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Bruce Meikle, Chief Information Officer

The CIO provides strategic leadership and coordination to the University’s information and communications technology resources. Bruce has over 28 years experience in the IT industry, with 25 of them in management roles. His experience includes roles in application development, project management, as well as strategy and senior management.

Geoffrey Brown, Director, ICT Faculty Services

Geoffrey Brown is currently the Director of Faculty Services with ICT at the University of Sydney. His team is responsible for providing support to faculties, including the overall relationship with deans, and ICT shared services transitions.

Geoffrey has over 25 years of IT experience, and an extensive and varied background in management. Prior to his employment at Sydney University ICT, he has worked in numerous IT management and consulting roles with companies such as MLC, Lend Lease, NRMA and Railcorp. More recently, Geoffrey was an IT Director for Asia Pacific at Deloitte, and also delivered IT Program Management at Qantas.

Andrew Cooper, Director, ICT Academic Services

Andrew is the Director of Academic Services with ICT at the University of Sydney. His responsibilities include supporting the Education, Research and International portfolios. Andrew has extensive experience in the education and IT fields. Before joining ICT, Andrew was the Head of Learning and Information Technology with Catholic Education, Diocese of Parramatta. Here he was responsible for the delivery of technology solutions to 75 schools. Andrew has held a diverse range of senior positions while working for organisations such as Freehills and Gartner. While at Gartner, he led the IT Architecture and Technology consulting competency for the Asia Pacific region. He holds bachelor degrees from UNSW in Computer Science and Law.

Gabrielle Whelan, Director, ICT Professional Services

Gabrielle Whelan is the Director of ICT Professional Services. Her responsibilities include providing ICT support to the Vice Chancellor, Professional Service Units (PSU) and External Relations portfolio, and delivering university-wide information services such as web services, collaboration tools, integration and access services.

Gabrielle has over 20 years experience in IT, primarily in financial services working with both internal IT teams and vendors. Her career started as a CICS/Cobol/DB2 programmer, and progressed through roles managing production support, development, projects and programs, to IT manager and PMO manager. She spent the last five years managing AMP's pool of IT project managers, and established a continuous improvement program for AMP's IT processes, incorporating quality and metrics components and redeveloping project management capability.

Mark Pigot, Director, ICT Service Management

Mark Pigot is the Director of ICT Service Management, a division within ICT that provides a range of IT infrastructure services (eg servers, storage, desktop, email, internet, data & voice communications, audiovisual) and end user services (help desk, access labs, field service, training), and IT management functions (Disaster Recovery, IT Security, Change Management, Incident Management, etc).

With over 24 years of experience in the IT industry, Mark has had a range of roles in organisations like AMP, Reckitt & Colman, EDS, and the Commonwealth Bank. He is experienced in strategic and operational IT management, in both local and global contexts, and in a wide variety of technologies. Mark is a proven specialist in IT Risk Management & Governance as well as in IT Infrastructure Management in both inhouse and multi-sourced environments. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from the University of Sydney, and a Certified Information Security Manager accreditation from ISACA.