Business Chief USA March 2019
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BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
132<br />
BRIAN BOLT, DEPUTY CIO OF BOISE STATE<br />
UNIVERSITY, DISCUSSES THE UNIQUE<br />
CHALLENGES OF EFFECTING<br />
TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION IN<br />
AN ENTERPRISE-SCALE EDUCATIONAL<br />
INSTITUTION<br />
F<br />
or the most part, the days<br />
when an employee would<br />
graduate school or college,<br />
secure a job, work for 30 years and<br />
collect a commemorative watch have<br />
gone the way of the stegosaurus, the<br />
French Monarchy and Betamax. The<br />
US Bureau of Labor found that, in 2018,<br />
the median number of years wage and<br />
salary workers spent in a single job<br />
was just 4.2. Brian Bolt began working<br />
at Boise State as a student employee<br />
in 1997, and then as a full-time employee<br />
in 1999. After leaving for a couple<br />
years, Bolt returned and has been with<br />
the University’s IT organization ever<br />
since. He earned his MBA from Boise<br />
State in 2006 and became Deputy<br />
<strong>Chief</strong> Information Officer in 2015. His<br />
long career in higher-ed IT allows for<br />
an increasingly unique perspective as<br />
an innovator and solutioner.<br />
“I came to Boise to pursue a Bachelor’s<br />
Degree. I built on my fondness for<br />
MARCH <strong>2019</strong>
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