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Employee Forum elects an ITS manager

April 24, 2020

Theresa Silsby, Director of the ITS Business Systems Help Desk, has been elected to serve as a delegate to the Employee Forum. Silsby will be sworn in — via Zoom — on May 6 as she begins serving her two-year … Read more

Shifting to remote: one Carolina family’s experience

April 13, 2020

All from the same household, ITS’ Brenda Carpen and her family are experiencing the University’s remote work, teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brenda is Project Manager with ITS Infrastructure & Operations. Her husband, Morgan Pitelka, is Chair of … Read more

ITS student employees provide valuable contribution

April 13, 2020

Meet three of ITS’ many valuable student employees: Rosie Tran, Hunter Jamison and Hasan Asadi. Rosie Tran has been a worker at ResNET for the past three years, serving both as a Residential Computing Consultant (RCC) and as a member … Read more

ITS Service Desk director to retire

March 27, 2020

The chief of the ITS Service Desk is retiring after 30 years at UNC-Chapel Hill. Sharon Glover, who has led the Service Desk for seven years — one year as interim director and six years permanent — will retire April … Read more

Kate Hash named Assistant Vice Chancellor

March 15, 2020

Kate Hash has been named ITS’ Assistant Vice Chancellor for Customer Experience & Engagement, effective March 16. Hash has served as Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of User Support & Engagement since February 20, 2019, overseeing IT Service Management (including the … Read more

Michael Barker named Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO

February 11, 2020

J. Michael Barker was selected as UNC-Chapel Hill’s Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, effective February 1. Barker served as Interim Vice Chancellor for one year — from January 2019 through January 31, 2020. He has served … Read more

ITS names Communication Technologies leader

December 17, 2019

When Mark Johnson first came to work at ITS nearly a year ago, he introduced himself around UNC-Chapel Hill as the new Jim Gogan. As interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Communication Technologies, Johnson found it was the fastest way for … Read more

Cloud infrastructure operations specialist joins ITS

November 22, 2019

Scotia Roopnarine has joined ITS Infrastructure & Operations as the Director of Applications. He will oversee PeopleSoft Administration, Business Process Automation, Middleware Services, Linux Administration and Database Administration teams – about 32 people. Roopnarine comes from Ellucian, a higher ed … Read more

Outstanding UNC-Chapel Hill IT professionals honored

November 7, 2019

Three teams and seven individuals received IT Awards on November 5 for their outstanding work over the past year serving UNC-Chapel Hill. The 2019 IT Awards Committee selected the honorees from among one of the largest groups of nominees in … Read more

Mechelle Clayton takes helm of Enterprise Applications

October 1, 2019

ITS Enterprise Application’s Mechelle Clayton has been named Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of the ITS division. Clayton, whose permanent role is director of non-PeopleSoft applications in support of Finance and Operations, the Friday Center and ITS, took the helm of … Read more