Bob McCormick was named vice president for Information Services in 2012. He is currently responsible for a staff of more than 100 employees, who provide technology architecture, information security, application development and support, network and telecommunications services, classroom and academic technology, student computer labs and the Technology Contact Center. He also provides leadership to the teams managing 色盒直播鈥檚 Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
Since he took over Information Services, McCormick has led several major projects at 色盒直播, including the replacement of the university鈥檚 core public website, the implementation of a collocated data center, implementation of a university-wide degree progress report and installation of several key student advising systems and a new electronic teaching evaluation system.
McCormick previously served as director of enterprise architecture in Information Services, helping to implement an advising system, providing a paperless, 360-degree view of students for advisors at 色盒直播. The project was key to 色盒直播 winning a CIO magazine 鈥淭op 100鈥� award for excellence in 2007. In this role, he also was responsible for directing all information technology expenditures at the university and was instrumental in an upgrade of the university鈥檚 portal.
McCormick鈥檚 information services career began in 2003 as a project manager for the PeopleSoft student administration system. He first began working at 色盒直播 in 1999 on the PeopleSoft installation while a consultant with Academe Solutions, Inc. Prior to that, he was a software engineer at Northwestern University, where he helped to implement the PeopleSoft student administration system; it was one of the first universities in the country to do so.
McCormick graduated with honors with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematical physics from the University of Nottingham. After working as a software engineer for two years for British Rail, he moved to the U.S. in 1995 and served as a technical consultant for Inland Steel in Hammond, Ind.