Bruce Maas

Bruce Maas is the Chief Information Officer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he leads information technology strategic planning for the campus and is responsible for directing the central Division of University Information Technology Services (www.uits.uwm.edu). Bruce brings a strong background in financial and budget management, academic school/college administrative experience, and project management. He has served as the campus Budget Manager, Assistant Dean for Business Affairs for the School of Education, the School of Social Welfare, and the College of Health Sciences, and as a Deputy CIO. In addition, he served as the Project Manager for the PeopleSoft Student Administration implementation, successfully meeting all major milestones on time, within scope, and a half million dollars under budget. Presently, Bruce is leading the response to challenging financial conditions at a time when high quality enterprise IT services are a requirement for UWM to remain competitive and fulfill our core missions of access and research.

In 2007, Bruce successfully completed a joint leasing agreement between Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College, and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Clearwire to provide access to their combined 12 FCC licensed channels in exchange for cash payments. This contract provided long term funding to the university for a second data center and staffing in support of the universities research cyberinfrastructure initiative. Bruce served as the program chair of the 2009 Midwest EDUCAUSE regional conference and is serving as a member of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute faculty for 2009-2011, and the Director for 2010-2011.

Bruce has a Masters degree in Administrative Leadership with undergraduate majors in Accounting and Management Information Systems. Complete professional information is available at https://pantherfile.uwm.edu:443/bmaas/public/BruceMaasResume.doc.