Faculty/Staff Information

Michael Ellis

CISO, University Computing Solutions

88629 | ellism@wou.edu
ITC 008

Why I chose WOU

Small, personal campus where people really know each other.

At WOU since

09/28/1998

Hobbies

Game development, Small engines, Medieval siege engines, Woodworking, Trailers, Tiny Houses, Energy generation, Spontaneous combustion

Fun fact

I used to have a llama. Very pretty eyes!

Hometown

Albany

Favorite book/movie

The Bible. I have too many favorite movies to try to pick one 🙂

Areas of responsibility

Cybersecurity

Systems Team (Sysadmin, Network Engineer)

Education

BS in CS (WOU)
MS in MIS (Management and Information Systems) (WOU)

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