Joan Gargano Appointed Director, CDL Technologies (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

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Roy

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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:20:29 -0700
From: Mary Jean Moore <mj.moore at ucop.edu>
Subject: Joan Gargano Appointed Director, CDL Technologies


Joan Gargano Appointed Director, CDL Technologies

M. Stuart Lynn, Associate Vice President, Information Resources &
Communications (IR&C), and Richard Lucier, University Librarian and
Executive Director, California Digital Library, are pleased to announce the
appointment of Joan Gargano as Director, CDL Technologies, effective
September 1, 1998. Joan will provide leadership for the technical design
and implementation of the CDL.  She will report in IR&C and will belong to
the senior management teams for both IR&C and the CDL.  IR&C, a department
of the Business and Finance Division, is responsible for developing and
managing Universitywide information systems and networks, providing
computing and telecommunications services to UCOP, and coordinating the
development of Universitywide information and computing policies.

Joan comes to UC Office of the President from the Davis campus, where she
is currently the Director, Distributed Computing Analysis and Support.  In
that position, she is responsible for charting strategic directions for
information system architectures and overseeing systems design and
implementation.  She has played a key role in campus and Universitywide
strategic planning for information technology, including serving as chair
of the Universitywide Authentication Workgroup.  She has also been active
in national and statewide information technology and policy initiatives,
including participation in the Coalition for Networked Information
initiative on Institution-Wide Information Strategies, the Golden State
Education Network Communications Task Force, the Internet Engineering Task
Force, K-12 Workgroup, and the Instructional Technology Networking Consortium.

Joan is a graduate of UC Davis and holds an MBA in Management Information
Systems.

The CDL is fortunate to be able to draw on her extensive management,
technical, and outreach experience as it builds shared digital collections
and services to serve the academic information needs of the University and
the State.