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Paul Davis
Paul Davis is the IT director for the Cornell College of Engineering and heads up the Engineering College's Office of Information Technology. Until accepting this position in October of 2007, he was a senior programmer analyst in the dean's office. He and his staff are currently responsible for:
- Desktop and server support for the college administration
- Accel computer lab
- Work with Departments to support c lassroom technology in schedule 25 classrooms
- Coordinate IT efforts within the college and between the college and other units on campus
- Dean's office's administrative systems including
- Data management and reporting for the Dean's office
- Team member on the COG KPI project
Paul also has an interest in IT project management, IT project and service governance, and administrative systems architecture, particularly middleware infrastructure.
Paul received his M.A. in Sociology and a B.A.
in Organizational Studies from UC Davis. He has worked at The Minnesota Educational Computing
Corporation (MECC), NeXT, UC Davis, and Cornell. Prior to becomming a programmer, he was a carpenter and cabinet maker outside New York City and in Ithaca NY.
Contact Information for Paul Davis.
Here are a few things Paul has written, developed, or presented:
IT Project and Service Governance
- 3/28/07 - Response to Audit Query about our Systems Development Life Cycle Management.
Geofrey Yearwood asked the ITMC members address questions as a part of their audit of CIT's IS Department about our documented software lifecycle management methodologies. In particular, he is interested in learning about how we gather feature requests and get sign off from our user stakeholders.
- 1/25/05 - Evaluation of IT services and governance models for College Intranet - We're building out an intranet and we want to leverage whatever IT services we can. I itemize 9 IT services we will want to use and their status on campus. this document is intended to start discussions, not to be a definitive evaluation. [governance]
- 1/14/05 - Presentation to the CommonSpot CMS SIG kick off meeting - I presented the history of the Web Content Management System evaluation and purchase at the kick off meeting for the CommonSpot SIG. [governance]
- 1/9/05 - Ideas for IT Project governance - This was an early effort to think about IT project governance. It was a stream of consciousness effort I did early one morning and it looks at governance from the end users up so some of the committee names are a bit strange. e.g.: SIG board instead of advisory committee. I've cleaned these ideas up in the email above about the evaluation of IT services for the college intranet. [governance]
- 1/7/04 - Migrating Locally built Administrative Systems to Larger Audiences - CIT requested input on why units were building their own systems to meet similar business needs. This was my response. In it I describe three different efforts to migrate local systems to a broader audience and the lessons learned for each effort. I also talk about why distributed units are likely to develop systems that meet their needs better than any central unit. Therefore they need to be involved in project development and governance. [governance]
Project Management
- 1/30/05 - Project management tools - A number of people have asked me about the tools I use to organize my project documents so I decided to finally write it down. Here is the result. [Project Management]
- 1/5/04 - Taking photos of Whiteboards after meetings - I wrote this in response to an evaluation of dedicated whiteboard recording tools. I carry a small camera with me everywhere to take pictures of whiteboards before they get erased. You'll see whiteboard photos posted all over our intranet. [Project Management]
Administrative Systems Architecture
- 5/17/2005 - College Intranet specification - We developed an RFP for our college Intranet web site project. The intro to that specification has links to all the relevent documents except a taxonomy driven navigation system we have decided to use instead of the flatter meta data driven navigation described in the RFP.
- 5/12/2005 - My opinion of what an enterprise portal should do - My boss asked me about the relationship of our internet and our campus enterprise portal. This is my notes to her. I make the argument that portals should aggregate the front ends for an enterprise's computer systems & web sites. Because each portlet cannot contain enough of the computer systems interface, you still need the full web based interface as well. The admin system's portlet simply provides a very personalized and timely view of the most useful entry points for the systems a web visitor is likely to need.
- 4/6/2005 - Guidelines for migrating files to FileMaker 7 - Many people on campus are migrating old databases to FileMaker 7 from earlier versions. This isn't a trivial process. In this response to the FileMaker List, I describe some huiristics for the process and particularly for deciding when it's worth hiring someone to help.
- 4/2003 - Presentation
about integrating Brio and Cold Fusion - We were working on
developing an HR DataMart and delivering it with our campus' Brio
infrastructure. In this process I identified problems with our
current Brio infrastructure and how to address them. I also talk
about the importance of using an application framework with Cold
Fusion. [Architecture]
- 8/25/04 - Requirements
to integrate FileMaker 7 with Cornell's LDAP - Prior to going
to the 2004 Devcon, I wanted to understand what it would take
to integrate FileMaker with CU's Kerberos and Authorization Directory.
This is the document that resulted.
- 9/21/01 - College data delivery infrastructure - After I was
hired (2/0/01), I wanted to develop a standard data delivery infrastructure
for the college. I set some criteria,
developed an example
application and walk through, and delivered
a presentation to relevant people from the college and campus.
About 50 people attended. This infrastructure was based on FileMaker
so I had the head of their Systems Engineering operation present
about making FileMaker IT friendly. [Architecture]
Reporting and Data Analysis
- 11/04 - Reporting Fractional Appointments - As more faculty are appointed accross department boundaries and we have to report on faculty in different ways, how we report their effort has become a bit of an issue. This was my position on the issue. As I post this (1/06) it is not entirely settled yet.
Some of the Projects Undertaken
Note: Older dates are very approximate. Items marked with a Kerberos key ( ) are access restricted, either to Cornell employees or to a more restricted group.
Here is my resume
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