Office of the Vice President

Dennis J. Cromwell
Associate Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure

Cromwell leads the UITS Enterprise Infrastructure Division, which manages the critical technology infrastructure that enables Indiana University services and software applications, including data centers, servers and storage, campus networks, telephone switches, identity management, and cable and wiring. Cromwell has extensive experience at Indiana University delivering production information systems for faculty, staff, and student use. Previously, Cromwell served IU as director of University Information Systems for UITS, responsible for all aspects of enterprise information systems including project management, applications development, database administration, identity management, data warehousing, production assurance, and operations. He led the infrastructure team at IU in a technology transformation from mainframe-based computing to an open systems environment that supports high availability systems for all eight campuses. Cromwell also has significant IT industry experience from two major software firms where he was a nationwide resource for database and application development tools. Cromwell is a frequent presenter and seminar leader at higher education IT events including EDUCAUSE and CUMREC. He is a graduate of Indiana University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, has continuing education credits also from Indiana University, and has a significant record of civic engagement.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications  

• Bottom Up and Top Down: Making IT a Key Part of the Campus Sustainability Effort, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 32 Number 3, Fall 2009 http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/BottomUpandTopDownMakingITaKey/182040.  With Hanks and Engel.
• Bernbom, G. & Cromwell, D. (1993). Data Architecture in an Open Systems Environment. CAUSE/EFFECT, 16 (4), 27-29, 33-37.
  • Bernbom, G., Bruhn. M. & Cromwell, D. (1994). Security in a Client/Server Environment, CAUSE/EFFECT, 17(4), 19-26.

    • Presentations

    • Cloud Services in Three Forms, Presented at Annual ACUTA Conference 05 April, 2011. 
    • Outsourcing Email & Other Institutional IT Services: Cloud Contracting, Presented online for National Association of College and University Attorneys, 10 December 2009 with Calkins, Cate and McDonald 
    • Cloud Computing: Three Views of the Cloud, Presented at EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information and Technology Conference 06 May, 2009 with Dieckmann and Woo.
    • Making the Right Enterprise Information Systems Decsions, Presented at EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information and Technology Confernece 23 May 2007

    Contact Information

    Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
    2709 E. 10th Street, Suite 301
    Bloomington, IN 47408
    812-856-5594
    812-855-3310 (fax)
    dcromwel@iu.edu