Tim Christian |
1305 Lynhurst Lane, Denton, TX 76205 |
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Flexible and adaptable contributor for executive-level problem
solving:
- Determined IT costs, models, and services to create two new schools,
two new colleges, and four new departments.
- Designed, articulated, and applied successful technical and cultural
change plan that reduced security costs by 90%.
- Drove complete replacement of email, file, print, license, back-up,
accounting, and other services on an aggressive timeline to reduce
costs and improve efficiency and quality.
Growth-focused leader with solid budget control and scalable solution methodologies:
- Increased responsibility over 15 years managing 3%/year enrollment
and 14%/year research revenue growth.
- Applied scalable lease and cost-recovery systems to ensure budget
controls and consistent, high-quality service.
- Grew IT organization from 3 to 50 employees to help drive
institution's mission.
Agile and creative problem-solver who blueprints and builds solutions for instruction, research, and business operations:
- Created cost-recovery model to eliminate production roadblocks and
scale services.
- Created specialized service organization that manages 17
discipline-specific computer labs and improves quality.
- Oversaw the creation of innovative software solution used by
Dartmouth and retained intellectual property rights.
University of North Texas/College of Arts and Sciences, Denton, TX |
2009 - Present |
Assistant Dean for Information Technology Services (ITS)
Provided academic administrative leadership for IT services in the
largest, most diverse, and most productive college (75% of core
courses and majority of scholarly activities and research revenue).
The position led the planning, implementation, and development of
Employee Computing Services, Student Computing Services, Premium
Contract Services, and Infrastructure Services groups to achieve
instruction, research, and public outreach objectives.
- Outperformed peers in cost-efficient service delivery compared with
16 professionally-selected national and 6 state competitors (better
than 83% for faculty services and 100% on a per-computer basis).
Delivered more services than 90% of study cohorts.
- Appointed by Provost to lead university "Information Technology
Council" (40 multi-institutional academic and administrative users
from many divisions, levels, and roles) to ensure IT services
functioned and integrated well into the academic, administrative,
research, and public service functions.
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University of North Texas/College of Arts and Sciences,
Denton, TX
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1995 - 2009 |
Director, Computing Services
Supervised 40 employees delivering IT-related services to 13,000
faculty, staff, and students in 20 discrete buildings and was awarded
"Outstanding Department." Managed $2M/year in operational and $8M in
capital expenditures.
- Led and contributed to high-level standing and ad hoc budget,
policy, research, instruction, and strategy committees.
- Led and contributed to University-wide analysis, design,
procurement, and implementation of IT systems/services.
- Helped win and sponsor multi-department grants from internal and
external funding sources.
- Ensured services met the needs of 25 very diverse instructional,
research, performance, and business departments.
University of North Texas/College of Arts and Sciences, Denton, TX |
1991 - 1995 |
Manager, General Access Computer Labs
Supervised 20 employees to create and manage computer labs to deliver
instruction for 8,000 students and recognized as "Most Wired" by Wired
Magazine. Procured, implemented, and managed IT services across four
buildings.
- Led and contributed to College-wide analysis, design, procurement,
and implementation of IT systems/services.
- Coordinated and developed policies and procedures to ensure uniform
customer service amongst 11 disparate units.
University of North Texas/College of Arts and Sciences/Computer Science, Denton, TX |
1989 - 1991 |
Network Administrator
Designed, procured, implemented, and managed building-wide network and
service delivery for 600 users.
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX |
1999 |