He worked with Steve during his final weeks so that we would not loose continuity between administrators. In October, Doug was hired as the UNIX System Administrator. The Executive Committee and I pursued filling the second administrator's position which had been unfilled for two years. John Kloepper, a Novell Network Engineer from the College of Engineering, interviewed for the position and got the job. A major goal of mine for last year was to improve communication between the BCC staff and the users.
Departments understand the critical nature of computing to all aspects of research.
New initiatives have begun to increase the funding for the BCC and to improve the facilities. This is not a project that has a completion point. This was ratified by the Board of Directors. Part of the goals that were set identified was a series of metrics or measures of performance. We also measured usage by department of both Kipple and the UNIX systems.