Bill Ingram
Associate Dean And Executive Director For IT, University Libraries
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBill Ingram is a technology leader and associate professor with 15 years of experience building and directing library IT and scholarly communication systems at major research universities. Currently Associate Dean and Executive Director for IT in Virginia Tech University Libraries, he has advanced from hands-on research programmer roles to strategic leadership overseeing development, delivery, and preservation services. His background blends library and information science (MS) with a PhD in computer science, allowing him to bridge archival preservation requirements with modern software engineering practices like agile and continuous delivery. Bill has led cross-functional teams implementing campus-wide repositories and ETD systems, and he often presents and consults on scalable digital preservation and integration models. He’s known for translating complex academic needs into repeatable, service-oriented architectures while mentoring staff and shaping staffing and resource strategies. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he brings an unusually deep mix of scholarly domain expertise and production-grade systems engineering to university IT.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Virginia TechMaster of Science - MS Library and Information Science, Master of Science - MS Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts - BA Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Cognitive Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (19)
doc2vec10
expert10
semantic-matching10
campus10
finder9
gateway6
dspace5
csv5
java5
classification3
python-bindings2
poppler2
data-integrity1
content-extraction1
etl1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UIUCLibrary/IDEALS
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
IDEALS DSpace
Contributions:63 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
javadspace
waingram/code-embeddings
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
A Comparative Study of Various Code Embeddings in Software Semantic Matching
Contributions:60 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
semantic-matchingclone-detectiondoc2vecdocument-embeddings
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