Joseph D. Collins
Vice President for Information Technology
In 2005, Joseph D. Collins was named the Institute's first Vice President for Information Technology. Collins, who had been HHMI’s director of information technology, is responsible for a department with a $14 million annual operating budget and more than 50 employees. The IT department serves the Institute's Chevy Chase headquarters and field sites around the nation. During his tenure at HHMI, Collins has been responsible for the implementation of a giga-bit network backbone capable of supporting converged voice, data, and video services. He also directed the implementation of a voice-over Internet protocol telephone service that unifies voice and email messaging and web-based technologies that support the Institute's far-flung staff.
Collins joined the Institute in 2002 from Howard University, where he served for six years as associate vice president for information systems and services. Collins has had a long career in the academic world and has held a variety of technology posts. Early in his career he held positions with IBM and Exxon. Later Collins moved to Systems and Computer Technology Corp., where he was responsible for administrative computing at The George Washington University Center for Computing and Information Management. Collins received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Howard University in 1971 and a master's degree in computer science, also from Howard, in 1980.
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