{"671013":{"#nid":"671013","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pam Buffington Tapped to Lead Foundational Infrastructure \u0026 Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPam Buffington was named executive director of Foundational Infrastructure \u0026amp; Technology with the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Georgia Tech, effective October 24.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuffington has extensive experience at Georgia\u202fTech\u202fand has worked in a variety of roles and responsibilities since 1995, enabling innovative uses of information technologies in both research and academic\/instructional capacities. Most recently, she served as director of Research Cyberinfrastructure \u0026amp; Computing \u2013 guiding the work of the Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment \u2013 or PACE. PACE is a collaboration between Georgia Tech faculty and OIT with a focus on high performance computing infrastructure with technical support services. Prior to her time leading PACE, Buffington led OIT\u2019s Digital Learning Team as associate director of Academic Technologies and steered external relations activities for Center for 21st Century Universities, or C21U.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPam brings a wealth of IT knowledge and leadership into this role, including her ability to bridge academic and research communities at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Daren Hubbard, vice president for Information Technology and chief information officer. \u201cShe has been an integral partner across many units at the Institute for years and I am excited for what she will bring in this next step of her journey with OIT.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuffington is also a published researcher who most recently co-authored Semi-Automatic Hybrid Software Deployment Workflow in a Research Computing Center.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn official \u201cDouble Jacket,\u201d Buffington earned both her undergraduate (BS\u201995) and Master of Business Administration (MBA \u201923) degrees from Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPam Buffington was named executive director of Foundational Infrastructure \u0026amp; Technology with the Office of Information Technology at Georgia Tech, effective October 24.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pam Buffington was named executive director of Foundational Infrastructure \u0026 Technology with the Office of Information Technology at Georgia Tech, effective October 24."}],"uid":"34932","created_gmt":"2023-11-10 20:08:37","changed_gmt":"2023-11-14 15:42:01","author":"Courtney Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672355":{"id":"672355","type":"image","title":"Pam Buffington","body":null,"created":"1699646973","gmt_created":"2023-11-10 20:09:33","changed":"1699647040","gmt_changed":"2023-11-10 20:10:40","alt":"Photo of Pam Buffington","file":{"fid":"255581","name":"IMG_5368.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/IMG_5368.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/IMG_5368.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113792,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/10\/IMG_5368.jpeg?itok=0kveMqNG"}}},"media_ids":["672355"],"groups":[{"id":"174291","name":"OIT"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"}],"keywords":[{"id":"183656","name":"oit feature"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["courtney.hill@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}