About Information Technologies

Our Mission

IT's primary mission is to provide quality and professional service to the UNM community, especially fast response and timely solutions to customer needs and questions. Principles guiding this service consolidation include:

• Providing access, support, privacy, and security to all of the University's IT customers.
• Improving the effectiveness of IT services and sharing IT resources across UNM.
• Supporting UNM's mission, goals, and values.
• Coordinating IT planning and communication for better use of resources.
• Ensuring the development and sustainability of high IT standards for UNM.

The Organization

The CIO Office is comprised of the CIO, Deputy CIO, Director of Information Assurance and the Administrative Services Unit. Computing Services and Communications Network Services comprise Information Technologies (IT).

Organization Chart     IT Directors' Bios     

Key Projects Dashboard

In addition to delivering technology services on campus, IT executes projects to align services with President Schmidly's annual goals. The current status of major technology projects can be found at the IT Dashboard.

IT Project Approach

Projects generally follow the flow illustrated below, using a governance process appropriate to the service that is being added, enhanced or demised as a project result. Projects follow a life cycle. During planning, the project is defined and classified. These documents are used to facilitate the project management process: Assessment, Survey, Thumbnail, Request & Plan, and Status Report. Project management glossary.