Information Technology Audit Director: Stephen Stines
November 14, 2006, Volume 53, No. 12	Print Issue

Stephen Stines has been appointed Director of Information Technology Audit, in the Office of Audit, Compliance, and Privacy, effective November 13. Mr. Stines is responsible for providing leadership to the IT Audit team, developing and executing the annual IT audit plans, and leading interactions with IT management throughout the University and Health System. Mr. Stines brings to the position over 20 years of experience in information technology and consulting at Penn and other organizations. For more than eight years he served the Division of Finance as Director of Financial Systems and subsequently as IT Senior Director. He provided leadership and operational management for many aspects of information technology, applications, and support services both for the division and for the offices of the Executive Vice President, Budget & Management Analysis, and Investments, and served as Program Manager for the multi-year FinMIS to BEN Financials conversion. 

Previously, Mr. Stines served as manager at KPMG, LLP, where he was responsible for a team of functional analysts during the design and implementation of Oracle’s suite of financial applications; and as a senior project leader with Penn’s Office of Information Systems and Computing during the implementation of FinMIS and the university-wide effort to reduce the costs of administrative services. He received his B.A. in computer science from LaSalle University in 1984 and his M.S. in organizational dynamics from Penn in 1997.