Enabling collaboration, research, and learning.....

Matthew Jett Hall is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services, Associate Chief Information Architect for Enterprise Infrastructure, and a Faculty Fellow in the English department at Vanderbilt University. He looks after the organization's electronic messaging, end user services, information protection, operator services, application hosting, and telecommunications services. In addition to his operating roles in this capacity, he coordinates enterprise IT architecture processes with members of the research, clinical enterprise, and teaching communities. Matt assumed his appointment in April 2004

Matt started his career with Bank of America in 1992 in Tampa, Florida. He spent time on the Technology Planning & Control team before moving to the Global Corporate Investment Bank. There, he completed corporate credit training and managed a Business Assessment & Software Development team that supported Corporate Finance, Capital Markets (NCMI), Loan Syndications, Corporate Credit Services, High Yield Capital Markets, FX Trading, and the Financial Buyers Groups in Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas, and New York.

In 1997, he joined the Petroleum Trading Group at Koch Industries assigned primarily to acquisition due diligence and development of the new petroleum and derivatives trading floor in London. He led merger and acquisition diligence for various refineries and petroleum distillation operations in Rotterdam, London, Luxembourg, Breda, and Dusseldorf. He also supported petroleum-trading operations in Wichita, London, and Singapore.

After returning from London in 1998, he resumed his employment with Bank of America. In 2001, he assumed responsibility for business planning and project management of Bank of America's Global Corporate Investment Bank, Global Treasury Services, and the Asset Management Group's network and data center infrastructure. He managed $163 million in expense allocations and over $69 million in annual capital expenditures on behalf of the shareholders.

Key accomplishments include the Six Sigma designed 2000 node distributed high performance compute environment supporting the Global Corporate Investment Bank, the Bank's ASP / ISP strategy, Enterprise Systems Management and Mainframe Automation infrastructure deployment, standardized project management and service delivery processes, and management of the Gartner TITE benchmark for the firm's $1.9 billion technology spend.

During his tenure at Vanderbilt, he developed and implemented a 3 year strategic plan for network computing transformation that led to $2.3 million in operating savings, a digital life initiative (digitallife.vanderbilt.edu), enhanced availability, process professionalization, staff certification, ITIL implementation, and expanded partnerships with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T. Presently, he works closely with faculty and researchers to find ways in which technology can better enable learning, collaboration, and research.

Matt serves on AT&T, Sprint, and Verisign customer advisory boards, and he remains an active reserve deputy sheriff in the Williamson County Sheriff's Office Patrol Division. He received his first faculty appointment in the Fall of 2007 co-teaching English 115F: The Worlds of Wordcraft freshman writing seminar. His next teaching opportunity, CS 292: Beyond the One Way Web, begins in the Spring of 2007 with the Engineering School.

Matt earned his Master's degree in International Affairs from Florida State University in 1992, and he holds Six Sigma Green Belt certification, Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator certification, and his executive education certificate from the Wharton School of Business in addition to numerous Law Enforcement certifications such as Crime Scene Analysis and Standardized Field Sobriety testing.