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Infrastructure Services Group

The primary responsibility of CITS Infrastructure Services Group is managing the computing server infrastructure dedicated to UMB central and departmental campus applications. Campus infrastructure management includes server, operating system, system utility, and application installations and upgrades; capacity planning; backup and recovery; security monitoring; and performance tuning. The current campus server infrastructure is made up of eighty servers running three different operating systems (40 SUN Solaris UNIX, 38 Dell NT/Advanced 2000 server, and 2 HP MPEix).

The server infrastructure houses a mix of applications and back end services including:

  • Campus e-mail services for students, faculty, and staff (MS Exchange 2K, 5.5 and UNIX)
  • The campus active directory, root, and child domains
  • Oracle DBMS
  • Encrypted and non-encrypted web and media services
  • Banner 2000 Student Information System (SIMS)
  • PeopleSoft 8 Human Resources (eUMB)
  • Blackboard (Traditional and Continuing Education)
  • Listproc
  • Campus internet news server
  • Crystal/Seagate Info
  • Research computing support (SAS and SPSS)
  • A mix of middleware, application servers, and system/network services
  • APPWORX enterprise job scheduling and dependency processing
  • UMB legacy systems

CITS Infrastructure Services

  • Partners with school and departmental IT staff to enable access to campus-wide systems across a diverse computing environment/network
  • Maintains e-mail server connections to the distributed school and departmental MS Exchange and GroupWise servers
  • Serves as a resource to CITS Application staff and developers in implementing and supporting campus-wide systems
  • Actively participates in campus IT projects such as the campus e-Mail Systems Integration Project, SIMS and eUMB

Staff

Jim Leoni Executive Director
410-706-5895
jleoni@umaryland.edu
 

UNIX
Elizabeth Brindley 410-706-4772
ebrindle@umaryland.edu

Vavian Cox 410-706-2179
VCox@umaryland.edu

John Cromwell 410-706-6592  
jcromwel@umaryland.edu

Dan Hughes 410-706-1665
DHughes@umaryland.edu


Brent Nickles 410-706-7262
bnick001@umaryland.edu

Roderic Reckley 410-706-1666
RReckley@umaryland.edu

Microsoft Technologies

James Amoonarquah 410-706-7370
jamoonar@umaryland.edu

Steve Brown 410-706-2511
sbrown@umaryland.edu

Mike Klos 410-706-3061
mklos001@umaryland.edu

Tom Kline 410-706-4134
tklin001@umaryland.edu

Joe Mancuso 410-706-2246
jmancuso@umaryland.edu

Matt Riedel 410-706-4860
mriedel@umaryland.edu


Operations and Computer Room
 
 

Yvonne Cager Operations Supervisor
410-706-6597
ycager@umaryland.edu

Paula Barkon 410-706-6597

pbarkon@umaryland.edu

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