UGA Enterprise Information Technology Services
Ilir Hasko, Basit Hussain, Shilpa Kasibhatta, Seema Metikurke, Piyush
Parate, Stacy Rahn
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Introductions
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EITS as an Organization
 Core Areas & Values
 Statistics
 Organizational Charts
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What Our Group Does
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Why EITS?
AAI ArchT Team
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IT Leadership, Planning and Policy
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Client Services and Support
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Instructional Computing
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Research Computing
Enterprise Administrative Computing
 Collaborative and Productivity Computing
 Information Security
 Infrastructure and Architecture
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Excellence in Customer Service
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Efficiency, effectiveness and
improvement
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Our People are our Greatest Asset
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Displaying a Winning Attitude
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Teamwork and Communication
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Honesty and Integrity
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Approximately $36 million in spending and compliance
 $15.8 million – central funding
 $3.5 million – cost recovery units
 $4 million – Student Technology Fee budget
 $7.8 million – campus IT purchases
 $2 million – Central UGA Administration (enterprise projects)
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240 full time employees
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66 student workers
253 mph
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Discovery and Pilot Phase
 Conduct analysis of the existing environment,
including Database, Application layer, and use of
SSN
 Implement Pilot Conversion
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Implementation Phase
 Convert/Migrate IMS to Relational DB2
 Convert ADF Programs to Object Oriented (Java)
 Remove or Secure SSN use
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Programming – Linear vs. Object Oriented
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Business Process Management
 Application Development vs. Application Oriented
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Process owner – Property Control
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Paper-based process used by all employees
seeking approval to take UGA equipment off
campus
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Forms are mailed, faxed, etc. all over campus in
order to obtain departmental approval
signatures
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Forms are finally sent to Property Control and
information is entered into IMS
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Link faculty and staff who work
and/or conduct research for
training and service programs
abroad with other like-minded
individuals and projects at UGA
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Provide a portal through which
people inside and outside of the
university can view UGA’s
International initiatives
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Support Level Review
 Collect strategic and
assessment planning data
from various units and
departments of the
university
 Information captured will
be used by administrative
and service departments
to improve university
processes
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Total replacement of UGA’s current telephone
system
 Enhancements/replacements to call centers, Emergency
Notification Services, etc.
 Replacement of approximately 11,000 handsets
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Our portion:
 Implement a server for the Telephony Billing System
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Create ContactID for
Undergraduate
Applicants
 Use as primary contact
ContactID
during admissions
process
 Assign CAN (‘810’)
earlier in the admissions
process
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Great Benefits
 10 hours annual leave and 8 hours sick leave every
month
 Paid Holidays
 Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
 Teachers Retirement System (TRS)
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Great Location (Go Dawgs!)
 Staff discounts for sporting events tickets
 Access to Ramsey, the libraries and other services
offered on campus
Apply for Student Worker positions at
www.career.uga.edu
 Check www.hr.uga.edu frequently for jobs in the IT
“Job Family”
 Contact us with questions!
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Basit Hussain, basit@uga.edu
Shilpa Kasibhatta, kshilpa@uga.edu
Seema Metikurke, seemams8@uga.edu
Piyush Parate, piyush@uga.edu
Stacy Rahn, srahn@uga.edu
Ilir Hasko, ihasko@uga.edu