University of Missouri System

University Communications

Spectrum

Volume 33, Number 4, August 2006

Allen named vice president for information technology

University of Missouri President Elson S. Floyd has appointed Gary K. Allen, DVM, Ph.D., to serve as UM vice president for information technology. Allen began his new duties July 1, 2006.

Allen will direct the information technology infrastructure for the four University of Missouri campuses, health care system, and statewide extension programs, as well as for a student enrollment of more than 63,000. He also will have overall responsibility for MOREnet, the statewide research and education network, and MOBIUS, the statewide common library platform.

Allen will continue in his current role as chief information officer at the University of Missouri-Columbia, with a second reporting relationship to the campus provost. The net savings of combining the UM and campus CIO positions is $137,000.

“I am pleased that Gary has accepted the challenge of providing leadership and direction for the entire University in the ever-changing area of information technology,” Floyd said. “He is a proven leader and a strategic thinker who is well-respected by his peers across the University and the state. As the CIO for the Columbia campus, he has improved customer service, gotten the most out of limited IT resources, and established sound relationships with faculty, staff and students.”

Allen received his bachelor’s degree in agriculture and a doctorate in veterinary medicine, both from Mississippi State University, and a doctorate in microbiology from UM-Columbia.

He was a National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics at the UM-Columbia School of Medicine. Allen is a faculty member in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology in the UM-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine.

“I am delighted to accept this opportunity to serve as the chief information officer for the University of Missouri,” Allen said. “I look forward in coming months to working with our excellent IT staff throughout the University.”

Allen has overseen information technology operations for the Columbia campus since August 2004. He also serves as executive director of the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium.

He previously served as director of advanced computing environments in the Office of Information Access and Technology Services and director of information technology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at UM-Columbia.

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