UAB CIO Dr. Curt Carver presentation to TechBirmingham, Sept. 22, 2015.

1. A Birmingham Partnership
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr (“Curt”)
September 22, 2015

2. UAB IT

10. • Collaboration (especially on security)
• Communications
• Relationships
(Speakers, receptions, dinners, conferences,
training, awards program)
Birmingham
IT
Ecosystem
BLUG
InfraGard
SIM
Tech
Birmingham
Tech
Bridge
UAB
TBD

12. SPARK platform
• Allows us to leverage the
ideas to earn wins for UAB
faculty, staff and students
• Student campaign launches
later this month
ideas.uab.edu
79 ideas
491 comments
2514 votes

13. • Tracking meetings with
constituents and leaders
• Feedback and suggestions
logged for further action
TeamBrain
304 meetings
June –August
2015

14. • Creates opportunities for
campus-wide involvement
• Involving campus IT
professionals on task teams,
including the reThink
Project, active directory and
the campus network
Shared governance

16. Quick wins
• UAB Dropbox file size limit doubled
• Office of Annual Giving surging
• Standard patch management system
• Unlimited and free cloud storage for
faculty and staff coming soon
Quick wins

17. • Searches ongoing for three
positions:
• Deputy CIO
• Chief technology officer
• Chief information security
officer
Executive searches

18. • Business services –
not IT services
• Optimized customer experience –
built by the customers
• Industry-leading tool (ServiceNow)
reThink Project

19. • IT as a business
• Streamlined business catalogue
• Clear rate structure and
understanding of costs
• Industry-leading business
management tool (Apptio)
Financial transparency

20. • New password policy
• Two-factor authentication
• Foundational systems to
support BlazerIDs
• Movement to single logon
Identity management

21. • Compute power quadrupled
• New research network
• New science DMZ approved,
funded and coming soon
• New research storage solution
funded and coming soon
Research computing

23. Building toward
100 technology
wins
100-day
report
Strategic
plan

24. Questions,
comments,
conversation?