Biography

Michael leads Information Technology (IT) strategy and operations at Bowdoin College, widely regarded as one of the nation’s foremost liberal arts institutions. He joined the college in early 2018 with 17 years of experience in Higher Education IT having served in IT roles at Vassar College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Finding the right opportunities to integrate technologies into a highly successful curriculum is one of the great opportunities of leading IT at Bowdoin.

At Vassar College Michael led the Computing and Information Services (CIS) division to adopt new approaches to better serve the college community. These efforts included developing Project Management methodologies, initiating IT Service Management principles, and implementing an intentional organizational culture program. Notably, in 2014 Michael led CIS to successfully receive two Campus Cyberinfrastructure: Infrastructure, Innovation Engineering (CC*IIE) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Michael previously served as Interim Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and CIO at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He served in this role as the institution began its first institution-wide IT Strategic Plan and restructured the IT Governance process. Before becoming Interim CIO, Michael served as Director of Client Services and led efforts to reorganize and refocus the client facing aspects of ITS to better serve the campus community. Among other accomplishments in Client Services, Michael conceived and led the Future of Student Computing initiative resulting in a hardware support partnership for student-owned hardware, a new Service Desk presence in the Student Union, and a hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure pilot for students. Michael joined the UNC Charlotte community in 2006 as the Executive Director of Health Informatics in the College of Health and Human Services where he was responsible for expanding and refining IT services to address the unique needs of the College. He served as a Co-investigator on a NIH funded project to examine the feasibility of delivering HIV prevention education via text messages to African American adolescents in Charlotte. Successful and innovative endeavors there earned him the nomination for UNC Charlotte Employee of the Year in 2009. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Michael held several IT positions at UNC Chapel Hill where he was awarded UNC Chapel Hill's IT Award in 2003.

Michael is an EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute faculty member, a mentor for the State University of New York (SUNY) CIO Leadership Academy, a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), an Educause Leading Change/Frye Fellow, an alum of Leadership North Carolina, and serves on the board for the American Institute for the Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Northeast Computing Association (NERCOMP). He holds a B.S. in Zoology from Andrews University and a M.B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Michael actively engages in the Higher Education IT community, seeking opportunities to learn from and share with colleagues across the industry. He considers himself a student of leadership, and is increasingly participating in efforts to address issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He loves to learn, read, travel, eat, occasionally cook, and with his wife Heather is raising a totally awesome toddler son.