Mission:  Design and maintain campus-wide network infrastructure of switches, routers, cable plant facilities, and all network and communication servers to ensure secure, reliable, and stable network performance with a stated disaster recovery process for the network infrastructure and servers.

Unit Objectives: 

1. Develop and maintain campus-wide communications infrastructure to ensure required service levels including reliability, availability, and serviceability of network and communication equipment and systems are achieved.
   
2. Design campus-wide technology equipment integration for voice, data, and video networks.
   
3. Design and maintain data-type systems and servers to support campus-wide data and application platforms.
   
4. Perform capacity planning of hardware equipment and network systems to ensure current and future performance needs are met.
   
5. Ensure security measures are in place and network policies are enforced campus-wide to guarantee business process continuity and recovery.
   
6. Maintain an accurate and relevant inventory of FMU's technology devices.
   
7. Responsible for both the procedural and systems architecture design and implementation for securing Francis Marion University's network infrastructure, applications, and confidential information.  Also responsible for managing IT and IT-related projects working with stakeholders to ensure that projects meet specifications and solve challenges to business processes.