DoIT @ 30 Oral History Project

The DoIT @ 30 Oral History Project was created to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the merger that created DoIT, UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology.

Read about the history of DoIT and how Administrative Data Processing (ADP), the Madison Academic Computing Center (MACC), and Telecommunications were merged to create DoIT in 1994.

Laminated poster used at DoIT’s Announcement Day event at Memorial Union on February 28th, 1994.
UW-Madison Archives. UA2025/105.

The following interviews were conducted with former DoIT staff. Narrators describe how they ended up in their position, their day-to-day work, projects that they were involved in, and any changes that occurred during their time with DoIT.

Click on the following links to access an interview’s audio, summary, and transcript:

Interview with Joanne Jones

Interview with Dave Devereaux-Weber

Interview with Annette Stratman-Durrer

Interview with Brian Rust

Interview with Ron Kraemer

The Oral History Program would like to thank all narrators who participated as well as interviewers Evie Erickson and Sydney Anderson.