Janet Delany, a trailblazer for women in IT, shunned retirement

Janet Delany, a beloved member of Pitt Information Technology’s Analytics team since 2000, passed away March 30, 2023, at 85. Delany had no intentions of retiring from her remarkable career. Instead, she maintained an eagerness and joy for her work till her dying day.

Delany’s vast contributions — ranging from Y2K remediation to the architecture of Pitt’s enterprise data warehouse and the implementation of Pitt Worx — will continue to have lasting effects on our student and employee experiences at Pitt.

 “Janet was a remarkable data engineer who was a recipient of the 2021 Chancellor’s Outstanding Career Achievement Award for Staff,” said Chad Burton, Pitt IT’s executive director of analytics. “She was an exceptional person and a role model to her peers, whose work over more than 20 years made ripples that touch every corner of the University.”