Grant Carmichael has been named director of information technology at Shorter College, effective July 1. In this role, he will oversee the office of information technology, which provides support for faculty, staff and students in the areas of academic computing, administrative computing, training and support solutions.

Carmichael has been a member of Shorter’s staff since 2005, serving as systems engineer. In that role, he supported the advanced implementation of middleware infrastructure components and distributed computing services. He was also responsible for the development and management of enterprise directories, Linux servers and software applications.