John B. Wilson is currently the VP and CIO for Spelman Technology Services at Spelman College. Prior to this, they were the director of enterprise information systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology from June 2016 to August 2019. John has also held the position of sr. manager information technology at Emory University from November 1998 to May 2016. In this role, they were responsible for managing a portfolio of business applications that included mission critical financial, research administration, donor management, imaging, learning management, system management, events and space management, and IT service management systems. John has also managed custom web development projects as needed and has experience with vendor management, application upgrades, end user support, requirements gathering, testing, training, and change management. Wilson has successfully completed a 2 year deployment of the OnBase Document Management system and has experience decommissioning old imaging systems.
John B. Wilson has a MBA from the Boston, MA Northeastern University - D'Amore-McKim School of Business, a BS in Information and Decision Systems from the San Diego State University- Fowler College of Business, a Project Management Certification from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Competitive Manager Development Program Certification from Emory University. John also has Leadership Development training from Maximizing Organizational Resources (MOR) Associates and Cybersecurity for Managers: A Playbook training from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Their professional certifications include a PMP - PMI Project Management Professional Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), a CDIA+ - Certified Document Imaging Architech Certification from CompTIA, and a CSM Scrum Master Certification from ScrumAlliance. John also has ITIL OSA - Operational Support and Analysis and ITIL V3 Foundation certifications from the APM Group.
Some of their coworkers include Jarvis A. Ridges - Special Assistant to the President, Steve Bowser - Director, Public Safety, and Jessie L. Brooks - VP for Institutional Advancement. Their manager is Mary Schmidt Campbel, President.
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