O   f   f   i   c   e        o   f Information Technologies
	Providing Computer-based Knowledge and Tools to the Florida Community

Contacts and Service Areas
Our unit is composed of several specialized service areas, each with its own mission and responsibilities, and headed by a project leader or assistant director.

Administration Daniel Cromer, Director
Building 87, McCarty Drive PO Box 110350 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0350		Phone: (352) 392-0429 Suncom: 622-0429 Fax: (352) 392-5857 E-mail: dhcromer@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
Tom Hintz, Associate Director
Building 87, McCarty Drive PO Box 110350 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0350		Phone: (352) 392-0429 Suncom: 622-0429 Fax: (352) 392-5857 E-mail: hintz@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
The Office of the Director provides the leadership and vision for our integrated efforts in information technologies.
Business Systems Peter J. Kearney, Assistant Director
102 Livestock Pavilion PO Box 110890 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0890		Phone: (352) 392-0900 Suncom: 622-0900 Fax: (352) 392-8963 E-mail: pkearney@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
The OIT Business Systems area provides a range of mainframe and client-server software applications and programming services that assist the Office of Planning and Business Affairs in managing the institute's financial and human resources.
Customer Relations & Help Desk Benjamin A. Beach, Coordinator
Building 162, McCarty Drive PO Box 110495 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0495		Phone: (352) 392-INFO Suncom: 622-INFO Fax: (352) 846-1215 E-mail: bbeach@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
The OIT Customer Relations area provides an interface between IT and its diverse base of clients and stakeholders. This teams provides training materials and classes, telephone and web-based technical support through the Help Desk, and produces the OIT newsletter. This area also manages the services provided by the District Support Specialists.
Network Systems Christian R. Leopold, Coordinator
Building 120, Newell Drive PO Box 110350 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0350		Phone: (352) 392-5180 Suncom: 622-5180 Fax: (352) 392-5857 E-mail: CLeopold@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
OIT Network Systems operates a Wide Area Network (WAN) that extends to 90 off-campus units (67 County Extension Offices and 23 Research Centers) and 44 on-campus units (College of Veterinary Medicine, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, 22 academic departments and 20 support units). Network Systems provides all remote management for communications, maintenance and back-end software services such as e-mail and Web.
Research and Development / Software Systems Howard W. Beck, Associate Professor Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Building 162, McCarty Drive PO Box 110495 University of Florida Gainesville, FL  32611-0495		Phone: (352) 392-3190 Suncom: 622-3190 Fax: (352) 392-3920 E-mail: hwb@agen.ufl.edu
The OIT Research and Development area conducts applied research in interface and database technologies, and explores new and emerging software information technologies. Promising prototypes developed in this grant-funded area are eventually adopted for use in production systems.
The OIT Software Systems area provides production-level services in development of agricultural database systems and software applications. Information is delivered primarily through CD-ROM and the Web.