Ted Dodds

Ted is the CIO and AVP, InformationTechnology, at the University of BC, a position he has held since 1997. Prior to that, he held IT management positions at two Ontario universities, and in the private sector, spanning a period of over twenty years.

His responsibilities include institutional IT strategy and services within a highly decentralized campus environment. In that capacity, he is spearheading UBC’s e-Strategy, a framework that seeks to align UBC’s information technology initiatives with the University’s strategic goals (www.e-Strategy.ubc.ca). He sponsored the University Networking Program (UNP), a $30 million capital project to install or upgrade 20,000 high-speed connections and establish a campus-wide wireless data network.

Ted is a Board member with the following organizations and past Chair of both BCNET and CANARIE:

o BCNET: British Columbia’s first Internetworking society focusing on the development of advanced networks to further health, education and research initiatives in the province.
o CANARIE: Canada's advanced Internet development organization. CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them.
o Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG): an international consortium of universities that develops and shares open-source applications.

He has an MBA (Windsor, 1996) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Psychology (Guelph 1987).