The Business Services Division (BSD) announced the recent appointment of Magida Phillips as its senior director, Information Technology. Ms. Phillips will be responsible for the oversight, direction and leadership of all aspects related to technology and systems infrastructure for Penn’s Business Services Division. She will also be accountable for the comprehensive management of all divisional technical operations, including oversight of the Division’s IT Support team, project managers, third-party vendor relationships and other BSD IT managerial staff.

A Penn alumna, Ms. Phillips is a familiar face among Penn’s IT circles. She began her career at Penn in 1986 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the Division of Information Systems & Computing (ISC). As a senior IT project leader, she led the LAN Technology Services team, where her accomplishments included developing a firewall consulting service to support schools and centers across the University and rolling out a new VPN service to provide secure remote access to Penn resources. As an IT technical director, she worked closely with campus IT leaders and was instrumental in deploying new University-wide technology services such as Secure Remote Backup, Digital Signage, 1st Generation Virtual Desktop and Penn Endpoint Management. Most recently, as ISC’s director, Client Engagement, Ms. Phillips worked with the IT leaders across campus to identify their organizations’ current and future technology needs.

Ms. Phillips earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Penn in 1986.