Administration

Staff

• Jeremy Whyte – Chief Information Officer (Actg.)
• Patrick Chambers
• Cleopatra Gooden-Simms
• Joycelyn Duncan
• Joan Powell

Office of the Chief Information Officer

The Chief Information Officer provides directional and strategic leadership to the entire department. As the most senior member of staff within the department, the CIO develops and implements information technology policy, coordinates information technology investment strategy and capital planning, identifies and oversees business process improvement opportunities and is responsible for the oversight of the Department's Reports Management system. The staff members within the Office of the Chief Information Officer have varied functions which include Management of Administrative functions, Asset and Procurement Management, Financial/Budgetary Planning, departmental Human Resource functions, Events Planning and Management etc.

Management of Administrative Functions

• Records Management
• Compilation of departmental reports
• Preparing minutes and other meeting materials
• Maintaining calendars and reservation materials – e.g. reservations for the MITS conference room
• Preparing staff for overseas travel for university-related meetings and conferences including airfares, hotel accommodation, passports and subsistence payments as necessary
• Liaises with the Bursary to processes payments to full time and part time employees
• Arranging teleconference meetings
• Dispatches announcements of importance to the staff of the department e.g. ‘out of office’ and other notices for staff attention.
• Departmental Web Publisher – responsible for compilation, review or preparation of documents for placement on the MITS website. Works in conjunction with representative of the Applications unit.
• Editing the MITS Newsletter

Asset Procurement Management

• Procurement and payment of all goods and services including office supplies and supplies for other units within the department through the university system of competitive bidding so that the aims of the department may be met in the most timely and cost effective manner
• Create, review and approve requests through the Banner Financials system
• Processes payments to vendors
• Oversees the purchasing of computers through the Dell/UWI Online portal

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