Mark Snook Email & Phone Number

Ashland, Nebraska, United States

Lincoln, Nebraska

Responsible for the long-range direction of technology function. Direct the strategic design, acquisition, management, and implementation of an enterprise-wide technology infrastructure, as well as monitor and analyze technology and trends that could improve MacPractices's products and performance. Establishes technology standards and communicates technical information to the organization.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

-Technical Director of NeSIS (Nebraska Student Information Systems) -Providing support for University of Nebraska system - 4 campuses, Nebraska State College System - 3 colleges and almost 60,000 students. -Responsible for selection of staff, mentoring, coaching, helping to set and realize goals, performance evaluations and salary adjustments. -Technical Director for system wide technical teams including; systems administration, security, and development. Project reports include DBAs and OS. -Lead weekly and sometimes daily discussions with departments and campus / colleges of progress on projects and possible changes of solution. -Provided leadership and technical experience when issues arose, to include system performance, outages or issues of design for development or security. -Selection and support of leads for system administration, application development and security. Provided guidance, leadership and mentoring for personnel, prioritizing as well as technical issues. -Attended and participated in weekly Directors meetings, with all department directors, CIO and CISO. Participated in building of University mission statement, biennium strategic plan, annual report as well as internal annual plan. -Attended and participated in monthly meeting with executive sponsor, Executive VP and Provost, CIO, and campus CIO’s. -Lead multiple meetings attended by campus CIO’s and business area leads to discuss progress, plan and priorities. -Developed policies for data access, security, development, change management, maintenance and life cycle. -Lead teams responsible for the upgrade to and negotiations for new software, hardware and operating system. -Worked with campuses and colleges to build consensus on, and the documentation of change management. -Evaluated and either approved, rejected or negotiated on system change requests based on systems wide policies and standards, state policies, federal policies, and system impact.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Area

Technical support of IBM mainframe operating systems.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

 Responsible for initial installation and support for RACF, CICS and DB2. Responsible for conversion of in-house written solutions to RACF, CICS and DB2. Mainframe conversion from VSE to MVS. Responsible for design and implementation of new security structures for RACF, CICS and DB2. Security policies for RACF, CICS and DB2.

Greater Omaha Area

Computer Science

Management Information Systems, General

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