Mr. Tom Hull is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Florida Polytechnic University

He is the leader of Florida Polytechnic’s Technology Services Department. Hull’s role is to plan for and implement the technology systems at Florida Polytechnic to reflect and enhance the cutting-edge, 21st Century teaching, learning and research environments at the University. The division he oversees provides technology and user services, leadership, consulting and innovative ideas and solutions to support the University and its mission.

Hull has served as CIO for several universities in this 30-year career. Most recently he was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Pace University in New York City. He also was CIO at Virginia Commonwealth University and Siena College in the Albany, New York area. His background includes strategic technology planning for IBM, where he was Executive Director for IBM Global Services. He held a similar post at the U.S. Defense Department, where he worked on a Strategic Technology Plan for the Pentagon, and he performed a Lucent Bell-Labs divestiture to a new company, Viasystems in the U.S., Mexico and China.

The vision of starting a new University in the State of Florida was to achieve an innovative, STEM focused and market driven educational institution that has impact on industry, research and the economy with a technology corridor and silicon-valley like affect. With that motivation we needed to demonstrate advanced and applied technology for innovation and entrepreneurship that is integrated with the University curriculum especially engineering and design courses. Our approach was to create innovation labs that included an innovation center in the form of a 3D Printing Lab that had latest hardware and software technology, prototype capability, scaled to serve groups of students and faculty and partnership with industry companies that were inventing the next generation of technology. The result was a 3D Printing Rapid Application Development (RAD) Makerspace that employed the concepts of rapid prototyping and generation of real objects designed in the Lab. The results are immediate high interest in the space and it’s attraction of various people based on it’s showcase and innovation capabilities.