Chief Information Officer

Mission Driven Community Focused About Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU)

Charles R. Drew University is located in the Watts-Willowbrook area of south Los Angeles and was founded in 1966 in the wake of the Watts uprising. CDU was founded to address inadequate medical care in the region and to provide equitable medical education opportunities for under-represented students. CDU offers the only historically Black Doctor of Medicine program west of the Mississippi and is invested in the local and regional community.

The university leads partnerships and programs to provide equitable healthcare resources in south Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Chief Information Officer (CIO) The CIO is the leader of the University information technology department and reports to the SVP Finance / CFO. This position manages an operational budget of $4 million with a yearly capital budget of $1 million. The CIO leads a team of four technology managers supervising a team of about twenty-five technology professionals delivering University technology services across a small University enterprise.

The CIO collaborates with stakeholders to influence strategic technology decisions, develops and implements an IT long-term plan aligned with the University’s strategic plan in a resource-constrained environment, and serves as the University’s Information Security Officer responsible for cyber governance, risk, and compliance obligations.

The CIO oversees technology objectives at an executive level, ensuring a computing environment that meets the needs of multiple stakeholders. The CIO champions the planning, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise planning resource (ERP) systems, student information systems, research systems, and financial systems. The CIO ensures internal department management structures and processes are developed and followed, and ensures technology tools, infrastructure, and services support student education, faculty needs, recruitment and enrollment activities, and the needs of all units and colleges.

The CIO identifies, assesses, and recommends emerging technologies and oversees their integration and alignment with academic and administrative needs. The CIO leads the University technology budget, project prioritization, and large-scale IT infrastructure projects, and guides IT governance to ensure broad engagement, development, and controls. The CIO develops and maintains IT disaster recovery plans and educates the campus community on data security and privacy requirements.

• Strategy & Planning:
  Create and maintain the University IT strategic roadmap aligned to the University strategic plan.
• Collaboration:
  
  Partner with department leaders to assess near- and long-term system and network capacity needs.
• Documentation:
  Create and maintain documentation related to system and network security, network mapping, processes, and service records.
• Program Management:
  Design a comprehensive IT project methodology to identify, prioritize, communicate, and complete technology priorities.
• Vendor & Operations:
  Partner with Operations management on the selection of university-wide systems and manage vendor relationships.
• Staff Development:
  Develop an IT staff development plan to maintain technical knowledge on all systems.
• Policies & Disaster Recovery:
  Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and training plans for system and network administration, usage, and disaster recovery.
• Budget & Governance:
  Develop and manage the annual IT operating and capital budget; lead IT governance processes.
• IT Leadership:
  Lead and guide IT governance to ensure campus-wide engagement, development, and controls.

Security and Policies:

• Develop the security roadmap including the implementation of the NIST cyber security framework.
• Ensure enterprise networks and applications meet GLBA, HIPAA, and PCI data security standards.
• Supervise periodic internal and external security assessments.
• Attend IT security seminars to stay current with industry best practices.
• Provide guidance for complex security systems including XDR, SIEM/SOAR, Firewall, and WAF solutions.

Operational Management:

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