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Tuesday, June 5th at 1 pm Panelist, The CIO and the Researcher - Closing the Gap Terrence Verity Chief Information Officer Seneca College Terrence Verity is CIO at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. As CIO he has responsibility for Information Technology and Telecommunication Services and for the College's planning and institutional research processes. He is a member of the College Senior Executive Committee. During Mr. Verity's career he has had a wide range of responsibilities including Chair, Applied Arts and Chair, Computer Studies, FCE. On behalf of the College he has provided advice and assistance to community based network projects, provided a new vision for College web development and services. He served on the conceptual team for the development of the Seneca@York campus that opened in 1999 and the new Technology Enhanced Learning Centre and Institute that opened fall 2003. He was a member of the steering committee for the ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning) Project. He is a past Director of the York Technology Association and a member of the Information Technology Association of Canada. He is a founding member of the Ontario College's CIO Council and Director of GTANet (the Toronto based fibre R&D network for post-secondary education and research hospitals). He has provided senior advisory services to the Saudi Arabian vocational education system to help plan the development of their information technology infrastructure and e-learning program. His current professional work includes the introduction and implementation of a personalized learning portal and enterprise information system for the Seneca College community, the development of a learning objects repository/content management and e-portfolio system, the introduction of campus based 802.11 wireless services, and a high-speed wireless WAN infrastructure to serve the College's campuses in York Region, the implementation of a gigabit WAN serving major Seneca's Toronto area campuses and the development of a new High Performance Computing Centre at Seneca’s Markham Campus. He holds a BA degree and an MLS from the University of Western Ontario. |
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