NERDC Welcomes Tim Fitzpatrick as New Director

TIM Fitzpatrick joined NERDC on March 31 as the data center's new director. He is only the third person to hold that post in the past three decades.

Fitzpatrick comes to the data center from the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. His experiences as Deputy CIO for Technology Infrastructure Operations had him directing Enterprise System Projects (similar to the ERP/Bridges project now at UF), e-mail, authentication, directory, data network and telephones.

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Tim Fitzpatrick, NERDC's newest director, stands in front of the sign welcoming him to the data center.

"I am pleased to be here. There are many exciting computing and networking initiatives in progress here at UF, including the ERP system. I hope I can hit the ground running and help to focus the data center's attention to these important initiatives," Fitzpatrick said.

He worked for 14 years in various positions at UM, including Cross-Project Integration Manager and Technical Infrastructure sub-Project manager for the PeopleSoft-powered Enterprise System Project, Interim Assistant Vice President for UM Central Computing Operations, Director of Planning and Architecture and others.

Even though recently he's been in Minnesota, he's no stranger to Florida or warmer climates. Fitzpatrick received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in Mathematics and grew up in Miami.

"We are very fortunate to have Mr. Fitzpatrick join our Office of Information Technology and the University of Florida. He comes with the high quality experience, exceptional skills, and perspec-tive necessary to manage com-puting and network services at a major research university. Tim will play a key role in the large team of UF IT professionals charged with providing state-of-the-art information technology services to our faculty, students and staff," said Dr. Chuck Frazier, vice provost for Information Technology at UF.

Welcome back to Florida, Tim! And welcome to NERDC!

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