestions or feedback. Lastly, I’d like to share my immense gratitude for Rachel Goc and her great work in pulling together this newsletter and annual report.
Michael Satut
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Announcements
Mark your calendars on May 22-23rd for TEACHx 2019, an annual event that showcases pioneering experiments in teaching and learning through technology.
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