Terri-Lynn Thayer
Assistant Vice President and Deputy CIO
Terri-Lynn Thayer is the Assistant Vice President and Deputy CIO at her alma mater, Brown University in Providence, RI where she has worked since 1989. Her responsibilities include operational leadership of central IT staff in the areas of enterprise applications, infrastructure, data center, network, telephony, media, IT security, academic technology, and user services. Prior to joining Brown she spent 6 years in support of the Trident Submarine program in Newport, RI where she worked as a Database Administrator and Manager. Terri-Lynn previously worked for 3 years at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH. She has held numerous regional and national positions in a variety of professional associations. She served 7 years on the Software AG Users Group Executive Committee including a four year term as the SAGGROUP President. She has also served 4 years on the Educause Advisory Group on Administrative Information Systems and Services. She served on the Cause '94 program committee and past conference committees for both CAUCUS and MAXIM. She is a past Chair of the Coeus Consortium and a former rep on the Kuali Research Administration Advisory Board. She is a member of the Educause 2010 program Committee. She also currently serves as a board member and treasurer of OSHEAN, the Ocean State Higher Education Access Network.
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