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Kassandra D. Agee-Letton

Kassandra D. Agee-Letton

Chief Information Officer & Director of Information Systems
Network and Information Systems - Gilchrist, Room 352
Texas Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 862-1417 · fax (979) 845-6104
k-letton@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Ms. Agee-Letton is TTI's Chief Information Officer. She is responsible for managing the Network & Information Systems organization which supports the agency's wide and local area networks (LAN/WAN); microcomputer hardware and software purchasing, installation, and maintenance; and the agency's electronic mail, file and print services, database and management information system and web administration functions. She serves as project manager for the design and implementation of an agency-wide information system and the agency's intranet (TTINet).

Prior to joining TTI Agee-Letton served as Director of Computing Services for the Texas Engineering Experiment Station from 1988-1996. Under her direction computing services expanded from a one-woman office to a full-service staff that offers systems analysis, programming, documentation, training, microcomputer and LAN troubleshooting, consulting and maintenance. The office supports TEESIS, an information system that tracks data from the point a proposal is initiated, to the time the contract or grant is actually awarded, until it is finally retired.

Prior to joining the academic research world, she worked for over seven years in the private sector for Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical and Exxon as a systems analyst and MIS consultant. A background in database design, system networks, mainframes and microcomputers helped prepare her for the academic environment on campus, where computing needs run the gamut from personal computer to mainframe.

Agee-Letton has been involved with personal computing and local area networks since they revolutionized the workplace with their introduction in the early eighties. She also worked on early projects within Procter & Gamble that utilized databases and fourth-generation language in a non-batch environment.

Professional Interests

Information systems

Databases

Information technology

Computer networks

Computer programming

Telecommunications

Internet

Education

Bachelor, Management, Purdue University, 1980.

Experience

Chief Information Officer & Director of Information Systems, Network and Information Systems, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2006 - Present.

Chief Information Officer, Network and Information Systems, Texas Transportation Institute, September 1999 - August 2006.

Manager, Network & Information Systems, Texas Transportation Institute, December 1997 - August 1999.

Director of Computing Services, Information Systems, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, March 1988 - January 1996.

Owner/Principal MIS Consultant, Systematic Design, April 1986 - March 1988.

Systems Coordinator, Dow Chemical Texas Operations, August 1984 - November 1984.

Systems Analyst, Food Service & Lodging Products Division, Procter & Gamble Company, July 1982 - August 1984.

Systems Analyst, Management Systems Division-Manufacturing Payroll System, Procter & Gamble Company, February 1981 - June 1982.

Consulting

University of Virgin Islands.

Exxon U.S.A., September 1986 - December 1987.

Esso Exploration, Communication & Computer Services Department, January 1986 - June 1986.

Exxon U.S.A. - General Business Systems, December 1984 - December 1985.

Affiliations

Member, Texas A&M University, African-American Professional Organization.

Secretary, Texas A&M University, African-American Professional Organization.

Member, Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications.

Member, Oracle Users Group, Houston.

Member, Oracle Users Group, Southwest.

Member, The Association for Managing and Using Information Technology in Higher Education.

Member, Leadership Texas, 1994.

Selected Presentations

Coming to Terms: Researchers Embrace the Transportation Research Thesaurus to Organize a Website, Presented at 88th Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2009.

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