Information Systems & Computing
Information Systems & Computing (ISC) provides information technology (IT) infrastructure, leadership, systems, and services that enable research, instruction, and administration for the university's students, faculty and staff. Key ISC systems and services include: voice, video and data networks; global Internet connectivity; and collaboration technologies, including the PennWeb server, email and online directories. Student systems and the core administrative systems and data stores to enable effective business processes and service delivery are also provided, as are the security services and training that protect Penn's information assets and limit institutional liability.
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Programs
- Data networks, including Internet2, voice and video networks
- Business continuity services, including library
- Student systems and core administrative systems
- Services for local IT providers
- Standards and policies
Interim Vice President, Information Systems & Computing & CIO Joshua Beeman
Joshua Beeman is Penn’s Interim Vice President of Information Technology & Interim Chief Information Officer.
Information Systems & Computing (ISC) is the University of Pennsylvania’s central IT organization, providing infrastructure and services upon which Penn’s numerous schools and centers build their unique tools and capabilities.
Joshua was previously Associate Vice President of Information Technology & Associate Chief Information Officer (ACIO). As ACIO is was responsible for all areas of IT management, operations, and strategy, including: ISC Finance and Planning, ISC Human Resources(link is external), IT Strategy, Portfolio and Project Management, ISC Information Security, IT Supply Chain, Asset and Vendor Management, ISC Systems and Tools, ISC Communications, Service Management(link is external), Organizational Effectiveness, and the Digital Transformation program.
Prior to the ACIO position, Joshua served for eight years as Penn's Information Security Officer, where he established an award-winning campus Information Security program in response to a charge from the University's Institutional Risk Committee.
Previously, Joshua was a senior manager for Customer Value Partners in Washington, DC, working as a program manager on an Information Assurance contract for the federal government and on the development and refinement of the company’s Information Assurance practice. Prior to his stint in Washington, Joshua was the team leader of the Senior Cyber Security Advisor program at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he worked with senior lab management on the identification, management and mitigation of information security risks.
Before those positions, Joshua was employed at Penn for over ten years, first as IT director of hospital systems at the School of Veterinary Medicine, and then as IT security specialist senior in the Office of Information Security.
Joshua is CISSP, GSEC and GCIH certified and received BA and MA degrees in Archaeology from UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively.