Bio
Tom Barton is Senior Director for Architecture & Integration at the University of Chicago, with responsibility for the University's identity & access management and its IT security, architecture, policy, and compliance activities. He had previous assignments as Director of IT Infrastructure and Director of Network Services at the University of Memphis, where he was a member of the mathematics faculty before turning to administration. He's active in regional, national, and international identity management middleware communities, a member of MACE (the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education, that steers Internet2's middleware program), leads the Internet2 Middleware Initiative's Grouper project, a member of the InCommon Federation's Technical Advisory Committee, and co-leads the CIC's InCommon Silver Level of Assurance implementation project. He also leads development of the IT Ecosystem, which enables the complex web of interdependencies in modern IT operations to be modeled, managed, and leveraged to help achieve change management and architectural objectives.
Platform Statement
I seek Jasig Board membership because of the substantial alignment of
the Jasig community's goals with those I have been pursuing, and because
of opportunities for the communities we serve that can be produced by
working closely together. Broadly, these goals are:
- Improve alignment of open source projects in the R&E community among themselves, and with the needs of campuses and other organizations
serving the R&E mission.
- Collaboration with Internet2, InCommon, and with international organizations leading the development of solutions to problems in identity & access management, federation, and application integration, to ensure that Jasig projects easily integrate with and enhance IT platforms supporting R&E activities.
- Broader awareness and appeal within the R&E community of Jasig's projects and activities, and broader adoption of the style of development and engagement that Jasig exemplifies.
- Improve acceptance of OS, and of the Jasig OS community in particular, by campus IT leaders.