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UIT employees this month wished a fond farewell to Jill Brinton, associate director for the Project Management Office (PMO) for the past four years. Colleagues called the “cat lady” and basketball fan engaging, humorous, intentional, and no-nonsense.

The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) met on June 11. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will reconvene on July 13. The Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) will regroup on July 26. The Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) will meet on August 12. The next TLP meeting is to be determined.

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

Carter, whose early work with and deep knowledge of Oracle systems led him to a career in UIT's University Support Services, says he follows the management principles from "Leaders Eat Last."

In order to create a central, more user-friendly, and easy-to-manage virtual private network (VPN) service, the university and U of U Health decided to partner on a project to replace the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client with the Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN client.

DocuSign, a cloud-based service that enables users to send, manage, and record electronic signatures on digital documents, is now available at no cost for non-hospital staff and faculty. Student eligibility is under consideration.

The Heber City native and University of Utah alumna, who once aspired to be an architect, intended only to minor in music but found her true calling instead.

The University of Utah is in the early stages of a multiyear project with two complementary and overlapping objectives: to redesign the general ledger chart of accounts and reduce finance customizations in the U’s instance of PeopleSoft.

During a recent U town hall, CIO Steve Hess addressed the IT security issues that come with telecommuting, including concerns about data privacy and work on personal devices. He urged employees (and students) to review and follow university IT regulations.

Scott Lloyd manages the Campus Help Desk and Operators team in the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) organization. The busy 12-person desk – five full-time staff and seven part-time student employees — answered approximately 50,000 calls and 10,000 emails in 2020.