Matthew Jett Hall is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services, Associate Chief Information Architect for Enterprise Infrastructure, Assoc. Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, and a Faculty Fellow in the English department at Vanderbilt University. He looks after the organization's electronic messaging, collaboration, end user services, information protection, operator services, application hosting, identity management, data network 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 a 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.  Additionally, he was the financial transparency executive for the bank’s $1.9 billion Network Computing Group organization.

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 first Gartner TITE benchmark for the firm's technology spend.

During his tenure at Vanderbilt, he develops and maintains a rolling 3 year strategic plan for network computing.  The initial plan provided a transformation that led to $2.3 million in operating savings, a digital life initiative, enhanced availability, process professionalization, staff certification, ITIL implementation, enhanced network security 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.  He also developed Vanderbilt’s first e-discovery and computer forensic team.

Matt serves on AT&T, Sprint, and Google advisory boards.  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, first year writing seminar. He teaches a special topics CS292 course in the EECS department in the spring semester.

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 from the Wharton School of Business.  In 2009, he completed his Vanderbilt Graduate Teaching Certificate and project Digital Intervention in the Dissemination of Knowledge.

For more information: www.matthewjetthall.com