Biography

Danny Tang is currently the Associate Vice President for Technology and Chief Information Officer at Furman University. Danny has extensive experience in leading IT transformations and providing IT services in support of the academic mission across higher education.

He worked 12 years at the University of Illinois, primarily for the Grainger College of Engineering. He was the inaugural hire into the merger of all IT at the College in 2010. During this time of rapid transformation, Danny helped to build a dynamic, high performing IT organization for a world-renowned, premier engineering College. He progressed into successive roles in this organization, becoming Assistant Director in 2015.

In 2016 Danny joined Engineering @ Iowa as its Chief Technology Officer during a similar time of great change and upheaval. As mandated by the state Board of Regents, the University CIO lead a reorganization of all IT @ Iowa into a unified IT ecosystem called OneIT. In response to OneIT, Danny led the change in culture and IT service delivery within Engineering @ Iowa to succeed within this larger ecosystem.

Drawing from his prior experiences, Danny led the transformation of IT @ Engineering into a unit that exemplifies the “ideal” academic IT service provider in OneIT, with an emphasis on ownership, high-trust relationships, high-touch collaborations, responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability. Under his leadership, IT @ Engineering made key strategic investments in the support for emergent application of technologies such as IoT, data analytics, and artificial Intelligence while aggressively working with the central IT organization for various commodity services.

Danny then transitioned to a new role within Iowa as Senior Director for Research Services at the University of Iowa. He lead the division of the University's IT organization responsible for research IT services at scale, such as high performance computing, data analytics, facilitation, specialized systems and application support.

Danny then served as the Chief Information Officer for the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Powered by an unprecedented investment of $300 million by late alum, Fred Kummer. Missouri S&T aspired to the next tier of higher education, with "North Star" goals of dramatically increased enrollment, reaching Carnegie R1 classification, and the founding of the new Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development. Danny's own "North Star" goal was to ensure Missouri S&T has the IT services and resources it needs to meet its grand ambitions.