Rice University IT Structure and Governance Klara Jelinkova Vice President and CIO 1
President Leebron and Participating in our community Y. Ping Sun 10 2
Rice University Our campus: Rankings 18» No. 19 best college (U.S. News)» No. 5 best overall college (Niche.com)» No. 5 biomedical engineering (U.S. News)» No. 7 economic diversity (U.S. News)» No. 11 students graduate with the least debt (U.S. News)» No. 2 best quality of student life (Princeton Review)» No. 6 happiest students (Princeton Review)» Only top research university in top 10 of Princeton Review ranking on race/class interaction» No. 3 best value (Kiplinger)» No. 11 among most economically diverse colleges (New York Times)» Baker Institute No. 11 university-affiliated think tank in the world» No. 7 best colleges to work for (Chronicle of Higher Ed) 23 3
Role of IT in Support of Rice University Mission Making an Impact on the World Accessibility and Affordability Rice University Distinctive Undergraduate Experience Research and Graduate Excellence 4
Advances in Physics CERN, GÉANT, Esnet, Internet2 Data generated at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN is distributed to more than 170 universities and other laboratories for analysis by R&E networks in Europe (GÉANT) and the US (ESnet and Internet2). 5
Advances in Energy General Atomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CENIC, CSTNET Fusion à Collaborative Tokamak research is carried out by scientists at General Atomics in California together with researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences over R&E networks in the US (CENIC) and in China (CSTNET). 6
Strategic Initiatives Our goals: Strategic initiatives 8 7
University Organization David Leebron President Marie Lynn Miranda Provost Kathy Collins Vice President for Finance Klara Jelinkova Vice President for IT and Chief Information Officer Kevin Kirby Vice President for Administration Caroline Levander Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Digital Education Chris Munoz Vice President for Enrollment Allison Thacker Vice President of Investments Linda Thrane Vice President for Public Affairs Richard Zansitis Vice President and General Counsel Darrow Zendenstein Vice President for Resource Development 8
Office of Information Technology Organization Vice President and CIO Director Infrastructure Associate VP Enterprise and Admin. Services Director - Campus Services Director IT Security and CISO Associate VP Research Computing * Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics Teaching, Learning and Scholarly Technologies Director Project Management Network services Enterprise Services Help Desk IT Security Team Research network applications Learning Spaces Telecom services Web Applications Desktop support Identity and Access Management High Performance Computing Learning Environments Datacenter services HR/Finance applications Communicatio ns and Marketing Research Support Services Liaison Program Systems Infrastructure Services Student Applications IT internal Budget/HR * Concurrent Appointment Exec. Dir K2I 9
IT Decision Making CIO on the President s Cabinet Senior leadership role Develop relationship with other Vice Presidents Know early about priorities Understand the business drivers IT Governance IT Executive Committee IT Council (faculty) 10
IT Planning Review services, trends and emerging needs Recommend changes and tradeoffs Develop prioritization recommenda tions Governance Validate recommendations against actuals Propose funding mechanisms Capital, project and operating allocation Budget process Management process Annual performance plans and goals (CIO) Annual performance plans and goals Execution FY0 FY1 FY2 11
Project v Operating Operating to sustain largely operations and small improvements 85% operational load Engineering and development areas 75% Support areas 95% Projects proposed Can be done with existing resources Additional project funds requested Consulting resources 12
Coordination with Other CIO role is about relationships Multi layered People on the ground (day-to-day coordination) Departments Weekly reports to keep everyone updated Director level relationships Executive 13
Thank you! Klara Jelinkova Vice President and CIO Rice University klaraj@rice.edu 14