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Infrastructure Advisory Committee

The IT Infrastructure Advisory Committee, is an IT Governance advisory committee chaired by a non-Northwestern IT technology leader. It provides oversight and sets priorities for information technology infrastructure at Northwestern.
 
The committee reviews policies and provides direction to ensure that the security and reliability of enterprise level systems is maintained for all University services and makes recommendations to the IT Executive Committee.

Structure

A non-Northwestern IT technology leader serves as chair. The representatives for the University schools and business units on the committee are appointed by a dean or vice president for a two-year term. The chair may appoint ad hoc committees as appropriate.

Purpose

1. To review current and planned information technology services with the purpose of improving the customer experience and the communication around these services.
2. To provide direction on the deployment of new services to ensure that the community understands and embraces the services as appropriate.

Objectives

1. Ensure alignment of IT infrastructure services with academic and administrative direction, goals, and priorities.
2. Ensure that an appropriate array of enterprise services is provided for departments, faculty, staff, and students to enable effective communication, broad collaboration, and timely access to information either by campus solutions or by commercial services.
3. Provide oversight for the identification and selection of enterprise level service solutions for prioritized business needs. 
4. Provide a forum where new infrastructure requirements or emerging technologies are discussed and considered.
5. Communicate the University’s IT strategies and priorities for infrastructure services to the campus. 
6. Ensure that appropriate security is maintained for all services, through corresponding measures, controls, and policies.
7. Provide direction to prevent, where appropriate, unnecessary redundancy or non-sustainable service implementations and their resulting inefficiencies and risks.

Operating Principles

Meetings are held monthly, or as determined by the committee. 

Members

• Alan Wolff, Senior Director of Information Technology, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science (Chair)
• Andrew Winter, Senior Director of Information Technology, Feinberg School of Medicine (Co-Chair)
• Michael Satut, Senior Director of Information Technology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
• Steve Moyano, Senior Director, Research IT Strategy and Operations, Office for Research Information Systems
• Raghu Katakam, Senior Director of Information Technology, Kellogg School of Management
• John Arends, Interim Director of Information Technology, School of Communication
• Michael Hannen, Director of Information Technology, School of Education and Social Policy
• Ray Mathew, IT Services Coordinator, Bienen School of Music
• Scott Spyrison, Associate Director Infrastructure and Applications, Student Affairs
• Jeffrey Prah, Senior Director of Technology and Innovation, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
• Ken Woo, Director of Information Technology, School of Professional Studies
• Bob Vance, Director of Information Technology, Northwestern University in Qatar
• David Carr, Associate Vice President, Cyberinfrastructure, Northwestern Information Technology
• Brandon Grill, Senior Director of Technology Planning and Security, Northwestern Information Technology
• Harry Samuels, Director, Application Development and Operations, Northwestern Information Technology (Ex Officio)
• Joseph Kurtin - Director, Technology Support Services, Northwestern Information Technology (Ex Officio)
• Administrative Support—Julian Koh, Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services, Northwestern Information Technology

Last Updated: 11 May 2021