Office of the CIO

Information Technology Mandate

Two colleagues working on global financial trading strategy analysis using tablet and laptop.Modern business team innovation concept.Office project meeting with virtual forex graph and chart data

Information Technology’s mandate is to lead the IT efforts at the University of Ottawa. It closely works with faculties and services to address uOttawa’s institutional requirements and objectives.

Information Technology provides leadership in prioritizing and optimizing technical investments while leveraging best practices in terms of solution design and security. The vision is to facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff with IT resources and expertise.

CIO Mandate

The CIO provides the vision and leadership of information technology initiatives to support uOttawa’s vision for excellence in research, teaching, and learning.

He focuses on strategies to improve systems, people, resources, and technologies for organizational effectiveness that will ultimately lead to a more cohesive and integrated environment for information, applications, and infrastructure. In guiding the University to strategically invest its IT resources, the CIO helps the University in achieving better cost effectiveness, service quality, and agility.

CIO biography

IT Projects

Leveraging IT to enable faculties and services, ultimately empowering our students, professors, and staff to achieve their best.

List of major projects

HR/Finance Process Improvement Roadmap
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and e-Commerce
Order to Pay
Mobile Workplace
Office 365
Website improvement
Experiential Learning Certificate Navigator enhancements and maintenance: for COOP, WorkStudy, Community, etc.)
Security initiatives

Other IT projects underway