Tony Moore

I serve as the Vice President of Information & Technology Management. Formulate and deploy long-term strategic plans for acquiring and enabling efficient and cost-effective information processing and communication technologies. Manage IT department operational and strategic planning, including business requirements, project planning, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources. Where necessary, re-engineer applications support to ensure it aligns with business processes, tactical planning, and strategic vision. Define and communicate project milestones, service level agreements, and resource allocation to executive team, department leads, support staff, and end users. Develop and review budgets for and from IT department divisions and ensure they comply with stated goals, guidelines, and objectives. Review performance of IT systems to determine operating costs, productivity levels, and upgrade requirements. Benchmark, analyze report on, and make recommendations for the improvement of the IT infrastructure and IT systems. Develop bid requirements for all hardware and software upgrades, reviews submitted bids for compliance with stated requirements, and makes the appropriate award. Authorize and oversee the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, and all IT resources of the Southern University System campuses.