{"556611":{"#nid":"556611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"O\u2019Connor to Depart from Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim O\u2019Connor, vice president for the Office of Information Technology and chief information officer, will soon leave Georgia Tech to assume the role of chief information officer for Auburn University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EO\u2019Connor has been at Georgia Tech for 22 years, originally coming to manage technology for the Olympic Village. He has served in a series of progressive leadership roles within OIT and in his current role for six years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThroughout his tenure, Jim has focused on the importance of people and strategy in helping the Institute achieve its academic, research, and administrative missions,\u201d said Steve Swant, executive vice president of Administration and Finance. \u201cI appreciate Jim\u2019s dedication and contributions to Georgia Tech, and his humble but strong service leadership. We will miss him greatly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EO\u2019Connor oversaw the transformation of legacy mainframe systems into full-scale enterprise financial and human resource software implementations leading up to \u201cY2K.\u201d He has spent the past three years engaging campus stakeholders in developing a strategic roadmap for information technology that to be followed for years to come.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EO\u2019Connor will depart in mid-September. Mark Hoeting, chief operating officer for OIT, will lead a transition team including deputy chief information officers Lori Sundal and Herb Baines as the search process begins for a new CIO.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EO\u2019Connor has been at Georgia Tech for 22 years, originally coming to manage technology for the Olympic Village. He has served in a series of progressive leadership roles within OIT and in his current role for six years.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"O\u2019Connor has been at Georgia Tech for 22 years, originally coming to manage technology for the Olympic Village."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-07-29 10:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"556621":{"id":"556621","type":"image","title":"Jim O\u0027Connor","body":null,"created":"1469803756","gmt_created":"2016-07-29 14:49:16","changed":"1475895355","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:55","alt":"Jim O\u0027Connor","file":{"fid":"206636","name":"jimoconnor_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jimoconnor_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jimoconnor_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":907138,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jimoconnor_0.jpg?itok=bqI6K8T2"}}},"media_ids":["556621"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/oit.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Information Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172219","name":"jim o\u0027connor"},{"id":"9299","name":"Office of Information Technology"},{"id":"4112","name":"oit"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lorrie.burroughs@oit.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELorrie Burroughs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Information Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}