H. David Todd

David Todd is Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer at the University of San Diego, where he is responsible for information services and media services. Information Services includes academic computing, administrative information systems, institutional research, telephone systems, and network services.

He has served on numerous boards and professional organizations: Two terms on the DECUS Board; member of the DECUS Organizational Development Task Force; Chair of the DECUS Management Council and Board member for two more terms; EDUCOM Board member for two terms; Trustee of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC); and Board and Executive Council member for the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium. He has consulted at over sixty colleges and universities on planning and management issues in information technology services.

David is a mid-westerner by birth and background, having grown up in Peoria, Illinois. He is a theoretical chemist by academic training: BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois and Ph. D. in Theoretical Chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to coming to the University of San Diego, he had been at Wesleyan University for twenty-four years, serving most recently as Director of University Computing and teaching chemistry and computer science, and at Montana State University -- Bozeman for four years as Vice Provost for Outreach and Executive Director of Information Services. He and his wife Karen live in San Diego, with packs of coyotes howling in the canyons outside their back door and lizards playing in their back yard.

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