Hello, I\u2019m Bob Dein, Enterprise Architect for the Information Technology Planning & Strategy office. Long time Miami follower, first time blogger. I learn and render our current business and IT environments and help create plans for IT investment that will help the university get where it wants to go (e.g. 2020 Plan).<\/p>\n
I celebrated my 1st year anniversary last Friday with my IT Services colleagues at our annual Souper Bowl pitch-in luncheon. As my fellow architect Roxanne Storer, who started on the same day, explained enthusiastically how great her first year experience at Miami has been, I thought \u201cin-loud\u201d<\/em> about my own first year, and why I look forward to my commute from Cincinnati each day:<\/p>\n Interesting Times<\/em><\/strong> – we do live in interesting times at Miami. By interesting, I don\u2019t mean the Chinese curse, I mean a time of change. Much of our leadership has changed, the Higher Ed \u201carms race\u201d is impacting our campus and financial priorities, e-learning is affecting our pedagogy and an explosion of mobile technology is changing the way Miamians learn, work and live. I have lived in many interesting times and I have always chosen to focus on the possibilities, not the impossibilities that change brings. These are especially interesting times for a newbie at Miami :).<\/p>\n The Oxford Bubble<\/em><\/strong> – I mean this phrase in the most endearing way. Oxford is a very special world apart that I feel blessed to travel in and out of daily. The people, culture and experience are uniquely exquisite.<\/p>\n My Office<\/strong><\/em> – I\u2019m writing this entry as I look out of my third floor office window from Laws. As tough as parking can be, I relish being located in the center of everything Miami. Walking down the hallway at Laws is a nostalgic experience of Miami 40 years ago.<\/p>\n My Work<\/strong> <\/em>– I worked in academia (Cincinnati Public Schools) as an IT architect in another life and it was the most fulfilling experience of my career. That is until now. I am grateful for this opportunity in the academic post-secondary major league<\/em> to work with so many great Miamians at all levels at a time when so much is possible. I also look forward to the possibility of contributing as an adjunct faculty member when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n Miami Pride<\/strong><\/em> – As part of my Miami immersion, my family (Lette, RJ and Cole) and I routinely wear our brand in public. Over the last year, we have often been warmly and sometimes enviously recognized as and by fellow Miamians.<\/p>\n I am Miami<\/em><\/strong> – our Code of Love & Honor is not a just catch phrase and a list of aspirations. I see it in action here in Oxford every day. Miamians really do lead such a life.<\/em><\/p>\n No words of architect wisdom this post. Maybe something just a bit more EA related next time.<\/p>\n \u201cBe good to everyone. You never know who you will be working for next week.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Bob Dein<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, I\u2019m Bob Dein, Enterprise Architect for the Information Technology Planning & Strategy office. Long time Miami follower, first time blogger. I learn and render […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-people","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}