Scholefield
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COREY SCHOLEFIELD includes resolving Netlink ID and system access issues for clients. Scholefield works in University Systems (USYS, formerly Computing and Systems Services) as a senior systems administrator specializing in user identity and access management. “We focus on how people get access to online information—anything where you have to log-on.”
With the increasing complexity and integration of various systems, the job is never done, he says. He and his team work on implementing business processes that balance the needs of systems security, information privacy, data integrity and ease of access to online resources. Project NOVA has been a key focus the past three years.
“A global identity management revolution is upon us in the computer field,” he says, and it involves more collaboration with partners outside UVic. He is also working with the BC government and organizations such as BC Hydro and the health authorities to reshape access to public sector electronic services, and with a Canadian university consortium to provide access to each others’ electronic resources.
A UVic computer science graduate, Scholefield worked in the McPherson Library before joining partners to form a dot.com company in the mid-’90s. “It was a great adventure,” he says. “We developed a communications product that gave the user one phone number for all voice and fax calls. The company had a product, but sales didn’t materialize before the telecom bubble burst in 2001. Timing was a big thing; there has to be corporate readiness to adopt new technology.”
Scholefield was raised in the Cowichan Valley, working in his family’s grocery store. As a co-op student, he worked in Ottawa (Nortel), Victoria (BC government) and Hawaii at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. He has been blogging since 1999, enjoys reading, creative writing, gardening and surfing in Tofino.
Scholefield and his wife Justine, a UVic Law grad, married in 2001. He took parental leave in 2006 when their daughter, Charlotte, was almost a year old. “UVic is family-friendly in that regard. Work-life balance contributes to personal and team success,” he says. He hopes to stay in Victoria and keep contributing to UVic. “I really believe in the mission of the university. We’re enabling personal growth, and I like being a part of it.”
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