JoDe Beitler, Technical Director, University of Pennsylvania
JoDe Beitler is the Technical Director for Platforms, Infrastructure, and Network Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She leads teams responsible for much of the University's core IT infrastructure, including database administration, networking, Windows & Linux system administration, storage, and virtualization services.
JoDe has served Penn in a variety of technical and leadership roles over the past 20 years. Most recently, JoDe was the Senior IT Manager of the Unified Communications team. Her team was responsible for the University-wide voice and video services, which included the campus TV network, a 15,000-endpoint VoIP installation, a dozen Contact Centers, and several thousand legacy POTS/Centrex lines. Under her leadership, the Penn UC team performed extensive evaluations and ultimately began a multi-year transition from on-prem technologies to UCaaS and CCaaS solutions.
JoDe holds a Bachelor's of Science in Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science from Swarthmore College and a Master's of Science in Telecommunications and Network Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband, two sons, and their mischievous pomsky puppy.
