Biographical Sketch
Chad J. Kainz is the Senior Director for Academic Technologies, a
leadership role that spans the areas of teaching, learning, research,
and scholary technology at the University of Chicago. He has been at
Chicago for well over a decade, starting as a Computer Graphics &
Multimedia Specialist in 1992, working his way up to Director of
Instructional Technology in 1998, and moving into his current position
in 2002. Prior to his arrival at Chicago, he spent quite a bit of time
in New Orleans attending school, enjoying good food and music, and
working in advertising, commercial multimedia design, and IT
consulting. His current work-related interests include the exploring
the relationship between space, technology, and people, and unexpected
uses of technology in scholarship. In his "spare" time, he acts as the
campus IT liaison to the Coalition for Networked Information,
participates in the Ivy League "Plus" Academic Computing Directors
Group, is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's
Research Computing Working Group, and is involved with international IT
standards work as a member of the IEEE Learning Technology
Standards Committee.
