Adrian Dillon is a respected IT leader with over 35 years’ experience with both the Government and Higher Education sectors. For the last decade Adrian has led both the development and evolution of the University of Tasmania’s digital transformation strategy and subsequent delivery of key digital projects and initiatives in the areas of eResearch, learning and teaching, administration, enabling services and infrastructure and an overarching cyber security ecosystem.
He led the digital and cyber planning for the establishment of a Defence industry hub and associated CUF, requiring the University to undertake the DISP accreditation process. An associated focus was maturing capability in the eResearch area for the secure provision of on-island High Performance compute and storage resources and cloud compute services as a primary node of the nationally distributed NeCTAR cluster.
