Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer

Dr. Gerry McCartney
Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
and Oesterle Professor of Information Technology

Gerry McCartney has served as Purdue University's chief information officer since July 2007.

Under McCartney's leadership, Purdue has developed the nation's largest cyberinfrastructure for research, with three supercomputers listed in the internationally known Top 500 list. Also during his tenure, Purdue has developed some of the nation's most advanced learning and classroom technologies, including Signals and Hotseat. In addition, in 2010 McCartney provided oversight to a campus-wide restructuring of the information technology resources used by the nearly 15,000 faculty and staff on campus.

As CIO, McCartney is responsible for overseeing ITaP, Purdue's central information technology organization, and reports jointly to: Tim Sands, Purdue's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; and Alphonso Diaz, the University's treasurer and executive vice president for business and finance.

McCartney holds an appointment as associate professor in Purdue's College of Technology and is the inaugural recipient of the Olga Oesterle England Professorship of Information Technology — so named for a great aunt of former Purdue trustee William Oesterle, whose gift established the post.

McCartney was appointed the Inaugural Director of Purdue's Innovation and Commercialization Center, created in 2012 to move Purdue discoveries to the marketplace more quickly and spur economic development in Indiana and the nation.

Before becoming CIO, McCartney served two years as assistant dean for technology at Purdue's Krannert School of Management, where he taught in the MBA, executive MBA and engineering management programs. McCartney also is the principal investigator for the Northwest Indiana Computational Grid.

From 1993 to 2004, McCartney was associate dean and chief information officer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He was director of the Krannert Computing Center from 1990 to 1993 and was manager of user services at the Purdue Computing Center from 1988 to 1990. He also has held managerial positions in the computing centers at both the University of Notre Dame and Maynooth College in Ireland.

McCartney holds a patent on a product providing authenticated access to Internet-based research and data services. He also earned the CIO Enterprise Value Award in 2003 and is a member of the CIO Executive Council. McCartney frequently speaks and comments on the entrepreneurial management of technology for national media.

In 1995, McCartney received his doctorate in sociology and anthropology from Purdue. McCartney also earned diplomas in advanced computer programming and systems analysis from the Graduate School of Engineering at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 1982 and 1984. He took first class honors in both his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1981 and 1984, respectively, from Maynooth College.

McCartney is married to Dr. Kitti Carriker and they have two sons in college.

McCartney can be reached by email or by phone at (765) 496-2270.
Office: Young Hall, room 931 (YONG)