Dr Lev Gonick
Vice-President for Information Technology Services, Case Western Reserve University

Paper title
From Digital Campus to Connected Community - The Story of Northeast Ohio's OneCommunity.

Biography
Today, Lev Gonick is Vice President for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Case is one of the nation's leading independent research universities. Case’s technology infrastructure and reputation for innovation and cutting-edge applications is recognized across the country and around the world. This turn around effort since 2001 has been recognized by peers and has led to numerous presentations and consultations on IT Governance, new forms of IT leadership (open-source leadership) and strategic technology investing addressing community priorities. Case has been ranked number #1 in the nation among private, independent universities for wireless technology deployments. Today, all data, voice and video services at Case run over its IP network. Gonick is chair of the CIO Executive Council’s higher education committee. He is also President of the Board of OneCleveland, the award-winning metropolitan-wide project to create a connected community through high speed wired and wireless network connectivity addressing community priorities in Northeast Ohio. Gonick also serves as President of the Board of the New Media Consortium based in Austin Texas. In 2006 Gonick has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier100 IT leader and by CIO magazine's CIO100 group. He also sits on the Board of the National Lambda Rail (NLR), the nation's next generation advanced networking research effort.

Previously, Lev Gonick served as Chief Information Technology Officer for Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB). CSUMB is the Cal State's "Bullets to Books to Bytes" campus built on former Fort Ord as the Cal State's first 21st century campus. From 1996 through 1999 Gonick was University Dean for Instructional Technology and Academic Computing at Cal State Polytechnic University in Pomona.

Gonick's national reputation includes a series of major duties and responsibilities related to technology integration in education. Among his board services and consultations:

New Media Consortium, President of the Board
Museum of Contemporary Art - Cleveland, Board Member
Northeast Ohio Software Association, Board Member
Adobe Higher Education Advisory Committee
Dell Platinum Council Member
Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau, Board Member
Ohio-Israel Chamber of Commerce Technology Chair
Internet Streaming Media Association Content Management Advisory Group
Internet 2, InCommon Executive Committee
National Lambda Rail, Board Member
Consultations to more than 40 Universities and Colleges across the U.S. & Canada

Gonick's international efforts in education and technology are extensive and date back to 1985. He has consulted and lectured at 9 universities in Australia, 5 universities in Japan, 4 in South Africa, and spoken to audiences in England, Sweden, Germany, Israel, India, Cote d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Cuba, Mexico, and Botswana and across the United States and Canada. Sixteen years ago Gonick supported the development of HealthNet and Mango, one of Southern Africa’s first internet nodes in facilitating connectivity between healthcare professionals and NGOs n the field in Southern Africa. He has been involved in designing and implementing Digital Learning Network project in West African countries and another Multimedia Learning Network initiative called Seeds of Peace in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine.

Lev received his PhD in International Political Economy from York University in Ontario Canada.

He is married to Barbara Weltman-Gonick. They have two children and live in Beachwood, Ohio.