The following invitation was sent to several campus groups, including the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, the Campus Committee For Information Technology, the Technology Infrastructure Forum, the Technology Support Program, and Information and Educational Technology staff.

Candidate's resume: David Walker

Public forum presentation "The role of an IT Architect in higher education": audio (MP3 - 34.5 MB) | PowerPoint (PPT - 93 KB)

May 9, 2008

Re: Invitation to Campus IT Architect Recruitment Open Forum

Dear colleagues:

I am pleased to let you know we have invited David Walker for a discussion of the Campus Information Technology Architect position. The role and responsibilities for this position will be to work with our community to analyze, design and deploy the UC Davis computing infrastructure architecture so it meets campus technical and business requirements and furthers the campus' mission of research, teaching, and public service. This leadership role continues to be important to the campus during current budget challenges. To view the complete recruitment listing, see: http://jobs.hr.ucdavis.edu/jm/ViewVacancy?id=7126

There will be a public forum during which David will give a presentation on the role of the information technology architect in higher education. I invite you or your delegates to attend this public forum. It is scheduled as follows:

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 10:00am
Candidate: David Walker (see resume)
Location: 1065 Kemper Hall (see campus map at: http://visit.ucdavis.edu/map/map_detail.cfm?assetInfo=76

I hope you will be able to participate in this important recruitment process. A couple of special interest sessions will also be scheduled for those interested in small group discussions with the candidate. If you would be interested, please RSVP to vpiet-info@ucdavis.edu by Friday, May 16th.

I encourage you to forward any comments you wish to share about the candidate directly to me at pmsiegel@ucdavis.edu by May 28, 2008.

Regards,
 
Peter M. Siegel
CIO and Vice Provost
Information and Educational Technology