Kris Barth

Kris Barth joined Cornell and Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) in April 2015. In his 9.5 years, he has worked for CIT’s Endpoint Infrastructure and Engineering (EIE) team and was promoted to People Leader of the group in December 2022. The EIE team provides central endpoint management tools, content, and configurations for the 16 IT Service Groups (CALS, SCL, A&S, JCB, COECIS, ILR, Research, etc…) and works closely with the IT Security Office to keep our endpoint up to date and secure.
In the summer of 2018, he joined Sarah Christen and Marty Sullivan, on a team of 7 in the development of cloud based virtual computer labs which would eventually become CIT’s Apps on Demand service (powered by AWS AppStream 2.0 and Azure Virtual Desktop).
Kris was the Apps on Demand service manager from 2019 until the end of 2022 and continues to contribute to the service in a service owner capacity. Apps on Demand AWS AppStream 2.0 was used for more than 393,966 hours from Spring 2022 – Spring 2024 by more than 8,239 students.