John J. Suess

Jack Suess has spent his career at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), progressing from student consultant to CIO during the last 21 years. He spent the first 17 years leading the systems programming and network engineering group, was named director in 1997 and CIO in 2001. During that time he led projects that developed the Unix infrastructure on campus, designed the campus network infrastructure, and led the campus web development strategy. He was principal investigator for UMBC’s vBNS award, is an active participant in the Internet2 Early Adopters Middleware Initiative, and co-chairs the Intrusion Detection committee of the Educause Security Task Force. Mr. Suess has given numerous presentations on web technology, portals, and authentication and authorization services.