  {"id":19144,"date":"2013-08-27T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:08:54","slug":"steven-smith-named-interim-vp-for-information-technology-and-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/27\/steven-smith-named-interim-vp-for-information-technology-and-cio\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Smith named interim <abbr title=\"Vice President\">VP<\/abbr> for information technology and <abbr title=\"Chief Information Officer\">CIO<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_19166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19166\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19166\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\">Board of Regents<\/a> approved the appointment of <strong>Steven &ldquo;Steve&rdquo; Smith<\/strong> as interim vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/its\/services\/?from=sso\">information technology<\/a> and chief information officer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> System<\/a>. Smith will be serving in place of <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>, who will be assuming the interim <abbr>UH<\/abbr> presidency effective September 1, 2013. Smith&#8217;s appointment will continue concurrently with Lassner&#8217;s interim assignment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are incredibly fortunate to have someone with Steve&#8217;s knowledge and experience who is so able and willing to step right in,&rdquo; said Lassner. &ldquo;He has been involved in all our major projects and can continue to advance our agenda to support and improve education, research and administration through the innovative use of information and communication technologies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Smith joined <abbr>UH<\/abbr> as associate vice president and deputy <abbr>CIO<\/abbr><abbr> in June 2011. Prior to that, he served as chief information technology officer for the 16-campus University of Alaska System.<\/abbr><\/p>\n<p>He has more than 30 years of progressively responsible professional and managerial experience in information technology, including various roles in broadcasting, <abbr>IT<\/abbr> and libraries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>Smith holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in broadcasting\/film from the University of Iowa and a master&#8217;s degree in communications, with an emphasis in telecommunications, from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a proud <abbr>UH<\/abbr> graduate, I was delighted to be able to return to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> from Alaska two years ago,&rdquo; said Smith. &ldquo;I&#8217;m looking forward to this opportunity to serve <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and the entire State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5921\">A <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven &ldquo;Steve&rdquo; Smith appointed interim vice president for information technology and chief information officer  of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,29],"tags":[152,947],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-people","tag-information-technology-services","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152097,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/152097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}