Isaac Barton Email & Phone Number

Valdosta, GA, US

Valdosta GA

• Provided management of divisional budgets in excess of $7M.
• Assist in developing the IT strategic plan in support of the university strategic plan.
• Establishment of the Information Technology Project Management Office
• Provide project management, leadership, direction, and guidance for development and operational activities for achieving the university’s long and short-range goals and business objectives.
• Work closely with campus leadership, IT divisional directors, and unit managers to identify strategies, objectives, and methods to satisfy university strategic and business requirements and negotiate service level.
• Work closely with division directors to provide leadership in project planning, development, and implementation.

Valdosta Area

• Senior administrative official responsible for leading the University’s Information Technology vision, strategic planning, change management, policy, architecture and infrastructure, and innovation initiatives.
• Responsible for developing and communicating a strategic plan and portfolio of initiatives to both leverage the current and anticipated information technologies and services as well as explore and implement IT.
• Provided management of divisional budgets in excess of $7M.
• Provided management of 6 IT directors and 65+ divisional staff.
• Coordinated the development and implementation of IT best practices
• Directed personnel responsible for all aspects of IT operations.

Valdosta State University

• Management of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services department consisting of 20 staff and 3 interns supporting the university’s campus wired and wireless network, centrally managed enterprise and workgroup servers and.
• Develop and maintain five-year infrastructure strategic plan
• Provided strategic planning for enterprise wide network and datacenter systems.
• Provided supervision and direction for IT infrastructure managers for campus telecommunications and networking, systems administration, and data center operations.
• Provided budget management and planning of over $3M in central IT divisional budgets.
• Coordinated with campus technology committees to develop strategies that utilize existing infrastructure to provide an enhanced user experience.

Valdosta, GA

• Development of a collaborative grant proposal for the Sun Microsystems Academic Excellence Grant receiving $100K High Performance Computing Cluster supporting research for the Chemistry Department.
• Managed system administration staff in charge of development, implementation, and maintenance of core University business applications (Email, Student Information Systems, Campus Portal, and Learning Management Systems).
• Project Management for the development of new university infrastructure. (Single-Sign-On, Student File Storage).
• Provided Strategic-planning goals to director for development and expansion of systems and services.

Valdosta, GA

• Managed 60+ UNIX servers providing support to over 10,000+ active users in the University environment.
• Provided second tier technical support to the University IT Help Desk.
• Provided direct support and management to junior systems administrators.
• Provided hardware support for Sun Microsystems servers and storage devices.
• Troubleshot network issues related to UNIX systems and storage networks.

Valdosta Area

Bachelor'S Degree, Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Divinity/Ministry