Office of the Vice Provost for IT:

• Welcome
• Advisory Committee
• Affiliations
• Employment
• IT Internships
• Facilities
• Mission
• News & Events
• Innovation
• Organization (CHART)
  • Administration, Planning, & Finance
  • Academic & Research Computing
  • Enterprise Applications
  • IT Security Office
  • Networking, Telecommunications, & Data Center
  • Systems, Architecture, & Infrastructure
• Policies
• Projects & Programs
• Service Level Agreements

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Reports:

• 2008 VPIT Report
• Help Desk Statistics

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IT

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Administration, Planning, & Finance (APF)

Yemeen Rahman, Director

The Administration, Planning & Finance (APF) team provides project management and business functions for the IT division. APF creates and maintains employment policies and procedures for the division, manages preferred vendor relations for technology purchases for the university, and ensures compliance with the university's software licensing contracts. APF staff also work closely with FE&P, departments, and contractors to support the technology aspects of facility construction, repair, or remodeling.

Projects include:

• Career Progression Plan: Develop a comprehensive career progression plan for IT staff which maps out perspective career growth within and across departments in both technical and management roles. The career progression plan will document core competencies required for each IT position along with the training and certification requirements. The goals of this program are the following:
  • Increase IT employee retention
  • Develop customized (professional development) training plans
  • Ensure employee skill set meets the needs of the division/university
• Collaboration with FE&P projects: Work with a single point of contact at FE&P to capture status of all ongoing projects with IT involvement or impact. Additionally, identify all maintenance activities which have a perspective IT impact and coordinate any outages,notifications and escalations between FE&P and IT.
• Technology Marketplace: Build vendor relations and standards for hardware and software ordering for entire Rice campus. Additionally, the IT Procurement and Vendor Relations office is seeking attractive pricing discounts from vendors which will be available to the campus.
• Asset Recovery Service: Pilot program underway of Dell's Asset Disposal/Recovery Service. This service offers vendor managed disposal of outdated IT equipment with data wipe guarantee.