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| Sheri Stahler Associate Vice President for Computer Services Temple University |
Sheri Stahler is Associate Vice President for Computer Services at Temple University, a state-related institution with over 36,000 students, in Philadelphia, PA. In this capacity, she oversees academic computing support for Temple’s 17 academic schools and colleges located across 8 campuses. In addition, Ms. Stahler is responsible for centralized IT functions including desktop / LAN support, help desk, integrated messaging systems, web and rich media services, lecture capture, learning management systems, technology-enabled “smart” rooms, computer lab facilities and emergent technologies.
She has over 20 years of experience in managing large-scale IT projects for Higher Education including the design and rollout of a university-wide Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, TUsecure, for over 80,000 users which was the recipient of two awards; the 2008 Information Security Executive (ISE) Mid-Atlantic Region Project of the Year Award for Non-Profits and a similar award for all of North America.
In addition, Ms. Stahler supervised the migration of nearly 55,000 users, including students, alumni and staff, to Google-powered TUmail, facilitating a decommissioning of legacy email systems and hardware for a projected $1M savings.
In 2006, she undertook the planning and launch of one of the nation’s largest university computer labs, a 24-hour TECH Center featuring 700 workstations, 13 breakout rooms, 6 specialty labs, an instructional support center and help desk. The TECH Center was awarded CIO Magazine’s Bold Institution Award and the National Association of College Auxiliary Services Award.
She was also named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2006 and is a frequent presenter at Educause and other national IT conferences.
Ms. Stahler has a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in business from the University of Maryland and her master's in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.