Brian D. Voss
Brian D. Voss is Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University of Maryland, where he is responsible for IT strategy, infrastructure, and services for Maryland's flagship campus in College Park. The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads GigaPoP (MAX) also reports through its executive director to his office at Maryland. He currently serves on the EDUCASE Board of Directors (2011-2015).
Between 2005 and 2011, Brian served as Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and CIO for Louisiana State University at the flagship campus in Baton Rouge, where while leading the central IT organization he also had oversight of the Louisiana Board of Regents' Louisiana Library Network (LOUIS) initiative and oversight of operations for the Regents' Louisiana Optical Networking Initiative (LONI). Before his time at LSU, he was part of IT organizations at Indiana University for nearly 20 years, culminating in his appointment as Associate Vice President (Telecommunications). He also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. Brian has nearly 30 years of leadership experience in information technology, both in higher education and in the private sector.
Brian serves on several national councils and advisory groups for information technology in higher education and has a long history of service to the community. As mentioned he was elected to serve on the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors in 2011 and will serve a term through 2015. He was recently elected to the Kuali Foundation Board of Directors (2013-2015). He is currently the chair of the REN-ISAC Executive Advisory Group. In Maryland, Brian serves on the (advisory) Board for the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads GigaPoP (MAX) and on the Maryland Research and Education Network (MDREN) Board as well.
Brian'ÃÂÃÂs past service to the community includes: An appointment as a member of the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) Campus Bridging Task Force; An elected member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) IT Steering Committee; A member of Microsoft's Higher Education Advisory Group; Co-Chair of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC); Deputy Chair and a founding member of the REN-ISAC Executive Advisory Group; An elected CIO representative to the Internet2 Architecture and Operations Advisory Council, and member of the Internet2 Abilene Executive Committee; A member of the LONI Management Council and served as their representative to the National LambdaRail (NLR) Board of Directors (he was also involved in the founding of NLR in 2003, representing the Committee on Institutional Cooperation [CIC] CIO group from his position at Indiana University).
Brian has been a leader in helping develop campus and regional-level cyberinfrastructure. He was a contributor to the report from the Task Force on Campus Bridging as part of the NSF'ÃÂÃÂs Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. He is PI on a recent awardee from the NSF CC-NIE program, for Software Defined Networking, and was involved in separate NSF grant awards that helped bring Indiana and Purdue Universities into the NSF "TeraGrid" environment in 2003 and a similar effort which brought Louisiana elements into the TeraGrid in 2007. During the past decade, he has been a Primary Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on projects awarded more than $11 million from the NSF. Throughout his career, he has been part of several ground-breaking IT initiatives, including enterprise software licensing strategies employed by major vendors (like Microsoft), LSU's program for credit monitoring with Equifax, and LSU's migration to the open source Moodle learning management system. He has been very involved in cybersecurity initiatives during the past decade, and he also gained recognition in the area of disaster recovery planning following experiences in Louisiana with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Brian's publication and presentation contributions span a broad set of topics, including cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing environments, IT-enabled research, IT-enabled teaching and learning, telecommunications and advanced research networking, IT support and pervasive computing, economic development impact of IT, IT leadership, IT strategic planning, IT security and policy, and disaster impacts on business/IT continuity planning. He led initiatives that were recognized for excellence by EDUCAUSE for IU's work in advanced networks (I-Light) and online IT support systems (The KB - IU's Support Knowledgebase). Brian is an engineer by training, graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Industrial Engineering.
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