Biography
Joshua Wilson is Longsight’s Chief Operating Officer. He leads client relations, business operations, project management, product development, and strategic planning. In addition, Josh chairs the Sakai Community’s Marketing Team. He has been a leader in academic technology for more than a decade. Until 2017, he served as Associate CIO for Academic Technology at Brandeis University, where he directed the strategic and client-centered renewal of the University’s academic technology environment, including its open source LMS. Josh has been an innovator in emerging technologies for teaching and learning and he established the Brandeis MakerLab, a winner of multiple awards at World MakerFaire. Josh has served for a decade on the management team for the nationwide MISO Survey, which measures the effectiveness of IT and libraries at more than 150 higher education institutions. Over the past two decades, he has worked in Higher Ed IT at Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Bowdoin College. He holds a BA in History, with distinction, from Yale University.