Biography

Judith L. Tabron is the principal of Tabron Consulting LLC and sometimes available via contract. Most recently, she served as business continuity analyst for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, identifying and resolving potentially critical service gaps through the opening of CHOP’s new King of Prussia campus and the rollout of a new all-hands communication system through Epic. She also led completion of business continuity plans in case of ransomware attack for all clinical and business critical functions.

She served as Vice President of Information Resources and Technology at Rowan University from 2017 to 2019, managing infrastructure and operations and also emergency interim Director of the Project Management Office. There she introduced a service management approach to IT delivery, and regularized project management processes. She instituted new processes for supporting research computing and construction projects, and transformed help operations for all 3 campuses and 16 clinical locations. Along with her great teams, she resolved staffing shortfalls on the network engineering team, introduced stability for the electronic medical records system, and cut 19% from IT ticket times for the entire 180-person organization.

Dr. Tabron previously served as Director of Faculty and Student Computing Services at Hofstra University, where she worked with every college to build financially and academically successful online degrees and programs. She personally educated hundreds of faculty through her popular Boot Camp program on how to use technology in teaching successfully. In addition to introducing lightweight project management for advanced projects and centralizing support services, she also built Hofstra’s first active learning spaces, ultimately smart-equipped all its classrooms, and extended student computer labs into living/learning spaces. Prior to that position, she was Director of Academic Computing at Brandeis University and built its Center for Instructional Technology and Multimedia in 1997.

Over the years she has moved from help desk through systems and multimedia to research computing, project management, business process analysis, information security, and business continuity and disaster recovery, aligning herself and her teams with her organization’s needs. She sometimes teaches college courses in global popular culture.

Dr. Tabron received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr and her Ph.D. from Brandeis. She completed an M.A. in forensic linguistics from Hofstra in 2016. She is a researcher and an author. She worked with a legal and forensic linguistics team on improving jury instructions in death penalty cases and studies social engineering through language. She has been a CISSP in good standing since 2017, is certified in ITIL, and a member of Infragard, the Business Continuity Institute, and the Association of Continuity Professionals, as well as the Continuity Professionals of Ohio.

She completed FEMA’s HSEEP training in 2022, and trained in incident response at Black Hat in 2015. She gained a deep, eye-opening education on risk and its management at conferences held by the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare, from their founding in 2014 through 2020. She was a fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute of EDUCAUSE in 2008. She has served in many roles on the board of the New York State chapter of the American Council on Education’s Women’s Network, including New York State Chair from 2014-2016.